...um, never saw Pretty in Pink either.
I think I was probably reading trashy SF while everyone else was going to the movies.
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Fay - Jul 17, 2006 1:30:56 pm PDT #4646 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
P.M. Marc - Jul 17, 2006 1:35:34 pm PDT #4647 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
August is when the Everything's Duckie special edition of Pretty in Pink will be released. With the original ending.
You failed to white font, and I have HURLED with feminist rage at the thought of the whiny entitled emo white boy.
HURLED, I tell you!
I suppose I should sit through it though, just so that I can take notes and write up why it is that it makes me an angry little bunny in ways that make more sense than just FUME! But man, the gender politics of that movie are just blindingly evil.
erikaj - Jul 17, 2006 1:36:09 pm PDT #4648 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
It's cute, Fay. But it's not like not knowing who Lloyd Dobler is. Of course, I gave up dating a guy cause he didn't know who LLoyd Dobler is. (it was a shorthand for general communication problems, though. You know?)
Fay - Jul 17, 2006 1:39:40 pm PDT #4649 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Of course, I gave up dating a guy cause he didn't know who LLoyd Dobler is.
sighs
Alas, we are never going to date, then.
scurries off to imdb
Atropa - Jul 17, 2006 1:41:16 pm PDT #4650 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I think I was probably reading trashy SF while everyone else was going to the movies.
Oh, I did a lot of that. It's just there were certain movies that I made exceptions for.
Pretty in Pink is ... I can't explain. I not only identified with Duckie (AND wanted a version of him for my very own), but I assumed I was going to end up like Iona. Well, except for the (oh heck, I'll whitefont) part where she stops being quirky and gorgeously eccentric just because she's started dating a normal-type guy. I would be thrilled to bits if there was lost-but-now-restored scenes where that part is reversed, but I'm pretty sure they don't exist anywhere except in my head.
Fay - Jul 17, 2006 1:43:25 pm PDT #4651 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Ah. Like the bit in The Breakfast Club where they did the scary makeover of banality?
erikaj - Jul 17, 2006 1:43:28 pm PDT #4652 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, Fay, he was too old for me and quite possibly a schmuck. For the right person, I might look past my Lloyd paraphilia. Was just a symptom of a larger disorder, and it makes a good story, doesn't it?
Aims - Jul 17, 2006 1:44:26 pm PDT #4653 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I didn't mind that Iona changed to "normal". I saw it as her choice to change how she dressed. Plus, maybe she was just wearing different clothes for that date, but still wore the kick-ass stuff when she was at the record store. Either way, I never thought she did it just for the guy.
Atropa - Jul 17, 2006 1:44:37 pm PDT #4654 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Ah. Like the bit in The Breakfast Club where they did the scary makeover of banality?
Yes. Very much like.
erikaj - Jul 17, 2006 1:45:41 pm PDT #4655 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Jilli, you weren't the only one. I always hoped she made him weirder, eventually. I've known couples like that.