The New Introduction Thread (Page 5 of 18)

Thanks fellas! i play bass, sorta. dont play as much as we should, but ya know

I play a Hello Kitty Squier. 

Hey folks!

As you probably realize, my name isn't really Cotterpin. She's not even my favorite character, if I'm honest. But I get a warm, fuzzy feeling when I rep Fraggle Rock, and my ego was just too fragile for me to pick Marjory the Trash Heap for my username.

Personally I'm not much of a movie buff. In fact, I've probably seen more films in these past couple of weeks while listening to you guys than I've seen in a theater in the previous 2 or 3 years combined. Partly that's because I live in Japan and a lot of American movies never get shown here. Of those that are, many are in 3D, which unfortunately gives me a massive headache or they're dubbed in Japanese, which is just... weird. I could rent them, but tracking down the Japanese title of an American movie can sometimes require Herculean efforts.

Really, though, I just have to admit to being persnickety. I honestly do try to keep an open mind, but in the end, I pretty much hate everything. I do have a major weakness for anything fantasy, however, and share Teague's love of The Princess Bride. The Secret of Nimh and The Neverending Story are my two favorite movies of all time.  I was drawn to DIF because of the passion you guys have for movies. I don't think I've changed my mind about a movie based on your commentaries, but they do give me something new to think about or appreciate.

I had my worst injury while playing Star Wars with my brothers when I was four. Details are sketchy, but I apparently fell down some stairs and ended up with a broken arm and a couple of broken fingers that somehow went undiscovered for close to 24 hours. My dad  even sent me to preschool the next day and I endured the whole thing without complaint until my teacher told my mom that I was holding my arm kinda funny.

I'm a fan of white pizzas, but pizzas in Japan are usually sub-par and crazy expensive, so I haven't had one in ages.

Last edited by Cotterpin Doozer (2012-08-15 07:35:28)

Thanks! Always glad to meet a fellow aficionado.

White pizzas? Also, hello!

Basically anything without tomato sauce, just the cheese and toppings. Quattro Formaggi is usually a white pizza, and I've had really excellent spinach and chicken alfredo white pizzas.

I am a major Henson fangirl. Even if Farscape hadn't been an absolute fabulous show, I still would've watched it for the puppetry. I can still clearly remember my 9-year-old self bawling my eyes out in the middle of a grocery store when I found out Jim Henson died. I do like the original Muppets; they have an undeniable charm. But I much prefer the more dramatic and darker work that the studio did like Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal.  The Dark Crystal can still give me chills. If the sequel ever gets made, especially if Brian Henson is at the helm, I shall lose all dignity and squee like a giddy school girl.

The Storyteller, by a similar token, is storytelling magic executed with perfection. If you've never seen it, I honestly cannot recommend that series enough.

Not so weird. It's always good to dream the fantastical.

Welcome, Cotterpin. I also approve most enthusiastically of the name.

(Although Cotterpin's existence in the later seasons of Fraggle Rock, showing Doozers to be sapient beings, makes the Fraggles' season 1 treatment of Doozers occasionally appalling.)

Yeah, I actually liked that aspect of it. The fact that the Fraggles, Doozers, and Gorgs could all spoke the same language, but made very little effort to understand each other most of the time was fascinating to me.

This brings back memories...

Hello!

I found DiF by searching for commentaries for Apollo 13 during a grading marathon last spring. (I teach English in China and thus movie watching companions can be hard to come by.) Zarban then got me here. Though, I was a little freaked out to realize that I'd seen some of you guys before on the internet in the Time magazine "Top 10 Star Wars Fan Films" video. The internet gets smaller everyday.

I like space, burritos, The Social Network, Wall*e, Flight of the Navigator and Independence Day.

At this point in China, if it looks like a pizza, I'm happy.

As for my sister, she works in the movie industry in LA and when I explained to her what DiF is her first question was, "Are any of them single?!?!" ... So, maybe I'll be able to get her on here someday.

Oh, and I'm Bathilda because I started using that name on the internet ... 13 years ago. Which, how is the internet even that old?!

If she looks like Michelle Pfeiffer and has a Catwoman costume then she may have a shot with Dorkman

Well, that didn't last long.