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erikaj - Dec 31, 2006 7:42:41 pm PST #521 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!

Of course, if I were police, I might consider the greatest tribute spreading the rumor that he went, uh, in the saddle. America's finest being kind of gross like that. But, being that I'm a heathen from way back without much organized to lean on at such times, the fruit punch speech has expressed a lot of my confusion and doubt. So that is the Western District fruit punch speech.And then there was when D'Angelo died and his boys chipped in to send him a floral housing project, which was just the most horrifying thing you could imagine, but it was kind of cool at the same time, because the actual building had been imploded, and they all grew up there.


erikaj - Dec 31, 2006 9:09:38 pm PST #522 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!

Once I got started, couldn't stop The West Baltimore Fruit punch speech: [link]


Hayden - Jan 01, 2007 4:57:04 pm PST #523 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Aw fuck fuck fuck.

And then there was when D'Angelo died and his boys chipped in to send him a floral housing project, which was just the most horrifying thing you could imagine, but it was kind of cool at the same time, because the actual building had been imploded, and they all grew up there.

I wish I remembered the quote. Bodie appropriated a line from The Wild Bunch in the flower shop, something close to "when you side with a man, you side with him forever." I wish I'd known him in real life, and I wish we could gather to sing "Body of an American" in his honor.


erikaj - Jan 01, 2007 6:16:28 pm PST #524 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!

Yeah...and we wouldn't even puke in the gutter. I'm sorry, Corwood, don't remember either. (Bodie...sigh)


Frankenbuddha - Jan 09, 2007 4:01:10 am PST #525 of 7329
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

This may be more appropriate for literary, but...

So, I finally read DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER (5/6 of it in one sitting yesterday), and having read all the comments here, they've definitely changed things up quite a bit (probably necessary given that they had to do a season's worth of shows on a small book), including Rudy's name (he's Brian in the book). I'm really looking forward to seeing this once it's out on DVD (I gave up Showtime just in time for them to start doing interesting shows again). I've also got to get the second book DEARLY DEVOTED DEXTER (and a third on the way in May, I think - DEXTER IN THE DARK) - I'm curious if they incorporated any of that book in the first season.

I don't think I've read such a disturbing yet fascinating evocation of a sociopathic personality since Patricia Highsmith passed on, and I was totally hearing the whole book in MCH's voice.

"I may be sociopathic, even homicidal at times, but I'm not crazy."


esse - Jan 09, 2007 5:58:12 am PST #526 of 7329
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

No, his name was Brian in the show. Rudy was the name of the person he killed to take the name.

They did take some things from Dearly Devoted and put them into the first season, but they've also kept some things steady into the next season, like the end with Doakes.

I too heard MCH's voice while reading the book; so perfectly evocative.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 09, 2007 6:31:33 am PST #527 of 7329
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I too heard MCH's voice while reading the book; so perfectly evocative.

If ever there was a definitive set of audio books in the offing...


Scrappy - Jan 09, 2007 1:20:32 pm PST #528 of 7329
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Erika--our friends who are huge Wireheads just got a new dog and named him Bodie.


Hayden - Jan 09, 2007 1:24:14 pm PST #529 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Aw.


erikaj - Jan 09, 2007 6:06:25 pm PST #530 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!

That's perfect...is he a Lab? Cause I thought it'd make a Lab name.