Chatroulette

Chatroulette.  Is there any simpler premise for guaranteed fun?

In my day, when all this were fields, we'd hang out or sleep over at a mate's house and insult random peons from other countries via IRC.  But this is 2010, and we live in the broadband generation, where images of your naked genitals can be instantly beamed around the world into the eyes (and unfortunately memories) of innocent chatters!

Chatroulette - for the uninformed - is a site which simply connects you (your webcam/microphone/computer) to somebody else (and their webcam/microphone/computer) from anywhere in the world at random. Once connected, you can talk, wave, type, discuss life and so on. It seems like a great idea in principle. Alas, it seems the only spanner in the works are us - human beings. The exact same people that used to insult randoms on IRC chatrooms are grown up and still insulting people via videochat, only now they've got their wangs out. You're able to withhold video/audio data if you should so choose, but most allow full coverage, which means that a quick skip through the lines of people eager to chat reads like a game of 'Duck, Duck, Goose'. Except, instead of a duck, it's a man's penis.  And instead of a duck, it's a man's penis.  And instead of a goose, it's a pedophile.  I should say now - this site is definitely not for the faint of heart.  Society as a whole can be a pretty freaky-ass place, but I like to think the breakdown of the site is quite similar to a pool of humanity in the 'real world' - 20% weirdos, 75% people making fun of the weirdos, 4% nice human beings and 1% beautiful women.  I was lucky enough to chat to one of the 1% tonight, but more on that later....

The site seems fairly unpoliced; you don't have to register; you don't need to provide any details.  There's no sign in, no logging of your personal data of any kind, so it seems.  I'm not one to quash freedom of speech, especially not on the internet, but to have such weird and offensive content accessible in the same place as innocent wholesome content is a veritable legal landmine.  Suffice it to say, I wouldn't let my kids go near the site - if I had any - until I had at least had a chance to talk to them - and I have NO idea how that conversation would go.....

"Billy....now you're gonna see some things.....terrible things......but if you're really brave and reeeeaaally lucky, you might just make a friend!"

It's really not worth the risk.

There are, however, a few good souls online.  I was one, and she - let's call her 'Sonic Youth Fan' - was another.  She was from New York, so naturally I struck up a conversation about my love of all things American.  Read the full, uncensored, unedited conversation after the jump.....

> Connected, feel free to talk now

Her: I know you

Her: why are you laughing?

Me: the world is full of interesting human beings

Her: like who?

Me: the kind of people who wouldnt even be allowed on the Jeremy Kyle show....

Her: lol

Her: well what'd you see ?

Me: what didnt I see?!

Her: haha

Her: well what's the funniest thing you've seen

Me: I was a reasonably innocent young man before tonight

Me: ummmmmmmm

Her: lmao.

Me: too......many.........peni./...............

Her: lol

Her: feeling a little gay haha

Me: must........think of..............boobs.......................

Her: yeah I've seen a lot of people actually having sex on here

Me: ewwww

Her: yeah

Me: having a good night?

Her: and there are so many damn old people

Me: what like....OLD old?

Her: no! ugh. It's 7:20 here and I'm not going out till 9

Her: so I'm bored.

Her: and I haven't been out all day

Me: haha man I remember those days.....

Me: my plan was - get home from work - nap - re-energise - go out.

Her: like, 65 old.

Me: I achieved the nap........

Her: yeah haha

Me: now I'm thinking I will probably try the nap again....

Her: whenever I nap I nap for way too long though.

Me: yeah, me too.

Me: Where are you?

Her: NY

Her: you/

Me: ah cool.

Me: UK.  Wales to be precise.

Her: mhm

Her: you look british

Me: lol what gave me away?

Her: I don't know, I work with internationals in the summer

Her: so I can tell the difference.

Her: not as much between wales and england though.

Me: yeah, I can always spot euro students in town.

Me: no, true. only a couple of miles.

Her: yeah

Me: I'm coming to NY soon!

Her: =] cool

Her: it's awesome here

Her: I never want to move.

Me: well, it was gonna be May but now Ithink it'll be pushed back til after the summer...

Me: yeah, Iwouldn't either!

Her: oh, that sucks.

Me: one of my friends from England (Oxford) is putting on a festival in upstate NY in May....

Her: my friend loved new york so much that he's going to speed through his masters disertation and come here this summer

Her: even though it's more of an inconvienance for him lol

Me: haha cool.

Her: a festival? like a whole music festival?

Me: yeah!It's called 'Truck'

Me: well this one's called 'Truck America'

Her: hmm I was invited to a three days upstate festival over the summer

Me: you should check it out, they've got some cool bands playing.

Her: I wonder if it's the same thing

Me: oh right? maybe!

Her: I heard there were going to be alot of drugs lol

Me: haha always are at these things.

Her: lol yeah

Me: not really my scene! love the music!

Me: and the sun.

Her: Yeah I love music

Me: (http://www.thisistruck.com/ is the url if you wanna check it out...)

Her: I've never been to a festival though I've always wanted to.

Her: I'll definitely check it out =]

Me: yeah, well I've only been to this one in the UK (Truck)

Me: even tho Ilove live music, I dont really fancy roughing it in the mud for 3 days!

Her: A lot of the festivals I want to go to aren't in new york and I don't have the money to road trip lol.

Me: yeah

Her: what are your favorite bands?

Me: I'd love to come to a few of the big US festivals; I always see SXSW and Coachella and they look killer.

Her: I'm not one to get dirty either hahaha, but it could be fun.

Her: YES

Her: I always wanted to go to choachella

Me: dunno who's playing this year tho....

Her: coachella*

Her: I haven't checked yet

Me: your homeboys the Strokes are playing over here!!

Her: They always have good stuff

Her: Haha I like the strokes

Me: yeah.

Her: not as much their last album though

Her: I still bought it

Me: yeah - debut stil the best.

Her: Mhm

Me: they ate it up over here in the UK.

Me: music magazines still cite them as 'saving rock &roll' lol

Her: Yeah

Her: haha

Her: I think

Her: queens of the stoneage

Her: saved rock n roll

Me: yeah!!

Me: desert rock!!

Her: haha

Me: I'm going to see Them Crooked Vultures in London next month!!!

Her: and idk if you agree but I feel jack white is one of the only real 'rock and rollers" left as well.

Her: nice.

Her: I just saw the pixies not too long ago ^^

Me: Royal Albert Hall; it's like this big teenage cancer charity thing.

Her: a lot of people want to kill me for that

Me: ah cool! haha yeah Iheard they were touring again...

Her: mhm they were amazing.

Me: The new documentary film on the Stripes looks amazing

Me: have you seen the trailers?

Her: I didn't even know of it!

Her: noo

Me: I forget what it's called

Me: something to do with Canada?

Her: I'll google it and find out

Her: whatever it is, or wherever it is I'm sure it's good.

Me: Thats it, Under Great Northern Lights or something

Her: I don't like a lot of new music. I listen to mostly bands that started out before 2000

Me: my sister does an amazing Meg impression on my drums :-D

Her: that's cool lol

Her: how old are you by the way?

Me: yeah, I like a lot of older bands too.

Me: I'm 25. you?

Her: 18

Me: ah, so young!

Her: Yeah

Me: wish Iwas 18 again!

Her: yeah

Her: I'm on the younger end as well

Her: I'm still a senior... which is like...

Her: well you probably know.

Her: here we go straight from high school to uni.

Me: ah right!

Me: I was just thinking about this the other day actually.....

Me: so how many years are in high school?

Her: I think your system is smarter.

Her: 12

Her: so I'm in year 12.

Me: right, last year of HS....?

Her: mhm

Me: yeah ours stops at 11 but then we have 2 more optional years where you can go on to study more specific subjects (you proably know all this....)

Her: I like british systems better because they graduate at like... 16 right? and then go on to what they want to do and then go to uni after that

Her: mhm

Her: lol

Her: we don't have that two year thing and just jump right into uni.

Me: my best mate from back home in England was originally from New Mexico, and he moved here when he was in Y11, so it totally messed up his learning!

Me: yeah thats right

Her: I couldn't even imagine.

Me: Yeah

Her: you guys also take gap years xD

Her: we don't

Her: go usually go straight through >.<

Me: so when I see all these American teen movies of kids acting like idiots on 'spring break' etc, that's coz they're only 18 or whatever....?

Her: in uni I mean

Me: yeah!

Her: Yeah.

Me: ah cool.

Her: yeah we never take breaks really, haha.

Me: you guys get a mazzive summer holiday tho, don't you?

Her: also in america, colleges aren't any lesser than universities.

Me: like 3 months or something?

Her: yeah

Her: we do.

Me: haha, lucky!

Me: we get 6 weeks....

Her: june till the end of august.

Me: but then, there's not really that much sun here to enjoy!!

Her: well june 26th

Her: awe yeah.

Her: well it's very snowy here at the moment haha

Me: haha, here too!

Her: lol

Me: whatdya know.

Her: what's your major?

Her: My friend goes to the university of liverpool

Me: Ummm...well we dont really have majors/minors, we just study one thing.....

Her: he's getting his masters in geographical studies x_x

Me: wow!

Her: I don't get it

Her: what you do with that

Me: exactly!

Me: My sister studied something called 'environmental geoscience' - I have no idea what that is....

Me: I did music.

Her: he tried explaining it but I still don't get why he's going for it. he sound like "town planning" x_x

Her: haha I'm going to go for art history.

Me: ah cool!

Me: you might get some cool field trips then?

Her: yeah haha

Me: visit the Louvre or something!

Her: I'd love to

Her: intern in france

Me: Me too.

Her: I love france ^^

Me: I went to EuroDisney once - it was FREAKINGAWESOME!

Her: haha

Her: I went to "disney world"

Her: it's in florida

Her: it was fun.

Me: oh yeah.

Me: man, I've only been to the States once but Iabsolutely loved it.

Me: can't wait to come back!

Her: I've never been across the water

Me: I'm really interested in the culture/history.

Her: only canada and the bahamas

Her: I always wanted to go to london, obviously paris, maybe tokyo.

Me: the bahamas is across water!!

Her: well kind of... it'

Her: I meant like... west of me haha

Her: or east

Me: haha yeah I'd LOVE to go Tokyo.  I'm a bit of a video game geek so I wanna go search out some vintage consoles in Akihabara!

Her: haha

Her: I saw a documentary about tokyo and some of the hotels had like cubbies as sleeping areas

Me: yeah, I dropped out of Uni after three years

Me: but if Iever go back, think Imight study UShistory

Me: and maybe film or something?!

Her: US history?

Me: oh yeah!I've seen those, like little sleeping pods!

Her: I love film. I considered majoring in film, but I'd rather be an art curator.

Her: yeah! they're so cool. Plus I'm a sushi fanatic

Me: I'd rather be one of those old guards that sits in the chair at the corner of the gallery and sleeps.

Her: hahaha

Me: Thats the life for me.

Her: maybe for retired people =P

Me: yeah, maybe.

Her: I'm sure the pay isn't great

Me: I'll bet they party it up at night tho!

Her: lolol

Me: sleep thru their job

Me: then at night - rager!!

Her: they just made that shitty movie "night at the muesuem"

Me: Hahah I actually loved that movie!!

Her: all the stuff came to life

Her: hahahaha

Her: I didn't see it. It looked too silly for me

Me: And I'll only admit that because I'll probably never meet you!

Her: nice.

Me: It was geniune family fun.

Her: Hmmm what's a movie I can admit to liking...

Me: haha this is like therapy!

Her: man idk!

Me: I also love the Taylor Swift song where she goes on about Romeo &Juliet

Her: the movie drop dead fred keeps coming to mind

Her: lol

Her: but I'm not embarassed to like tha

Her: that*

Me: hahaha with Rik Mayall!!

Her: mhm

Me: thats a great movie

Her: They're remaking it D:

Me: havent seen that in ages.

Me: no way?!

Her: with russel brand

Me: lol amazing

Her: I wanted to like... break faces

Her: no.

Her: that'

Her: is terrible!

Me: I cant believe they're remaking Bill &Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Me: that makes me want to break stuff.

Her: nO

Her: noooo

Her: don't tell me that!

Me: don't you just wish you were dead?!

Me: and apparently Short Circuit too!!!

Her: NO!!!

Me: with my alltime hearthrob actress Ally Sheedy!!

Her: I own both bill and teds

Her: and short circuit

Her: on vhs

Me: haha me too!!

Her: johnny 5 alive!!

Her: nooo

Me: (recorded from the TV....)

Her: how do you remake that?

Her: the first bill and ted is recorded hahaha

Me: haha with a lot of crappy CGI I suppose...

Her: nooo =(

Me: hmmmm yeah, well I'm sorry to have been the bearer of bad news....

Her: I totally grew up loving that movie.

Me: yeah, me too

Her: I hate keanu reeves but I love bill and ted

Me: haha

Me: whatever happened to Alex Winter??

Her: I dont know

Her: I think I've asked that question before

Her: hahaha

Me: Maybe we should start one of these internet rumours that he died

Her: He probably does lifetime movies

Her: People would believe it.

Me: when Iwas in school this rumour went around that Zach Morris from Saved By The Bell had died

Her: someone tried to start a rumor that the main characters of boy meets world died.

Me: it took off like wildfire!

Her: lol

Me: what, ALLof them?

Her: noo

Her: just the main guy

Me: ah right

Me: so that would mean....

Me: .....that Topanga chick was single? ;-)

Her: hahaha

Me: that'd be good news.

Me: Man, I worry what happens to all these kids after the cameras leave......

Her: hahaha

Her: they sit in a pot circle

Me: haha talking about old times

Her: haha

Her: have you ever seen the mighty boosh?

Me: yes!!

Me: LOVE THE BOOSH!!

Her: are they making new episodes?

Me: Maybe.....one day!!

Me: Man, Ican't believe the Boosh has made it stateside!!

Her: I'd hope. They stopped showing it here last year

Her: yes!

Me: Did you guys ever get 'Spaced'?

Her: on this channel called adult swim.

Her: I don't think so.

Me: my alltime favourite British comedy

Me: from the guys that went on to make 'Shaun Of The Dead'

Her: If you like boosh, I'm sure I'd like spaced so I'll check it out

Her: oh! that sounds good then.

Me: you should try and find it, it's well worth it.

Me: yeah I think we have Adult Swim

Her: summer heights high from australia also made it here

Me: HAHAH that is also genius viewing.

Her: yeah adult swim plays boosh, and I loved every minute of it.

Her: Yeah it's funny

Me: How about 'Alan Partridge'?

Her: I hate britians "The office" though ...

Me: It's very British humour...not sure if would work there.....

Her: sounds familiar

Me: yeah, well see, the standard story is that Brits love our Office and hate the USremake

Me: and vice versa

Her: Did you ever see "look around you?" that shows fucking hilarious... it's like every science kid show cheapy broadcast from the 90s

Her: ...made fun of.

Me: but Iactually LOVEthe US remake!  Almost as much as the original!

Me: HAHAHAHA hold on....

Her: god I love that show haha

Me: Lol I quoted that today in work

Her: I'm kind of nerdy so I find it hilarious

Me: 'Thanks ants - THANTS.

Her: yes hahahaha

Me: sigh.

Me: hilarity.

Me: did you see the second series?

Her: it's only one REALLY late though so I had to show it via internet to my friends.

Her: I saw like...

Her: 20 something episodes

Her: in random order

Her: via internet

Her: so probably

Me: hahah

Me: did you see this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwyuB8QKzBI

Her: LOL

Me: I'll give you a minute to watch...

Her: yeah

Me: BEST. SONG. EVER.

Me: Hahah well it's good to know there's some great comedy making its way over.

Her: yeah

Her: adult swim seems to be an advocate for silly british humor.

Her: and hbo is the one showing summer high

Me: and if you like Look Around You you should definitely check out the Peter Serafinowicz Show (if you don't already)

Me: ah cool

Her: I will haha

Me: HBO show a lot of my fave shows, like Curb

Me: love that show!

Her: I watch true blood

Her: and there's this show hung

Me: oh is that the vampire one?

Her: about a male jigalo

Her: yeah

Me: haha interesting premise

Her: I hate twilight shit though >.>

Her: but I find trueblood interesting.

Me: hahah me too.

Me: ah cool, might check it out.

Me: I pretty much devour US TV.

Her: haha

Me: hardly watch anything on our actual TV!

Her: lol

Her: I stopped watching tv on the actualy television awhile ago for the most part

Me: yeah

Her: I use hulu.com a lot and websites

Me: ah yeah, we cant access hulu in this countru

Her: I think when I move out I might not even pay for cable.

Me: (at least not for any of the good stuff....)

Her: really? why?

Me: some sort of regional lock?

Her: weird

Me: sucks ass.

Her: I guess because it takes away from the ratings

Me: but there's always bit torrent!

Me: yeah probably.

Her: like, I watch new episodes of house weekly on hulu... but then it's not being watched on cable

Her: so I guess that's a problem.

Me: yeah they always talk about ads not being shown etc....

Her: well they do show ads, but it's one per 15min instead of like, 5.

Me: but people just skip the ads anyway, right? if they've recorded it onto their tivo or whatever....

Her: advertisitng never affected me anyway haha

Me: thats better.

Me: haha yeah, me neither.

Her: you can't skip them on hulu

Me: ah right.

Her: but on other sites

Her: yeah

Her: lol

Me: COKE!

Me: PEPSI!

Her: man I'm so gay that I drink v8

Her: and green tea

Me: V8....

Me: triggering.......supressed...........memories................

Her: why?

Me: thats that godawful vegetable stuff, right?

Her: mhm

Me: like a garbage bag smoothie?

Her: I like tomatoe juice so it's basically the same thing

Her: well I don't think so xD

Her: I'll live longer than you hah! lol

Me: haha, cant stand tomatoes.....

Me: damn!!

Her: Well that would make sense

Her: since it's basically tomatoe juice

Her: lol I'm not crazy though. I do drink soda lol

Me: apple juice is my weakness.

Her: I hate apple juice hahaha

Her: but I like grape juice

Me: haha well there ya go.

Me: I dont drink any tea or coffee, or much alcohol, but the stuff Ido drink is probably much worse!

Me: like Red Bull. and blue Powerade!!

Her: I don't drink too much alcohol either

Her: ugh

Her: ever since I got a car

Her: I've been designated driver

Her: so even if I want to drink I can't.

Me: haha that sucks.

Me: I still haven't learned to drive.

Her: probably what I'm doing tonight as well.

Me: at 25!!!! I know!!

Her: Neither has my cousin, and he's around your age

Her: I often yell at him about it though.

Me: ah cool, Idont feel such a fool now!

Me: yeah my parents are always telling me to learn.

Me: but Ihave no need for it!

Me: i live in a city; I never *go*anywhere!

Her: I mean, I could have got my liscence at 17 but was lazy and waited a year, but I still go it!

Me: haha true.

Me: and Ido see the plus points of having a license.

Her: well, I live on long island, but will be going to uni in the city

Her: so I'm probably selling my car

Me: ah cool

Her: in a few months anyway

Me: yeah, not much need for it there i suppose.

Her: I won't need a car in the city.

Her: mh

Her: mhm*

Me: I started learning when Iwas 17 so Ican actually *physically* drive....

Me: ....just not legally!

Her: ah.

Her: can't you just take the test!?

Me: well you can but you have to do this whole written exam first.....

Her: new yorkers don't have to =P

Her: we take a 20 question permit test but thats easy.

Me: and it comes bundled with this stupid video computer thing now that Ican't seem to get my head around

Her: it's a bubble in.

Me: haha

Me: a bubble in?!

Her: mhm

Her: well that you can take at 16

Me: .......ok...........

Her: it's just like a test to see if you can drive period.

Me: oh right.

Her: "what do you do at a stop sign" kind of thing lol

Me: yeah.

Me: (Go, right?)

Her: but to get your liscence I just had to drive.. parralel park, and three point turn;

Me: I do good?

Her: F

Me: wow, that sounds easy!

Her: it is

Me: maybe Ishould get on that....

Her: haha

Her: well in wales you drive on the other side right?

Her: or is it just england?

Me: yeah, in all of the UK

Her: ooh.

Me: lol

Her: My friend emmah has a liscence for both

Me: yeah in wales we drive on the left, but in England it's on the right...

Me: thats why there's so many crashes at the border.

Her: lol

Me: it's horrific really.

Her: That's scary

Me: they should change it.

Me: I may be kidding...

Her: I heard the roads are overall better there than here though

Me: yeah maybe, well you guys dont have roundabouts!

Her: ?

Me: you know, roundabouts?

Her: I probably would if you explained it

Me: ok so....

Me: let's say you have a crossroads

Her: okay

Me: so instead of traffic lights, they just put a sort of 'hump' in the road, right in the middle

Me: and drivers drive around it..........

Her: oh jesus. we always basically have a traffic light there

Me: i dont really know how to explain it without it sounding like a totally retarded British invention

Me: it sounds ludicrous when Isay it out loud!

Her: well sometimes we could be at an intersection... and the light will turn green and someone can make a left from the opposite side as the other person is going straight

Her: which can cause a collision

Me: yeah, and you can turn left right on a red too, can't you?

Me: or right on a red?

Her: noooo

Her: right on red

Her: lol

Me: thats it

Her: left on red

Her: would be horrendous

Me: left on red = dead

Me: nice little rhyme to help you remember

Her: yeah and it rhymes

Her: lol

Her: yup

Me: we can't do anything on a red.

Me: except sit

Her: lol

Me: and get our windows washed by some hobo.

Her: haha

Her: we do sometimes too

Her: but not as much anymore

Her: when I was younger

Her: there were more window washers

Me: whatever happened to them

Her: idk

Her: less there too

Her: ?

Me: more convertibles I guess....

Her: lol

Her: my car is as old as me

Me: My dad once tried to pick one of the guys up and take him home to clean our house!

Me: or the windows at least

Her: I would never! haha

Me: Mam freaked out and drove off

Her: I'd be afraid of them getting in and killing me

Me: yeah

Her: it's not the 70s anymore haha

Me: haha

Me: too bad!

Her: yeah

Me: did you ever see 'That 70s Show'?

Her: I would have loved to live in the late 60s, early 70s

Her: of course

Me: thats another one of my guilty pleasures!

Her: tommy cong was on it =P

Me: hahah oh yeah

Her: it's a good show haha

Me: of cheech and....

Her: chong

Her: yeah

Me: yeah I've watched them all now

Her: lol

Me: it does make me wish I was alive back then.

Me: especially in 70s America.

Her: I really don;t watch too many tv shows. I watch so many movies

Me: a LOTwent on.

Her: I have netflix so

Her: all I do is watch movies

Me: ah cool!

Her: even tonight when I go out I'm probably putting on a movie at my friends house lol

Me: haha cool

Me: seen anything good recently?

Her: I saw boy in the striped pajamas yesterday

Her: it was sad and disturbing.

Me: Ah I wanted to see that

Me: yeah I expected!

Her: it's terrible, yeah

Her: and I've been watching french films

Her: and want to get into ingmar bergman.

Me: ah! classic stuff.

Her: Yeah I like classic stuff :x

Me: i've always been partial to a bit of Spielberg myself...

Her: well though he's mainstream he still has good film.

Me: yeah, totally; kids in school used to call me 'Dawson' coz I was always going on about Jaws and E.T. :-D

Her: I have no beefs with speilberg

Me: lol

Her: haha

Her: I loved ET until I had a nightmare about it

Me: uh oh!

Her: he was like on a surgery table and yeah

Her: it was graphic

Me: haha

Her: I never wanted to watch et again

Her: lol

Me: 'the deleted scenes' eh??

Her: yeah the ones in my head haha

Me: did you hear they edited the end of the movie for the re-release?

Her: Did you ever see eternal sunshine of the spotless mind?

Her: no.../

Me: they replaced ther guards' guns with walkie talkies!!

Me: what a rip!!

Her: was he supposed to die or something?

Her: oh...

Her: gay.

Me: Iknow

Me: it's the whole star wars thing all over again

Me: some directors dont know when to stop....

Me: yeah Ilove eternal sunshine.  Gondry is one of my fave directors

Her: what did they edit in star wars?

Her: yeah

Her: that's my favorite film

Me: everything!! almost!

Me: cool

Her: gondry is amazing.

Her: really? like what?

Her: there were still guns in star wars

Me: haha yeah

Me: well they changed some stuff..

Me: yeah, it really made me want to visit....montague?

Me: is it Montauge?

Her: I don't know how it's spelled

Her: oh

Her: wait

Her: hahaha

Her: montauk

Her: hahahaha

Me: it's up there somewhere!!

Me: that's near you, right?

Her: I was just there

Her: hahahaha

Me: haha

Her: like two days ago

Her: you spelled it so different

Me: good work remembering!!

Her: I was like

Me: hahah yeah

Her: "mon...ta ...hue?"

Her: montauk is nice.

Me: yeah Ilove the part where they go up into that beachhouse and then it all starts like falling apart

Me: as he forgets her

Her: yeah

Me: or she forgets him

Her: it makes me cry

Me: or whichever

Me: yeah.  it's such a great story tho.

Her: yeah

Me: did you see Be Kind Rewind?

Her: I like sad endings

Her: I think they're more realistic

Me: haha yeah.

Her: Yeah, I saw it in theatres

Her: I liked it less than his other films.

Her: I liked science of sleep a lot.

Me: yeah, but Istill laughed

Her: yeah it was entertaining, not as good, but still better than most films

Her: lol

Me: oh yeah!!we had that in for like one week!

Her: gondry is so creative.

Me: that was great.

Her: only a week?

Her: it was so good.

Me: yeah, small cinema.

Her: I loved how it kept changing up from english, to french, to spanish

Me: but it kinda almost ripped off a screenplay I was ewriting at the time

Her: lol awe.

Me: about a guy who goes thru a bad breakup and tries to learn to 'lucid dream'

Her: I'm sure he didn't mean to, hahaha

Me: haha, that Gondry bastard.....

Her: lol

Me: I have a cool deal at my local cinema;

Me: it's like this card thing, you sign up and for like £13 a month you can go see as many films as you want!!

Her: oh man

Her: they don't have that around here

Me: which is bad when there's nothing good out, but it means you can see like 5 films a day!!

Me: it's such a great deal.

Her: so lucky.

Me: I'm in there like 3 days a week!

Her: it's like $12 for one film here

Her: I don't see many films in theatres for that reason.

Me: Iused to work in the cinema before Iworked in my current job, so Istill get to go chat to all the old guys.

Her: I saw avatar though.

Me: oh right

Me: what did you think?

Her: it was better than I expected it to be.

Me: yeah, me too.

Me: i love sci-fi, but dont usually go in for all that fantasy stuff...

Her: It was good. a lot of people said the storyline was bad and I'm very critical... but I still liked it

Me: but I though Cameron really pulled it off.

Her: I was a little unimpressed by the 3D... I felt like not a lot came out at me

Me: yeah well it was basically Dances With Smurfs.....

Her: hahaha my friend calls it that too

Me: haha strange!!

Her: is that because of south park?

Me: haha yeah, well 3Dseems to be changing; in the early days when you'd see 3Dfilms at like big theme parks etc, it was all about the 'wow' facotr

Me: *factor

Me: stuff coming out of the screen etc...

Her: yeah I guess I was hoping for the wow factor.

Her: yeah!

Her: thats what I wanted.

Me: but now it's kinda like.....just a second aspect to a movie.

Me: it certainly gives the scenes some depth.....

Her: yeah, I don't think it's realy needed.

Me: yeah, not in every film...

Me: a whole load of kids films are getting it now...

Her: but what I really liked about avatar was I felt it did what cinema was meant to do; take you away from reality and get your mind off real life

Me: we went to watch the 3D Toy Story re-iterations.

Her: cinema is so important for that factor and I feel like not enough film today achieves that feeling.

Her: but avatar did to me

Me: yeah, it did that well

Me: the last film I saw that did that......

Me: was.....

Me: I think it must have been something like Where The Wild Things Are

Me: which I loved

Her: oh

Her: I wanted to see that

Her: I never did =(

Her: when it's on netflix I will

Me: it wasn't quite as good as I'd hoped, but it was really thematic and 'fantasy' like....

Her: well I did love the book as a child and the previews made it seem epic

Me: yeah...

Me: the book was never that big over here, so nobody really knew anything about it

Me: which was probably a good thing....

Her: ah, I owned it

Her: lol I almost sneezed on camera hahaha

Me: haha

Me: gezundheit!

Her: thankyou

Me: did you see 'Fantastic Mr Fox'??????

Her: nope

Me: dude.

Her: was that any good/.

Me: seriosuly.

Me: best film of last year!!!!

Me: for me....

Her: actually, either I missed out on its opening

Her: or It didnt come out

Me: Wes Anderson is one of my alltime favourite directors

Her: yes

Her: I love wes anderson

Me: and to see him take on this movie, which is supposed to be for kids, was just amazing.

Her: everything from rushmore to life aquatic

Me: yeah!!

Me: I've still to see Bottle Rocket

Her: it's good

Me: i think thats his first...

Me: is it?

Her: it is

Her: mhm'

Her: not as good as rushmore, which I thought was his first .. at first, haha.

Me: yeah, I LOVE the life aquatic.

Me: and tenenbaums

Her: of course

Her: tenebaums is usually everyones first

Me: and The Life Aquatic probably my favourite film soundtrack of all time!!

Her: I have to go!

Her: I have to leave in like 15min haha

Me: oh cool, well it's been cool talking!

Me: and surreal!!

Her: yes, nice talking to you too

Her: of course haha

Me: cool, have a good night!

Her: you too!

Me: bye.

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