jaynova

There was a movie based on The Rules of Attraction.

It's about "beautiful people" students at a preppy college and a love triangle involving the main characters. It's pretty much the anti-teen movie. It revolves around the students' debauchery, lots of drug use and alcohol parties and free sex. The point of it all is to show modern materalist culture and hopelessness.

It sounds really similar to Easton's other novel, Less Than Zero, as described by Damian, but I'm totally unfamiliar with that book.

I really didn't enjoy the movie, at all.

Yeah, the movie was "prettied up". The book is more about communication, and about people hearing what they want to hear and seeing what they want to see, to the point that the story, which is told from multiple points of view, contradicts itself. Rules is a great novel...I don't hate the movie, but it lost a lot in the transition.

I got my first story published in the school newspaper today!

Booya!

I sucked at journalism. I can't interview people.

I havent read the book yet but A SCANNER DARKLY the film wasnt half bad for what I thought...should really land my hands on the book.

 

Speaking of the topic at hand I just finished LESS THAN ZERO by Brett Easton Ellis...I quite enjoyed it...a perfect snapshot of nihilistic rich youth in the U.S....Starting the Hellblazer book WARLORD and RULES OF ATTRACTION this month...

 

Anyone care to share some thoughts on the two novels? Good? Bad? Complete rubbish?

Rules of Attraction might be my favorite book, ever!

 

Surveying the deplorable situation, the National Law Journal concluded: "Criminals have been turned into instruments of law enforcement, while law enforcement officers have become criminal co-conspirators."[/b]

 

:unsure:

 

Not that I can say I am hugely surprised, but still.

Hey...I just read that book!

I dreamed that two forum members came out as gay and one changed their name to Spouse.

I just finished A Scanner Darkly, and I agree with Spouse that Phillip K. Dick is great!

please, somebody, explain the ending of The Banquet to me. cause I can't understand it. aside from that it's really a rather good flick, even though I still detest the use of CGI blood in flicks.

Let me try...

Ok, you know all those letters on the screen? Those were the names of the people who made the film.

Wow.

Last night, I dreamt that my mother and I were dressed all gothy-victorian, walking down a street of the same asthetic. It was DARK...almost pitch black, save for the gaslight. Anyway, these huge buzzard-looking birds flew in the sky above us, and I knew that they wanted to kill us. I ran into a house, when suddenly...

I was alone, but the athetic had changed to a modern-day Canton, Ohio setting, as had my clothes. I knew that the birds were still out there, and that cosmic evil threatened the wolrd, so I ran out the door and down the street to the greatest magician/con artist in the land...

The Magus Jesse Katsopolis, of television's "Full House."

Together, we drew circles and banished the evil from the land.

Jay, did they change the ending with the movie?

That's what I've heard, and it'd piss me off if this were so.

From what I remember of the movie, the ending is not changed as much as reduced. It felt kind of pointless.

The new film from the makers of Shaun of the Dead:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_featur...otfuzz/trailer/

 

Looks a lot better than I thought it might be. I love Spaced and Shaun of the Dead but I had doubts about a police action film in a small English town.

I would comment, but my comments wold look exactly like Inca's.

Heh...I FINALLY finished A Scanner Darkly. The book was much better that he film...John/Fred's mental split is portrayed in more detail, and the ending felt like it had a point.

Well I took it and.

 

 

 

 

I passed the 2nd time around.

WOOOTTT!!!!

Actually, I like the following metal bands: Black Sabbath, Fu Manchu, Clutch, Motorhead and Taint.

 

Motörhead. Are. Not. A. Heavy. Metal. Band.

 

 

Speaking of Motorhead, one of my Pandora stations has the seeds Motorhead, Guitar Wolf, and the Ramones.

Bloody Americans.

 

Try www.lastfm.com

Bah! You have to download to use it properly. I'll have to wait until I have a home connection.

You'll probably dig Frightened Rabbit, Stapleton and Page France too.

Well, they have Page France, but no Stapleton and no Frightened Rabbit. No Bedford Falls, either! :)

This week I are mostly been listening to:

Ballboy- A Guide For The Daylight Hours (Jaynova I'm looking at you)

Starting a new pandora station right now.

BAH! They don't know them yet!

 

Spidey, I don't hate everything just Metal, Goth and Queen.

Even SoaD?

And isnt there a single song you mildly dig from Queen?

 

What music do you especially like, then?

 

Tom likes show tunes.

Hey Tom,

What good is siting alone in your room? Come hear the music play!

If the ordinary US citizen actually considered this, would s/he ever vote Republican again?

 

The State of the President's Leadership: Bought Off

I've always said that I do not agree with Marx that, for society to evolve, there must be a violent revolution. Upon thinking of things like this, upon looking at who has the money, how much those people control the government, and how little control the people actually have, and I see that I've been wrong.

This has been coming on for a while, but I've lost faith that simply voting and being vocal can change things. I have always said that I would stay in America because it needs my vote. Fuck that. I want out.

How does one get Norweigian citizenship?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6370190,00.html

 

Or "Regan's Law".

 

Now this is one case where I am unequivocably in favour of the Government dictating what religious groups should or should not do.

It's not even about a religion's rights. The right's of any religious body end when they inflict harm on anyone, or when they restrict the rights of others. Branding is abuse. Period.

Gorram it! All night, in my dreams:

"Fruity oaty Bars! Make a man out of a mouse! Fruity Oaty Bars! Make you bust out of your blouse! Eat them all the time! Let them blow your mind! Fruity oaty Bars! Fruity Oaty Bars!"

Well, Queen may rock, but there really is no such thing as a bad Beatles song. I even like You Know My Name, Look Up The Number.

But do you like Maxwell's Silver Hammer?

Yes! I sing it to myself all the time!

Well, just watched Serenity, and don't it just pull the gorram rug from under your boots? Where was the humor? The characters connecting, all personal-like?

In the opening, we see our captain talking about his ship and letting the others just live there. Is this the captain we know from the show? Jien tah-duh guay! That crew is his ruttin' family, Simon included. Sure, he would take exception to Simon barkin orders, but the rest of Mal's behavior ain't right.

The exposifying thoughout the 1st 15-20 minutes after the opening scene was annoying, too, but necessary, I reckon. Don't mean I haf'ta like it.

Liked the bank job. Nice. Finally get some use out of River, which was good, because it was trying, seeing her be jing-tzahng mei yong-duh. After that, though, the film meanders a bit and doesn't seem to have a point until 1 hour 20 minutes in, and that's where it all falls apart.

Mal is Superman. Wash is, well, disrespected in the handlin' of things. I won't get to spoilery here, but I didn't like most of the stuff with Mal and the Operative. The River and the Reavers stuff, on the other hand...

Visually, this film weren' half bad, but everyone looked bronze. Were did Kaylee get a suntan? Also, the ship was more...angular? I dunno. Also, Simon looked and talked too much like the badass that he isn't (though the opening with him was GREAT.) Even Wash looked like he just got back from the spa.

In other words, it just didn't feel like Firefly.

Don't get me wrong, the film weren't jung chi duh go-se dway, but Joss could'a done us better.

The Merchant/Gervais bits are okay,

 

YES. It made me wish Merchant was in the UK Office.

He was, wasn't he. Didn't he play Oggie?

'Don't Let Me Down' didn't make it onto the album when it was first released, but was included in the Let It Be...naked re-working from a few years back. It may have been included on a CD re-issue of the original album, I suppose, but it very definitely isn't on the original vinyl. Promise (and 'For You Blue' is on both versions, which is odd - perhaps you've got a dodgy bootleg copy).

 

EDIT: According to wikipedia, it was the b-side to the 'Get Back' single, but not the album. Please feel free to imagine me doing a little "told you so" dance around my living room, and making silly faces at you. :)

Well, mine was on cassette...I'm wondering if that made a difference. I'll have to find it.

Also, thinking back on it, it may have had For You Blue on it...I thought I had that one somewhere else. I'll have to find it.

Put that CD on and skip "The Long and Winding Road". Now, it's a pretty decent album. Oh, and "Don't Let Me Down" is one of the greatest songs evvvaarrrrrrr!

 

 

'Don't Let Me Down' isn't on Let It Be, though (one of the many things wrong with it). And if 'The Long And Tedious Road' was the worst song on there, I'd like the album a lot more. It's not truly awful, perhaps, but it's a pretty disappointing, lacklustre effort which should never have been released in anything like its current form - in my perfect world, Abbey Road was the final Beatles album, and a few of the better tracks from Let It Be were released later as part of the Anthology series.

Are you sure about "Don't Let Me Down"? It was one of the Apple Rooftop songs...those were stuck onto Let It Be. Anyway, I like the old-school stuff on Let it Be, and Two of Us is a charming little song. Get Back is a good song. I've got no problem with Let It Be, besides Long and Winding Road.

EDIT: Ahhhh! My copy has "Don't Let Me Down" but does not have "For You Blue". Wierd.

Outrightly bad perhaps not, but Let it be was a pretty mediocre album to say the least.

Allow me to retort!

Put that CD on and skip "The Long and Winding Road". Now, it's a pretty decent album. Oh, and "Don't Let Me Down" is one of the greatest songs evvvaarrrrrrr!