I agree. Since I don't watch/listen to this show/GMA/anything Chris Brown has ever done that doesn't appear in an episode of The Office, there's literally nothing I can do to express my displeasure besides share Gabe's awesome rants on Facebook and hope someone there chooses *not* to buy this guy's CD.
It's gross what fame makes palatable to some people. Check out that link to anti-GMA lady tweets for some barfsome examples of how gross.
Yeesh, the other day I kept singing "...like a truck, truck, truck" to myself and had no idea why. I had to google "truck truck truck." Not a proud day.
Cudi-baby, because I relate to her deep suspicion early on in the clip. Sure, when the camera's on, dad plays Kid Cudi, but once it's off...Garrison Keillor and golf, yo. Dad's be stodgy.
(Yes, I took a lot of long car trips with my dad as a child.)
It's also saying that young, educated Chinese people would respond to the recent downfall and submission of an entire country with unrestrained glee. They lack empathy, which is generally one of the defining characteristics of being all person-y. So, that's gross. Perhaps not racist; it's hard to say what ideas about Chinese people went into making this.
I live in Philly so I get to hear about Michael Vick's grand redemption all the time. Of course the same people who think he really deserves a second chance would likely not hire him to mop their floors if he was just a black guy with a criminal record.
I guess Vick is really good at football, though? So, that's cool. What is Chris Brown good at? Aside from my love for the Niagara episode of The Office, isn't his music kind of terrible? Am I wrong? I'm pretty dumb when it comes to recent pop music.
I am of the Philly, but I am very new to the Gum. Maybe I will just happen to be at the same bar as you all and just happen to sit one booth over and just happen to laugh at all your very funny jokes and steal shrimp appetizers from your plates when you are not looking.
I had a kind of a hippie health teacher, and I actually remember writing the definition of "analingus" in my little three-ring binder. But it's not like the teacher was for or against. We weren't putting up poster displays like it was Martin Luther King Day. It's just a word, with a definition.
I saw an ad on the bus once (Philadelphia city bus), that said that women who get abortions are more likely to develop breast cancer. Without even an asterisk to say *Correlation does not prove causation, or *We are lying! I was so annoyed by the blatant attempt to strike fear in the hearts of the uneducated I almost forgot to be annoyed by the guy playing his music too loud through his tiny earphones.
I liked this movie better when it was called Bubba Ho-Tep and instead of sky-diving they fought a soul-sucking mummy. Bucket list, consider yourself emptied.
I do not have a bucket list. When I'm dying I don't want to be able to quantify my satisfaction or lack thereof with life. That seems like a bummer to me. Darn, my life was only 40% fulfilling! Oh, well.
I just like that it is Part 2 instead of just 2. Like we are being told some epic tale of hungoveredness. These guys are doing the walk of shame to Mordor, y'all.
I used to work at a bar and we had musicians come in and ply us with their golden voices. This one guy was really popular with the frat crowd, and his most popular song. Except, instead of singing Ba Ba Ba, he'd lead the whole crowd in singing Fuck-ing slut. Which is hilarious, cause women are such sluts.
Anyway, whenever I hear this song it sets my teeth on edge thinking someone is going to replace the Ba Ba Bas with hilarious alterna-lyrics. That is probably the only thing that could have made this whole experience worse for both of them.
I hate that expression too. I choose to hear it as "everything happens for a reason because of physics," rather than "everything happens to bring about some predetermined effect" because the latter is nuts.
Huh, that's interesting. I don't know anything about trailer construction. All those things happen in the movie, but they are connected by other things and dialogue and plot and stuff, so it's better.
I mean, if you watch this movie and hate it I won't think you're a terrible person or anything. I like Fight Club and The Good Girl. It is nothing like either of those movies, except perhaps for some of the broad strokes of the characters.
Didn't he also say that America is evil (because of health care), and somehow Sarah Palin hasn't called for his immediate keelhauling?
Why was Rolling Stone even asking Justin Bieber about abortion, she wondered? Are they basing their interview questions completely on search engine optimization at this point?
This movie is actually really, really good. I saw it at the Philly Film Festival last year, and it is funny and thoughtful and sad and all the stuff movies should be. The director talked about it and had interesting things to say about the process of making it and the imagery, and I felt all warm and film-festival-y inside, like Robert Redford was going to be standing outside the theater with a latte and a scarf, asking me what I thought.
Then I saw Peep World and all of the good feelings went away (WMOAT, y'all, so much WMOAT). Hesher, though, is definitely worthwhile.
The movie is better than the trailer. There are a few set piece jokes like the "I keep one in the chamber in case you're pondering" line from all the ads, but I think this movie is more about the small pleasures, like the way that Dean's true character is revealed and Tim's wiener joke.
I think the Up in the Air for non-assholes description is particularly apt. When we left the theater I said it was like that movie if Vera Farmiga wasn't a big liar. And that's what's good about Cedar Rapids - it's about people who enjoy each other's company enjoying each other's company without a bunch of artifice.
I could have done without some of the paint-by-numbers stuff at the end, but still a really enjoyable movie.
I too was weirdly ignorant of the whole story until fairly recently, when I read a little bit about it. Apparently one of his victims (a teenage boy, I think), actually escaped in a drugged state and two women from Dahmer's neighborhood called the cops, but Dahmer convinced the cops that the kid was with him (in an ok way), and they let them go. That might be WikiLies, but I think I've seen it reported in a few different places. If it is true...ugh! For some reason that makes it so much worse, to think that someone thought they were free, had a cop there, and still couldn't really get away. Yikes.
If I'm totally wrong about this and freaking myself out for no reason, feel free to let me know. I mean, please, let me know.
I'm curious how this quote intersects with the entire script for "Rosemary's Baby" (30 Rock episode, not movie). Carrie Fisher plays an aging comedian who Jack thinks is crazy...and she's actually crazy.
"Does that guy have a gun?"
"Yes, but don't worry about it, he's not a cop."
It's one of my favorite episodes, but it seems to imply a bit more complexity.
Well, yeah.
But I'm not sure anyone can judge the veraciry of Tina's claim based on personal experience, unless that experience includes being many aging female comedians. Tina's still working, and many people want to fuck her, so she's just commenting on what she sees in her industry. I doubt she's handing out surveys, and there may be women in the same industry who would disagree with what she's saying here.
Ok, I realize I'm almost 200 posts in, but I just had a moment and had to put in a pre-emptive WMOAT bid for Peep World. This movie is not yet on Netflix, but, hit save, it'll be there eventually. I saw it at the Philadelphia Film Festival and it is 90+ minutes of people screaming at each other about how hard it is to come from money and have a big family who all live nearby. This movie is both about White People Problems to the exclusion of all else *and* it is a white person's problem, because I am white and this movie makes me feel like no one on earth can feel my pain.
You want name actors? Boy howdy. Michael C. Hall, Sarah Silverman, Ron Rifkin, Rainn Wilson, Judy mother-loving Greer!, that nice girl who played the daughter in Brokeback Mountain. TV actors, for the most part, but definitely name ones.
It has a scene where a character tries to give a speech while experiencing priapism. It's terrible, and I thought it would disappear from the world's memory, Men In Black-style, but I just saw it on the front page of IMDB and it must be stopped. Or at least heartily mocked.
Douglas Adams has a great essay in Salmon of Doubt about this very thing. O'Reilly is like a puddle who figures there's a god because the Earth has formed to its exact shape.
I think people sometimes mix up science with scientists. Scientists are people who are fallible, and have egos, and mortgages, and sometimes aren't perfect representatives of the stuff they are into. (If anyone should have a deep understanding of that characteristic of people, it's religion.) Science is a method for figuring stuff out, and the best one we have. Just because some scientist gets really heated about his way being the truthiest (which I'm sure happens often enough) doesn't mean that science won't bulldoze right over him if better evidence comes along.
Science is cool, Obama said so.
Me: Ah, yikes, no! There's some guy dressed like Buffalo Bill, complete with tucking.
Boyfriend: Well, that seems unnecessary.
Me: It's better than if he hadn't tucked.
We're lovely people, really. You'd like us..
I like Punch Drunk Love. I have a whole theory about romance movies (I'm sure you're like "Ooh, I really hope this total stranger on the internet tells me her theory") and it boils down to, I like movies where the focus is on the characters falling in love with each other, rather than on the audience falling in love with the characters. Secretary is one of my favorite movies and I don't want anything to do with either of those people. But I get why they want to be with each other. Punch Drunk Love has other stuff going for it to, like the crazy sound design, but mostly I like that it's about two very specific weirdos finding their joy.
(I like Jerry Maguire well enough, but it basically birthed my theory from its loins. Tom Cruise does not fall in love with Renee Zellwegger in that movie. He likes her, and he likes her kid, and we think they are all adorable, but he doesn't fall in love with her. And that would be fine, not all relationships are based on romantic love, but they have that whole thing at the end with all the stuff and I'm like, blech.)
So, yeah, Adam Sandler just acts well every once in a while because his goal is to annoy us, through 90% of his movies, and then, Kaufman-like, through his actual life, and the way he lives it.
I judged the DaVinci Code all over the place. Then I actually read it and I was so right. So, the Scientific Method gives me the right to know what's good and what's bad. Yay me!
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