https://www.graffes.com/forums/blog.php?2466-Random-Permutations en Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:37:25 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.graffes.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg https://www.graffes.com/forums/blog.php?2466-Random-Permutations https://www.graffes.com/forums/entry.php?73-Pan-s-Labyrinth-Perceptions-Dinner-at-Landry-s-and-the-Dutch Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:51:05 GMT So last week, I have a couple friends in town (old roomate and his wife), and they visted for a day. Not bad. Did the Aquarium, went to Tattered Cover Bookstore, Wax Trax Records, and then off to find a Beau Jo's Pizza...
Well, the Beau Jo's is closed, so on our way Brian see's the all-you-can-eat crab at Landy's off I-25...so off we go...

So waiting for our dinner, we start talking about movies...
Beth (his wife): Krona, that was such a good flic. So sad at the end..
Me: Yea, although I thought it had a happy ending...
Beth: What? What do you mean? She got shot and killed at the end...
Me: No she didn't. She didn't die.
Beth: Yes she did. She died, and the last scene we have is her last vision before she dies, when she's in the underworld. Her dream.
Me: No, she didn't die. She went home. She was the Queen remember?
Beth: That's absurd. She died Krona. It was her dying vision.
Me: No, she was the Queen of the Underworld. She had faith in her journey, and was rewarded where she really belonged. No different belief that she really was the Queen all along, rather then a life wasted for nothing.

Moment of silence...
Beth: Yea, that's a totally different view on that. I guess it's how you see it. Both work really.
Me: Yea. You really have no idea from the whole film what is real, and what is not. Is she just living in her dream? Or is she really the Queen? Who knows.



As I sit here at work this evening, I am updating a list (700 work orders) of Dutch people for a financial client.
I have seen so many Van der's, Binkhorst's, Graaf's, Haan's, Meijerink's that I am starting to have visions of the Swedish chef off the fucking Muppets.


Branaman, your new title is 'Branaman: King of the van der Poofies'.

"ALL HAIL BRANAMAN HIGH KING OF THE VAN DER POOFIES!' ]]> Krona https://www.graffes.com/forums/entry.php?73-Pan-s-Labyrinth-Perceptions-Dinner-at-Landry-s-and-the-Dutch https://www.graffes.com/forums/entry.php?72-Foreword Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:18:35 GMT This is your world. These are your people. You can live for yourself today, Or help build tommorrow for everyone. This is your world.
These are your people.
You can live for yourself today,
Or help build tommorrow for everyone. ]]> Krona https://www.graffes.com/forums/entry.php?72-Foreword https://www.graffes.com/forums/entry.php?67-Things-on-my-reading-list Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:08:49 GMT Things on my reading list (or, How I am learning to actually Blog).

Current:
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
Cool Water: Alcoholism, Mindfulness, and Ordinary Recovery
Paganism: An Introduction to Earth- Centered Religions

Things I have picked up: Water consumption. Cycling. Decent night's sleep. Walking. Mindfulness
Things I have laid off: Coffee, and lightening back from the cigarettes. Last alcohol consumption was September 2007.

Things I am listening to:
The Best of Delerium
Pet Shop Boys: Discography: The Complete Singles Collection
Remix Wars, Vol. 4 Velvet Acid Christ Vs. Funker Vogt
In Strict Confidence: Exile Paradise
VNV Nation: Futureperfect
Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral ]]> Krona https://www.graffes.com/forums/entry.php?67-Things-on-my-reading-list