Shawn and I are about to watch Stripes on the blu-ray thingamabob because both of us were processed and spent a couple weeks at the same billets before being moved to Disney Barracks for OSUT and because Harold Ramis died this week. And because it was one of the first blu-rays I purchased because I love the damned movie (Blazing Saddles was my first) so much that I could watch it 100 more times.
You?
Omnes Omnibus
I did basic in those old WWII barracks.
Tern
Disney, Ft Knox! Ft Knox has changed so much the last 5 years. It’s so different now that the Armor School has left and HRC is here now. Personally, I get depressed everyday when I go there. Totally different mentality now. Miss the tankers!
Omnes Omnibus
@Tern: The armor school left? Where is it now? Damn, I now feel old.
Keith P
Some old friends are coming over. We’re gonna show some pornographic movies.
Not really, but I always wanted to throw that movie line out to a response of what I’m doing for the weekend.
Omnes Omnibus
Me? This.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: You’re making a sad face?
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: I’ll try again. How about this.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
The Gophers played a workmanlike game to take game 1 of their playoff series with St. Cloud 4-1. They weren’t great but they didn’t have to be. That runs their record to 33-1-1 and 82 wins in their last 84 games.
RandomMonster
Me?
Working on an online reel because, apparently, you can’t get hired in digital these days without one.
NotMax
Pretending this hasn’t been one of those weeks when the body has forgotten how to sleep except at the most unconventional times and then only in fits and spurts.
This too shall pass.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: That works!
Also, wow, that is very different from the usual Springsteen I have listened to.
Joseph Nobles
Guess I’ll keep working. I’ve got Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony on the Pandora.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
I caught Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 last night and got to see Ramis say my favorite line:
“Do you have any hobbies, Mr. Spengler?”
“I collect mold, spores, and fungus.”
I’m laughing out loud again.
bago
I finally got a decent work laptop. Sweet Jesus it’s nice to be able to compile and host in less than 30 minutes.
trollhattan
Working through BSG season 1 on Blu Ray. Sure missed a lot back when it was first broadcast.
JeremyH
Blazing Saddles was your first Blu-Ray? Good man, Cole. Good man. My most-watched movie of all time. Never gets old.
Wallis Lane
@JeremyH:
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple teabaggers … these are people of the land … the common clay of the New West. You know – morons.
Montarvillois
Fargo.
Hawes
We do “Family Movie Night” every Friday, and I wanted to show the boys Groundhog Day. But it wasn’t on Netflix and you could only buy it on Amazon (not rent).
Bizarre
AnonPhenom
Blazing Saddles, Stripes…. you need this
delosgatos
Les Bleus!
tern
@Omnes Omnibus: The Armor School moved to Ft Benning, GA. It was depressing seeing all those soldiers, tanks and the school move out. The last courses moved out about July 2011. It was all due to BRAC and so much knowledge was lost.
steverino
I went to boot camp in 1981, and then Stripes came out. Given my recent indoctrination and mindset at the time, I was Not Amused at some of the scenes. I’ve grown out of it.
Redleg
I did basic training at Ft. Knox back in January-March 1985. Delta Company, 13th Battalion, 4th Training Brigade. I didn’t have nearly as much fun as Bill and Harold had.
Seanly
@steverino:
Lighten up, Francis!
I was reading that great interview of Kurt Russell on Aint It Cool News. It reminded me of the early 80’s when all those classic movies like Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Stripes, The Thing, Airplane & Escape from New York were all the rage. I was 12 in 1980 so that was jsut the right age to be heavily influenced by those movies. I remember how excited we’d get when we could jimmy the cable box to get a grainy view of the movies. Ahh, good times…
Luckily my parents were pretty cool so I did get to see a few of those in the theater.
mclaren
The Agony and the Ecstasy, 1965. Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison.
mak
@Hawes: Same here with the Friday movie night. You may want to try Ghostbusters – it’s the only Ramis/Murray movie I was able to find streaming there. All others require the DVD plan.
SteveinSC
Animal house: Kid reading Playboy about to jack-off. Girl thrown through the window onto his bed. “Thank you, Jesus!” Best sight/sound gag ever.
True Detective tonight, holy shit!