Since We All Know I'm New Jersey's Bitch
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sub_divided The Passion : Christians + S&Mers :: Harper's Ferry : abolisionists + good ol' boys
This is the analogy I couldn't remember before. Basically you get two types of people loving The Passion of the Christ- religious people, and sexual deviants. Because if you get off on torture then this the movie for you! Or if you have, like, convictions and stuff.
Meanwhile Harper's Ferry, as the site of both a spectacularly unsuccessful slave revolt and a losing Union battle, attracts a similarly dichotomous crowd. I've never been there, but it would probably be worth going just to see how the pro-black-freedom tourists react to the pro-Confederacy tourists, and vice versa.
Clever enough to justify a second post? Probably not. But, since I'm talking movies anyway, and *points to title*…
Garden State: an L.A. actor (blank-eyed lead from Scrubbs) comes home for his mother's funeral and meets a girl who changes his life (Natalie Portman). A dark absurdist comedy that becomes truer as it becomes weirder. Highly recommended to people from New Jersey, people into psychology, people who like alternative music, people with a strange sense of humor, future pharmacologists, people who like to be reminded why it's good to be alive, and anyone who doesn't fit into the aforementioned categories. Very, very good movie.
Each of the characters had quirks that, taken separately, could easily have been from real life (exception: silent Velcro). But they had so many of them, and there were so many quirky characters, that the whole thing became this eerily-familiar alternate reality freakshow. A Borgesian funhouse (overused elitism alert)! I liked it because could relate to it even while thinking 'Dude, that is so messed up.' By the end I wished I too had been on unnecessary emotion-surpressing drugs since early childhood, just so that I could feel truly alive for the first time without them.
Also I want the soundtrack. Two thumbs and my right index finger up! The only drawback was going to see it with two men who were obviously gay and just as obviously trying to pretend (to me and to themselves) that they weren't. It's a good thing movies aren't really social events. As in, I didn't have to feel like too much of an unwelcome intruder since there wasn't much talking involved.
Dear J&D, I know being Catholic makes this hard, but please accept your sexual orientation. You'll be much happier afterward (I hope). Love, S.
And! The son of the return of the geekish reactionary statement!
FMA has had some really bad animation lately. I think 46 was the worst since that summer special in terms of shots that just… didn't look right. Something about Wrath's triangle-teeth grimaces. Also, the plot is progressing too quickly, but then that's my reaction after every FMA episode (as well as a major part of what makes the series so good), so meh.
I loved Envy's temper tantrum. I love Wrath's continuing tantrums. Actually, all of the sins have gotten some good emotional outbursts in, with the exception of Pride who seems content with the way things are. Is that because he's the closest to being human? Or is it because he, as a manipulator of humans, realizes that being human isn't all it's cracked up to be? Speaking of, I also loved that scene where Wrath screams at Tucker, "Aren't you human?!" and you realize how that isn't a guarantee, of anything. Not that you don't get this point hammered into you later, repeatedly and with a large blunt object, but still. LOVE.
I swear, the longer the Naruto-Sasuke fight goes on the younger the characters look. Kyubi-Naruto always looks childish, of course, but why is Sasuke regressing? Pretty soon they'll become actual twelve-year-olds (or is it 13 by now?)! Wouldn't that be something!
Ah, yes, and I know that Naruto fans everywhere are joining me right now in praying for a loophole. Some way to continue the series without killing anyone (else), although it's fine if things don't go back to the way before because really, would they? If you were a member of a close-knit ninja village and something like that happened, could you forget? In a twisted way it's admirable that neither one is backing down, I suppose. [/end geek]
[begin real life nonsense] It sucks when different classes have the exact same name. It sucks when the class you want to take fills up after you thought you'd registered for it. It sucks when you try for days to meet with the professor, and send email and leave notes, only for the professor to give their "last" override to the girl who showed up five minutes before you (and who they thought was you). And it especially sucks when it takes them an hour of strained conversation to decide not to let you take their class, after all. I have a headache.
This is the analogy I couldn't remember before. Basically you get two types of people loving The Passion of the Christ- religious people, and sexual deviants. Because if you get off on torture then this the movie for you! Or if you have, like, convictions and stuff.
Meanwhile Harper's Ferry, as the site of both a spectacularly unsuccessful slave revolt and a losing Union battle, attracts a similarly dichotomous crowd. I've never been there, but it would probably be worth going just to see how the pro-black-freedom tourists react to the pro-Confederacy tourists, and vice versa.
Clever enough to justify a second post? Probably not. But, since I'm talking movies anyway, and *points to title*…
Garden State: an L.A. actor (blank-eyed lead from Scrubbs) comes home for his mother's funeral and meets a girl who changes his life (Natalie Portman). A dark absurdist comedy that becomes truer as it becomes weirder. Highly recommended to people from New Jersey, people into psychology, people who like alternative music, people with a strange sense of humor, future pharmacologists, people who like to be reminded why it's good to be alive, and anyone who doesn't fit into the aforementioned categories. Very, very good movie.
Each of the characters had quirks that, taken separately, could easily have been from real life (exception: silent Velcro). But they had so many of them, and there were so many quirky characters, that the whole thing became this eerily-familiar alternate reality freakshow. A Borgesian funhouse (overused elitism alert)! I liked it because could relate to it even while thinking 'Dude, that is so messed up.' By the end I wished I too had been on unnecessary emotion-surpressing drugs since early childhood, just so that I could feel truly alive for the first time without them.
Also I want the soundtrack. Two thumbs and my right index finger up! The only drawback was going to see it with two men who were obviously gay and just as obviously trying to pretend (to me and to themselves) that they weren't. It's a good thing movies aren't really social events. As in, I didn't have to feel like too much of an unwelcome intruder since there wasn't much talking involved.
Dear J&D, I know being Catholic makes this hard, but please accept your sexual orientation. You'll be much happier afterward (I hope). Love, S.
And! The son of the return of the geekish reactionary statement!
FMA has had some really bad animation lately. I think 46 was the worst since that summer special in terms of shots that just… didn't look right. Something about Wrath's triangle-teeth grimaces. Also, the plot is progressing too quickly, but then that's my reaction after every FMA episode (as well as a major part of what makes the series so good), so meh.
I loved Envy's temper tantrum. I love Wrath's continuing tantrums. Actually, all of the sins have gotten some good emotional outbursts in, with the exception of Pride who seems content with the way things are. Is that because he's the closest to being human? Or is it because he, as a manipulator of humans, realizes that being human isn't all it's cracked up to be? Speaking of, I also loved that scene where Wrath screams at Tucker, "Aren't you human?!" and you realize how that isn't a guarantee, of anything. Not that you don't get this point hammered into you later, repeatedly and with a large blunt object, but still. LOVE.
I swear, the longer the Naruto-Sasuke fight goes on the younger the characters look. Kyubi-Naruto always looks childish, of course, but why is Sasuke regressing? Pretty soon they'll become actual twelve-year-olds (or is it 13 by now?)! Wouldn't that be something!
Ah, yes, and I know that Naruto fans everywhere are joining me right now in praying for a loophole. Some way to continue the series without killing anyone (else), although it's fine if things don't go back to the way before because really, would they? If you were a member of a close-knit ninja village and something like that happened, could you forget? In a twisted way it's admirable that neither one is backing down, I suppose. [/end geek]
[begin real life nonsense] It sucks when different classes have the exact same name. It sucks when the class you want to take fills up after you thought you'd registered for it. It sucks when you try for days to meet with the professor, and send email and leave notes, only for the professor to give their "last" override to the girl who showed up five minutes before you (and who they thought was you). And it especially sucks when it takes them an hour of strained conversation to decide not to let you take their class, after all. I have a headache.
