I think, while I slept, very small pixies came and glued my eyelids shut. That's the most parsimonious, rational explanation I can come up with at the moment
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Daaamn. Curiosity got the better of me and I looked around for more clips and book fragments... To think that 90% of the Mexican so-called "horror" community sank into similar paint-me-black-I'm-so-goth-lokee-I-write-kewl-vamps mediocrity. I can already see their future fanzines and chapbooks filled with sparkling anti-heroes... D-:
I had to watch that episode again so I could hear what I missed when I was laughing so hard at the bit with Butters trying to snack on Cartman. That whole episode wins everything. Butters is the best thing that ever happened to the show.
And, having just reorganized our pantry, we fucking died at the whole thing with Butters' dad.
You know I've never been much for the vox populi, but I am pleased to see that the best Twlight can manage at imdb is a 5.3, and that Roger Ebert gave it a 2.5, and that the Tomatometer at Rotten Tomatoes is scoring it at 44%. Of course, I'm sure it's still raking in the moolah, hand over fist.
I won't join in the Meyer griping, as I'm still forming my opinion about the Twilight phenomenon (not too formed yet beyond ZOMG SOME OF ITS FANS ARE BEYOND NUTS). I will admit to a crass economic reason for why I'm torn about the movie, because the Portland area (where the film was shot) doesn't usually get used so prominently in a major film, and damnit this is such a beautiful area that it deserves to appear. (The only other films I can think of that shot in the Columbia River Gorge are Jake Kasdan's Zero Effect, which is actually not a bad film, and bits of Barry Levinson's Bandits and Richard Donner's Maverick, which were bad films, though, hey, Bandits had red-haired Cate Blanchett, so it had that going for it.) And it meant several
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Rot. That needs to be a title. That REALLY needs to be a title.
Yep.
I will admit to a crass economic reason for why I'm torn about the movie, because the Portland area (where the film was shot) doesn't usually get used so prominently in a major film, and damnit this is such a beautiful area that it deserves to appear.
Convince Neil to write a novel set in Portland and we might finally get some joy that way. (Though, hey, the Coraline film is set in Oregon (Ashland, to be exact) and it's being made here...)
I'm just being a crass booster for my beautiful state. Thank you for using it in some of your short stories, by the way. (Now I'm missing the Oregon Coast. I should visit it. It's only two hours away!)
I've decided to do a young-adult zombie novel called Bits n' Pieces n' Parts about some seXXXy young freshly-dead teenyboppers who discover the orgasmic joy of eating one another a piece at a time, all the while fending off the "preps" and the "techers" who want to blow their brains out.
It's a metaphor for the teenage experience, y'know.
Either that, or I'm going to rewrite Cloverfield from the monster's perspective as a hyper-extended metaphor for those awkward, bumbling "tween" years.
"DAMN IT! All I wanted to do was go see a movie in Times Square and look what happened! I trashed the city and now NOBODY likes me. I'm gonna crawl to the bottom of the Marianas Trench and never come out again. No, don't buy me a Slusho; it'll only make me feel worse. (To all my peeps in Y'ha-N'thlei, txt me later.)"
"DAMN IT! All I wanted to do was go see a movie in Times Square and look what happened! I trashed the city and now NOBODY likes me. I'm gonna crawl to the bottom of the Marianas Trench and never come out again. No, don't buy me a Slusho; it'll only make me feel worse. (To all my peeps in Y'ha-N'thlei, txt me later.)"
Haha! Thanks for sharing that link. I no longer have a TV (and there are times I'm glad about that), so I didn't even know they had done this episode.
I find it increasingly sad that cheesy Mary Sue fic is what's making the big bucks this decade. And I've spent the past 2 decades trying to avoid writing Mary Sue fic. Here's to you and others like you who still write actual literature and not formulaic wank. *raises glass*
Not to rely on Wiki too much, but they sum it up quite well there: Mary Sue, sometimes shortened simply to Sue, is a pejorative term used to describe a fictional character who plays a major role in the plot and is particularly characterized by overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, lacking noteworthy flaws, and primarily functioning as wish-fulfillment fantasies for their authors.
Basically, Meyer is Bella. Or the other way around.
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And, having just reorganized our pantry, we fucking died at the whole thing with Butters' dad.
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Butters is the best thing that ever happened to the show.
That is very possibly true.
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I won't join in the Meyer griping, as I'm still forming my opinion about the Twilight phenomenon (not too formed yet beyond ZOMG SOME OF ITS FANS ARE BEYOND NUTS). I will admit to a crass economic reason for why I'm torn about the movie, because the Portland area (where the film was shot) doesn't usually get used so prominently in a major film, and damnit this is such a beautiful area that it deserves to appear. (The only other films I can think of that shot in the Columbia River Gorge are Jake Kasdan's Zero Effect, which is actually not a bad film, and bits of Barry Levinson's Bandits and Richard Donner's Maverick, which were bad films, though, hey, Bandits had red-haired Cate Blanchett, so it had that going for it.) And it meant several ( ... )
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Rot. That needs to be a title. That REALLY needs to be a title.
Yep.
I will admit to a crass economic reason for why I'm torn about the movie, because the Portland area (where the film was shot) doesn't usually get used so prominently in a major film, and damnit this is such a beautiful area that it deserves to appear.
I'm afraid that is a pretty flimsy reason.
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I'm just being a crass booster for my beautiful state. Thank you for using it in some of your short stories, by the way. (Now I'm missing the Oregon Coast. I should visit it. It's only two hours away!)
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(Now I'm missing the Oregon Coast. I should visit it. It's only two hours away!)
If not for my fear of volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis, I would have moved to coastal Oregon. Gorgeous, if somewhat tectonically unstable.
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It's a metaphor for the teenage experience, y'know.
Either that, or I'm going to rewrite Cloverfield from the monster's perspective as a hyper-extended metaphor for those awkward, bumbling "tween" years.
"DAMN IT! All I wanted to do was go see a movie in Times Square and look what happened! I trashed the city and now NOBODY likes me. I'm gonna crawl to the bottom of the Marianas Trench and never come out again. No, don't buy me a Slusho; it'll only make me feel worse. (To all my peeps in Y'ha-N'thlei, txt me later.)"
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"DAMN IT! All I wanted to do was go see a movie in Times Square and look what happened! I trashed the city and now NOBODY likes me. I'm gonna crawl to the bottom of the Marianas Trench and never come out again. No, don't buy me a Slusho; it'll only make me feel worse. (To all my peeps in Y'ha-N'thlei, txt me later.)"
Ow! Coffee out my nose!
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*ksnerk*
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I find it increasingly sad that cheesy Mary Sue fic is what's making the big bucks this decade. And I've spent the past 2 decades trying to avoid writing Mary Sue fic. Here's to you and others like you who still write actual literature and not formulaic wank. *raises glass*
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And I've spent the past 2 decades trying to avoid writing Mary Sue fic
"Mary Sure fic"? That's a new phrase for me.
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Basically, Meyer is Bella. Or the other way around.
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Thank you. Yes. Now I understand.
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