The Private Internet Conversations of Jay C. and Reed Farrington
Every now and again, myself and Reed Farrington share some pretty unbelievably stupid MSN conversations throughout our work day. I figured it might be fun to post some excerpts from these every once and a while and give the Film Junk readers (and Cantankerous fans) a look at the real world interactions between the real life Odd Couple. (Reed is the effeminate one.)
Of course, the reality of it all is that this will probably be the only post of this sort because Reed, knowing that his MSN conversations could at any time be posted on Film Junk, will start to try and be funny and cool whenever I talk to him online. So enjoy it while it lasts! In this edition, Reed tells me some pretty amazing news first thing in the morning. He obtained a celebrity autograph! Who could it be and how did he get it? THAT is the stupid part.
Reed F. says:
Hey, I got John Ortiz’s signature!
Jay C. says:
i don’t know who that is
Reed F. says:
He was the star of AVPR.
Jay C. says:
i’m looking it up on imdb and i still don’t know who he is
Jay C. says:
oh
Jay C. says:
how?
Reed F. says:
Trading card pack.
Reed F. says:
They were 10 cents each at Sunrise.
Reed F. says:
I’ve got someone else’s signature potentially.
Jay C. says:
TOTAL SCORE
Jay C. says:
so if the whole pack is worth ten cents, that’s gotta be worth…at least 2!!
Reed F. says:
2 cents?
Jay C. says:
i’m guessing about five cards a pack
Reed F. says:
8
Jay C. says:
oh, sorry…more like 1 cent then.
Reed F. says:
I should e-mail his agent to let him know I got his client’s autograph for one American penny,
Jay C. says:
probably
Jay C. says:
and then let his agent know that nobody knows who you’re talking about when you say you got his autograph
Reed F. says:
He worked with Ridley Scott on American Gangster!
Reed F. says:
The cashier at Sunrise overcharged me 10 cents. They don’t have a quantity button on their cash registers. So she had to scan each packet and then subtract the discount for each of 35 packs. And she screwed up!
Jay C. says:
you bought 35 packs??
Reed F. says:
Yeah!
Jay C. says:
what cards are they
Jay C. says:
alien vs. predator?
Reed F. says:
Yeah, Requiem, the 2nd one and latest one.
Jay C. says:
a great addition to your collection of…stuff.
Comments (18)
Brilliant. 35 packs of AVP cards. I need to get me some of those.
Posted by Andrew James on September 17th, 2008Correction Andrew, AVP Requiem cards.
Posted by Itchy-Finger on September 17th, 2008Even better.
Now how about you leak Reed’s MSN name so we can all have pleasant conversations with the man?
Ha. That conversation was funnier the second time around.
I haven’t opened all of the 35 packs, yet. I’m hoping to find Reiko Aylesworth’s autograph. I’ll probably end up with Ariel Gade’s autograph.
Posted by Reed Farrington on September 17th, 2008Great work Reed. Were you a big AVP: Requiem fan or were you just hounding for autographs?
The only celebrity autograph I have is a framed photo signed by Gerald McRaney. That’s right–Major Dad. How much would you be willing to pay for that, Reed?
Posted by Joel on September 17th, 2008Reed will buy 35 of anything if it’s marked down to ten cents.
Posted by Jay C. on September 17th, 2008My brother and I once bought over 40 fake moustaches that were marked down to a penny each from a drug store the day after Halloween.
Posted by Underlined Steven on September 17th, 2008i’m sorry, fake moustaches guy wins this round for me
Posted by megan on September 17th, 2008I remember Voltron stickers that were sold in like 10 pack card things for a sticker book yeah those were the days. Didn’t get Prince Lotar’s John Hancock though so these are probably better.
Posted by Ian on September 17th, 2008I haven’t seen AVPR, yet, but I plan to. I enjoyed AVP. Unlike some vocal commenters on Film Junk, I think Paul W.S. Anderson makes entertaining movies.
I’m an Alien fan, so I would have bought the trading cards even without the chance of getting an autograph. The autographs are a bonus. The sketch cards are kind of cool, too. I can’t remember the artist’s name.
Gerald McRaney was in Simon & Simon which had Michael Piller as a writer/producer. It’s generally acknowledged that Michael Piller made ST:TNG into a popular show. And Piller went on to create subsequent Star Trek series. So Gerald McRaney’s autograph is worth about 25 cents to me.
A while back, I bought quite a few Star Trek: Insurrection trading card packs, but only ended up with a minor alien character’s autograph. The actor’s name is Gregg Henry. He has quite an extensive list of acting credits.
I agree, Megan. Fake moustaches are cool. I would have bought 100 of them, but only if they were the hairy stick on kind and not the plastic kind that clip on between the nostrils.
Posted by Reed Farrington on September 17th, 2008I enjoy having a lot of things because then you can do whatever you want with them and not care. I deliver newspapers so I usually take things out of all of them if its something I want. Like coupons, or once I got a bunch of instant pudding packets from some sample bags I was supposed to bag the papers in. Currently I have a bunch of that stupid right wing documentary movie that went out in papers about muslims being evil. As seen on Fox News!! Now thats a credential.
Posted by Alex R. Cronk-Young on September 17th, 2008“I haven’t seen AVPR, yet, but I plan to. I enjoyed AVP. Unlike some vocal commenters on Film Junk, I think Paul W.S. Anderson makes entertaining movies.”
You’re an idiot.
Posted by Ryan M. on September 17th, 2008That’s not very nice, Ryan M.
Reed, I would have bought 100 fake moustaches but they only had 40. They were the hairy type that sticks to your face. I don’t know what my brother did with the remainder of them, but we used a few in a film we made for college, so I have a memento of my time spent with a plethora of fake moustaches.
Posted by Underlined Steven on September 18th, 2008I was playing on the way Jay C says that Underlined Steven. That fake moustaches thing was a win btw.
Posted by Ryan M. on September 18th, 2008Ha. I actually missed the nuance in the “You’re an idiot” line as well. I was going to come back with this rejoinder: “Paul W.S. Anderson is a hack. He doesn’t have an original bone in his body. His work is highly derivative of Uwe Boll’s masterpieces. (Am I less of an idiot now?) P.S. If you’re reading this Mr. P.W.S. Anderson, I don’t believe anything I just wrote. I was just trying to appease Ryan M.”
BTW, I opened up the rest of the AVPR trading card packs. No more autographs. But I got two Pieceworks cards that are cool IMO. These cards have actual pieces of the wardrobe worn by the cast in the movie. I got a card with pieces of a top and bottom worn by Ariel Gade, and another card with a piece of a dress worn by Kristen Hager. It sounds kind of pervy to treasure these items. I would have preferred getting a piece of the Alien or Predator costumes. Or even a pouch of real Alien slime!
Posted by Reed Farrington on September 18th, 2008Short, but sweet:
Reed F. says:
Posted by Jay C. on September 18th, 2008I’m just going to gel my hair and wash my apple.
reed, i’m now imagining you at the counter of the store, arms spilling over with little card packets (with slicked back hair and a shiny apple) and behind you a guy with arms full of little, hairy moustaches.
made my afternoon.
Posted by megan on September 18th, 2008Reed, what you’re saying is impossible. You can’t be an Alien fan and also like AVP. It just doesn’t work that way. AVP raped both the Alien and Predator franchises of everything that made either of them cool in the first place. True, Resurrection and Predator 2 had already dumbed down the quality of their respective series’ a bit, but come on man…
For shame.
Posted by Rian on September 22nd, 2008I’ll be the first to admit that I play devil’s advocate at times, but I usually do so for arguments in which I don’t have a strong opinion about. But I honestly did enjoy AVP as I have all the Alien movies. I must admit that I don’t apply logic when I watch movies, so I can’t address the “dumbed down” comment. I mean, I had to suspend my disbelief in the first movie when Ripley defeated the Alien.
I have the Bloomsbury Movie Guide No. 4 – The Alien Quartet by David Thomson who doesn’t think much of Resurrection either. I was just rereading some of what he had to say, but I can’t succinctly put into words what his major problems with it are.
Anyway, my mind is shutting down…
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