Sometimes I think this lindsay lohan continual train wreck thing will stop being funny and just be kind of sad. Then I see stuff like that and I'm like: "Nope."
It's just weird, this idea of Pittsburgh you have that it's some urban fortress that we have to defend against the suburbanites, or whatever. Sure, there's a lot of people that don't go downtown a lot. But people commute to the city from the suburbs every day. Kids that grow up in the suburbs move into the city to go to school or work. I work in an office with a lot of both. It seems like you're implying that "true city-dwellers" have more of a right to be here than anyone else, and that's just a weird and entitled way to think.
Haha. "All the streets are shut down" ? Well, a few of them are. And yeah, that causes traffic problems but just leave 15 minutes early for work like everyone else instead of whining about it. Also, "For starters people from the Suburbs NEVER set foot in downtown"... You do realize that most people that work downtown (in Pittsburgh and most cities) commute from the many surrounding suburbs?
Okay, admittedly my hometown (Pittsburgh) doesn't always have a lot going on in the summer (unless you count the Pirates, but nobody counts the Pirates), so yeah the Batman thing is kind of big! Especially for a part-time unpaid intern who has little else to do, I am pretty excited about them filming here. Last week I went to the set (consisting of a couple blocked-off streets downtown) and took some pictures. Then I got yelled at by a 17 year old "production assistant" in a Ne-Yo t-shirt for taking pictures. Later I saw Chris Nolan and JGL (JGL!). Even later they had everyone vacate a street despite uproarious complaints from corporate suit-types on their lunch breaks who AIN'T CARE ABOUT NO BATMAN. I guess my point is that large scale movie productions are still kind of new to this area, and so yeah, people are kind of freaking out about it. Sure, big action movies get made all the time but not here, so who's gonna be that asshole who sees the batmobile flying down a street covered in fake snow in the 95 degree summer heat and is like "OH GAWD WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL" ?
The Gaze
SCENE EXT. Farm house somewhere in middle america. Enter Vincent Gallo.
(He stares into the distance enigmatically.)
CAMERA TILT DOWN
(He is receiving a blowjob.)
The End.
I know what you mean about TV shows. Like how in Mad Men Don Draper says "I love you" to Betty, but what he really means is "I love ALL of the hos, everywhere, forever."
I ain't that mad at Zodiac. I can appreciate a slow-burning suspenseful movie, but the dramatic payoff at the end seemed a little flat is all. Just sayin'! As far as Fincher goes, I think Se7en is his best "suspense" film. People remember it as being super violent and gory but then you watch it again and it's really not; the effect comes as a result of your imagination going to those super dark and weird places and is so much scarier as a result (like how everyone remembers the brutal 'lust' killing but in the film it's only referenced verbally). That's good filmmaking! Resting my case now.
Zodiac? I thought it was at the very least pretty poorly paced. Or as most of my friends put it, "Really fucking boring." Maybe you were being sarcastic, Kelly? It's kind of hard to tell when you're being sarcastic Gabe. er, Kelly.
A capella is the worst. Remember when Jay-Z did a release of the Black Album that was just a capella? Who would want that? Who would want THIS? ugh. And yea, I'm looking at you too beatboxing zombie Jerry Garcia.
uh, Gabe, I think Trash Humpers is pretty much every man's Trash Humpers. Have you seen Trash Humpers? Because then I think you would know what I'm saying about Trash Humpers.
"Sex is always better when there's feelings involved" - Andre 3000, and uh, the kid on the left? Weird. My future kids will listen exclusively to the Mr. Roger's Nieghborhood soundtrack until they're 21.
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