Or Buffista Movies IV: Straight To Video?
Ooh, I like this.
erika and Hayden pimpage has moved The Wire up on the list of must-own DVD sets.
I have been by Frank Miller's apartment to pick up art from him. t /comic book namedropping
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
DavidS - Mar 14, 2005 9:46:35 am PST #9971 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
§ ita § - Mar 14, 2005 9:47:58 am PST #9972 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have been by Frank Miller's apartment to pick up art from him.
But I bet you haven't been to Robert Rodriguez's.
DavidS - Mar 14, 2005 9:56:45 am PST #9973 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But I bet you haven't been to Robert Rodriguez's.
No, but I did shake hands with Jack Kirby which is way more important to me.
::tries to think of Hollywood name-dropping options. Fails.::
I had breakfast with Scrappy and she's met all kinds of Movie Stars!
Also, my ex-roommate, totally smoked a doobie with William Hurt.
::trails off into second-hand lame-itude...:
§ ita § - Mar 14, 2005 9:59:21 am PST #9974 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had breakfast with Scrappy and she's met all kinds of Movie Stars!
You can't use Scrappy to claim secondhand connections ... she's Scrappy! Don't dismiss her intrinsic worth.
Hayden - Mar 14, 2005 10:02:46 am PST #9975 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Hayden,cool! Can you believe the HFQ?!(Dude, it's a gritty show and I was manifestly surprised,I thought there could be an upgrade, profanity-wise.) And I want it in my obit that I taught David Simon the expression HSQ although he's been applying the skill for a very long time. Been watching season 2 again, but stopped for a bit because Frank Sobatka makes me cry like a little girl. Guess I need crimping up, still. Maybe it was even "HMFSHQ" Damn, that's The Bomb. I've done everything I can do but get on my knees to save it...would that be solicitation...Levy would know. "I'm like a marriage counselor...here so he remembers to bring flowers and she remembers to suck a little cock." It would be funny, if not terribly productive, if Simon brings a bouquet to the next sit-down with the brass.
No kidding. The word is that Simon is planning to take on public education next. With all the sheer emotion he's wrenched from institutions of the Drug War, local government bureaucracy, and failing unionism, how could HBO say no to that? Seriously, HMFSHQ about has it. And the writing! How many references to The Wild Bunch can they squeeze into three seasons? I thought Buffy, Angel, and Firefly had as many as you could make, but Joss couldn't contend with that scene in Season Two of The Wire when Bodie went to buy flowers and delivered the perfect ebonics take on Pike Bishop's best quote. Jeez, those guys are good. Really, I don't know if I could pimp this show enough. I'm still a bit in shock from the Season Three finale. If that's the end, so be it, 'cause it's not a bad place to end. But I would have said that after Season Two, also.
Seriously, y'all. Watch this show. From the beginning. And give it a few episodes to get under your skin. David, if you get to be the fanatic I am now, I have burnt DVDs of Season Three I could send you.
erikaj - Mar 14, 2005 10:13:17 am PST #9976 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Dude, Hayden's got testers. ;)(Dealers give out samples just as much as people selling anything else. Then the fiends watch and see who gets knocked back the hardest, from what. Samples=testers.) I mostly hate the Westerns, babe, Pelecanos forgive me, so I don't know from The Wild Bunch Is it that I'm a good pimp or just fucking relentless, Hec?
Or do you like its effect on my language? I may have to quit HBO.com. They harsh on my fictional boyfriend too much.
Anne W. - Mar 14, 2005 10:15:44 am PST #9977 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Once I get Netflix, I am so going to request The Wire.
Signed,
Doesn't have HBO, dammit.
JZ - Mar 14, 2005 10:20:52 am PST #9978 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
::pouts::
Scrappy's celebrity and intrinsic value are second to none, but I can't believe that Hec has already forgotten that in between bouts of illness on Saturday he got to meet an excessively minor celebrity but major Buffista crack-pusher, the Cat Stacking guy.
DavidS - Mar 14, 2005 10:21:18 am PST #9979 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You can't use Scrappy to claim secondhand connections ... she's Scrappy! Don't dismiss her intrinsic worth.
Pffft. Like I would. Though perhaps I mis-spoke. "I've had breakfast with Scrappy - just like the movie stars did."
erikaj - Mar 14, 2005 10:22:42 am PST #9980 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Some very intelligent people have told me they found it like watching grass grow. But they were not Buffistas, where The Arc Is King. The King stay the King, yo. I, of course, fell hard, relatively fast. (And no, not just cause McNulty has a smart mouth, a leather coat, and authority issues that could choke a horse...but that'll make most Bitches happy.) I feel very comfortable in the Simonverse.