P-C, I went because a good friend wanted to go. In a TOTALLY chick move, we combined it with stopping by DSW to look for shoes she can wear to her son's Bar Mitzvah. I was very helpful, except at those moments when I was offering her gold sequinned converse or plastic stripper heels as alternatives.
I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Scrappy - Aug 18, 2010 7:33:05 am PDT #10698 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Volans - Aug 18, 2010 10:49:43 am PDT #10699 of 30000
move out and draw fire
JZ - Aug 18, 2010 1:34:13 pm PDT #10700 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I liked the book(although I did not find the Meaning of Life in it, shock!), but it seemed awfully...internal to be a film. Lots of thinking, worrying, and meditating.
I ended up liking the book a lot more than I thought I would, partly out of sheer bloody-mindedness after seeing some of the user reviews on Amazon. If someone hits my rage hot buttons, and I swear I will love the thing they hate just to spite 'em!
(In this case, it was all the scoldy "I can't believe she was conventionally attractive and had a spouse who wanted kids and she had the nerve to be clinically depressed, that selfish bitch" complaints--because, you know, depression is so entirely contingent on outside circumstances and nobody with any material worldly goods has any right to fucked-up brain chemistry and nothing cheers up someone in the grips of suicidal ideation like being told, "Hey, other people have it so much worse, snap out of it!" All the proud, smug, self-righteous depression ignorance on parade made me adore that book to bits where the actual book itself had inspired mere mild engagement and pleasure.)
(Gee, I guess that hot button is still hot. Sorry for the rant!)
erikaj - Aug 18, 2010 3:00:39 pm PDT #10701 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Dude, you know, I feel you. Even as a rather "deserving" dysthmic person. I thought she did a decent job of describing it, even though I felt sorry thinking of her ex-hubs acres of "WTF?" when being confronted with this bomb. But I still can't believe it's a movie, except some producer was like "k-ching!"
JZ - Aug 18, 2010 3:18:28 pm PDT #10702 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
But I still can't believe it's a movie, except some producer was like "k-ching!"
Or the entire production team was like "Dude! Italy! India! The studio would pay for us to go to Italy and India!" But other than that, yeah, it's pretty much all about The mess in my brain, let me show you it, and also all the amazing food I ate, neither of which sound much like a movie.
billytea - Aug 18, 2010 3:23:07 pm PDT #10703 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
r the entire production team was like "Dude! Italy! India! The studio would pay for us to go to Italy and India!" But other than that, yeah, it's pretty much all about The mess in my brain, let me show you it, and also all the amazing food I ate, neither of which sound much like a movie.
It's really two separate movies, namely A Beautiful Mind and Hannibal.
Amy - Aug 18, 2010 5:34:00 pm PDT #10704 of 30000
Because books.
§ ita § - Aug 18, 2010 5:55:15 pm PDT #10705 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, nice. Idris almost has me convinced to see that movie he's in with Chris Brown. I'd rather he use his powers for...well, cheesy good?
le nubian - Aug 18, 2010 5:57:40 pm PDT #10706 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
no shit. if you see that movie, let me know, k? the ads make it look worse and worse.
bon bon - Aug 18, 2010 6:22:38 pm PDT #10707 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Oh, nice. Idris almost has me convinced to see that movie he's in with Chris Brown.
There is no reason to suffer this fate when you still haven't seen his starmaking role in the best series on tv. IJS.