And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?

Xander ,'End of Days'


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.


Amy - Jul 18, 2006 4:21:22 am PDT #4747 of 10001
Because books.

Little Darlings -- oh wow, that was a big one. I think I convinced my mom to take me. Yikes.

My parents also took me and my little brother to Saturday Night Fever, thinking, I guess, it was just a movie about dancing. There was a lot of squirming, and an uncomfortable moment when the one girl holds out the condoms and Charlie stage-whispered, "Look at all that candy!"

I had an unholy love for Foxes, too, although I didn't see it when it first came out. I think I was a bit too young at the time.


Volans - Jul 18, 2006 5:10:57 am PDT #4748 of 10001
move out and draw fire

If your pastor preached against the HoYay, then he was perceptive ahead of his time.

My mother's side of the family definitely preached against it, but nsm from the pulpit. That's a thing about Quakers.

Movies were so integral to my existence, nay, to my very survival as a teenager, that I can't imagine going through those years without them. I doubt I will ever know how much of my psyche is based on Xanadu, Labyrinth, Pretty in Pink, Better Off Dead, etc.

And honestly, there was nothing else to do in my town, so I saw every movie that came out between 1980-1987. Sometimes more than once.


Fay - Jul 18, 2006 6:11:05 am PDT #4749 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Labyrinth! How did I miss that out?

::smacks forehead::

...Xanadu is one of the most jaw-dropping things I've ever seen. Watched it last year for the first time ever. Gosh. Just - gosh.


SuziQ - Jul 18, 2006 6:20:30 am PDT #4750 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Heeee. I found some Chuck Norris icons on lj. I can't pick a favorite - they are all too good.


Aims - Jul 18, 2006 6:21:48 am PDT #4751 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Labyrinth

Am now earwormed.

You remind me of the babe
what babe?
The babe with the power
What power?
The power of voo-doo
Who do?
You do.
Do what?
Remind me of the babe.

I sang it all the way through the maze scene in HPGoF the movie.


Aims - Jul 18, 2006 6:37:56 am PDT #4752 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Note to self: The David Bowie love is strong in Bitches. Mere mention of the song from Labyrinth and everyone passes out, unable to post, because of the love and longing for this great man in music. While everyone is passed out on the floor, I shall run off with him, spike his hair, put him in a skirt, and share metallic green eyeliner with him. MINE MINE MINE!!!


Tom Scola - Jul 18, 2006 6:40:54 am PDT #4753 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

David Bowie is very disappointed in you.


Aims - Jul 18, 2006 6:47:56 am PDT #4754 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Bwah!


sj - Jul 18, 2006 7:02:58 am PDT #4755 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Gronk. I slept way too late today, but it was too hot to get up and move.


Trudy Booth - Jul 18, 2006 7:03:32 am PDT #4756 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Dirty Dancing is a wonderful movie. A dozen different relationships are set up and resolved (even in the case of Mrs. Houseman/Gillmore who really could have had more than those three lines). It touches on class and bigotry without being preachy. You've got emerging sexuality of the two sisters without it being purient. The girl who gets an abortion is not a big whore, she's actually a sympathetic character. -- And its wrapped in a nice sweaty package that unsuspecting hormonal people will watch a bagillion times without realizing how political it really is.

As far as Pretty in Pink, I always assumed that about eighteen months later Duckie came out of the closet.