The random post + Italian TV is so made of fail that I just want to laugh.

[janie_tangerine]

1) 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.

Comments

[faechan.livejournal.com]

But seriously, they cut the kiss scene?

...hanno fatto COSA? O___________________________________________O

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*ha perso qualunque parola*

[lenina20.livejournal.com]

I can't fucking believe that stuff about BM. How can people do something like that? How can that be legal? Oh, God. I'm so sorry! :(

[falafel-musings.livejournal.com]

*gasp* Men with men! What is the world coming to?

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.

[ladymacbeth77.livejournal.com]

Mi hanno detto di Brokeback Mountain e sono rimasta schifata! Ma cavolo, passano le serate a mostrare la peggiore deficenza, a cominciare dall'Isola dei Famosi, e poi tagliano un film vincitore di Venezia e che per di più passa in seconda serata?! Se già avevo dei dubbi su questo paese, ora ne ho la certezza: siamo veramente messi male.

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)

[one-winged-hao.livejournal.com]

I remember when we got Brokeback Mountain on TV and it was shown in its entirity...however, despite this, the same channel that aired it first feels the need to cut Watership Down.

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.

[tellshannon815.livejournal.com]

Oh God, me too. I know where I'm going with my HoHoHo, but do need to crack on as I was hoping to have it ready for Xmas Eve afternoon UK time (I'm supposed to be spending Christmas week with family where there is only a dial up connection and relatives ringing abroad every 5 minutes so not much access for me!)

[elliotsmelliot.livejournal.com]

I agree with Falafel. If you have a problem with homosexuality or queer culture, why show it at all? I hope they did not think the ending was a morality lesson. I can't watch movies on TV anymore. Here we just normally cut for time, which is annoying, if not offensive.

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!

[lasamy.livejournal.com]

EDWARD DEAN ♥ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any Edward EVER

that's all

[marylou-gr.livejournal.com]

I can't believe they left the kissing scene out. I mean, why air in the first place if you find the subject of the movie offensive? Reminds me of a Greek TV show that aired a few years ago and included a gay couple. Everything was fine, the show was one of the most popular ones, no one minded, but when during the second season they shot a kiss between said couple, everyone suddenly made a HUGE deal out of it and the network had to pay a very large fine for it 'cause "OMG, it traumatized our children!" Ridiculous.

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.

[fosfomifira.livejournal.com]

I'm not really surprised by the missing cutting scene from BBM, mostly because I can see that happening here. You'd think that the Catholic Church has bigger and more important things to deal with than two guys kissing, but you'd be wrong. Stupid censors.

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!!!

[mozartfan1313.livejournal.com]

You love Brokeback Mountain and you hate Twilight. I just like you more and more with each entry. lol.

[sizzleleg.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, Italy what the hell? haha. I'm part Italian myself so I feel kind of ashamed!

[mrslinus17.livejournal.com]

Seriously, the most annoying thing about Twilight on a whole is that fangirls compare Edward-madeofmarble-Cullen to Darcy. It just ain't right/