2 posts tagged “memory”
What was the first movie you remember seeing in a movie theater?
Question submitted by mainmor.
Well, I vaguely remember getting four of us in the back seat in order to see The Lion King when I was quite young, but this might just be a story I remember, and may not have even been that film.
That is my only real memory of cinema before I moved to Qatar. I remember the cinema very clearly. I'm pretty sure that in the two years I lived there they only showed about two films, one of which I believe was Space Jam. The one that I really remember first was that classic, The Brady Bunch Movie.
I remember the seats and being really near the back with my sister, even though we were quite possibly the only people there. I don't think I remember all that much of te film from then because I've seen it many times since and so my memories of the actual plot are probably more recent. Although thinking about it, Jan's single curler might be something I still rmember from then.
Having an older sister who was oh-so-brilliant sister, I did quite empathise with her plight. Plus, her name scans to 'Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.'
The attitude to films there was interesting. There weren't any real copyright laws there at the time, so the rental shop was full of copies, and so not bothering to give the films back was not much of a big deal. I know we certainly took We're Back (a classic film) and we meant to take Camp Nowhere, although we never got around to that. That was quite possibly the best film ever!
This, especially my first proper cinema experience, probably says a lot about me, but I'm not sure if it is good or bad...
Do you have any tattoos? If not, if you were going to get inked, what would you get?
Whenever the subject of tattoos comes up I always remember something my friend Dave once said. 'I wouldn't want to live in a bedroom decorated 20 years ago, so why would I want to live in a body that was?' That's really the main problem. If I really truly decided I wanted a tattoo, I would have to believe I would continue wanting it just as much in 30 years, and I doubt that will happen.
The only thing I've ever really wanted was the dragon design on a top I used to have. If was a chinese style dragon that I thought was very cool. I wouldn't want that now though, because it never actually meant anything to me anyway.
Besides, the way skin moves around you never know how such things will become distorted, anyway.
