Male and Female Imponderables - Mad World by magdalena

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Male and Female Imponderables - Mad World

POSTED BY: MAGDALENA
UPDATED: Monday, October 2, 2006 05:45
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Friday, September 29, 2006 9:37 AM

Oh I have seen Red Dawn. But only at the alamo drafthouse where they had guys doing a Mystery Science Theater 3000 thing about it. It was like shooting fish in a barrel though. So, it wasn't as funny as other ones. Top Gun was the best.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 9:40 AM

NVGHOSTRIDER

I'm gonna be usin' that one from here to doomsday. I think the story was written before the setting was established. Seems there weren't too many emotionally significant or patriotic movies of that time.
And i've been a Powers boothe fan since. I loved him in Frailty, Sin City, and Tombstone. Ever seen By Dawn Early Light? Another Cold War movie with Powers Booth.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 10:32 AM

NVGHOSTRIDER

Oh gosh.

BUMP!!!

Had to.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 10:38 AM

MAL4PREZ

Red Dawn had C. Thomas Howell. Talk about a childhood crush! *sigh* I just loved him - until he did Soul Man, that is. Talk about a baaaad movie!

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I'm the president. I don't need to listen.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 10:40 AM

KELKHIL

Quote:
Originally posted by Tristan:
Hey, some people had Molly Ringwald, I had Lea Thompson... Red Dawn, Space Camp, Some Kind of Wonderful, even Howard the Duck...I could not get enough of her.

Dude! I had forgotten about Howard the Duck! I love that movie. yes mostly because of Lea Thompson.

But everytime it was on I watched it. Red Dawn was a Fav as well.

lets see... We forgot about Krull, LadyHawk, Buckaroo Bonzi (I have seen it 3 times in the last month. Drives the Wifey nuts cause she doesn't like it), Flash Gordon,....

Did I mention the list goes on and on and on...
Not for Lea but just good Cheese.

Kelkhil

The Shirtless Forsaken

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Friday, September 29, 2006 10:48 AM

NVGHOSTRIDER

Big K, just watched Ladyhawke last night with GND and Babysis. They'd never seen it until then. Just wish we could edit out most of the crappy music.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 10:49 AM

MAL4PREZ

FLASH! AA-AAAA!

I love that movie! I must own it someday! I always craved the outfits - especially the sparkly gold dress that Dale (that's the woman's name, right?) wears when she escapes the palace.

woo-hoo! It's Friday 5 pm! Have a lovely weekend all!!

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I'm the president. I don't need to listen.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 10:53 AM

KELKHIL

Quote:
Originally posted by nvghostrider:
Big K, just watched Ladyhawke last night with GND and Babysis. They'd never seen it until then. Just wish we could edit out most of the crappy music.

Yeah I got a copy in my vault. Wifey is a Mathew Brodric fan. ooooh!

Ferris Beuler's Day Off, Spaceballs (pretty much anything Mel Brooks),....

Kelkhil

The Shirtless Forsaken

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Friday, September 29, 2006 11:01 AM

PENGUIN

Quote:
Originally posted by Tristan:
Hey, some people had Molly Ringwald, I had Lea Thompson... Red Dawn, Space Camp, Some Kind of Wonderful, even Howard the Duck...I could not get enough of her.

YES! She's a babe!

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

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Friday, September 29, 2006 11:01 AM

NVGHOSTRIDER

"Where are the white women?"
Still the best line in Blazing Saddles.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 11:28 AM

TRISTAN

Oh, y'all are dragging up so many guilty-pleasure movies! Looks like I may have to find my VCR and fire up all the old ones!

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Friday, September 29, 2006 11:31 AM

SIRFRANCIS

Guilty pleasure movie....Big Trouble in Little China....it's so bad it's funny.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 11:37 AM

NVGHOSTRIDER

Its all in the reflexes.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 11:43 AM

KELKHIL

Beavis and Butthead Do America. Anytime it is on I just gotta watch it. Man I miss that show!

Kelkhil

The Shirtless Forsaken

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Friday, September 29, 2006 11:59 AM

LITTLEALBATROSS29

Afternoon Ponderers ,

With the wee ones I don't get out at night often ,so movies are always on here.

NV - Blazing Saddles is one of my all time favorites. I love Mel Brooks .Anyone remember History Of The World ? LadyHawke - I love it cheesy music & all.So very romantic.

So here's my choices for guilty pleasure movies - The Jerk and The Man W/ 2 Brains -Steve Martin
The Clash Of the Titans-Release the Kraken !!!

And for the weirder ones -Eating Raoul & Deathrace 2000.

Gonna watch The Buffy finale tonight.

Bryce
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I swallowed a bug.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 12:14 PM

NVGHOSTRIDER

Death Race 2000. The best. Sly Stallone beefin' it because of the beer can under the brake pedal. Classic!
Have fun w/ Buffy.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 12:19 PM

JAMESTHEDARK

I have too many guilty pleasures even to list. Jackass springs to mind, simply because watching those people make me wonder whether Darwin's theory hasn't been refuted yet... BY THEIR EXISTENCE!!
Also, I watch really bad movies from time to time, like Plan 9, Santa Claus on Mars, and a couple of others I'm sure my brain has rebeled against itself and forced itself to forget the names of.
There are also some chick-flicks that I watched for no reason other than the fact that they were on. I once watched Sleepless In Seattle. By myself. Yup.
And another guilty... well, it wasn't a pleasure, it was just guilty. Have you ever heard of a movie called Pirates? Not 'of the Carribean', just Pirates. Yeah, that one. I only saw five to ten minutes of that, and I felt very dirty afterwards.

I have an imponderable for you all, and it was Ejifor who said it first: Do you know what your sin is?

Mine, I've learned, is Lust. It's not desire for the flesh, as I could give a damn about that. My lust is that I'm too curious. I have to know EVERYTHING. If there's something out there that I can learn, no matter how obscure or irrelevant, I have to know it. It is the one thing which can override my fear, and often leads me into situations I'd later regret, or leads me to say things, which I likewise wished I never learned. Because some things, once learned, cannot be unlearned.

Such as Pirates, for example...

So: Do you know what your sin is?

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I ain't lookin' for help from on high. That's a damn long wait for a train don't come.

98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 12:27 PM

COZEN

Eating Raoul is the singular greatest cinematic experience, ever.

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With apologies to the Citizen Kane/Serenity (!)/Casabalanca/Wizard Of Oz fans.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 12:34 PM

VERSEEXPLORER

Quote:
LittleAlbatross29 wrote:
Anyone remember History Of The World ?

I most certainly do. I love anything that Mel Brooks does. Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, and the Silent Movie as well as those that were mentioned previously.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Igor, would you give me a hand with the bags?
Igor: [doing a Groucho Marx] Certainly, you take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban.

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Mal: Saffron, you're pleasing, you're all kinds of pleasing, and uhh...it's been awhile, a long damn while, since anybody but me took a hold of my plow.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 12:40 PM

ZEEK

Quote:
Originally posted by JamesTheDark:
I once watched Sleepless In Seattle. By myself.

Hey I've done that. What's wrong with it? What are you implying!!?!?!

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Friday, September 29, 2006 12:40 PM

JPSTARGAZER

I know those of you that really love Shakespeare might grimmace at this, but one of my guilty pleasure movies is 10 Things I Hate About You. I don't know, it's just really funny and sorta heartfelt at the same time. I'll usually watch it if it's on TV, which is pretty often. That, and a girl I had a crush on in high school looked very similar to Julia Stiles, so that might be a factor.

"All I got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth...the rest is up to you"
--Bono

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Friday, September 29, 2006 12:46 PM

ZEEK

Quote:
Originally posted by jpstargazer:
I know those of you that really love Shakespeare might grimmace at this, but one of my guilty pleasure movies is 10 Things I Hate About You. I don't know, it's just really funny and sorta heartfelt at the same time. I'll usually watch it if it's on TV, which is pretty often. That, and a girl I had a crush on in high school looked very similar to Julia Stiles, so that might be a factor.

What!? That's not a guilty pleasure. That's a good movie. I own that one too.

What are you people doing to me!?

In fact me and my friend watched that when we saw it was on just last weekend. And we were guests in a house of 4 college guys. Granted they gave us funny looks but we were like "what!? it's good!". I blame my junior year roommate (who was on the road there at the time). He owned the movie on dvd and got me to watch it once. It has good dialogue and is funny. I actually ended up reading taming of the shrew just becuase I liked that movie. The movie's better

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Friday, September 29, 2006 12:57 PM

LITTLEALBATROSS29

I am humbled by everyone's great taste in movies.

And someone who know Eating Raoul !! Now I don't feel like too much of a freak.I quote it often and no one ever gets it .
Not sure I can compete with Sleepless in Seattle though.Scary.

NV - Death Race 2000 holds a treasured place in my collection.

Verseexploreer - So glad to hear Mr.Brooks is well loved.Young Frankenstein is also one of my faves.

Good question James - BUt I'm gonna have to think on it.I likely have more than one.

Bryce
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I swallowed a bug.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 1:00 PM

NVGHOSTRIDER

Yeah, but does Moulin Rouge have a place? One of "those" movies I deny watching, alone, a little bleary.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 1:07 PM

LITTLEALBATROSS29

I've never seen it.I'm a bit behind & Serenity has been on cable si I've watched that many many times recently.

OK here's a guilty pleasure for you all.I watch soap operas.Have since i was a babe with my mom.
At least 4 different ones.I feel so dirty.

Bryce
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I swallowed a bug.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 1:07 PM

SASSALICIOUS

I know I should say that mostly teenage-esque movies are my guilty pleasure (think Bring It On, Center Stage, 10 Things I hate about You, etc etc), but I am loud out and proud of loving those movies, among many other cheesy ones. My only truly dark movie secret is the Olsen Twin stuff. Yes, I've seen it all. Yes, I rented New York Minute on my own. Yes, I've seen all the TV shows.

And I kind of enjoyed it.

Feels good to get that off my chest

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Wisconsin sucks. I don't want to be here.

~Forsaken Forever

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Friday, September 29, 2006 2:00 PM

VERSEEXPLORER

LA:
There should be no shame it what we watch. If you grew up with soaps and they still hold your interest, watch them proudly. : ) They are your "legal" drug of choice. They can take you away from reality into a world that has far more problems than your own. Enjoy! We'll keep your secret.

Sassalicious:
As long as you don't consider the Olsen Twin stuff as something that is good for all of us, you are entitled to your very dark movie secret.

You are very brave to share this with us.

Some things have a great deal of value if they remind us of happy when we were younger.

Congratulations ladies for digging deep into the guilty pleasure bowl.

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Mal: Saffron, you're pleasing, you're all kinds of pleasing, and uhh...it's been awhile, a long damn while, since anybody but me took a hold of my plow.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 2:44 PM

TRAVELER

I searched my collection and tried to find something most of you might remember, but this is my guilty pleasure. "The Lemon Drop Kid" with Bob Hope.
I know, your like, what is that? Well it is one of my Christmas traditions. I watch several videos on my Christmas break and this is always one of them.

Now I feel my 54, soon to be 55 years catching up with me.

Thanks for the memories
Traveler

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Friday, September 29, 2006 2:44 PM

KAYNA

I love my captain

I used to watch the Olsen Twin movies!

Wow! I forgot about those.

Now for me! I agree with the earlier mentions of Ladyhawk. I will actually watch almost anything with Rutger Hauer in it (don't ask me why) and that a very mixed bag. I like that movie quite a bit but there are problems. Yes, the music is corney but waht really had me shredding things was the wardrobe. Who designed that crap?!??! And the super human strength that would be required to accomplish the sword throwing scenes. Lots of movies do that and it bugs me.

I also must admit to "Legend"
Hey, I'm a sucker for fantasy. Ryhming goblins and Tim Curry as the Devil! And Unicorns!

There's also Escape from LA. Kurt Russel and John Carpenter. I love that combination in general but this is my favorite.

And now for the really big one. Has anyone here ever seen the Ewok movies? Yeah. Those. I own them on DVD. They are NOT good movies but I just can't seem to help it. Maybe it has fond assocciations with my childhood.

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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 3:01 PM

VERSEEXPLORER

Aaaah, Traveler, you're stretching my memory. I know quite a few old Bob Hope movies, but I had to go to IMBd to check this one out.

Once I saw the pic, it started to come back to me. It introduced the song "Silver Bells" a great Christmas classic.

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Mal: Saffron, you're pleasing, you're all kinds of pleasing, and uhh...it's been awhile, a long damn while, since anybody but me took a hold of my plow.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 3:07 PM

JAMESTHEDARK

Have the people already forgotten about my Imponderable? Well, here it is, in case you glossed over it:

Do you know what your sin is?

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I ain't lookin' for help from on high. That's a damn long wait for a train don't come.

98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 3:12 PM

KAYNA

I love my captain

I do indeed James. My sin is gluttony.

In the same way yours is lust. It's not just all the food stuff (though I do overindulge bit I'm not THAT bad) I glut on a great deal of things that I enjoy. So much so that I tend to ignore other things. Some of them are things I really should be doing instead of indulging my own desires.

I also have a bit of your kind of lust and some of that good old fashined wrath in there.

Now just to make it easier on folk.
The seven deadly sins are:
Gluttony
Sloth
Greed
Pride
Lust
Envy
Wrath

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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 3:26 PM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

I am so loving you guys more and more! Hi Mink! Wasn't sure I've spoken with you before!

Nobody's mentioned Kinky Boots either! Eijefor in drag... and so good at it!

I actually have Lady Hawk here and I love that whole almost-together-but-separated-torture *sigh* ...& even when it is hopeless to think they can be reunited they remain true to one another... I love Matthew Broderick too and he's so sweet in that! Can quote most of Ferris Bueler... And I've been involved with all 3 of Neil Simon's loosly autobiographical plays which he workshopped with Mat Broderick - Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway bound!

OK - James - I have given this a lot of thought and my sin is very much along the same lines as yours... lust! It is not just physical - though goodness knows... It is wanting to own a topic - know it so well that I can converse with the best of them! I devour text books on a subject that takes my fancy, I watch documentaries and read period novels and just have to know everything! It is not good enough that I have a vague idea - I must know it all! Maybe that's greed a little too...? Oh hell - I'm a fan of all 7!

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Friday, September 29, 2006 3:35 PM

TRAVELER

It is amazing where some of the classic songs originated from. Bob was one of the best. Did you ever see him dance. He could do it all.

Traveler

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Friday, September 29, 2006 7:58 PM

VERSEEXPLORER

Traveler,
I know Bob came from vaudeville, but I don't recall seeing any major dancing. I've seen little soft shoe tapping in some of his movies. Speaking of older stars, I've been curious who is your 1st love? I don't recognize her.

James,
I'll have to go with Mal, and say that I'm a fan of all 7.

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Mal: Saffron, you're pleasing, you're all kinds of pleasing, and uhh...it's been awhile, a long damn while, since anybody but me took a hold of my plow.

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Friday, September 29, 2006 8:56 PM

SASSALICIOUS

At the moment, I think my sin is GLUTTONY!!!

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Wisconsin sucks. I don't want to be here.

~Forsaken Forever

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Friday, September 29, 2006 10:19 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Good morning everyone! I lounged in bed reading today; it was great! Now I have to do laundry, but instead I'm posting here and browsing bigdamnthankyou. No, I am not an addict!

I feel so out of the loop with some of the movies y'all are mentioning. Oh well...
You know what really bugs me? When everyone I know is saying "Oh you just have to see this movie, it is the best thing you will ever watch!" and then I watch it and it's a total letdown. So many people talk about how great this or that movie is and it pretty much never lives up to the hype. I much prefer the "Hey you might enjoy this movie" approach because then I'm not looking for what's so spectacular about it and I can just enjoy it. For example, I love Spaceballs, but don't think History of the World is that funny. Yeah, I know, I'm sorry. It's strange how I was all prepared to laugh and so it just wasn't as funny. That's why you shouldn't hound anyone to watch a movie.
Wow, sorry, that was a total ramble.
What is my sin? I've got a few. I think lust (yes, the sex kind of lust, what is with you people and lust for learning?

) pride, wrath, and to a lesser extent envy and sloth have all entered into my life quite a bit. I'm not sure if I could be considered greedy; I'm certainly not greedy enough to compromise my principals. I'm not really gluttonous. Well, unless being obsessive is a form of gluttony? Anyway, maybe I couldn't be said to be a fan of all seven, but damn close.
If we're going into TV shows as guilty pleasures, I like Celebrity Deathmatch. Can't say I even feel guilty about that. My taste doesn't shame me much. I'm the same way with music.
However, those movies that all my friends just love and adore and think are the best things ever that I don't think are that good (Moulin Rouge comes to mind) made me feel guilty in the past. These were the friends who were always telling me to watch this that and the other, but I saw Moulin Rouge before anyone hounded me about it. Didn't really do anything for me, and then I'm listening to everyone quoting it and laughing hysterically. Maybe I just truly didn't enjoy the movies they hounded me to watch, and it wasn't just because I was expecting them to be much better than they were. What a conundrum!

http://www.bigdamnthankyou.com - show Universal your gratitude!

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Gautama Siddharta

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Friday, September 29, 2006 10:54 PM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

Hello Grogesou Phoenix Rose!

I took a little while to grow to love Moulin Rouge - but my best friend cannot stand it - but then she hates any film where one of the lovers dies... I thought it was very 'Camille', and another friend said it was 'La Boheme' but that might be because Baz Luhrman also designed and directed a production of that opera here in Australia! Similar feel to it.

I never finished watching Pulp Fiction and I don't care who hears me say it - everyone was raving about it and it bored me stupid - I switched it off to go and make a coffee & just never put it back on again... There aren't too many films I have done that with either...

Did I mention that i watched 'Field of Dreams' too this weekend? I love the relationship with Kevin Costner and his wife and the daughter is wonderful too... but James Earl Jones - that man had a voice I could have lived with forever - it does a lot for me - a mans' voice! *sigh* Anyway - Kevin Costner did his best work on baseball movies - funny considering it is not a sport on my radar, but I like his movies which revolve around the game!

No INM - I don't have any friends from there, but I think I know which direction it's in!! You're quite safe telling me tihngs like that! LOL!! I used to spend time in Hanley or Congleton, Biddulph was close, but the pubs were better in Congleton! I also hung out at the Furlong in Tunstall, and the other one in Tunstall Square occassionally... can't remember it's name now...