Garren Jacobsen
Auror
Maybe he choked when he was forced to look up from his crappy front row seat. (Insert jerky, vindictive laugh here.)
So this?
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Maybe he choked when he was forced to look up from his crappy front row seat. (Insert jerky, vindictive laugh here.)
Someone bought one of my DJ-sets. They actually paid real-world money to download it - even though you can listen to it for free online. It feels weird, but pretty good too.
I'm pretty sure it's not someone I know. I uploaded the set back in July and haven't linked it to anyone for ages, so someone randomly came across it a few weeks back and decided they liked it well enough to pay for it.
Link is here: Dreams in the Rain :: Beatport Mixes (yes, you can listen for free there)
This is also a little bit encouraging when it comes to the writing. If someone can stumble across and buy a five months old DJ set, then people can stumble across and purchase stories I've written and put up for sale too.
The guy should have tried the mind thing:I saw Star Wars again. This time it was different. This time, a bunch of dicks were in my seat. So I walked up to some of the dicks and said, "These are my seats. Do you guys have tickets with the same row on them?" The teenage dicks smirked and giggled, but the dick dad (and/or uncle and/or 40-year-old boy) had the audacity to not produce a ticket as evidence but instead flash his phone confirmation. Of course the manager was a bit suspicious because I had tickets in my hand with the seat number and this other guy didn't have tickets, and his tickets were unable to print. Finally, the manager looked up the guy's order and found he had seats A1-10, a.k.a., the break-neck section. Not the best seats in the theater which were reserved by me and two other families.
All this was resolved before the movie began, and this guy insisted the computer gave him the wrong seats because "there's no way I would've bought those seats." I didn't call bullshit because pretending to believe him got him to cooperate. But there was no effing way I was gonna let him go talk to the customer service guy on his own and no way I was gonna give up the best seats to a bunch of jerks.
Am I gonna confront a jerk every time I see a movie twice in a theater? (Last time, it was the Two Towers. I tackled a shoplifter.)
Wait. Are you saying that finding humor in my victory puts me on the dark side?
I would reply, "I will tighten your restraints, seat-stealing scum!"The guy should have tried the mind thing:
"These are not the seats, you seek."
Ireth, maybe tone him &/or his ideas down, plant a few seeds that can seem quirky now but can be used in a sequel later, i.e. a type of foreshadowing that will gain more shape/depth in the sequel?
Going to see The Force Awakens tonight!
I might have accidentally spoiled Kylo Ren's identity for myself, but as I've fastidiously avoided all other spoilers for nearly two weeks, I'm sure there'll be plenty more new revelations in store to make up for it.
Also, lesson learned. Never, ever look up a spoiler-y character's Wikipedia page to see who plays them. That innocent-looking little sidebar listing their info (including, I don't know, THEIR REAL NAME)? It is not humanly possible to scroll away fast enough to avoid glancing at it.
Oops.