The Random Thought Thread

Naildriver74,
Do you listen to PFW in Progress?

Go Pats.

Johni3w6 said:

Naildriver74,
Do you listen to PFW in Progress?

Go Pats.

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I just started to last year. I've been a pats fan since the 60s when I lived in Salem NH.

Naildriver74 said:

I've been a pats fan since the 60s when I lived in Salem NH.

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I thought Heretic calls you redneck. But this disqualifies you from being a redneck, right?

Right. I live out in the middle of 700 acres but I'm not all that country. I just like being where I can be left alone and not be able to bother anyone. I don't even listen to country music. Southern rock is as close as I get.

Naildriver74 said:

I just started to last year. I've been a pats fan since the 60s when I lived in Salem NH.

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That's awesome, it's a great show.

hey ive never called naildriver a redneck lol

Been reading all sorts about Robin Williams, especially now that the discussion has turned to why someone commits suicide.

In my gut, there are two types that choose suicide. There are those that have a romantic view of it, the "I'll show them" types. Those are the one's I'd label as being selfish in taking their lives. The other type is the depths of despair depressed, where the mind has taken them to such a dark place that they can't see the light that leads them out. Now I'm sure there are many other types out there, I'm not remotely qualified to really have an opinion on the subject.

What I do know, is that suicide bothers me. I'm sure it has to do with my inability to understand getting to that state of mind. I've never been a depressed person. I have an easier time understanding a tragic death, or a terminal illness. I can attach blame to those. With suicide, I can only seem to attach blame to the person that I'm feeling the loss of. And that's not how I want to remember them. I don't want my last impression to be bad. It's hard for me to shake though.

I can't think about Nirvana without also thinking of Kurt putting a shotgun in his mouth. I can't watch a Tony Scott film now without mentally seeing him jump off the bridge (and I've worked right by that very bridge many times). And now, a beloved comic hero to me, will always have a tainted visual image to accompany him.

By the way, I got the chance to work with Robin. He was everything I expected and more. Hands down one of the best experiences I've ever had with an actor. He treated us crew members like friends. He talked with us and tried to make us laugh at every moment. I tried to repay the favor by bringing some Mork & Mindy trading cards to set. I had them since I was a little kid, and put in a card sleeve to bring show him. He got all excited and looked at them. Then, he asked ME if he could sign one. I had no intention of asking, I just wanted to be the one to make him smile. So yeah, of course he could. That's the memory I want to live with, to override the negative one. It's gonna be a struggle.



That's me on the far left with the rest of the camera crew on the set of "Face of Love".

Here's another from the set...(photographer Dale Robinette took this and the other)



And this is the trading card Robin signed...

i getcha syt its onky natural insrinct to overide that instinct for self oreservation is no place any stable personnshould know lol.

a great guy desoite all around him felt the need to end his life, mourn and pitty him but try and remeber the great things, very few people made gnerarions laugh.

shame at that moment someone didnt make him giggle.

to laugh and make ithers laugh it was his gift

Heretic said:

hey ive never called naildriver a redneck lol

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Ok, you did that just one time. My bad.
(http://digitalpinballfans.com/showthread.php/7937-Zen-to-make-big-announcement-at-E3?p=148081&viewfull=1#post148081)
I thought it's a common thing for you, like calling syt Hollywood.

Biff said:

Ok, you did that just one time. My bad.
(http://digitalpinballfans.com/showthread.php/7937-Zen-to-make-big-announcement-at-E3?p=148081&viewfull=1#post148081)
I thought it's a common thing for you, like calling syt Hollywood.

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I forgot about that. Kiss mine to Heretic lol

Odd thing. I looked through the list of movies Robin Williams has been in, and I've only ever seen one of them start-to-finish. That was Insomnia (2002), which I went to see to pass some time on time in New York when I was waiting to head back to the airport. I had no idea Robin Williams was in it, it just happened to be the movie that was playing at the theater closest to my hotel that was on at the most convenient time. Otherwise I wouldn't have ever seen the movie, or had any inclination to see it. I think I saw the very end of Mrs Doubtfire, once. And... that's it.

TV-wise, I saw a bunch of episodes of Mork & Mindy, re-runs in the mid/late '90s, but that was being shown early Saturday mornings and frankly at that time I was living on my own in London and was usually suffering the effects of the previous Friday night. Just put anything on TV to pass the time before Grandstand came on and Football Focus and all that.

Yet I was aware of him as a cultural icon, his place in the Hollywood pantheon... just never inclined to go see anything he was ever in.

I guess that explains my reaction when my wife ran up the stairs to tell me he'd died - I was all "oh, okay". And she seemed kind of surprised that that was how I'd reacted.

Good Morning Vietnam is one of my fav Williams movies, great balance between fun and serious roleplaying. Such a pity he took his life. Wonderful actor.

Insomnia and 1 Hour Photo were my favorites of his. He was so creepy in them. Brilliant stuff.

There's just no making sense of suicide by people with mental illness. It's like asking why does the cancer want to kill people. A friend of mine is bipolar and when he was spiraling down the first time before he was diagnosed he just didn't make any sense. Fortunately before he hit the bottom his family was able to get him help and he's been doing well for over twenty years now. I read the diary of someone in my extended family who suffered from depression and did kill himself. The logic in his writing just wasn't there. He was a genius amung geniuses so it was written well but how he felt and why that meant he was going to kill himself just didn't make any sense. He and I were so much alike except that I didn't get the depression gene or whatever it is. His death still haunts me 13 years later. We all knew that he was having problems. He went to psychiatrists and psychologists but they didn't help him. If only he had lived long enough to find something that would help. He hanged himself from a tree. He did it in a tree he knew that his dad would see in the morning because he thought his dad would be best able to handle it. But he couldn't get him down by himself and had to get his wife to help. I have a recurring nightmare that I'm in the woods where he hanged himself on the night that he did it. Sometimes it's foggy and sometimes it's rainy but every time I can't keep up with him. Every time when I finally find him he's dead.

Those pics are great, SYT.

Kolchak357 said:

Insomnia and 1 Hour Photo were my favorites of his. He was so creepy in them. Brilliant stuff.

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I forgot he was in Insomnia. The Final Cut was interesting too.

I could really go for a sports themed pin. This looks like a fun pin.

Watching the Simpsons marathon on FX has reminded me how good the show used to be.

Simpsons used to be good? That's unpossible!