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| kathryn |
Posted - 07/11/2005 : 11:25:07
Do you wear one? Do you have several? Do you care about the time?
I always wore a watch, I worked underneath several clocks that reminded me and my co-workers of the time, as we had to be hyper-aware of each second flying by. I haven't worn a watch in three-plus years, most of the time I can't remember what day of the week it is. In a masochistic way, I miss always being aware of the time. I don't think I've even seen my watch in a year.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| Doog |
Posted - 08/20/2005 : 16:44:37
Not worn a watch since I started playing guitar some 10 years ago- drives me nuts having it on my left wrist, and always gets in the way while playing on the right wrist, so that was that.
Besides, in these days of mobile phones and Tamagotchis with built-in clocks, I don't need no stinking watches. I'm pretty drunk.
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| kathryn |
Posted - 08/20/2005 : 10:45:15
Ew, indeed.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| HeywoodJablome |
Posted - 08/20/2005 : 07:10:48
quote:
Originally posted by Surfer Rosa
What smell?
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
I think it only applies to the rubbery black watch bands. When you sweat and you take them off. Ewwwww! |
| VoVat |
Posted - 08/19/2005 : 14:08:26
quote:
I haven't mastered the art of quoting just part of the quote
The way I do it is just to copy and paste the relevant text, and then put "quote" tags around it.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 08/19/2005 : 01:49:12
What smell?
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. |
| HeywoodJablome |
Posted - 08/19/2005 : 01:44:03
Plus theres that smell when you take it off. |
| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 08/19/2005 : 00:47:55
I always wear my watch but that is more as a piece of jewellery than a time keeping device - my arms are quite long and look odd (in my opinion) if I don't break up the expansive length with something chunky on the wrists. It's quite large - chunky black leather strap and a raised tank style mirrored face. I hate checking my mobile all the time which is why I won't use it to check the time.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. |
| HeywoodJablome |
Posted - 08/18/2005 : 21:58:21
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
Thank you for your answer, Heywood, and thank you as well for reposting that photo, as it features a watch, which is the topic here.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
I haven't mastered the art of quoting just part of the quote, so sorry! What were we talking about again? |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/18/2005 : 20:26:47
I know what you mean, Toba. I only feel naked when I look at Paul Banks.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| tobafett |
Posted - 08/18/2005 : 20:21:54
i actually agree with two folks so far...
like starmekitten, i can't wear most watches b/c of nickel-allergy...
plastic ones i don't mind so much...
like homerspetmonkey, i don't feel naked unless i'm naked.
:)
i don't wear a watch. haven't for years. my phone, like most of yours, has a clock built-in so no real neason exists for me to carry one...
until i get one of those omegas...:) |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/18/2005 : 20:09:50
Thank you for your answer, Heywood, and thank you as well for reposting that photo, as it features a watch, which is the topic here.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| HeywoodJablome |
Posted - 08/18/2005 : 20:07:45
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
Since this thread got revived, I'll ask a question I often wonder:
why do you need a watch if you're a musician up on stage?
For instance:
No, this is not a cheap ploy for me to post a pic of Paul Banks. Actually, yes, it is.
Still, I do wonder -- why do you need a watch if you're playing a show?
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
They are good for knowing when you set time is up. Or to make you look like you alway got somewhere to be (but you have to look at it incessantly to convince people of this  |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/18/2005 : 18:29:00
Staying on the topic of watches, it's difficult to tell whether Paul Banks is wearing a watch in this here photo:
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| VoVat |
Posted - 08/18/2005 : 18:19:51
Or maybe as a fashion statement. A TIMELY fashion statement.
<Rimshot>
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
| Newo |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 11:03:58
To know when the 180bar tenorsax solo ends before the closeharmony kazoo quartet kicks in of course.
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Les cacahuetes c'est le mouvement perpétuel à la portée de l'homme . |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 10:59:11
Since this thread got revived, I'll ask a question I often wonder:
why do you need a watch if you're a musician up on stage?
For instance:
No, this is not a cheap ploy for me to post a pic of Paul Banks. Actually, yes, it is.
Still, I do wonder -- why do you need a watch if you're playing a show?
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| therewererumours |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 18:31:39
I just got a really cool watch from an American friend of mine who collects antique watchs, a really nice sixties silver(it looks silver  ) German watch. Before that I had a plastic Casio one from ten years ago which never seems to go out of production(the one Napoleon Dynamite wore in the movie), I really liked it! I think people tend to use their phones now for time keeping, as already said?
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| VoVat |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 18:17:13
I always wear a watch, except in the shower or when I'm washing dishes. (It's waterproof, but I still don't want to take chances.) I don't think I could deal with not having one, even if I have no need to know what time it is.
I go through watchbands more quickly than most people seem to. I think the one I'm using now is the third one for this watch. I'm not really sure why they break so easily.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
| Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 06:27:22
I look at my watch and I think "Oh! God, i'm still alive! We should be on by now..."
**** |
| kathryn |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 06:22:00
quote:
Originally posted by Carl
I drunkenly dropped my last watch down the toilet. Duh!
Ha!
Sounds like something I would do if I still wore a watch.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 06:20:14
Mine is a Swatch. Not the usual bright type, more a bronze-ish colour. They are damn loud but I like the elasticated strap.
Don't believe the type!
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| Domestiques |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 05:23:59
my wife has a thing for swatches, I just have a plain one that I wear to work and it comes off as soon as I am done.
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| Carl |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 04:34:27
I drunkenly dropped my last watch down the toilet. Duh! |
| bedrock_barney |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 04:26:26
Haven't worn a watch for years which I always thought was unusual until I counted up the non-watch-wearers in the this thread. Any one good with statistics? (non watch wearing correlated to enjoying FB/Pixies)
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| klikger |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 01:54:31
No watch till I get the Movado I want for my 2 yr. anniversary. Till then my cell phone works quite well. It also doubles as a decently functioning alarm clock.
That ALONE is worth $50 a month.  |
| Broken Face |
Posted - 07/11/2005 : 21:49:26
i used to wear one, now i carry a cell phone w/ a clock built in (as all have), so i stopped wearing the watch. trying to downsize everything in my life
-Brian
If you move I shoots!
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| danjersey |
Posted - 07/11/2005 : 21:45:12
thats was nice, thanks kathryn |
| kathryn |
Posted - 07/11/2005 : 21:09:26
quote:
Originally posted by danjersey
I saw Frank solo in at Fez(nyc) i have mentioned this before because well it was the best
performance i have ever seen by anyone doing anything on a stage, small basement club maybe 200 people so Frank felt a bit chatty i guess. so here is where your topic comes in to play, he had just received a watch as a gift from his brother and said that it was his first real watch and that he may have had one or two before but not like this one.( something like that)
after a few songs frank had to take off the watch because when you play guitar your fret hand's wrist fattens up and the watch cuts off circulation.
i bought my first real watch about six months ago, i wear it more for the symbolism than to know what time it is.
Awesome post, Dan. I love this forum.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| Sir Rockabye |
Posted - 07/11/2005 : 20:46:34
I've never really worn a watch. I've attempted to, but I've never been able to keep one on my wrist for longer than a day or two. I hate how they slide up to my forearm.
You run all kinds of red lights except the ones on the street.
When you run out of exits you can always count sheep. |
| danjersey |
Posted - 07/11/2005 : 20:14:19
I saw Frank solo in at Fez(nyc) i have mentioned this before because well it was the best
performance i have ever seen by anyone doing anything on a stage, small basement club maybe 200 people so Frank felt a bit chatty i guess. so here is where your topic comes in to play, he had just received a watch as a gift from his brother and said that it was his first real watch and that he may have had one or two before but not like this one.( something like that)
after a few songs frank had to take off the watch because when you play guitar your fret hand's wrist fattens up and the watch cuts off circulation.
i bought my first real watch about six months ago, i wear it more for the symbolism than to know what time it is.
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| misleadtheworld |
Posted - 07/11/2005 : 14:43:53
I've never owned a watch properly, but recently I've really wanted an old pocketwatch.
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| ObfuscateByWill |
Posted - 07/11/2005 : 14:40:17
No watch.
I do wear a nerdy little PDA that I use to check the time, though.
*Take a bite of the chocolate coffin. |
| zub_the_goat |
Posted - 07/11/2005 : 13:17:03
i tend to not wear watches or else i start subconciously looking at the time loads without realising it, and people think im being rude, but i've got a really cool light up purple childrens watch which i like |
| mosleyk |
Posted - 07/11/2005 : 13:06:12
When I was a kid I collected watches. I don't even know how it started. It was my father who always found these bizard and interesting wrist charms for me. I always felt so cool wearing them regardless of what anyone else thought. I think my favorites were my jettson's watch with stars that moved for the seconds hand, a Kraft Mac and Cheese watch with a fliptop that revealed the digital display, and a cracker jacks watch. My mother still has them all somewhere.
Today...I wear mainly bracelets but I do have a plain silver watch I wear to work. This thread is making me think I should dig up those old watches the kids might get a kick out of them in the clinic.
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| TRANSMARINE |
Posted - 07/11/2005 : 12:05:40
http://www.nixonnow.com/za/NNS?PAGE=STORE_WATCH_DETAILS&PRODUCT.ID=329&MENU_ID=39
Here's mine :)
I was alone...in my BIG BED
-bRIAN |
