givemenoughrope wrote:

tommydski wrote:Give the guy a break, he lives in LA.

I'd be angry too.

I'm not angry at all, senor crumpet monkey. Believe me, if my great-grandparents hadn't left the UK, then I'd be angry.

You guys haven't a clue about this place. No one who lives here gives a shit about movie stars unless they are working on a movie with that person and they directly affect their work situation. If anything, they just add to the traffic for everyone else. People take pictures of these people so that the rest of the douchebags in your cities have something to dream about/envy. It's b.s. and a nuisance but only continues to exist b/c of interested douchebags elsewhere. No one who lives here cares.

I don't know, but I kinda think the main gripe w/ LA douchebaggery may be the people who moved there because they wanted to work in the industry and- as a result- became name dropping industry hangers-on. Maybe those people are the perpetual resident tourists?

The MayorofRockNRoll wrote:
I don't know, but I kinda think the main gripe w/ LA douchebaggery may be the people who moved there because they wanted to work in the industry and- as a result- became name dropping industry hangers-on. Maybe those people are the perpetual resident tourists?

Yea, that IS LA douchebaggery pretty much. Grips, people in the costume department or in post are really just trying to keep the work coming and have a life.

It doesn't mean I dont get starry eyed in a way. A costumer friend invited me to a wrap party a while ago. The stars of the movie were there but the guy who directed LA Confidential was the director of the film and I kept thinking, "Man, that movie is so great. That guy is a badass/smart." I forgot his name though. And I dont really remember what he looks like either. I guess that's different..i dunno...

givemenoughrope wrote:

The MayorofRockNRoll wrote:
I don't know, but I kinda think the main gripe w/ LA douchebaggery may be the people who moved there because they wanted to work in the industry and- as a result- became name dropping industry hangers-on. Maybe those people are the perpetual resident tourists?

Yea, that IS LA douchebaggery pretty much. Grips, people in the costume department or in post are really just trying to keep the work coming and have a life.

It doesn't mean I dont get starry eyed in a way. A costumer friend invited me to a wrap party a while ago. The stars of the movie were there but the guy who directed LA Confidential was the director of the film and I kept thinking, "Man, that movie is so great. That guy is a badass/smart." I forgot his name though. And I dont really remember what he looks like either. I guess that's different..i dunno...

Yes, that is different. Douchebaggery would be insinuating yourself into his entourage to get an in with him and snubbing your costumer friend in the process.

yea, thats ghey. Plus, he already worked with Jerry Goldsmith. What would I have to offer him?

I guess I didn't know we were actually responsible for bombing for serious.... but now that this war between chicago and LA has started, I have a little game. I send a bomb to chicago and LA and I send Marsupialized and givemenoughrope each a triggering device for the other's bomb. Whichever city goes off the grid first loses. It's all up to the post office to decide

Dude, we have the worst mail in the country I will never get it.

Belgrade, the capital of Mordor. Clinton did a shite job in 1999.

givemenoughrope wrote:Sup, c'mon. Tourists go to LA to see movie stars. That's a surprise? Ever been in Times Square when there was a movie star? It's scary. I'm sure it happens in Chicago.

If you are basing your opinion of a city by a cross-section of it's tourists...well..you've already shown that you don't know much about LA.

I dunno. The biggest celebrity I can think of having seen here was David Schwimmer. He was eating at a restaurant here in town, two tables over from mine. Nobody seemed to care except for one couple went up and told him they loved him in Friends and asked if there was gonna be a Friends movie soon.

He was sitting and eating/having coffee with the most horrendously fake-looking woman I recall ever seeing in person. fake hair, fake tits, makeup everywhere, dumb-looking clothes that scream "fashion whore", that whole kinda thing. it's what I would picture a stripper at a really super-upscale place looking like. or, as I described her to people to whom I recounted the story, "she looked like she was from LA".

As for my city choice, I would either choose Barcelona or Beijing. I would've said DC a while back, but after living there for three years, I couldn't do it now. The odds of taking out the government are like zero. Basically you'd be destroying one of the most historic cities in the US at the expense of the folks who live there, and they'd be the ones to pay for it to be rebuilt when their "state" tax rate was raised from 9% up to like 14% or something. Oh, and DC is always full of busloads of schoolchildren from all over the US. you monsters!

Pyongyang.

Wait, they already got destroyed once and it didn't do a damn bit of good.

Whichever city houses the most banks.

Spokane, WA.