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'Out Of Gas'

Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape

Closed Film and TV threads

A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

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DavidS - Jun 11, 2008 2:53:54 pm PDT #6383 of 10000

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

it's a tour de force of autodidact affectation

How else could one respond to a frickin' Proust Quesionnaire with a frickin' laser on its head?

It is, by its nature, affected. It's not the Lunchpail Schmoe Questionnaire now is it?

And I certainly can't ping him for being an autodidact. Would a grad school tour de force be as interesting, or just a hopeless spew of academic jargon?

Should it not be a tour de force, but rather lameass?

I mean, is he affected because he reads and that is reflected in his response?

erikaj - Jun 11, 2008 3:17:30 pm PDT #6384 of 10000

Always Anti-fascist!

Hey, some of my best friends are autodidacts. (And my mom.) Although as far as I know, she missed Proust, as have I, fwiw.

Strega - Jun 11, 2008 3:36:39 pm PDT #6385 of 10000

Unless you're unable to do so, it might be simpler to read the piece. She gets to Cusack in the last 4 paragraphs, and then there are a few clarifications in the comments.

I think Cusack's super cute, but his prettiness does not offset his legendary douchebaggery.

At 25, you stop looking up to shamans?

You stop saying things like music "seems the closest art to prayer and where the shamans roam." Along with the white buffalo, I guess.

amych - Jun 11, 2008 4:09:50 pm PDT #6386 of 10000

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

You stop saying things like music "seems the closest art to prayer and where the shamans roam."

Bwah! And, yeah, I think I'll stick to the 30-second ragging on McCain version.

Volans - Jun 11, 2008 4:47:11 pm PDT #6387 of 10000

move out and draw fire

"seems the closest art to prayer and where the shamans roam."

But...he's right.

Of course, it's possible that I'm affected (affectating? an affectationy person?).

P.M. Marc - Jun 11, 2008 4:52:07 pm PDT #6388 of 10000

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Isn't he the supposed pitsniffer?

Not that I can remember celebrity blind item gossip more easily than, oh, where I put my car keys or anything.

amych - Jun 11, 2008 4:52:16 pm PDT #6389 of 10000

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

If he'd stopped at the closest art to prayer bit, I'd be fine with it. "Where the shamans roam" leaves me thinking, "you mean... like... the buffalo?"

amych - Jun 11, 2008 5:00:50 pm PDT #6390 of 10000

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Plei, hon, sometimes you terrify me. [link]

P.M. Marc - Jun 11, 2008 5:22:09 pm PDT #6391 of 10000

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Hell, I terrify me.

le nubian - Jun 11, 2008 6:03:18 pm PDT #6392 of 10000

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

All of the white font around Signs *slayed* me. I am laughing like a loon. Damn. I mean

water hoses - spritzer bottle - humidifier? And the speculation that the alien contingents immediately died in Michigan and Louisiana pure comedy gold. Although I now am wondering about the alien contigent who landed in Hawaii.

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