You're nice, and you're funny and you don't smoke, and okay, werewolf, but that's not all the time. I mean, three days out of the month, I'm not much fun to be around, either.

Willow ,'Get It Done'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


javachik - Jan 11, 2009 9:25:51 pm PST #839 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Mona is one extremely cute doggie!

And it wasn't only boxing that screwed up Rourke's face. He's had scads of bad surgery. When my friend used to date him, he would tell her all the time how ugly he felt. And he also hit her a few times, so I am not really a fan of his.


§ ita § - Jan 11, 2009 9:29:22 pm PST #840 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

When my friend used to date him, he would tell her all the time how ugly he felt.

Was this after the botched surgery?

he also hit her a few times

That is ugly.

The Unit is hella random tonight.


javachik - Jan 11, 2009 10:20:11 pm PST #841 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Nope, it was before the botched surgeries, ita. Friend was Carrie (before it became "Carre") Otis, who used to hang in the same music circles (world beat) as me when we were teens. We kept in touch through the "Wild Orchid" days and a little afterwards. (The last email I got from her, she was teaching yoga in Santa Monica and was planning to move to Marin.) Anyway, she loved him but their relationship was some crazy-ass bullshit.


§ ita § - Jan 11, 2009 10:52:37 pm PST #842 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I wonder if the surgery got him what he wanted. It sure looked like they did more damage than the boxing.


Jessica - Jan 12, 2009 3:40:07 am PST #843 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I highly recommend reading the Onion AV Club's GG Liveblog. Just don't take a big sip of coffee first.

I do not recommend that anyone see either Slumdog Millionaire or Revolutionary Road. I thought they were both pretty sad wastes of my time. (But everyone should buy the Slumdog soundtrack, which is MADE OF WIN.) (And I do think Kate & Leo give great performances in RR, but the script they're being asked to perform is dire. It's like Mad Men with the show:tell ratio completely reversed.)


Cashmere - Jan 12, 2009 3:50:51 am PST #844 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.

How long ago was it that Victor witnessed Leo and his entourage being entitled jackasses in public?

Leo almost ran over my friend while riding a bicycle in Battery Park this past summer.


Barb - Jan 12, 2009 3:51:19 am PST #845 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

the script they're being asked to perform is dire. It's like Mad Men with the show:tell ratio completely reversed.

Do you think that's a product of the material they were working from to start with Jess? I couldn't help but note as I read the novel that the style has a certain distance built into it, in the telling and I wondered if that was because of when the novel was written (1961) or if it was a technique that Yates employed because the story was so gut-wrenching he maybe felt the reader needed a bit of distance to be able to take it in. I couldn't help but wonder if he was writing the book today if he wouldn't go for a bit more visceral, intimate style of writing.


Theodosia - Jan 12, 2009 3:54:01 am PST #846 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I just skipped over the GG commentary, forgive me. But I was way too tired last night to even think of watching, and then I was so uncomfortable that I couldn't get to sleep for a long time, too.

That's three nights in a row with a sleeping pill, too. But two of them were at my Mom's too crowded, -- and thanks to thoughtless relatives -- too loud, apartment.


Jessica - Jan 12, 2009 3:55:15 am PST #847 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Do you think that's a product of the material they were working from to start with Jess?

I haven't read the novel, so I couldn't say. All I know is I hated almost every second of it. It was like being hit repeatedly over the head by someone's thesis statement.


Tom Scola - Jan 12, 2009 4:06:20 am PST #848 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

I highly recommend reading the Onion AV Club's GG Liveblog.

quote:

I just bought two Cadillacs for the sole purpose of having phone sex with them, and I don't know why.

BWAH!!