Carrie?
And you're sure this isn't just some fanboy thing? 'Cause I've fought more than a couple pimply, overweight vamps that called themselves Lestat.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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Daisy Jane - May 31, 2005 5:58:43 pm PDT #3568 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
DavidS - May 31, 2005 6:11:26 pm PDT #3569 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I was reading the Village Voice review of Lords of Dogtown and came upon this:
Channeling Amy Heckerling for the post-emo era, Hardwicke's pop-Cassavetes melodrama nevertheless rides as smoothly as a big-budget after-school special, capturing youth struggles from an appropriately blown-out teen's-eye perspective.
What the fuck kind of sentence is that? The editor should've circled this in red with the note: "WTF?!?" I've been known to bend a few pop cult references into my sentences, but this is a gross abuse of the technique. It's as involute as a Dennis Miller joke.
P.M. Marc - May 31, 2005 6:19:51 pm PDT #3570 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
If that's the criteria, we should start a campaign to get Plei to write the sequel.
Would Batbale have to wear clothing?
Matt the Bruins fan - May 31, 2005 6:29:00 pm PDT #3571 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
After American Psycho you know the actor wouldn't object to doing without if the story called for it. Write the thing so he has to track down some villain in the Jamaican Hedonism resort.
Invisible Green - May 31, 2005 6:53:15 pm PDT #3572 of 10002
Frankenbuddha - Jun 01, 2005 3:32:17 am PDT #3573 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
What the fuck kind of sentence is that?
Is that Hoberman or Atkinson? Sounds more like Hoberman, and not untypical. Sadly, not a major variance with the VV house critical style - if it was about a CD I'd have guessed it was from Christgau's consumer guide.
Fred Pete - Jun 01, 2005 4:01:41 am PDT #3574 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Based on Tom Cruise's recent public meltdowns, I make the following prediction: War of the Worlds will be the bomb of the summer.
sumi - Jun 01, 2005 4:46:03 am PDT #3575 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Nutty - Jun 01, 2005 5:32:40 am PDT #3576 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
It's as involute as a Dennis Miller joke.
Which, is the funnest thign ever, when you can parse the joke (and it is not about his newfound republicanism), but just plain WTF and annoying when you can't. Excellent simile, David -- it made clear exactly what you meant.
Yes, this is two language commentaries in the Movies thread in two days. Because I, guiltily, am not watching movies. (I do have a couple of them at home, but they are sitting on the TV, disconsolate.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 01, 2005 5:46:29 am PDT #3577 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Based on Tom Cruise's recent public meltdowns, I make the following prediction: War of the Worlds will be the bomb of the summer.
Crossing my fingers that it's so.
Join me in praying that Pendragon Pictures' period version of War of the Worlds makes it to our shores and shows Spielberg, Cruise, etc. how it's supposed to be done.