huge apparati. we don't need your myths
so recently i've been very angry with my studies, because all we read in east asian film are these fucking feminist psychoanalytic academic bullshit pieces from the 1970's. last week we had to read an article about the female body in the horror, porn, and melodrama genres (which actually i enjoyed second only to the article we read about cult film shlock and camp techniques being integrated into mainstream film but blah fuck). the first fucking reading of the semester was the laura mulvey piece about "visual pleasure" and the male gaze and the objectification of the female by the male characters and the fucking camera and the audience. anyway all this bitching is leading up to a payoff: neupert comes into class the other day and starts lambasting all his colleagues who work on cultural and feminist studies. and i quote: "the camera is a huge apparatus! it isn't gendered!" then he poked fun at everyone writing cultural analyses of the lord of the rings trilogies. he says that he can't see why everyone is making such a big deal out their success, "they would have been popular twenty years ago, wouldn't they? i mean, nobody would be in the theatres yelling 'we don't need your myths now!'" in other film class news i hate it when people bring books to class that they know their teacher wants them to be reading and lay them on the fucking floor in front of them for all the class to see, while the rest of their fucking books are where they should be, in their fucking bag. this only bugs me because it reminds me of what a fuck i was in high school (and, consequently, what a fuck i still am).
this weekend was extraordinarily productive; i watched:
Fulltime Killer (Andy Lau wearing a Bill Clinton mask and talking about El Mariachi)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (David Bowie = sex)
Ratcatcher (Manus McManus, my 45 year-old Irish friend, would be proud of me)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (Bela Lugosi = sex)
Football (fuck fuck fuck)
and tomorrow i get to watch either Subway or Diva in french film and maybe Old Boy for doc yi. now that you mention dr. yi, simon, why don't you tell us about korean dog meat? so in korea they eat dogs and brigit bardot hates it. back in 1988 i believe she said south korea hosted the olympics and the french wrote a great many angry letters to the appropriate authorities about korean barbarism and eating dogs. in reply, the koreans accused the french of descending to even lower depths: "do you know how many snails we export to your country every year? we would never touch that shiba." anyway dr. yi is afraid to eat dog meat because it's healthy and apparently super addictive. it has no cholesterol and little fat, making it the ideal food for consumptives and skinny white bitches. they changed the name of dog soup to "a soup for all seasons" when people came for the olympics. its supposed to be very soft and if you're tricked into eating it apparently you'll crave it for the rest of your fucking days. and when i go to south korea in a few months i'm going to eat it with every meal.
this weekend was extraordinarily productive; i watched:
Fulltime Killer (Andy Lau wearing a Bill Clinton mask and talking about El Mariachi)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (David Bowie = sex)
Ratcatcher (Manus McManus, my 45 year-old Irish friend, would be proud of me)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (Bela Lugosi = sex)
Football (fuck fuck fuck)
and tomorrow i get to watch either Subway or Diva in french film and maybe Old Boy for doc yi. now that you mention dr. yi, simon, why don't you tell us about korean dog meat? so in korea they eat dogs and brigit bardot hates it. back in 1988 i believe she said south korea hosted the olympics and the french wrote a great many angry letters to the appropriate authorities about korean barbarism and eating dogs. in reply, the koreans accused the french of descending to even lower depths: "do you know how many snails we export to your country every year? we would never touch that shiba." anyway dr. yi is afraid to eat dog meat because it's healthy and apparently super addictive. it has no cholesterol and little fat, making it the ideal food for consumptives and skinny white bitches. they changed the name of dog soup to "a soup for all seasons" when people came for the olympics. its supposed to be very soft and if you're tricked into eating it apparently you'll crave it for the rest of your fucking days. and when i go to south korea in a few months i'm going to eat it with every meal.