Well there is know duplicating the 50 people yelling at the screen experience that you crave I know there is know getting you out of the theatre. Regarding the Big Room/ Small Room conflict. Chris and I have the reverse. He loves big open room and I like lots of small cozy rooms. If we had the large open living room with the high ceilings, i would hang out in the office or the bedroom. They look pretty, but I feel like I am in a lobby or waiting room.
I did the pillow fort thing too. My daughter gets me to do it with her now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i don't like small TVs or screens. My living room TV is 32" and i can't wait > to upgrade to a 42" or 50" plasma so i can watch it from the den as well. > (that'll proabably be next Christmas, though). I really like to see detail > on the screen, so small screens bug me. i like to be immersed in the complete > audio-visual experience (which is why, Tracey, I'll never give up the > theatrical experience, even when i get a big flatscreen). > > I do feel you on the small rooms, though. i wonder if it's because I grew up > in a small house (five rooms, three brothers in one bedroom) but I like > smaller, cozier, feeling rooms. When I see apartments or houses with giant > open plans and soaring, vaulted ceilings, i feel nervous and exposed. > Seriously. The biggest thing my wife and i had when we bought our house is > that, since it's older, it has smaller, discrete rooms, and only 8' ceilings. > My wife--who is only 5' tall--feels closed in by the rooms and the "low" > ceiling. But I--standing 6'1"--feel just fine. She wants our next house to be > open plan, where the kitchen, den, and living room are all more or less > visible, similar to one big one. She even has been talking about getting a > loft. My comment to her was that if we do that, i'll almost never be in the > living room, probably spending all my time in a smaller guest bedroom. And a > loft is right out, i'm afraid. > > > I was the kind of kid who'd find a spot on the couch, then cover myself in > pillows to have a "fort" or something, and feel completely snug and > comfortable. The first time I left my neighborhood on foot (instead of in a > car) i was a young child walking our dogs with my mom. My old neighborhood is > surrounded by freeways, a river, and a railroad track, and has lots of trees. > It's one of those where you can feel a bit sequesterd in spots. So, when we > walked out of the neighborhood i was greeted by the sight of the trees > dropping away to reveal a large expanse of flat land that ran to the freeway, > which arcs upward to a bridge. All around me was open sky, open fields, a > giant freeway. I freaked out and had to walk back. Soon as I got behind the > cover of the trees again, i felt better. > > To this day really open spaces make me feel a bit nervous and exposed. You > know how some people have nightmares about being entrapped, closed in? My > nightmares typically find me in an open plain, flat to the horizon, with the > exception of a giant building or ship towering above me. The terror i feel at > standing in the shadow of a giant cruise ship or spaceship or building > towering a thousand feet above me is hard to describe. Yet i'm not afraid of > heights... > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Don't really know. Just always have. And I should clarify- the "storage room" > I speak of was actually the master bedroom of my apartment. I don't like big > rooms, either, and didn't even use the room when I had the apartment, save > for book and comic storage. I could've gone in and watched it (the TV) easily > enough. > > "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I > actually like small tvs myself. I do not prefer them, but I shocked > my husband when we first started living together. if we both wanted to > watch tv and view different programs, I would offer to go watch the > small TV in the bedroom. I like the coziness. So you are not totally > alone in your penchant for small TVs. However, I would not put a large > TV in a storage room. I like them too. Why do you prefer small TVs? > > Martin wrote: > >> I'm often alone in my weirdness, and I don't think this will be an exception. >> >> I've never liked big TVs. I had a 30" once, and hated the thing. I kept in >> in my bedroom initially, and moved it into my storage room a month later. >> Since, I've owned nothing bigger than a 19" screen. Right now, I have a 13" >> >> "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" wrote: We had one for a >> while, but all this cross continent moving has changed >> that. So , I have the same dreams. Hopefully, now that I am getting >> well and starting to work again, those dreams will become a reality >> >> Astromancer wrote: >> >>> I haven't been to the movies in several years...I either rent DVDs or >>> download them off the net...I dream nightly of owning a big screen TV... >>> >>> "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" wrote: Agreed. While I >>> think you are a die hard movie goer, The big screen >>> changes the whole movie experience. You will come to love home viewing >>> almost as much as the theatre. Besides you can rent them on Netflix >>> until you can by the collections. I do that with lots of series >>> >>> Astromancer wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Let me fix that...(big screen, big screen, big screen...) You can hav the >>>> big screen >>>> and buy the collections later...(big screen, big screen, big screen...) >>>> Everything will look so much better on that BIG SCREEN...this is only a >>>> suggestion... >>>> >>>> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> you know, Tracey, just dicussing DS9 makes me nostalgic. I was up really >>>> late this morning, and Voyager was being shown on Spike TV at 1 am. I feel >>>> asleep, but when i awoke for a moment an hour or so later, i think i heard >>>> an ep of DS9 in the background. Fell asleep again, but remember feeling >>>> vaguely angry at why it'd be on at such an inaccesible hour. >>>> >>>> I got about two hundred bucks worth of Best Buy gift cards for Christmas. >>>> I keep bouncing back between saving them for a big flatscreen plasma TV, >>>> or getting the complete run of one of my favorite series: Avatar, >>>> Battlestar Galactica, Homicide (one of the greatest TV dramas ever), >>>> Babylon 5, original Trek, or DS9. >>>> >>>> I keep finding myself leaning towards DS9... >>>> >>>> -------------- Original message -------------- >>>> From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" >>>> Refresh my memory. I forgot how it ended. Didn't the shape changers >>>> start melting and Odo dump Kira, who, he had loved forever, to cure and >>>> stay with them? >>>> >>>> Daryle wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> The End of the Dominion War. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 12/26/07 2:38 PM, "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. 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