OT: Nine innings of banter topics
Let’s pass the time by bantering about inane things while we wait for baseball to return.
1. What was the first album/tape/CD you bought with your own money?
2. When did you most love music?
3. Which flawed leading man best defines cool? James T. Kirk, Fox Mulder or Alan Shore?
4. If they made a movie of your life (just go with it) who would play you?
5. If they made a movie of your life who would play your sworn enemy?
6. Name a book you love. Name a book you want people to think you love.
7. Would you rather look 20% better or be 10% smarter? Which would you pick for your spouse?
8. Would you rather do crank with O.J. Simpson or talk about chicks with Tom Cruise?
9. Kyra Sedgwick. Hot or not?
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I’ve had a conversation with Kyra Sedgwick. It wasn’t that exciting.
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by Scott McKinney on Feb 23, 2009 10:57 PM EST reply actions
Details?
How did it happen? What did you talk about? Why did she fail to excite?
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by James Quinn on Feb 23, 2009 11:13 PM EST up reply actions
You are going to find the details unexciting
In a job that I had about four years ago, the organization’s President had a son that went to school with one of Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon’s kids. So they were friendly. That relationship led Sedwick and Bacon to be donors to the organization. They were interested in setting up a charitable remainder trust, so I was sent to their home to discuss the legal ins and outs and other possible alternatives. I met Bacon briefly, but my real conversation was with Sedgwick. We started with a little chit chat about nothing of any significance. I remember us talking about about the MTA strike and how she hated it because she preferred riding the subway to taking taxis. We also talked about her kids and my organization. Then we got down to business. And no, that’s not a euphemism. ;) She didn’t really fail to excite. It’s just that the nature of the conversation was fairly ordinary. It was still interesting to talk to a celebrity.
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by Scott McKinney on Feb 23, 2009 11:37 PM EST up reply actions
Really? And here I was thinking it was mundane.
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by Scott McKinney on Feb 24, 2009 2:23 AM EST up reply actions
It was certainly the most interesting mundane work interaction I’ve had.
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by Scott McKinney on Feb 24, 2009 2:34 AM EST up reply actions
well, next time you can talk to her about Bernie Madoff
by the way, if you ever see Kevin Bacon again, you should tell him that you know a guy that knows a guy that knows him. he probably never gets that.
Me
1. I think the first record I bought with my own money was Quarter Flash? Maybe Triumph. Both are shameful.
2. Music in the late 1980’s was definitely good. Really very good. Today, not so good. I’m old.
3. I like Mulder the most, but Kirk is more cool. Kirk is kinda a dick, but I guess that doesn’t kill cool.
4. If I was a liar I’d say Ralph Fiennes, but Paul Giamatti is more likely.
5. Tom Cruise is my sworn enemy, so he would likely play himself.
6. I love “A Farewell to Arms,” but I guess I’d rather people thought I love Herodotus more. I’ve never read Herodutus.
7. OHHHH! Why did I ask this question. Damn, you know what I would say iso don’t make me go on the record.
8. I am not sure I would live through a crank session with O.J. I guess me and Tom swap war stories.
9. I think Kyra Sedgwick is pretty hot, but I am not sure I’m happy with that feeling. I guess I shouldn’t over think hottness questions. That kinda misses the point.
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You seem cool towards Brenda Leigh,
what doesn’t work there for you?
Hottness judgements normally come with some supporting argument, pro or con. That is how it is traditionally done.
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by James Quinn on Feb 23, 2009 11:25 PM EST up reply actions
she may be hot body wise
but i dont like the face or voice
I wanna know what love is, I want you to show me
how can you hate herodotus?
there are some awesome parts (and 100s of boring pages)
but i will say i only wanted to read it after reading the english patient
Oh, I don't hate Herodotus,
I’ve just never managed to put together the time and interest to read him.
BTW, The English Patient is one of my more favorite books. I was pretty unhappy with the movie when it came out. I like it more in retrospect.
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JQ-
We were having the OGT over on RCT while you posted this! What’s up with that?! We blew the roof off of it with 1,144 comments! Hopefully you at least watched the game…
"I just trust what he does. And he has such a great ass..... er... grasp" -Chase "Booger" DanielS on Colt McCoy's "Ass-ets"
Hi KC,
I don’t have TV now! My wife and I got pissed off at Sunflower cable for jacking up the rates again and we dropped cable. So far it has been okay, but I’ll really be tested come baseball season. Thank god for Net Flix.
It was a great game though. Oklahoma bastards. Griffen too afraid to even show up.
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by James Quinn on Feb 23, 2009 11:56 PM EST up reply actions
Griffin's parents are an interesting pair
Taylor looks like Derek Jeter’s doppelganger, but Blake is a train wreck of his parents’ looks. Not ugly, per se, just an odd amalgam of different parental traits. Reddish hair from mom, spherical cranium from dad, etc.
Media trap game for the ‘Hawks, as I see it. If they had lost, they would get tagged with the ’OU beat them without their best player’, whereas in winning, the ‘Yeah, but Blake Griffin didn’t play’ gets played. Either way, character effort by this team. Less turnovers than our usual 20+ conference road effort, solid free-throw work, save for meaningless clanking, and Cole’s dominant boardwork.
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i'll take ugly and blake griffins game/millions....
over Taylors jeteresque looks
TPJ...you're dead to me
by billybeingbilly on Feb 24, 2009 12:51 PM EST up reply actions
Hmm
1. “Use Your Illusion I” by Guns and Roses
2. Like everyone, when I was 16. That was 1994, when most music aside from Nirvana and Pearl Jam, really, really sucked.
3. Eh, probably Don Draper. He epitomizes cool – especially the fact that “cool” is extremely superficial.
4. Zach Braff unfortunately
5. John McGinley of course
6. “Slaughterhouse Five” by Kurt Vonnegut. “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce.
7. 10% smarter for both.
8. Crank with OJ. Get him to open up and talk honestly about the Naked Gun series.
9. No. Not even at her peak.
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Don Draper,
Retro cool guy. If he were my boss I’d probably hate him. I would know where to go for a drink.
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by James Quinn on Feb 23, 2009 11:58 PM EST up reply actions
he seems like a good boss
he’s more respectful to his employees than just about anyone there
I wanna know what love is, I want you to show me
1. Man, this is really embarrassing to admit…Combustible Edison’s Schizophonic album. I think I was 10 or 11.
2. I’ve really liked music for as long as I can remember, and I’ve been playing it for most of the last eleven years. My favorite era of music is probably late ’60s/early ’70s—lots of Simon & Garfunkel, the Who, and very early Springsteen.
3. Fox Mulder is the man. No debate there.
4. David Alpay.
5. Ralph Fiennes, because he makes such an amazing villain, and because I’d just be psyched to have him in the movie of my life. Doesn’t matter who my sworn enemy happens to be. Alternatively, Will Ferrell can come in and just do his impersonation of George W. Bush.
6. Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables,” and Dante’s “Inferno,” respectively.
7. Be 10% smarter. Looks are finite, intelligence probably isn’t. Same for my nonexistent spouse.
8. Given the what the alternative choice is, I’ll put up with Tom Cruise, but only so long as he doesn’t jump up and down on my couch. Frankly, better he talk about women than about Scientology.
9. Not. No way.
I keep forgetting...
that asterisks will bold your words. Wasn’t trying to emphasize my bachelorhood.
Wow, you really are *NOT* married.
Fiennes is a great hero, and a great villian. I’d love to be 15% as cool as him for one minute of this life.
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by James Quinn on Feb 24, 2009 12:07 AM EST up reply actions
He is almost always great.
Sometimes he picks poor movies. But he is pretty well always spot on.
Quiz Show, Schindler’s List, The English Patient, Constant Gardener, Strange Days, Wuthering Heights, I loved him in all these roles. I still have to get out and see The Reader. Maybe this weekend.
I think Fiennes could be our generation’s Cary Grant or Gregory Peck. Likable but with an edge of unpredictability. He slides back and forth between hero and villain with the smallest adjustments to his delivery and body language. He can pull off evil so smoothly that I expect most people he kills in movies think, “It is a pleasure to be killed by someone this cool.”
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by James Quinn on Feb 24, 2009 10:03 AM EST up reply actions
He's pretty good in The Reader
He is sort of overshadowed by Kate Winslet, but that’s to be expected—Fiennes is really only prominent in certain parts of the movie, and this was one of Winslet’s best performances. But he’s one of my favorite actors ever, whether he’s playing a protagonist or an antagonist.
1. What was the first album/tape/CD you bought with your own money? Arrested Development
2. When did you most love music? 14
3. Which flawed leading man best defines cool? James T. Kirk, Fox Mulder or Alan Shore? I do not know who Shore is
4. If they made a movie of your life (just go with it) who would play you? Giamatti
5. If they made a movie of your life who would play your sworn enemy? Efron
6. Name a book you love. Name a book you want people to think you love. The Bible
7. Would you rather look 20% better or be 10% smarter? Look 20% better Which would you pick for your spouse? One of the Mizzou Golden Girls
8. Would you rather do crank with O.J. Simpson or talk about chicks with Tom Cruise? talk to cruise
9. Kyra Sedgwick. Hot or not? na
I wanna know what love is, I want you to show me
Alan Shore, hero to all losers who dream one day of riches and always having the perfect comebacks to all insults.

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by James Quinn on Feb 24, 2009 12:17 AM EST up reply actions
ok....
1. What was the first album/tape/CD you bought with your own money? a cassette single of If I Ever Lose My Faith in You by Sting… actually, my grandmother may have paid for this
2. When did you most love music? early college, like 19
3. Which flawed leading man best defines cool? James T. Kirk, Fox Mulder or Alan Shore? Mulder
4. If they made a movie of your life (just go with it) who would play you? Hillary Swank
5. If they made a movie of your life who would play your sworn enemy? Will Ferrell
6. Name a book you love. The Sportswriter Name a book you want people to think you love. I dunno… going to grad school actually made me less insecure about that stuf… I’ll say, The House of Seven Gables
7. Would you rather look 20% better or be 10% smarter? Which would you pick for your spouse? Better looks for both. With wisdom, comes sadness.
8. Would you rather do crank with O.J. Simpson or talk about chicks with Tom Cruise? I’d rather talk baseball with Trey Hillman.
9. Kyra Sedgwick. Hot or not? a respectful no
Yeah, Sedgwick is nice, but not. I really didn't think she was hot in her prime.
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by Scott McKinney on Feb 24, 2009 2:24 AM EST up reply actions
I'll come at that from a little different angle.
With knowledge comes sadness. Wisdom helps you deal with the inevitable sadness.
And I gotta wonder, why Hillary Swank?
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If you really want it to win an oscar,
you need to set the movie during the Holocaust. That or make sure Hillary portrays you as a mental.
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1. What was the first album/tape/CD you bought with your own money? It was either Ratt – Round and Round or Dire Straits – Money for Nothing…
2. When did you most love music? high school/college
3. Which flawed leading man best defines cool? James T. Kirk, Fox Mulder or Alan Shore? Larry David
4. If they made a movie of your life (just go with it) who would play you? O.J. Simpson
5. If they made a movie of your life who would play your sworn enemy? Tom Cruise
6. Name a book you love. Name a book you want people to think you love. Cat in the Hat. The Iliad.
7. Would you rather look 20% better or be 10% smarter? Which would you pick for your spouse? smarter
8. Would you rather do crank with O.J. Simpson or talk about chicks with Tom Cruise? hey, what are the odds?
9. Kyra Sedgwick. Hot or not? Hot is relative…strolling the red carpet she does not seem terribly attractive, but if she were to walk into my office building right now, she would easily be the most attractive woman here, since I am here, I say Hot.
We always did feel the same, We just saw it from a different point of view, Tangled up in blue.
-Bob Dylan
strolling the red carpet she does not seem terribly attractive, but if she were to walk into my office building right now, she would easily be the most attractive woman here, since I am here, I say Hot.
The Jim Halpert argument!
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by RoyalsRetro on Feb 24, 2009 10:27 AM EST up reply actions
1. First CD i bought: Chronicle by CCR
2. Most love music: now or in college. I go through cycles
3. Flawed leading man: of those 3, probably current Shatner or Shore; I think Josh Holloway/Sawyer on Lost maybe is cooler and more flawed though.
4.movie me…when Gladiator came out, people thought i looked like Joaquin Phoenix, and now with his homeless look, he’s looking like me again. Him or Jack Black (but he’s too short).
5. movie enemy: Alec Baldwin playing a Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity combo
6. Book I love The Grapes of Wrath Book I pretend I love Das Kapital in German
7. hotter/smarter Smarter for both. Then I could be even lazier…
8. OJ/Cruise Do Ritalin with Cruise while talking chicks with OJ
9. Kyra Sedgwick is hot enough.
by mikewormdog on Feb 24, 2009 12:29 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Ritilin with Cruise while talking chicks with OJ
Brillant man.
Sawyer is a good alternative in the flawed leading man debate.
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1. What was the first album/tape/CD you bought with your own money? The Rolling Stones/Sticky Fingers Bought it from those Columbia Music Club bastards
2. When did you most love music? When long hair and leather was in vogue. Yes, I know. We can’t run from who we are. But hey, where would the strip club industry be without hair-metal?
3. Which flawed leading man best defines cool? James T. Kirk, Fox Mulder or Alan Shore? Never a Trekkie, as it were, but Kirk’s work with the Kobayashi Maru defined cool under fire
4. If they made a movie of your life (just go with it) who would play you? Jeff Goldblum. Not the ’I programmed a virus to defeat the alien race in ID4’ Goldblum, but the swaggering, schmaltzy, Jurassic Park mathematician Goldblum.
5. If they made a movie of your life who would play your sworn enemy? Sandra Bernhard. The damnable hell of it all is that I couldn’t find it in me to finish her off
6. Name a book you love. Raisin In the Sun Name a book you want people to think you love. ’Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’. I’d settle for ‘Seven Habits of Marginally Effective People’.
7. Would you rather look 20% better or be 10% smarter? Look 20% better. Hell, look 2% better. Which would you pick for your spouse? 10% smarter. I hope she’s not reading this.
8. Would you rather do crank with O.J. Simpson or talk about chicks with Tom Cruise? Crank. OJ. You do the math.
9. Kyra Sedgwick. Hot or not? Not so much. Delineation above
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#7 part two is really the Kobayashi Maru of inane questions.
If you tell your wife you want to make her smarter….. That won’t work. So you fall back on how you would like to make her better looking,…. and you are just sinking down deeper into the hole you are digging.
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The question is like "The Quickening"
Smarter or better-looking? There can be only one (answer). Either way, you’re gonna lose your head.
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How many Highlanders does it take to screw in a light bulb.
There can be only one.
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me...
1. Album by the Rolling Stones I can’t remember the name but it had “Satisfaction” on it. 1965 a good year for music. Best recent CD purchase was “Kind of Blue”, by Miles Davis. It makes the trip to the cabin palatable.
2. 1965 to 1973… pre disco rock and roll
3. James T. Kirk
4. God, how boring would that be. Ben Kingsley
5. Glen Close… Fatal Attraction part 2
6. Watership Down, War and Peace
7. 10% smarter for both
8. None of the above… I doubt Tommy boy talks about girls.
9. Who????
Star of The Closer

So far the RR jury is ruling her not to be hot.
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Oh her.... ummmm... not!
If I am going for blonds… I go for the healthy germanic types. Bring on the KLUM…. Go Heidi…
Was she hot "Singles" era?
If you haven’t seen Singles, it’s romantic comedy fro grunge fans, minus of course good grunge music.
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue."
by Joseph Landis on Feb 26, 2009 12:33 AM EST up reply actions
My turn
1. I bought a single – Mo Money Mo Problems by Puff Daddy feat Mase and the Notorious BIG. I was 10 years old and the single cost me $2.
2. Umm… now? I dunno, whenever I’m in that mood. Whenever I’m in the mood I blast it.
3. Ehh, I guess Kirk.
4. Wow… this question is hard. It’s making me think alot… I have no idea. Umm, not becuase he looks like me but maybe because he acts like me, Jonah Hill? He certainly does not look like me.
5. Pfft… no enemies here. Probably Javier Bardem but he has to be in that outfit for No Country for Old Men. Although I don’t have an enemy he looks bad assed enough to make me want to hate him.
6. I love The Outsiders. I don’t read much but I want people to like various comic books I read form time to time.
7. I’ll take the 20% looks. I feel like I’m smart enough already. gotta spread the wealth.
8. Most def Tom Cruise….
9. I never knew who Kyra Sedgwick was before this question. A quick google search says “yes” she is hot. What makes her hotter is the fact she’s over 40, I love me some MILF’s.
by Royal from Queens on Feb 24, 2009 7:18 PM EST reply actions
When it comes to hottness
google can be trusted.
Javier Bardem would scare the shit out of me if he were my enemy. I would never go anywhere and would never make any noise and I would never sleep or look out the window.
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1. What was the first album/tape/CD you bought with your own money Green Day – Dookie
2. When did you most love music? Late 90’s – Weezer and Smashing Pumpkins still in their primes
3. Which flawed leading man best defines cool? James T. Kirk, Fox Mulder or Alan Shore?Shore
4. If they made a movie of your life (just go with it) who would play you? Norm McDonald
5. If they made a movie of your life who would play your sworn enemy? That guy who won all of those times on Jeopardy
6. Name a book you love. Name a book you want people to think you love.
People have time to read books? The only books I’ve read recently are the Tom Clancy series. For #2, the bible.
7. Would you rather look 20% better or be 10% smarter? Which would you pick for your spouse?
Meh, I can’t complain — I’d rather have more money though. So if I’ve learned anything in life its that hot people make more money, so I guess hotter, I’ll go with hotter. Same for #2.
8. Would you rather do crank with O.J. Simpson or talk about chicks with Tom Cruise?
The Juice. We’d do crank and he’d tell me about how he didn’t kill his wife, but if he had, how he would’ve done it.
9. Kyra Sedgwick. Hot or not?
Not
My 2 Cents
1. What was the first album/tape/CD you bought with your own money?
I think it was “Heavy Cream” on vinyl. It was a “Greatest Hits” Cream album.
2. When did you most love music?
1972; “Thick As A Brick” was the greatest thing I’d ever heard.
3. Which flawed leading man best defines cool? James T. Kirk, Fox Mulder or Alan Shore?
I don’t know what this means, but Kirk is the only one of the 3 I’m familiar with.
4. If they made a movie of your life (just go with it) who would play you?
Michael J. Pollard
5. If they made a movie of your life who would play your sworn enemy?
Michael J. Pollard
6. Name a book you love. Name a book you want people to think you love.
“Mother Night” and “Is Economics Relevant?”
7. Would you rather look 20% better or be 10% smarter? Which would you pick for your spouse?
I’ll take the looks all around.
8. Would you rather do crank with O.J. Simpson or talk about chicks with Tom Cruise?
I would have to kill either of these two.
9. Kyra Sedgwick. Hot or not?
Quirky, but hot. I didn’t even know who she was until “The Closer” commercials started airing a few years ago. Besides, she probably has a lifetime supply of these:
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
Damn you Phil!
You know what will be going through my mind all day now! MUST …. EAT …… BACONATOR.
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by James Quinn on Feb 25, 2009 10:27 AM EST up reply actions
Narcissism wins!
1. What was the first album/tape/CD you bought with your own money? Hmm….either some Garth Brooks album, or Chumbawumba – Tubthumper. No joke.
2. When did you most love music? At 13-17. For several of those years, I sang for a punk band. Mind you, I was never IN the band, but they started asking me to come up and sing at shows, then it just stuck. I still love music, but it doesn’t consume me anymore.
3. Which flawed leading man best defines cool? James T. Kirk, Fox Mulder or Alan Shore? Mulder ftw!
4. If they made a movie of your life (just go with it) who would play you? A much-younger Jodi Foster maybe?
5. If they made a movie of your life who would play your sworn enemy? Ed Norton, because then it would look like my life had some total badasses in it. (He is, hands down, my favorite actor.)
6. Name a book you love. Name a book you want people to think you love. The Great Gatsby. There was a quote from it on something I was watching earlier, and suddenly I really wanted to re-read it. But I don’t own it. :( I wish people would think I loved….hmm…that’s a much more difficult one.
7. Would you rather look 20% better or be 10% smarter? Which would you pick for your spouse? I’d look 20% better, but that’s only because I’m about 10% too stupid to realize how foolish that would be. For my spouse, if he existed at this point, I’d pick the intelligence as well, because the world has enough stupid but hot boys.
8. Would you rather do crank with O.J. Simpson or talk about chicks with Tom Cruise? Both fascinate me, in a very strange way. OJ Simpson was SI’s Sportsman of the Year in 1975 – that’s one of my favorite random factoids that I learned while researching for Joe. And, with that, I will skillfully avoid answering the actual question and move on to the next one. High fives!
9. Kyra Sedgwick. Hot or not? Nah. She has a very nice figure, though. And I’m sure her television programme is good, for people who watch TV.
WTF, self?
1. I think it was Garth Brooks — No Fences (on tape of course)
2. age 17-21 (It’s still amazing, though)
3. Mulder — The Truth is still out there.
4. Ethan Hawke — Reality Bites era
5. If it involves his annihilation: Hayden Christiansen. If God gives me the grace to take the high road or be bested by him: Adrian Paul
6. Love: The Brothers Karamazov. Other: The Jerome Biblical Commentary.
7. I guess smarter, though that could get people in trouble. No spouse (monk).
8. Talk the Simpsons with some chicks?
9. nah
There is a lot of Highlander love out there!
And good luck finding women interested in discussing The Simpsons.
The Brothers Karamazov is high on my “when I have time” list. Crime and Punishment and The Underground Man both really stuck with me. I can’t say I enjoy reading Dostoevsky. I leave his books feeling worse about humanity.
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I Think That's
Dosty’s MO.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Feb 25, 2009 9:17 PM EST up reply actions
1. What was the first album/tape/CD you bought with your own money?
Oasis “What’s the Story Morning Glory”
2. When did you most love music? I guess now. I was only unhappy during the boy band years.
3. Which flawed leading man best defines cool? James T. Kirk, Fox Mulder or Alan Shore? Alan Shore
4. If they made a movie of your life (just go with it) who would play you? John Kraczynski (sp?)
5. If they made a movie of your life who would play your sworn enemy? Enemy? Dont’ really have one. Dane Cook as himself
6. Name a book you love. Name a book you want people to think you love. Darkly Dreaming Dexter Obviously, I love “The Notebook”, ladies.
7. Would you rather look 20% better or be 10% smarter? Which would you pick for your spouse? 20% better. Probably smarter, I sometimes sacrifice brains.
8. Would you rather do crank with O.J. Simpson or talk about chicks with Tom Cruise? Can we talk about chicks with OJ?
9. Kyra Sedgwick. Hot or not? Not, but she is one degree from Kevin Bacon at all times.
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