insert coin, revisit adolescence

[tsuki_no_bara]

the americans on the flist have seen (and played, if possible :D ) today's googledoodle, yes? i don't know if it shows up for non-american googles - i don't know how far pac-man's reach was.

yesterday was the hubble telescope's 20th birthday! very exciting. how do you bake a cake for a space telescope, tho? see its very first pic here.

salon.

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[dietcokebreak]

PACMAN!!! Hee hee.

[tsuki_no_bara]

rich-the-coworker told me to look on google and my reaction was "...i hate you". SO MUCH FUN.

[tsuki_no_bara]

woo!

er. not that you suck at pac-man, but that uk google gives it to you. it's a little different playing it without a joystick....

[apiphile]

Ah, it WAS Less Than Zero. We were trying to remember which film it was that had RDJ in. I read American Psycho when I was 17 and fucking loved it.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i spent twenty minutes trying to remember jami gertz's name and totally forgot about rdj until i caved and looked on imdb. i was not particularly surprised to realize he played the drug addict. (altho, it being la in the 80s, i think everyone was a drug addict....)

i'm pretty sure american psycho would've grossed me out waaaaay too much, altho i was vaguely impressed that it was apparently so scary that it had to be kept behind the counter in a lot of bookstores and wrapped in plain brown paper. now i just think easton ellis wrote it to show off how far he could push the envelope.

[apiphile]

Ahhh. Yeah, we were back-forming and trying to remember the film in which "RDJ takes drugs, has gay sex and dies".

it was apparently so scary that it had to be kept behind the counter in a lot of bookstores and wrapped in plain brown paper.

OH PFFFFFT WHAT THE FUCK.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i was in college and one of the bookstores - the original border's, i think - put a whole display of them on a big table right in front, and that was kind of shocking. i went to college in michigan, tho, which was not a bastion of outre literature. and at the time, american psycho was considered really edgy and envelope-pushing for a mainstream novel - and it was a mainstream novel - on account of the violence and psychopathy.

i'm 99.44% sure one of the guys in a writing workshop i took that semester bought it and read it and was not super impressed with the writing, but i wouldn't quote myself on it. i only ever read less than zero, which was really just about bret and his friends, and for all i know he does a better job when he's writing about totally original characters.

[wrenlet]

Good lord, that was the most depressing movie ever. Ever. Well made and totally a product of its time but... urgh.

[tsuki_no_bara]

but it had jami gertz and at the time she was a black hole of suck.

aaaaaand now i kind of want to rent it to see if it really is as bad as i remember. >.< and also because rdj was probably adorable.

[azewewish]

Ah, Milo & Elijah... ♥ I'm not so much into the twink thing, but I do love the hell out of these boys & how much they really LOVE screwing each other. *g*

[tsuki_no_bara]

i was kind of amused that the article seemed to suggest that the fact they love it was one of the reasons their particular flavor of twincest is so taboo. but honestly, that's the kind of gay porn i prefer.... (not that i've seen so much of it, because i so haven't, but i like it when the guys seem to be really into each other, not just really into getting laid.)