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11 July 2007

Yourself as Amelie . . . You've seen Amelie and enjoyed how charmingly she and other characters are described by their likes and dislikes. "Amelie likes... She likes... Amelie dislikes..." The events of a person's day are often described similarly, simply, in chronological order... I bet you'd like briefly to describe in this way yourself, someone else (perhaps another MechaZen!?), or a day in your life here...
I don't remember the day-in-the-life thing from Amelie... Could you give us an example?

Otherwise, mine would be:

Specklet likes new white cotton socks, fresias, and the *pop* a twist-off top makes. She dislikes tinfoil, dust on her hands, and the way a damaged envelope comes through the post all dirty.
posted by Specklet 11 July | 16:17
Speck:
I don't remember the day-in-the-life thing from Amelie...

Well, there are various sequences in which several events are described similar to the first lines of the film:

On September 3, 1973 6:28 pm and 32 sec. a blue fly of the Calliphorides species, whose wings can flutter 14670 times per minute landed in Saint-Vincent Street, Montmartre. At the exact same second, outside a restaurant, the wind was sweeping in under a tablecloth, causing the glasses to dance without anybody noticing it.
At the same time, on the fifth floor of avenue Trudaine, Eugene Koler erased the name of his best friend, Emile Maginot, in his adress-book after coming home from his funeral.

-and-

This morning, like every Tuesday, Dominique Bretodeau goes out to buy a chicken. Usually, he cooks it in the oven with baked potatoes. After cutting off the legs, the breast and the wings, he'll clean up the bones with his fingers, starting with the oyster.
No, Bretodeau won't buy a chicken today.
He won't go any further than that telephone booth. There.
In one second, Bretodeau remembers everything.
Bahamontes' victory in the Tour de France .
Aunt Josette's corselets .
And, especially, that tragic day when he won all the marbles of his classmates during playtime.
-Bretodeau !
-Bretodeau !!


Today's September [?]; it's [?] o'clock in the morning.
At the Trene Fair the marshmallow-mixing machine mixes marshmallow.
At the same moment, at the La Villette garden Felix L'Herbier discovers that the number of possible connections in a human brain is superior to the number of atoms in the universe. Meanwhile,
at the foot of the Sacre-Coeur, the Benedictines work on their backhand.
The temperature is [?] C, the moisture content is [?] and the atmospheric pressure [?] millibar.


Likes and dislikes:

Sometimes, Amelie goes to the movies.
I like to turn around in the dark to see the faces of the people around.
And I also like to spot the little detail nobody will ever see.
But I don't like it when the driver doesn't watch the road.

Amelie doesn't have a boyfriend. She tried, but it didn't live up to her expectations.
On the other hand, she enjoys all sorts of little pleasures, putting her hand in a bag of seeds, piercing the crust of creme brulee with the tip of a spoon.
And play at ducks and drakes on the Saint-Martin-canal.

-and-

This is Gina, Amelie's colleague, granddaughter of a healer.
She likes to crack her fingers.
Here you can see her bringing a Kir to Hipolito, the not-successful writer.
What he likes is to see a bullfighter getting gored.
This is Joseph. Gina's jealous ex-lover.
He spies on her to see if she's replaced him.
The only thing he likes is to pop the bubbles of plastic wrappings.
posted by shane 11 July | 17:08
Elsa likes the family cat, especially the soft white fluff on her belly, which makes Elsa giggling suspects has just come back from the cleaners. As for the cat, she likes to climb up Elsa and rest on her shoulders, tail wrapped around Elsa's neck.

Elsa likes to feel bread dough under her hands, its rough mealy texture growing smoother as she works it, until it is satiny and firm like a breast or a buttock.
posted by Elsa 11 July | 17:12
carmina steps into a jokes and costume shop. At the same moment, a man leaves his home at Lecourbe Street. A min later, carmina arrives at the photo machine at the Gare de l'Est. At the same second, the man in red trainers parks in front of the side entrance. At that moment, it is exactly 1am. At this exact moment in the story, carmina is the only one to know the key to the enigma of the mystery-man of the photo machines.

carmina likes enigmas about different worlds half real, half invented, half spontaneous and one more half unattainable.
posted by carmina 11 July | 17:28
jonmc likes boozy effusiveness, cultural effluvia collection and watching humanity go about it's business. He dislikes cruelty, smugness and raw vegetables.
posted by jonmc 11 July | 17:59
Sass likes smooth river rocks, sucking the nectar out of clover flowers, seeing how long she can hold her breath underwater and having secrets whispered in her ear.

She dislikes having sand in her shoes, unconditioned streetcars on hot days, listening to people brag about their boats, and port-a-johns.
posted by SassHat 11 July | 20:28
rainbaby thinks Amilie is a pretentious bitch, and so is sad that she cannot participate in this thread, as she just didn't get it.

She likes Shane very much, despite his bizzare Amilie fixation.
posted by rainbaby 11 July | 20:34
AmElie. OK. Whatever.
posted by rainbaby 11 July | 20:35
deborah likes quirky films, but doubts she'll ever watch Amelie.
posted by deborah 11 July | 21:24
Amelie is cute. Jrossi generally detests cute unless said cuteness is perpetrated by her own offspring or that German polar bear cub. (Or a member of the Hello Kitty gang. She has a bizarre fondness for those guys.)
posted by jrossi4r 12 July | 08:24
i just saw that Knut is now not longer cuter than he is a dangerous hormonal teenage threat and is being weaned from his keeper and sent away. Poor Knut.

ethylene finds herself now paralyzed with emotion at the sight on kittens and is almost not ashamed of this new involuntary reaction. She likes unguarded moments and subtle conspiracies that only effect discreet coos, thunderstorms and unapologetic violence without collateral damage.
She likes coming up with ideas, thinking them through and making them happen. Sometimes just the first or second parts are enough when particularly busy with making chocolate pumpkin muffins for friends or oddly pornographic business cards.

She dislikes being interrupted when she is "in the zone" and being incredibly aroused without the ease of relief from mulitple and continuous orgasm. Mean people make her crabby and when she is crabby she might just smack you in the head with a hardback book or whatever will cause the most damage within reach.
posted by ethylene 12 July | 09:09
In this thread, "accidentally" post a comment that belongs in another thread... || What was that "sporty" European movie trailer I saw ?

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