YOU'RE A SEX GAWD. AT AGE 16.
Ahh crack fic. How you amuse me so.
So, went to see a movie with foxsyd on Tuesday. Had fun, but I feel soooo sorry for her. Not only has she not seen The Dark Knight yet, but I'm quite sure I talked the poor girl's ear off. Sorry Sherrie!
On the other hand, the girl did just meet Milo and Masi (twice!), so don't feel too sorry for her. Hehe!
Not Quite Hollywood was hilarious. Strongly recommended if you're a film geek who likes cheesy genre movies. It also gave me a whole new list of movies to try and check out. Hehe!
List of films to check out:
* Snapshot - The tagline is ridiculous, and obviously the one used for the US market. We don't even celebrate Halloween (officially) in Australia, though kids on my street do go around knocking on doors for free lollies. It's gotten to the point where party shops have started selling Halloween decorations. And who would've thought that Sigrid Thornton, respected actress who played Laura in the TV series SeaChange and the female lead in The Man From Snowy River, would be the resident scream queen in this movie. Even goes so far as to have a scene where her top seems to have disappeared and she's running around in a skirt and bra. Thankfully though, she was fully dressed when being chased around by a Mr Whippy van.
* Dead End Drive-In
* Mad Dog Morgan
* Howling III: The Marsupials - Plus The Howling and Howling II: ...Your Sister Is A Werewolf, which apparently stars Christopher Lee so that should be interesting.
* The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie - My friend Jeff from my old work actually remembers this movie. He saw it when it was released in 1972. He laughed when he said he'd seen it too. LOL!
* Patrick - Jeff saw this movie too, when it was released in 1978. He says it's great. It's about a coma patient whose eyes are open and starts killing people with his telekinetic powers. He also does this spitting thing while comatose, which Quentin Tarantino confesses he used for The Bride in Kill Bill. Sadly though, Uma thought it would be a stupid idea for her to have her eyes open while comatose, like Patrick did. According to Tarantino, the Italians also ripped this movie off by making a Patrick sequel. A sequel that had absolutely nothing to do with the original (other than showing the Patrick character sitting in his bed with his eyes wide open and unblinking for a few seconds here and there). This is hilarious to me, because I love the 70s Italian horror movies I used to watch on Saturday nights when I was in high school. Too bad I never wrote down the names of those movies. *pouts*
My buddy Jeff also recommends checking out a movie called Bad Boy Bubby. He says it's truly disturbing. Jeff obviously has terrific taste in movies. Heh.
Though, for the life of me, I can't remember the name of the film where a girl is terrorized by a bunch of idiots in a giant modified ute and tied to the front of said ute like a human hood ornament. It's called Fair Game, a movie that Tarantino apparently ripped off in Death Proof when he also had a girl tied to the front of a car as a human hood ornament.
Or the name of the bikie movie where the director actually used members of the real Hell's Angels. There was one scene in which they were filming a brawl outside a pub on the street, which descended into a real brawl as all the members of Hell's Angels present at the shoot jumped in.
Quentin Tarantino dedicated Kill Bill to Brian Trenchard-Smith, who directed some of his favourite "ozploitation" films, such as Dead End Drive-In, Turkey Shoot and The Man From Hong Kong, at the Australian premiere.
For those interested, here is a review of the movie.
*sigh* It reminded me of when I used to sit in my living room, on my own, at 1am in the morning with all the lights off, and get deliciously creeped out by old Italian horror movies. I remember even taping one of them, but I can't for the life of me remember where the hell that video is seeing as it was many years ago. Maybe I could write an email to SBS and ask them if they would consider a month or so of weekly Italian horror movies like they did then. It would be fun, even though SBS runs ads now during a movie/show rather than in between shows like they used to.
Frank, The Vampire Slayer
Buffy - Frank Iero
Pike - Gerard Way
Merrick - Brian Schecter
The Master - Patrick Stump
Amilyn - Pete Wentz
The Slayer's Not-So-Bright Friends - Brendon Urie, Spencer Smith and Ryan Ross
Benny - Bert McCracken
Random school athlete who is a vampire on the court during a basketball game (played by an uncredited Ben Affleck in the original movie) - Ashlee Simpson, cheerleader
Where it strays from the movie is how Mikey and Ray are Gerard's friends who are with him when they try to escape town to get away from the vampires, whereas Pike was going it alone in the movie.
Seriously? It was a complete surprise to have Patrick as The Master, but a nice surprise. Totally suits Pete to be Amilyn, right down to taking a really long time to die. Also, remember how Buffy gets cramps as an early warning signal that vampires are around? Frank gets them too. He thinks it's a bad burrito that he ate. Hahaha!
"Seriously, fucking ow."
Tonight, I went to Kinokuniya to go see an author talk about her book, in which she talks about her experiences working in a factory under the Chinese Communist regime. It wasn't just any factory either. She worked testing gauges in a factory where they built missiles capable of reaching the United States. That factory is still building them today apparently.
Anyway, she talked about how strict everything was. For example, as part of the regime's policy of restricting the number of babies people have, all women were subjected to a monthly check to make sure they had had their period, all under the guise of making sure they were healthy. She also talked about how she was never promoted, despite working in the factory for ten years, because they thought she got her hair permed (which was something the bourgeois did) when it was actually naturally curly. Because she was not the phsyical ideal (her skin was kind of dark too), she was never promoted.
In the 80s, she organised a worker's strike in Nanjing, where she lived, to support the students who protested in Tianamen Square. Now, she works as a journalist and lives in Beijing. I asked her about the freedom of the media in China, and she says that Western media in China has more freedom than it previously did. She also said that that British reporter who was filmed being hauled into a van by the Chinese police while filming the Free Tibet protest during the Olympics was a big set up. The guy was from ITV, he knew about the protest ahead of time, and the reason why he was hauled in by the police was because he didn't have his press pass with him. So, considering that he didn't have his press pass on him, they thought he was a protester, and because not many people there speak English, they wouldn't have understood him telling them that he was a journalist. Probably had a translator in the van.
While I was there, Kinokuniya were having a 20% off sale, so I grabbed a copy of The Watchmen for $18.92. Thanks to whoever recommended that I read it! I had a quick flip through while in the store, and I couldn't help but laugh at the woman who was shocked to find out that there were multiple copies of her lover (who is obviously not human). It meant that he could satisfy the demands of his relationship with her while working on some experiments he was conducting at the same time. Poor thing. She was so freaked out.
So, went to see a movie with foxsyd on Tuesday. Had fun, but I feel soooo sorry for her. Not only has she not seen The Dark Knight yet, but I'm quite sure I talked the poor girl's ear off. Sorry Sherrie!
On the other hand, the girl did just meet Milo and Masi (twice!), so don't feel too sorry for her. Hehe!
Not Quite Hollywood was hilarious. Strongly recommended if you're a film geek who likes cheesy genre movies. It also gave me a whole new list of movies to try and check out. Hehe!
List of films to check out:
* Snapshot - The tagline is ridiculous, and obviously the one used for the US market. We don't even celebrate Halloween (officially) in Australia, though kids on my street do go around knocking on doors for free lollies. It's gotten to the point where party shops have started selling Halloween decorations. And who would've thought that Sigrid Thornton, respected actress who played Laura in the TV series SeaChange and the female lead in The Man From Snowy River, would be the resident scream queen in this movie. Even goes so far as to have a scene where her top seems to have disappeared and she's running around in a skirt and bra. Thankfully though, she was fully dressed when being chased around by a Mr Whippy van.
* Dead End Drive-In
* Mad Dog Morgan
* Howling III: The Marsupials - Plus The Howling and Howling II: ...Your Sister Is A Werewolf, which apparently stars Christopher Lee so that should be interesting.
* The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie - My friend Jeff from my old work actually remembers this movie. He saw it when it was released in 1972. He laughed when he said he'd seen it too. LOL!
* Patrick - Jeff saw this movie too, when it was released in 1978. He says it's great. It's about a coma patient whose eyes are open and starts killing people with his telekinetic powers. He also does this spitting thing while comatose, which Quentin Tarantino confesses he used for The Bride in Kill Bill. Sadly though, Uma thought it would be a stupid idea for her to have her eyes open while comatose, like Patrick did. According to Tarantino, the Italians also ripped this movie off by making a Patrick sequel. A sequel that had absolutely nothing to do with the original (other than showing the Patrick character sitting in his bed with his eyes wide open and unblinking for a few seconds here and there). This is hilarious to me, because I love the 70s Italian horror movies I used to watch on Saturday nights when I was in high school. Too bad I never wrote down the names of those movies. *pouts*
My buddy Jeff also recommends checking out a movie called Bad Boy Bubby. He says it's truly disturbing. Jeff obviously has terrific taste in movies. Heh.
Though, for the life of me, I can't remember the name of the film where a girl is terrorized by a bunch of idiots in a giant modified ute and tied to the front of said ute like a human hood ornament. It's called Fair Game, a movie that Tarantino apparently ripped off in Death Proof when he also had a girl tied to the front of a car as a human hood ornament.
Or the name of the bikie movie where the director actually used members of the real Hell's Angels. There was one scene in which they were filming a brawl outside a pub on the street, which descended into a real brawl as all the members of Hell's Angels present at the shoot jumped in.
Quentin Tarantino dedicated Kill Bill to Brian Trenchard-Smith, who directed some of his favourite "ozploitation" films, such as Dead End Drive-In, Turkey Shoot and The Man From Hong Kong, at the Australian premiere.
For those interested, here is a review of the movie.
*sigh* It reminded me of when I used to sit in my living room, on my own, at 1am in the morning with all the lights off, and get deliciously creeped out by old Italian horror movies. I remember even taping one of them, but I can't for the life of me remember where the hell that video is seeing as it was many years ago. Maybe I could write an email to SBS and ask them if they would consider a month or so of weekly Italian horror movies like they did then. It would be fun, even though SBS runs ads now during a movie/show rather than in between shows like they used to.
Frank, The Vampire Slayer
Buffy - Frank Iero
Pike - Gerard Way
Merrick - Brian Schecter
The Master - Patrick Stump
Amilyn - Pete Wentz
The Slayer's Not-So-Bright Friends - Brendon Urie, Spencer Smith and Ryan Ross
Benny - Bert McCracken
Random school athlete who is a vampire on the court during a basketball game (played by an uncredited Ben Affleck in the original movie) - Ashlee Simpson, cheerleader
Where it strays from the movie is how Mikey and Ray are Gerard's friends who are with him when they try to escape town to get away from the vampires, whereas Pike was going it alone in the movie.
Seriously? It was a complete surprise to have Patrick as The Master, but a nice surprise. Totally suits Pete to be Amilyn, right down to taking a really long time to die. Also, remember how Buffy gets cramps as an early warning signal that vampires are around? Frank gets them too. He thinks it's a bad burrito that he ate. Hahaha!
"Seriously, fucking ow."
Tonight, I went to Kinokuniya to go see an author talk about her book, in which she talks about her experiences working in a factory under the Chinese Communist regime. It wasn't just any factory either. She worked testing gauges in a factory where they built missiles capable of reaching the United States. That factory is still building them today apparently.
Anyway, she talked about how strict everything was. For example, as part of the regime's policy of restricting the number of babies people have, all women were subjected to a monthly check to make sure they had had their period, all under the guise of making sure they were healthy. She also talked about how she was never promoted, despite working in the factory for ten years, because they thought she got her hair permed (which was something the bourgeois did) when it was actually naturally curly. Because she was not the phsyical ideal (her skin was kind of dark too), she was never promoted.
In the 80s, she organised a worker's strike in Nanjing, where she lived, to support the students who protested in Tianamen Square. Now, she works as a journalist and lives in Beijing. I asked her about the freedom of the media in China, and she says that Western media in China has more freedom than it previously did. She also said that that British reporter who was filmed being hauled into a van by the Chinese police while filming the Free Tibet protest during the Olympics was a big set up. The guy was from ITV, he knew about the protest ahead of time, and the reason why he was hauled in by the police was because he didn't have his press pass with him. So, considering that he didn't have his press pass on him, they thought he was a protester, and because not many people there speak English, they wouldn't have understood him telling them that he was a journalist. Probably had a translator in the van.
While I was there, Kinokuniya were having a 20% off sale, so I grabbed a copy of The Watchmen for $18.92. Thanks to whoever recommended that I read it! I had a quick flip through while in the store, and I couldn't help but laugh at the woman who was shocked to find out that there were multiple copies of her lover (who is obviously not human). It meant that he could satisfy the demands of his relationship with her while working on some experiments he was conducting at the same time. Poor thing. She was so freaked out.