Be a'scared. Be very a'scared.
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thehefnerI am very upset. The best STOP sign in the entire world was about a mile from my house not too long ago. Some brilliant individual whose name shall forever be lost to the sands of time spray-stenciled something underneath the STOP sign. When I first saw the writing, I immediately though, "Oh no, what's this one going to say? 'Eating Meat'? 'Bush'?" And then I got close enough to see what it said. In spray stencil, giving it a vaguely industrial appearance, it read:
"HAMMER TIME."
... This was the best STOP sign *EVAH*. And now after five or so months of bringing joy to everybody who passed by it, it's gone! The bastards replaced it! I have half a mind to buy stencils and a can of white spray paint. And after I'm done with the sign, I'll head over to the Mormon Temple and spray "SURRENDER DOROTHY" on the bridge over the Beltway.
In other news, I always used to like Cronenberg's The Fly a lot, but somehow seeing it on the big screen today was one of the most intense, harrowing, moving films I've seen in a theater in recent memory. I was actually in tears by the end of it! Such a powerful and tragic love story, as well as a metaphor for slowly watching a loved one slowly succumb to a disease like cancer or AIDS. Man, what a great film. I knew what was going to happen, and I was still on the edge of my seat every second.
I still don't quite know how to feel about Cronenberg and Howard Shore doing The Fly as an opera, though.
Has anyone listened to Sponge's album "Wax Ecstatic"? It's a concept album about the death of a drag queen. It's damn good stuff!
"HAMMER TIME."
... This was the best STOP sign *EVAH*. And now after five or so months of bringing joy to everybody who passed by it, it's gone! The bastards replaced it! I have half a mind to buy stencils and a can of white spray paint. And after I'm done with the sign, I'll head over to the Mormon Temple and spray "SURRENDER DOROTHY" on the bridge over the Beltway.
In other news, I always used to like Cronenberg's The Fly a lot, but somehow seeing it on the big screen today was one of the most intense, harrowing, moving films I've seen in a theater in recent memory. I was actually in tears by the end of it! Such a powerful and tragic love story, as well as a metaphor for slowly watching a loved one slowly succumb to a disease like cancer or AIDS. Man, what a great film. I knew what was going to happen, and I was still on the edge of my seat every second.
I still don't quite know how to feel about Cronenberg and Howard Shore doing The Fly as an opera, though.
Has anyone listened to Sponge's album "Wax Ecstatic"? It's a concept album about the death of a drag queen. It's damn good stuff!
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Date: 2006-01-17 04:45 am (UTC)I still don't quite know how to feel about Cronenberg and Howard Shore doing The Fly as an opera, though.
Are they? They're not. Really? An...opera? Of The Fly?
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Date: 2006-01-17 04:58 pm (UTC)Do it! Do it! (peer pressure)
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Date: 2006-01-17 05:11 pm (UTC)Watching the movie again last night, the music really is operatic. The story is powerful and serious enough, the horror and the sadness really being sold by Goldblum's matter-of-fact vulnerability in his performance. I'm not sure an opera singer can quite capture the same tone bellowing out, "I THINK MY EAR JUST FELL OFF!"
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Date: 2006-01-17 05:12 pm (UTC)