It's all about me

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Don't analyze Solodz's shit. Just enjoy it. Dollhouse is a blacker than black comedy, but it pales in comparison to Solodz's follow up - Happiness. Happiness is the sort of flick that leaves everyone silent for hours afterward. I still can't decide if it was just gratuitously disturbing or making a legitimate statement of some sort. All I know is I couldn't stop watching for a second.

what point- Don't be smug? Don't trust your husband?

Happiness was great though, even though gratuitously disturbing.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Don't analyze Solodz's shit. Just enjoy it. Dollhouse is a blacker than black comedy, but it pales in comparison to Solodz's follow up - Happiness. Happiness is the sort of flick that leaves everyone silent for hours afterward. I still can't decide if it was just gratuitously disturbing or making a legitimate statement of some sort. All I know is I couldn't stop watching for a second.

Happiness: what a fucked up flick. Sitll, like you said, SD, I couldn't stop watching. Philip Seymour Hoffman is a fucking genius.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
right. you successfully turned the joke from sexual innuendo to pants crapping. I think you ruined rp's morning.

It'll take more than that to ruin my morning. That chick at the cleaners was a really good fuck.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Happiness: what a fucked up flick. Sitll, like you said, SD, I couldn't stop watching. Philip Seymour Hoffman is a fucking genius.

I loved that movie. But I have never been able to utter those words without feeling completely fucked up until now. Thanks, FB!

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by evenodds
I loved that movie. But I have never been able to utter those words without feeling completely fucked up until now. Thanks, FB!

You're still completely fucked up. You just have company here in your fucked-up-ed-nesss.

Apropos of nothing, I have a hearing this afternoon in the fancy community just to the west of Podunkville. The judge is a chick, and a relatively attractive one at that.

These are the sort of days that I wish I were more like Sebby -- the judge and I could share a secret smile at the toolishness of the hypertechnical arguments and "citations" made by the bow-tie wearing law review geek on the other side; she'd chuckle appreciatively at my on-my-feet regular guy rationale for why Piggly-Wiggly should get summary judgment; and then we'd go back into her chambers for some skyrockets in flight.

Sigh. And then I wake up and realize that I'm about as likely to get summary judgment on a slip and fall case from a state court judge as I am to get busy with her. Alas. Unless she wants to play RP and Coltrane with me again.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by evenodds
I loved that movie.

His next movie Palindromes comes out yet this year.

Here is the IMDB short-summary:

Plot Outline: Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.


Maybe Dollhouse smashed with wife beating?

This is the kind of summary that will seem funny once you've seen the movie, like when Sopranos had the plot synopsis "Janet and Richie have their first big fight."

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Happiness: what a fucked up flick. Sitll, like you said, SD, I couldn't stop watching. Philip Seymour Hoffman is a fucking genius.

The movie is the only movie I have ever heard of in major release wherein a son asks his pedophile father if he'd fuck him and the father replies - I think - something to the effect of "no, I'd just jerk you off" or something insane like that. I can't find the exact quote on line, but if you saw Happiness, you know what i'm talking about.

And the dog licking the railing at the end is just overkill. I still can't beleive that thing got produced.

[Shape Shifter]

I will gladly volunteer to do what I can for my country:

Israeli scientist Alexander Olshanietzky, prior to Barcelona, said, "Women compete better after orgasm, especially high-jumpers and runners."

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...=merron/040811

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
It'll take more than that to ruin my morning. That chick at the cleaners was a really good fuck.

Did she at least give you your pants back?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I will gladly volunteer to do what I can for my country:

Israeli scientist Alexander Olshanietzky, prior to Barcelona, said, "Women compete better after orgasm, especially high-jumpers and runners."

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...=merron/040811

Whoops. Maybe not. Perfect example of why it is prudent to STP.




On Dec. 4, 1980, one of the greatest athletes in women's track history was shot and killed in Cleveland. Stella Walsh, who lived in the United States from age 2 but competed for Poland, was 69.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...=merron/040811 (same link as above)


Stella had a long and illustrious career. She set a world record in the 100-yard dash in 1930, running a 10.8; and she won gold and equaled the 100-meter world record of 11.9 in L.A. in 1932. She took a silver in Berlin in 1936, losing to rival Helen Stephens. According to Olympic historian David Wallechinsky, Stephens faced questioning about her gender, but the Germans backed her up, saying they had checked her out and she was, indeed, female.


But Stella was not, as her autopsy revealed. She had male sex organs, but was neither completely male nor completely female. The Washington Post reported that the deputy coroner said the case was "not black or white. Nature is infinite in her manifestations. This case is unique in my experience. We haven't put down a final diagnosis or conclusion as to sexuality."


Walsh had been married, but her former husband couldn't shed much light on the question. They had had sex, he said, only "a couple of times, and she wouldn't let me have the lights on."


Walsh was an all-around star who competed in the sprints, the discus, and the long jump. She held world records in four events, and won 28 outdoor national championships. In 1975, she was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame.


Maybe those 1936 Olympics should be nicknamed the weird sex games.


Stella was the best -- but not the only -- fella competing in the women's events. Also up: Dora Ratjen, who finished fourth in the high jump. (In 1938, he/she won the European championship with a world-record jump.) In the mid-1950s "Dora" -- actually a Hamburg waiter named Herman -- came out as a male. He said the Nazis forced him into the ruse.


Word had it that he -- it hurts just to think about it -- scrunched up his bits in order to pass. But the tactic didn't fool silver medalist Dorothy Odam. "I was positive that she was a man," she wrote in a recent letter to the London Sunday Telegraph.


At the 1976 Montreal Games, all female athletes underwent sex testing. Except one. Princess Anne, 25, of Britain, who competed in equestrian events, got a free ride, so to speak.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Did she at least give you your pants back?

Facts are often important. I admire your mastery of them.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
For West Coast music fans, Scottish indie poppers The Trash Can Sinatras will play Slim's on October 5th. I think Str8 saw their showcase in LA a couple of months ago (and if he didn't, he should surrender all of his trucker hats and Von Dutch clothing. Actually, he should surrender all that stuff anyway.)

For East Coast music fans, AC Newman (Carl from the official band of the FB, The New Pornographers) will be playing in New York tonight, Philly on Friday, D.C. on Saturday, and Austin next Wednesday with fledgling indie darlings Rogue Wave.

The supercool Canadian with the redhot Oakland band - it's like the McDLT, but with guitars.

Oh, and Record Surplus in LA is having another giant sale at the end of the month.

Plus, people in the patch can feel like a hipster-for-a-day by seeing Rogue Wave on the John McEnroe show Thursday night at 10 pm. (Trucker hats optional.)

I missed Trashcan Sinatras (though I do have their album), but I did go to Largo to check out the Ditty Bops last night. The theme was "faeries in the garden." So it's two girls, backed by a guy playing stand-up bass and a guy playing fiddle. One girl looks like a shorter Sarah Vowell and plays guitar; the other looks like a prettier but flat-chested Rose McGowan and plays the mandolin and the fretted dulcimer. Shockingly, she's a vegan.

Anyways, they're bouncy and twee, and I left after half an hour.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Facts are often important. I admire your mastery of them.

OK, but it's still early here.
Doggie or reverse cowboy with a steam iron lasso?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The movie is the only movie I have ever heard of in major release wherein a son asks his pedophile father if he'd fuck him and the father replies - I think - something to the effect of "no, I'd just jerk you off" or something insane like that.

I don't remember that. I recall he didn't touch his son, other than conversations about how the boy should jerk off.

It was the only major movie with an adult guy masturbating to an issue of Teen Beat, I believe.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
One of these things is not like the other...

To paraphrase Woody from cheers . . .
"Jenny Jenny Jenny Jenny Jenny Jenny Jenny Jenny J-E-N-N-Y. Why? Because you're Jenny Jenny Jenny Jenny . . . "