Just finished reading Lady Chatterley's Lover & Eric Schlosser's Reefer Madness. No, there's not particularly any theme to that, I just have *hell. of.* an excess of books to read. Yar! What new literary depths of depravity and despair shall I find myself bewallowed next?
I'm confused. I think that several people had the impression I was going to prom this month? If so this was all beyond my conscious understanding, since I've been packed to the gills with awesomeness every weekend for quite a while... although, now it's slowed down.
Reefer Madness rather disappointed me, really, because the greatest emphasis was placed on the emergence of one porn magnate over the past forty years, which didn't connect to the rest of that section's attempts to highlight the importance of the American underground market very well. Nothing new in the first section that I didn't already know, although the section on migrant workers was fairly powerful, although I felt that he glossed over giving the reader a true education by focusing narrowly on one city and one crop.
Lady Chatterley's Lover, which was originally published in 1928, TOTALLY has "penises fucking cunts". Wooo! Dirty words in classy lit! I'd always figured it was one of those books deemed obscene for its subversive views about marriage and women on top, but no, it actually has dick'n'judy's! What a thrill..
How dated do you think that Lord of the Rings will be in five years? There are films, such as the Matrix (the first one) that aren't necessarily dated in terms of special effects but can still be easily placed in terms of general action movie canon because it's a pioneer of a certain technology (the 360 degree camera spin, for instance, is always placed at 1999-00. Any other occurences must be 98% smirkingly self-referential to be redeeming at all). But outside of the glut of crappy fantasy epics we'll see, what will be other detrimental effects of Peter Jackson's rad-o-rama?
Yar. I still think he's around sometimes, oh yeah... but I can wait. Sigh.
edit: I finally got my navel pierced. Although it's a rather common piercing I feel it's the last I'll get for a while (especially since it takes so long to heal). The project is DONE! woot...
I'm confused. I think that several people had the impression I was going to prom this month? If so this was all beyond my conscious understanding, since I've been packed to the gills with awesomeness every weekend for quite a while... although, now it's slowed down.
Reefer Madness rather disappointed me, really, because the greatest emphasis was placed on the emergence of one porn magnate over the past forty years, which didn't connect to the rest of that section's attempts to highlight the importance of the American underground market very well. Nothing new in the first section that I didn't already know, although the section on migrant workers was fairly powerful, although I felt that he glossed over giving the reader a true education by focusing narrowly on one city and one crop.
Lady Chatterley's Lover, which was originally published in 1928, TOTALLY has "penises fucking cunts". Wooo! Dirty words in classy lit! I'd always figured it was one of those books deemed obscene for its subversive views about marriage and women on top, but no, it actually has dick'n'judy's! What a thrill..
How dated do you think that Lord of the Rings will be in five years? There are films, such as the Matrix (the first one) that aren't necessarily dated in terms of special effects but can still be easily placed in terms of general action movie canon because it's a pioneer of a certain technology (the 360 degree camera spin, for instance, is always placed at 1999-00. Any other occurences must be 98% smirkingly self-referential to be redeeming at all). But outside of the glut of crappy fantasy epics we'll see, what will be other detrimental effects of Peter Jackson's rad-o-rama?
Yar. I still think he's around sometimes, oh yeah... but I can wait. Sigh.
edit: I finally got my navel pierced. Although it's a rather common piercing I feel it's the last I'll get for a while (especially since it takes so long to heal). The project is DONE! woot...
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Oh, wait, wromng spelling. My bad.