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Re: Movies while building (was Re: Music while building)
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Date: 
Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:21:20 GMT
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Lorbaat wrote:
> 
> In lugnet.general, John D. Forinash writes:
> 
> > I often do not build to music. Dunno why, it seems like a completely
> > reasonable thing to do, and it's not like the computer's not sitting right
> > there ready to blare out my .mp3'd CD collection, but I just don't.
> 
> I don't build to music, either.  I tend to build while movies are on!  Either I
> watch one of the DVDs or VHSs I own, or I have on one of the pay channels I get
> on cable (I rarely watch "TV" anymore, apart from The Simpsons, Futurama, and
> The Sopranos- but I do watch a lot of movies on cable).
> 
> When I'm not watching random Cable gibberish, I watch basically, any movie I
> know well enough that if I pause from building I know right where I am, and
> what's happening- also, movies that are consistantly good, so I don't have stop
> building for "the good part" because they're all full of good stuff.
> 
> Lately, it's been:
> 
> The Way of the Gun
> Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
> Star Wars (all 4)
> The Messenger
> Leon: the Professional
> 
> But I go in cycles.
> 
> eric

I can't watch a movie while building. I get too distracted. I think I'm
missing something in the movie, and I get frustrated with my building
because it goes to slow as my head whips back and forth between
searching the parts bins and watching the movie.

Matt
--
Matt Brooks
Mutual Securities Inc.
182 Farmer's Lane #101
Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Phone: (707) 535-0163
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  Re: Movies while building (was Re: Music while building)
 
(...) Ah, but that's why I do it only with movies I've seen a million times already (or movies on cable that I really don't care about). I can be sure I'm not missing anything. eric (26 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)

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  Movies while building (was Re: Music while building)
 
(...) I don't build to music, either. I tend to build while movies are on! Either I watch one of the DVDs or VHSs I own, or I have on one of the pay channels I get on cable (I rarely watch "TV" anymore, apart from The Simpsons, Futurama, and The (...) (26 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)

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