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janie_tangerine1) So I'm finally under antibiotics and of course the one I'm taking has the side effect of leaving a total sour taste in my mouth all day unless I'm eating. *sigh*
2) Seriously, most stupid thing I've heard since this country's PM's jokes on Barack Obama.
Yesterday, they were airing Brokeback Mountain at 11 PM, so late night. I was kind of surprised at the channel since it's not exactly the most homosexual-friendly of the public television, but whatever. So, my mom calls me because even if she hadn't seen it she had guessed what it was and it was from the point where they find the dead sheep, so I don't know if they left the tent scene. But whatever, after agreeing on being both on team Ennis, since the dubbing was atrocious and it was getting late I told her I own the dvd we could watch it together (sixth time for me, figure that out) another time and we shut the TV off. It was more or less twenty to midnight and there was still Ennis and his wife discussing moving, so I figure that the kiss scene in my icon there would have been aired around midnight or something.
So, today she calls me and there's this totally brilliant comedian who always makes my day which had this sketch on the liberal-oriented channel and he starts making fun of the fact that the kiss scene was cut and that at this point if they had cut an Oscar winning movie for that they could have not aired it at all.
Seriously, what the fuck? Now I wish I had caught it before to see if they left the tent scene, even if I'd be surprised if they did. But seriously, they cut the kiss scene? Come on, if you take that off half of what happens next doesn't make sense. And it was freaking midnight, geez, if someone was disgusted by the topic he wouldn't watch the movie at all and if someone stays up to see that and didn't turn off his innocent eyes at the tent scene they can endure a kiss. This either makes me want to headdesk or laugh at whoever decided this thing's stupidity and I guess I'll go for the latter but really, what-the-fuck. And thankfully they didn't kiss passionately during the 'I wish I knew how to quit you' scene because I'm sure it'd have got cut at one in the night.
3) I've got the Christmas cards almost ready, I only miss five which I'm going to buy tomorrow. Also, it's a random selection of Unicef cards and made-in-Nepal cards I bought at one of those fair-trade shops (is it like that?) and I don't know what else I'm getting tomorrow. I'm going to assign them at random as I bought them randomly. ;)
4) I seriously need to hurry up with the Hohoho assignment *sigh*. But I'm not running late at least.
5) First and last time I'll talk about Twilight here since I've got a lot of friends who like it and I really don't want to offend anyone. But. The point is that I don't-give-a-damn about it. Apart from the fact that I don't like vampire books which aren't parodies on default (I hated Interview With The Vampire with a force and I found Dracula so boring that I left it at one third), from what excerpts I read it's really not my cup of tea, also stylistically. Mostly because I can write my own Mary Sue without searching for one, because I read fanfiction which in comparison to Twilight is Dante Alighieri and most of all, vampires do not dazzle and sure as hell do not sparkle if I remember that quote right. But anyway. I'm sick of having it thrown in my face wherever I go. Damnit, I see it at the postal office, my favorite bookshop has piles of it around and it's half of what you can see on first look, yesterday I was at a fair where small-medium editors sell books and there was this enormous stand where they offered the whole saga and a t-shirt of the movie (and bag of the movie and posters and behind-the-scenes and stuff) at a lesser price, Robert Pattinson's face (and I don't even find him attractive) is all over the city in a way that doesn't happen even when Harry Potter movies come out and frankly, I don't give a damn. When is this whole hype going to be over? Because I'm getting sick tired of it. And then I heard that they're shooting the next movie in Italy and I just want to cringe at the thought. I-can't-stand-it.
Also? There's only one literary Edward I'll ever care for and his surname is Dean. And thankfully he never sparkled. God, I wish The Dark Tower had one tenth of the exposure this stuff has, at least I wouldn't have had one month to wait for the original hardcovers to arrive in the bookshop. /end rant
6. Woah, I hadn't started this post wanting to make it ranty. Well, happened.
7. Guess that's all for now? *goes writing*
8. Oh, damn, I forgot to watch Heroes. If the writing doesn't want to come I'll have a laugh.
2) Seriously, most stupid thing I've heard since this country's PM's jokes on Barack Obama.
Yesterday, they were airing Brokeback Mountain at 11 PM, so late night. I was kind of surprised at the channel since it's not exactly the most homosexual-friendly of the public television, but whatever. So, my mom calls me because even if she hadn't seen it she had guessed what it was and it was from the point where they find the dead sheep, so I don't know if they left the tent scene. But whatever, after agreeing on being both on team Ennis, since the dubbing was atrocious and it was getting late I told her I own the dvd we could watch it together (sixth time for me, figure that out) another time and we shut the TV off. It was more or less twenty to midnight and there was still Ennis and his wife discussing moving, so I figure that the kiss scene in my icon there would have been aired around midnight or something.
So, today she calls me and there's this totally brilliant comedian who always makes my day which had this sketch on the liberal-oriented channel and he starts making fun of the fact that the kiss scene was cut and that at this point if they had cut an Oscar winning movie for that they could have not aired it at all.
Seriously, what the fuck? Now I wish I had caught it before to see if they left the tent scene, even if I'd be surprised if they did. But seriously, they cut the kiss scene? Come on, if you take that off half of what happens next doesn't make sense. And it was freaking midnight, geez, if someone was disgusted by the topic he wouldn't watch the movie at all and if someone stays up to see that and didn't turn off his innocent eyes at the tent scene they can endure a kiss. This either makes me want to headdesk or laugh at whoever decided this thing's stupidity and I guess I'll go for the latter but really, what-the-fuck. And thankfully they didn't kiss passionately during the 'I wish I knew how to quit you' scene because I'm sure it'd have got cut at one in the night.
3) I've got the Christmas cards almost ready, I only miss five which I'm going to buy tomorrow. Also, it's a random selection of Unicef cards and made-in-Nepal cards I bought at one of those fair-trade shops (is it like that?) and I don't know what else I'm getting tomorrow. I'm going to assign them at random as I bought them randomly. ;)
4) I seriously need to hurry up with the Hohoho assignment *sigh*. But I'm not running late at least.
5) First and last time I'll talk about Twilight here since I've got a lot of friends who like it and I really don't want to offend anyone. But. The point is that I don't-give-a-damn about it. Apart from the fact that I don't like vampire books which aren't parodies on default (I hated Interview With The Vampire with a force and I found Dracula so boring that I left it at one third), from what excerpts I read it's really not my cup of tea, also stylistically. Mostly because I can write my own Mary Sue without searching for one, because I read fanfiction which in comparison to Twilight is Dante Alighieri and most of all, vampires do not dazzle and sure as hell do not sparkle if I remember that quote right. But anyway. I'm sick of having it thrown in my face wherever I go. Damnit, I see it at the postal office, my favorite bookshop has piles of it around and it's half of what you can see on first look, yesterday I was at a fair where small-medium editors sell books and there was this enormous stand where they offered the whole saga and a t-shirt of the movie (and bag of the movie and posters and behind-the-scenes and stuff) at a lesser price, Robert Pattinson's face (and I don't even find him attractive) is all over the city in a way that doesn't happen even when Harry Potter movies come out and frankly, I don't give a damn. When is this whole hype going to be over? Because I'm getting sick tired of it. And then I heard that they're shooting the next movie in Italy and I just want to cringe at the thought. I-can't-stand-it.
Also? There's only one literary Edward I'll ever care for and his surname is Dean. And thankfully he never sparkled. God, I wish The Dark Tower had one tenth of the exposure this stuff has, at least I wouldn't have had one month to wait for the original hardcovers to arrive in the bookshop. /end rant
6. Woah, I hadn't started this post wanting to make it ranty. Well, happened.
7. Guess that's all for now? *goes writing*
8. Oh, damn, I forgot to watch Heroes. If the writing doesn't want to come I'll have a laugh.
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Date: 2008-12-09 10:01 pm (UTC)...hanno fatto COSA? O___________________________________________O
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*ha perso qualunque parola*
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:33 pm (UTC)I wanna get away from this shit hole!
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Date: 2008-12-09 10:47 pm (UTC)Stupid censors. That is a hot kiss and should be retained in all its glory. Plus when the gay love story is THE CENTRAL PLOT OF THE FILM why even bother screening the movie if you are going to cover it up? After midnight too?! That's just weird.
Yay! Fellow Twilight hater!!! I've never even tried to read those books. I sat listening to a book club discussion on it and it sounded SO Mary-Sueish. The prose is really that bad, huh? I used to love Poppy Z Brites queer vampire stories, but then those books were written for punk/gothic readers, not the cheesy whitebread mainstream.
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Date: 2008-12-09 10:57 pm (UTC)Well, see, we have the wrong date. We are still in the Dark Ages, not in 2006! Seriously, that thing pissed me off. It was even midnight, not even prime time! Not that they'd have aired BBM in prime time. And seriously AGREED. That kiss the the pivotal scene of the movie, without it the rest would feel WTF? or something. And that was a HOT kiss indeed, anyway. ;)
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:20 pm (UTC)Yeah, they are! I read Poppy Zs gothic horror novels when I was about 16. 'Lost Souls' is a story set in New Orleans about gay vampires who listen to Tom Waits, love sugery food and drink chartreuse to make their eyes glow green. Like all vampire stories the prose was dreamy and it was all about sexual fantasy, but it was more like good slash fic than bad Mary Sue fic!
*mmm* Enjoying your icon...
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-09 10:48 pm (UTC)PS: Come dico sempre: "Se la Meyer si scrive Scrittrice sulla carta d'identità, io voglio sulla mia Futura vincitrice del Nobel per la Letteratura" XP
PPS: C'entra niente, ma non ho ancora avuto la possibilità di farlo (son scema XP): ho letto alcune tue fic su Sam e Dean e ho ancora gli occhioni a cuore <3<3 Poi commento dove devo e seriamente ;)
(sì, ci sono cascata anch'io XP Lenta ma arrivo arrivo XP)
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:00 pm (UTC)Detto tutto. Cioè, dico, a parte dico, pacs e storie varie, quando ti tagliano BBM in seconda serata che cazzo puoi pretendere ormai? Ah, aspe, però all'isola dei famosi vince Luxuria e quella la fanno vedere eccome...
io voglio sulla mia Futura vincitrice del Nobel per la Letteratura" XP
LA VOGLIO ANCHE IOOOO XDDD
Uh ma grazie mille! Io Sam e Dean li amo ♥ e meglio tardi che mai! ;)
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Date: 2008-12-10 09:28 am (UTC)Però che bello... il primo piano del culo della De Blanck (inguardabile) va in prima serata e Brokeback Mountain viene censurato in seconda... e siamo messi benino di nulla, sì...
<3 Ora vado a rubare qualche icona :P
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:36 pm (UTC)grazie per avermi fatto compagnia oggi...l'attesa si supera meglio a fangirlizzare via sms *g*
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Date: 2008-12-10 09:12 am (UTC)Ora mi devo prendere anche qualche icona, sennò... :P
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Date: 2008-12-09 10:57 pm (UTC)As for Twilight, I was asking people a few weeks ago whether it was worth my money and effort to buy and read the series. I decided it wasn't but I will see the film (and the only reason for that is because I have a film pass that allows me to have unlimited trips to the cinema for £11.99 a month). As a self-proclaimed film buff, I make the effort to see every 'blockbuster' and film starring a major actor/ess (like I saw Lakeview Terrace because it had Samuel L Jackson it: it was terrible).
Ok, I'm sick and I like to say stuff in the form of comments.
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:04 pm (UTC)I want a pass like that too! And hey, I watch all the movies from that guy I spammed yesterday and they ALL suck. From what I gathered, the Twilight movie is better than the books and doesn't have the infamous 'do I dazzle you' quote because seriously, dazzling vampires? All the excerpts I read were so bad that I seriously burst out laughing at some parts. ;)
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:06 pm (UTC)And someone had told me that Twilight read like a teenage written fanfic although during all my years of writing fanfiction, I've never once used the word 'dazzle' in any form.
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:08 pm (UTC)Yes, that's pretty much it. Except that when I wrote fanfiction with Mary Sues (a looong time ago, thankfully), I was less ridiculous and I surely never used anything such as dazzle either. Or sparkle. I mean, sparkling vampires? Are they vampires or Christmas trees? ;)
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:14 pm (UTC)I've honestly never wrote a 'Mary Sue' fic. I can't stand writing females so to write one in any form (even if it's a representation of me) would just kill me inside. I'm all about the man on man action, mainly because I can't write women.
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:20 pm (UTC)Best-quote-ever. The Mary Sue thing is actually one that I'm ashamed of, but I guess I had to get it out of the system. When I turned to men on men action it was everlasting love ;) now Lost has kinda made me write some het again but surely not the mary sue kind and I always write slash on first basis. ;) I prefer men too ;)
IMO, the kiss is one of the best parts. That and the whole 'I WISH I COULD QUIT YOU' and the fact that Ennis always calls Jack "Jack fucking Twist"
INDEED. God. I LOVE that movie. Seriously. Apart that the problem is that if you cut the kiss, you don't get half of what happens later and when Ennis' wife tells him he saw them kissing one would kind of wonder when it happened. And yeah, you have a point about the sex, even though at this point I'd like to know what happened to the other tent scene. The one where Ennis gets back in there and they kiss. Which could actually be my overall favorite.
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:26 pm (UTC)I really need to watch Lost now. I've never really thought that much about TV slashy pairings. Although, Sam and Dean in Supernatural are really, really, really homoerotic sometimes and I don't care that they are brothers. I need to slash them up sometime. Same goes with Nathan and Peter Petrelli (assume they are both still alive on the series, I lost interest after series 2 because it went downhill)
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:37 pm (UTC)MMMMMM I'M WITH YOU. That part was a wasted opportunity. And I'm also sure that when I saw it at a screening they did here during the Venice festival (we get the movies one week after it ends lol) the I-wish-how-to-quit-you scene was longer. But I might be mistaken.
Well, Lost is a heaven for slash. There's a lot of it and they're all good looking men on there, I kinda see it everywhere. And I ship both Sam/Dean and Nathan/Peter, I can overlook the brothers angle as long as it's males on a tv show and that there isn't any breeding possibility (I can't do het incest *shiver*). Anyway, Nathan and Peter are both alive and the show is a wreck. I'm watching it only for them really.
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:42 pm (UTC)Alegedly (my friend told me this), the actors that play Sam and Dean are so 'friendly' off set that the crew have to keep them apart to cease gay rumours. As for athan, I got so angry when series two started and he had a beard and no very expensive suit.
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:46 pm (UTC)LOL, the actors playing Sam and Dean actually live together. They're so obviously in love that they aren't even funny, really. And from the amount of fanfiction that there is with those two I doubt people will stop slashing them anytime soon.
I meant that I had seen the full version at the festival and then I have this impression that on the official release three months later some scenes were shorter, but it was on the dvd too so that might have been the director or me hallucinating (guess the latter). ;) And I so have the dvd too, which I'll gladly re-watch one of these days.
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:09 pm (UTC)I've spent the last month praying it doesn't snow so I don't get stuck at home, but then it bwould give me better internet access and more time, so I just don't know!
I'm not writing anything else until it's done though, that's the only way I can manage.
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:20 pm (UTC)Ugh Twilight. I have now two girlfriends, in their 30s, both former English majors, who think it is the best thing ever. They both admit the writing sucks, but they are enthralled by the 'romance'. To see what the fuss was, I read the first book a few years ago, and found it really dumb and anti-feminist. The sparkly guy was creepy and stalkerish. The girl was so Mary Sue, she was a Marianne Suzanne. And the idea that a vampire would keep his immorality undercover by continually going to high school was laughable. Put a stake in me!
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:33 pm (UTC)Ooooouch. It's the part about the writing that sucks that I don't get. I might be a tad intolerant but when vampires are sparkly I draw a line, bad writing just makes me close the book. From what I read that has to be anti-feminist indeed, and if Meyer's Marianne Suzanne (awesome!) even is in an anti-feminist novel I'd just rather not know what else is in there. I read some excerpts from the last book on a community somewhere and God, that was some of the worst prose I ever read.
And the idea that a vampire would keep his immorality undercover by continually going to high school was laughable
That's actually the first thing I thought after hearing the plot. WTF? I'd rather have a stake indeed!
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Date: 2008-12-10 04:09 am (UTC)Sigh, I want to watch Brokeback again.
I’m running behind on the beta. I will get a chance to read tomorrow on the bus, but won’t have internet access until close to midnight to send you any comments.
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Date: 2008-12-10 09:54 am (UTC)And I totally want to re-watch it, too. I'm soo digging the DVD out.
Don't worry for that, I still have another two chapters covered ;) that will be no problem, thanks again!
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Date: 2008-12-09 11:31 pm (UTC)that's all
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Date: 2008-12-10 12:38 am (UTC)I LOVE that you got Unicef and hand-made cards! Love it. *makes mental note do that too next year*
And finally, I'm so glad I'm not the only one that found Dracula painfully boring. Not even the fact that our professor spend hours and hours gushing about its homosexual undertones and motifs (I think she was a secret slasher at heart!) was enough to keep me interested. Loved the movie though.
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Date: 2008-12-10 10:01 am (UTC)Glad to have given a good idea! ;) If I can't find the remaining I need today I'll just be buying another Unicef batch and keep the ones I didn't use for next year. ;)
Homosexual undertones? Pff, maybe I was too young to get that (even if when I was seven I was sure that Lennon and McCartney were married but let's skip that) but that book was so boring that I left it alone before the Transylvania part was over. But at least it wasn't badly written and Dracula didn't sparkle ;) and yay for your professor! I actually love the movie (both Coppola and the '30s one), too. I have problems with literary vampires, not cinema vampires (as long as it isn't Tom Cruise playing Lestat because that was ridiculous ;) ).
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Date: 2008-12-10 01:07 am (UTC)Oh, Twilight. We have two of the books at my bookstore and I only managed to read two paragraphs before putting it away. They're absolutely horrible - there'd bad writing and there's cringe-worthy writing. I think we all wrote better and more realistic love stories before puberty hit us.
I'm so hopelessly deadlocked with my Hohoho fic. I have no idea of what I'm going to do.
Yay, you posted fic!!!
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Date: 2008-12-10 10:06 am (UTC)*sigh* Seriously, I mean, what do they care? I mean, we've got free will, why do they have to stop people from going to hell if they wish so? *headdesk* but seriously, cutting the kiss in a midnight airing and not cutting the rest before it's stupid. At least if they'd have cut it all they'd be dumb and thorough censors, while like this they're just dumb.
They're absolutely horrible - there'd bad writing and there's cringe-worthy writing. I think we all wrote better and more realistic love stories before puberty hit us.
Word. I used to feel ashamed of my pre-puberty love stories but they never were as BAD as Twilight is.
That fic is making me crazy because I have it all in my head and can't get it down. And I can't even ask here for research information because I'd totally give it away *sigh* Good luck with yours!
And yep, I did! ;) ;)
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Date: 2008-12-10 10:07 am (UTC)And YOUR ICON. MM. *loves*
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