ita, have you ever seen Some Girls? A very young Patrick Dempsey, a very young Jennifer Connelly, set in rural Québec.
Very weird film, but oddly charming.
We can come by between classes. Usually I use that time to copy over my class notes with a system of different colored pens. But it's been pointed out to me that that's, you know...insane.
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Karl - Mar 28, 2005 12:34:14 pm PST #984 of 10001
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
§ ita § - Mar 28, 2005 12:34:45 pm PST #985 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just used "wrt" in a business e-mail. I feel dirty.
eta: Damn, Karl. Not in Netflix.
JZ - Mar 28, 2005 12:49:05 pm PST #986 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.
OMG, Karl, my roommates and I watched that movie in college and fell in love with its oddness, and I've never in my life met another human being who's seen it, or even heard of it. It made me yearn for Quebec, although since I've never actually been I don't know whether I am longing for the actual Quebec or the dreamland-Quebec that exists only in Some Girls.
Karl - Mar 28, 2005 1:04:15 pm PST #987 of 10001
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
I think it's definitely a dreamland, but I've never been east of Thunder Bay in Canada. But oh, what a sublime and gently evocative dreamland it is.
I'm irrationally glad not to be the only Buffista to have seen it and fallen in love with it.
(All love and good things to you and your family, sweet JZ. I'll keep appropriate digits crossed for Emmett's swift, painless, and complete recovery, as well as for serenity and lack of stomach-clenching for the adults around him.)
Steph L. - Mar 28, 2005 1:07:16 pm PST #988 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
The summer after my freshman year of college, I rented Some Girls just *because of* Patrick Dempsey. And a week or so after that, when I was talking long-distance with my roommate, it turned out that she had rented it, too.
Nicole - Mar 28, 2005 1:22:17 pm PST #989 of 10001
I'm getting the pig!
I've seen it. I kept thinking it would make a little more sense. It didn't. I still loved the ending.
Karl - Mar 28, 2005 1:23:12 pm PST #990 of 10001
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
Did your roommate have similar taste in movies, or was it more Twilight Zone than that?
erikaj - Mar 28, 2005 1:37:57 pm PST #991 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I frequently do that with the hivemind, of course.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 28, 2005 1:48:35 pm PST #992 of 10001
"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
Oooh, I loved the bit with the somewhat senile grandmother or aunt taking down the curtains as a metaphor for her life being at an end.
It's a shame Dempsey was always getting naked in those movies he made as a scrawny teenager, yet now that he is HOT he plays sportswriters and entrepreneurs that are always buttoned up in suits.
§ ita § - Mar 28, 2005 1:49:33 pm PST #993 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He has a topless scene in the Grey's pilot, Matt.