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[rebness]

I've had an intolerably busy week, but seeing as today is officially Bank Holiday Monday here, I think I'll make the most of it and visit the internets again. Huzzah!

Little much I'd call 'fun' has happened this week. Chris and I did plan on going out to see a film on Thursday, but rabid fatigue struck instead. Boo. I was going to go and see The Da Vinci Code (hush, jaffacakequeen ), but Chris and I ended up going to an Italian restaurant instead. I'll get around to it. Someday. I think we'll wait for a late evening show so we can MST it, though. Hahaha.

Apart from that, there's little else to report. I did read an interesting article in The Guardian from Chuck Palahniuk that made me think about horror movies in a deeper way than my usual "oh my God it's COMING OUT OF THE TELLY!" way, so I think it's worth it: "It's as if a victim in a cycle movie is more than a fictional casualty, she's more like a sacrifice to keep the rest of us safe. By witnessing his or her death...we've seen the cycle run its course, and this time we weren't the one who drew the wrong lot and had to perish...". Chuck also gets mention of deadly diseases and natural disasters in there, too, which means all is right in the world.

I missed some fun things while I was away, most notably Eurovision. almostnever kindly pointed me in the direction of youtube for my cheesy singing needs, and I came across
this little gem of some Eurowench going absolutely nuts after losing. Sadly, it's apparently 'parody', but rather brilliantly, it's a parody only the Icelandic organisers who sent her seem to get. Well, call the Greeks losers and the Swedish whores and what do you expect? Europe's up in arms!*

*This may be an exaggeration*

Rome pics coming soon! (It's like being trapped with your neighbour's holiday slides collection... without alcohol.)

Comments

[ozfille]

Well the Da Vinci Code does have its unexpected comedic moments. *g* And there is a naked Paul Bettany self-flagellating and from the stills I've seen, very buff. Nothing else to recommend the movie other than Ian M playing the Teabing character. (Am always tempted to call that character Teabag).

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

Like in that children's show with T-Shirt and Teabag? I haven't thought about that show in years and now I can't even remember the title of it...

[ozfille]

Like in that children's show with T-Shirt and Teabag?

Nope, don't know it, just a quirk that when I read it, I kept reading Teabag instead of Teabing. Maybe by that stage of the book the brain had been totally exhausted by the sheer awfulness of the prose, the characters and just about everything else about the book.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

I remember that show. I hated it.

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

You don't like any show except Dr Who.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Teabag! Haha!

Oh, it's going to be pants, isn't it? But yes... naked Paul Bettany doing some warped S&M thing, blatant Parisian tourism promotion and that excellent Tautou woman is definitely enough impetus to see it.

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the depressing article. I hate cycles. I bought an Anthony Bourdain book today and it's totally your fault.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

The cycles rock. Even The Lion King knew that!

Which Bourdain book did you buy? How angry is he in it?

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

It's the one that isn't Kitchen Confidential. Or any other book. In the Preface he describes an Inuit family eating raw seal. And says how no words can describe it. I have some words: stomach-churning.

[ladydaydream.livejournal.com]

I missed Eurovision too because I was at a Morrissey gig. I love all the political voting :D

Have you read Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk yet? It's on my to-read list.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

I still need to read Haunted! Curse work and its encroaching on reading time. >:O

Don't worry, Rach. We'll always have... Jemini.

[pandorasblog]

I remember that Teabag and T-Shirt show! It was one of those things I used to dislike, but always watched anyway. Of course, when we were nippers, we only had two channels' worth of kiddie programmes, didn't we? And they were only on for two-and-a-half hours after school! Kids today don't know they're born, etc. etc. [/grumpy old wench]

That article is very interesting. It seems like horror movies are just a modern manifestation of a very ancient instinct to sacrifice one for the good of the herd. This fits with something I was thinking yesterday while watching Superman (I'd never seen it before!) - that comicbook heroes are the modern version of figures like Hercules or Cuchulainn, and I daresay that with a bit of thought we could identify them as incarnations of persistant archetypes.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

I think you're right on horror movies, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

(Seriously, we should discuss this more...)

saffronlie is teh suck. But not as much as Teabag, which sucked so much and took up Dangermouse airtime.

[pandorasblog]

We must! :)

Also... do you by any chance remember Dizzy Heights, on CBBC?

[jaffacakequeen.livejournal.com]

"Rome pics coming soon! (It's like being trapped with your neighbour's holiday slides collection... without alcohol.)"


LMAO i know the feeling, i must have taken 100+ of that Bernini elephant

[rebness.livejournal.com]

A gazillion, more like. I need to spend some time cropping the photos tomorrow, then I'll upload 'em. :D

[airiddh1.livejournal.com]

I wish the pair of you would hurry up ! I've been unpatiently waiting since you got home!!

[rebness.livejournal.com]

LMAO! All right, I'll get it done before I go to work tomorrow. You had better visit that bone crypt -- Penny and I can't share the horror of that monument alone! :-O

[airiddh1.livejournal.com]

Good - I shall be checking!

I don;t think we'll have an awful lot of free time in Rome - but if you give us directions we will endeavourto share the horror LOL

[verastar99.livejournal.com]

I've always summed up the mystique and ever-baffling draw to horror in three words...


"IT'S NOT ME!!!!" *WOOOOO!*


there's comfort in telling oneself that throughout the experience. lol

[rebness.livejournal.com]

LMAO. That's a good approach to take. :p