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And now my boy's in love. All hearts and flowers. But, doesn't it freak you out that she used to change your diapers? I mean, when you think about it, the first woman you boned is the closest thing you've ever had to a mother. Doing your mom and trying to kill your dad. Hm. There should be a play.

Angelus ,'Damage'

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JZ - Aug 16, 2005 9:54:06 am PDT #8580 of 10002

See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I always found the marionettes disturbingly Garboesque, especially the later, uncanny valley versions -- I remember reading a contemporary of Garbo talking about her perfect blankness and stillness, and how her magnetism was less about her incredible expressiveness than about her total inwardness and inexpressiveness. She was just so terrifyingly perfect and photogenic and remote that she was a perfect empty vessel into which the audience could pour every conceivable emotion.

The supermarionation puppets are so very much her Uncanny Valley döpplegangers: those unnaturally perfect cheekbones and the eerily flawless skin and perfect hair and Anderson's penchant for endless puppet reaction shots. All those aesthetically perfect, alien faces with those impenetrably deep blank stares. Cree. Pee.

askye - Aug 16, 2005 9:59:35 am PDT #8581 of 10002

Thrive to spite them

Cool Co Worker just bought the dvds for The Fantastic Journey, about a group of people who are trapped in the Bermuda Triangle and go from portal to portal or time to time or something. We watched some of it at lunch.

DebetEsse - Aug 16, 2005 10:00:47 am PDT #8582 of 10002

Woe to the fucking wicked.

Kind of OT, but DebetEsse, you were IB, right? What did you guys have to focus on for 20th century world history? (We did a lot on WW1, a bit on the events leading to WW2, and then a lot on the Cold War and Vietnam. We had The End of the European Era and Where the Domino Fell as our main texts senior year.)

Plei, I was not. I was in AP Euro and US, but that works differently (and my Euro teacher sucked a lot. It was her last year before she retired)

Wolfram - Aug 16, 2005 10:01:55 am PDT #8583 of 10002

Visilurking

All those aesthetically perfect, alien faces with those impenetrably deep blank stares. Cree. Pee.

It is now.

t shudder

Tom Scola - Aug 16, 2005 10:04:23 am PDT #8584 of 10002

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

UFO had the best costumes and set designs of any sci-fi show ever. They really gave a lot of thought to how people would look and dress in the future.

Calli - Aug 16, 2005 10:06:06 am PDT #8585 of 10002

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I can see where they might have been seminal in some anime artistic conventions.

tommyrot - Aug 16, 2005 10:06:13 am PDT #8586 of 10002

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

They really gave a lot of thought to how people would look and dress in the future.

That's why I'm single. My childhood expectations as to what women of the future would be like were never met....

DavidS - Aug 16, 2005 10:07:41 am PDT #8587 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Holy shit! Purple haired UFO girl is Nick Drake's sister.

bon bon - Aug 16, 2005 10:08:36 am PDT #8588 of 10002

It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

They really gave a lot of thought to how people would look and dress in the future.

Laughing so hard right now. Did someone say UFO took place in the 1980s? When we evolved purple hair?

Now I am wondering if there's a species with purple hair.

DavidS - Aug 16, 2005 10:09:13 am PDT #8589 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Did someone say UFO took place in the 1980s?

Early 70s. And that character was an alien, I think.

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