YOU CAN'T TRIPLE-STAMP A DOUBLE STAMP!

Dear Vito Russo,

I love you a lot, but I saw Marathon Man last night, and if that's what you call cutting out the gay, boy, you must be watching with one eye closed.

Love Jessie

PS: It was good but not nearly as good as the book. Plus the first movie I've seen where I had problems with Dustin Hoffman. OTOH, Roy Scheider was very pretty.

PPS: Battlestar Galactica is so the best sci-fi show ever! I am Laura Roslin's bitch. Now if only their queer creds would catch up with their gender and race creds.

Yay I am back! In one piece, too. So much has been going on but if it's report-worthy I can't really remember it right now.

Hugh Laurie got a Golden Globe! Yay for him. Mary-Louise Parker beat the Housewives! Yay for her, and yay for her being so aborable, and yay for her John Spencer tribute (*sniff*). Yay for Felicity Huffman, it's about fucking time, YOU ARE TOO CUTE WOMAN! Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje aws there! It's about fucking time for him, too, he blew me away every time he was on the screen on Oz. He and Chris Meloni must have been constantly trying to outdo each other in the sheer animal magnetism stakes.

Lauren came round and we played a Golden Globes drinking game with cowboy cocksuckers (SO! APPROPRIATE! It only just hit me):

( when to drink )

Good times.

frostmourne wrote this and it rawks my sawks. Guess which tv show:

Well theres this big ringy thing and it go flush sorta like a toilet and everyone goes whoa.
Then they step through it and go whoa.
Then they meet some aliens and go whoa.
Daniel bitches about some morality issue, other people dont go whoa.

Then they all go home and slap Keanu Reeves.

I think it's the Keanu Reeves that tips me over the edge. WTF? Heeeeeeee!

veronamay tagged me for a couple of memes like ten million years ago and I've just been sitting on them.

( guilty pleasures meme )

And vague memories of another:

( I think it was five songs you're into atm meme. )

I think it was angstslashhope who mentioned that she used imdb to keep track of all the movies she'd seen for the first time in the past year using the "my movies" page. Great idea.

( To the best of my atrocious, atrocious memory, here's 2006 so far: )

Obviously I need to get in some precious OLD SKOOL (WORD!) time. I am desperate to see Marathon Man and the original Producers atm and lydia_petze has just given Victim a glowing review so hopefully I can add them soon.

And........I'm spent.

My god, so busy. Stupid Christmas.

The best thing ever happened last Saturday because that evil lydia_petze, with the help of the equally evil lainy122 and veronamay, gatecrashed my party. I was absolutely gobsmacked. I rode that high for the rest of the night and the next day was even better because we totally got our fan on and went to see HP4 and KKBB agaqin (KKBB gets better with every watching--I went to see it again with family last night for a birthday thing), ate a very nice lunch, and fucked around in the arcade for a while (I got thrashed at air hockey but regained some of my honour on one of those whack-a-dino games). Then back to mine for Lean high Cuisine and more Robert Downey Jr in the form of Wonder Boys. Monday morning and her flight outta this town came all too soon. Lainy and I saw her off at the airport and then it was back to reality. This was my first time meeting someone I was friends with (not just vaguely knew) online and it was awesome. l_p is even more fabulous in person than online and we had the best time chatting and squeeing together. This was one of the coolest things anyone's ever done for me and I can't thank you (three) enough!

( (some) pics. (Lainy is in sole posession of the money shot--yoohoo!) )

I spent the JBs voucher l-P and veronamay gave me today and managed to rack up (with room to spare): The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Casablanca (Special Edition), Zoolander, Starsky and Hutch (the movie), and a Kate Bush two-in-one, containing Lionheart and The Dreaming (an utterly fantastic album). Unfortunately for me they didn't have the Futurama season sets or ANY Jeeves & Wooster, but oh well, eventually.

Fuckity! I taped Spirited Away when it was on the Essa Bee Ess ages ago, and finally got to watch it tonight. Fucking incredible, best animated movie I've seen in a long time, better than Princess Mononoke, the only other Miyazaki I've seen. Chihiro is just the best character, I really fell in love with her. BUT the fucking tape cut out RIGHT at the end! Just as she meets up with her parents (not exactly a spoiler, of course she finds her parents at the end) and turns her head to look back...and that's it. Can anyone fill me in on the rest?

SERENITY

ooooooooohhhh
myyyyyy
gooooood.

I must admit the trailers worried me a lot so it was so much more awesomer than I expected. I am dying to see it again, just to take in everything I missed the first time around--there was so much great stuff going on in each scene. Joss and the cinematographer and the SFX people did some really special work. Summer Glau OWNS me.

For my politics course I've had to write out my ten favourite movies (everyone's lists will be collated and the results distributed; I look forward to seeing them). Apparently it's supposed to be in order of most-->least favourite, but no-one would be that cruel. So, in no particular order:

( My list )

So, disregarding the influence of mood: two Rob Reiners; I could also have doubled up on Kubrick or Goldman or Bogart or Gilliam or even tripled up on Reiners, which would actually not have changed the stats below one whit. Three (four, counting HCL) satires, two "childhood" movies, two thrillers, two fantasies, three animal names. All English or North American (with a touch of NZ & mystery island), in quintessential ways (US noir, gangsta, Western, Arthur/Medieval romance epic, English twits, American youth). All live-action. Two about music, one musical. Three with documentary elements.

All about Men OMG MEN and their manly bonds, like could they be any more MALE? (Maybe not Elijah Wood). Where are the women? Sense and Sensibility and The Princess Bride and Fifth Element were close to getting in. Most prominent female characters? Wife (Etta Place, Jeanine Pettibone) or fiance (Arwen) or mother (Alec's mum, Galadriel haha). Thank god for Mary Astor. Etta Place is pretty great, too. All white as lilies. Rabbit Proof Fence and Ang Lee and Yimou Zhang and Benicio Del Toro had look-ins. I'm almost disappointed in myself that I've chosen such a narrow spectrum of movies to really take into my heart! You can tell the kind of media I latched onto most as a kid *g*

I'm really interested to see other people's lists and the breakdowns. Tell me yours!

Also for this course I had to watch He Died with a Felafel in his Hand, which I very much enjoyed. Noah Taylor is great. Out of the ten million pop culture (and high culture) references in that movie, both in dialogue and homages, I think about two referred to Australia. And you know, aside from the occasional orgasming over Hugo Weaving and Cate Blanchett, that is so, so true. lydia_petze, have you seen this? There is a Reservoir Dogs reference in there that KILLED me.

So, to continue in the theme of white men doing manly things, in their Venice FF special on Wednesday Margaret and David touched on (heh) Brokeback Mountain. Man, I cannot wait for this. I am uncertain about Heath Ledger but I think Jake Gyllenhall will be fantastic (in one clip he mimicked Ledger having to take a shot of whiskey before the love scenes (in a way that implied that there was tension between them because of it. And Ledger, promoting Casanova, mentioned that BM was an extremely hard shoot). And they seem to be building on the Proulx story in intelligent ways.

I have never been more wholly immersed in pop culture in all my life. It's fantastic.

I don't have much to say about London--it's all been said--but this made my heart warm. Ok, actually, there is something else. Perhaps Mr Bush should keep in mind stuff like this.

In better news, The Sting is finally coming out (heh) on DVD properly!

Also, moderately interesting article on the current state of queer cinema:
Roos:...In a way, gay cinema has grown up. Our movies have become just as tedious as theirs. [laughter]

Robinson: "Queer as Folk" and HBO and "The L Word" are doing what movies used to be responsible for. Complex relationships — intimacy — are being played out on TV. Gay people don't need to come to the theater to see a gay movie because it's going to be on video in two months, and besides, they can stay home and watch "The L Word."

...

Roos: In Hollywood, the news is terrible. I don't want to say the real world, but in the world of films that Hollywood produces, it's just as lousy as ever.

Another interesting movies article, this time on the change of film-going practices, box-office receipts and creating audiences for movies:
Audience-creation is a very expensive enterprise—in 2004 the studios' average cost for advertising a film was $30 million. Studios justified this expenditure on the grounds that huge opening-weekend audiences would help turn a movie into an "event," generating word-of-mouth and other free advertising that would continue to bring moviegoers into theaters, and, later, into video stores.

Eeeeeeee Brokeback Mountain eeeeeee!

I've heard some bizarre quotes from Ang Lee to the effect that there wouldn't be any sex because sheep-herding is sexier. WTF? I love you Ang but WTF?

Pulp Fiction, where I get my comics from, had a Revenge of the Sith Review competition. I couldn't resist.

( My overlong and bitter entry. )

Meanwhile, check out better-written commentaries here (an excellent discussion of Anakin's characterisation) and here (a rant on the sci-fi aspects at Sequential Tart where, incidentally, the current issue is a queer-focuessed one).

Apparently Sorority Boys is on tonight, Ch 7, 8.30. It has Michael Rosenbaum in drag. I can't remember if it's really offensive or not, but seriously: Michael Rosenbaum in drag. In fact, I can't really remember if it's all that funny or not, although I do know that Michael Rosenbaum (who spends much of the movie in drag) is pretty funny.

Oh, and it's worth repeating: Michael Rosenbaum in drag.