SO MUCH LOVE.
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charloweenLost is a fun show. BABIES! (DAMN I need a Sawyer icon.)
This morning I was really wacked out (SO sorry![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aoshi!), but I managed to hack out the 20%-of-final-grade paper in 2.5 hours and hand it in on time.
I got approval for two papers I wanted to write: the one on fanvids for the experimental films class, and one about when genre shows have reality episodes (like "Unreality TV" and "X-Cops") for the TV theory class. I love genre studies. It's a field that I feel quite comfortable in.
AND MY BEST FRIEND IS A VAMPIRE IS THE BEST. MOVIE. EVER. **
No, really. Robert Sean Leonard is the cutest vampire ever. The movie had my love even before they had the best friend dancing around to an Oingo Boingo song off of Dead Man's Party that I LOVE. It's a shame that RSL plays mostly serious characters. He does bouncy really well. (See also: middle of Dead Poets Society.) He does bouncy teenage vampire really REALLY well. And the rest of the movie is fantastic, too. Everyone's having so much FUN. They manage to hit every convention of vampire movies and twist. It's a comedy but it's not mean-spirited or gross like the 90s horror-comedy films. Rene Auberjonois is the most awesome head vampire one could hope for. SO GOOD. I'm going to have to buy my own copy.
I've been listening to Quartette (see: this zip file, I guess) and the songs have just ratcheted the bouncy factor through the roof. I keep listening to "King of the Cowboys". "When God Dips His Pen of Love" is gospelly fun. "Hard Times" is a cover. "Cowboys and Rodeos" is another one I love to sing along with. I like goth, folk, punk, bluegrass, indie pop, power pop, 80s hair metal (etc. etc.) and will sing along with Pretty Hate Machine just as enthusiastically as I'll sing along with gospel/country. And I'm PROUD OF IT.
Two final randoms: 1. caught some WHAM! videos last night and I wonder why anyone was surprised that George Michael was gay. O_O 2. there's a character on Buzz Lightyear of Star Command called Lord Angstrom. Discuss.
** EDIT:skivee pointed out that that My Best Friend is a Vampire might not really be the best movie ever, which I'll concede may be the truth. I will never contest the greatness of The Legend of 1900, etc. However, MBFiaV is, without question, the best 80s teen vampire movie, the best 80s vampire movie, and one of the best vampire movies ever made. Vampire movies can be good, bad or fantastic, and this one is more than a little fantastic. It's funny, sensitive, intelligent and peopled with a uniformly great cast.
For example: Jeremy's parents think their son's odd behaviour is because he's gay (vampire doesn't cross their mind), and their subplot has them come to terms with having a gay son; working through their prejudices and deciding to be wholly supportive of whatever he is or does in his life. It's touches like that (Auberjonois's character/performance, the "first time, eh kid?" scene, the voiceover during the dream sequence) that make this a damn good movie. (House has something great in RSL, and I'm not sure if they know it. Yes, he does 'exasperated' well, but he does 'impish' far, far better...)
This morning I was really wacked out (SO sorry
aoshi!), but I managed to hack out the 20%-of-final-grade paper in 2.5 hours and hand it in on time. I got approval for two papers I wanted to write: the one on fanvids for the experimental films class, and one about when genre shows have reality episodes (like "Unreality TV" and "X-Cops") for the TV theory class. I love genre studies. It's a field that I feel quite comfortable in.
AND MY BEST FRIEND IS A VAMPIRE IS THE BEST. MOVIE. EVER. **
No, really. Robert Sean Leonard is the cutest vampire ever. The movie had my love even before they had the best friend dancing around to an Oingo Boingo song off of Dead Man's Party that I LOVE. It's a shame that RSL plays mostly serious characters. He does bouncy really well. (See also: middle of Dead Poets Society.) He does bouncy teenage vampire really REALLY well. And the rest of the movie is fantastic, too. Everyone's having so much FUN. They manage to hit every convention of vampire movies and twist. It's a comedy but it's not mean-spirited or gross like the 90s horror-comedy films. Rene Auberjonois is the most awesome head vampire one could hope for. SO GOOD. I'm going to have to buy my own copy.
I've been listening to Quartette (see: this zip file, I guess) and the songs have just ratcheted the bouncy factor through the roof. I keep listening to "King of the Cowboys". "When God Dips His Pen of Love" is gospelly fun. "Hard Times" is a cover. "Cowboys and Rodeos" is another one I love to sing along with. I like goth, folk, punk, bluegrass, indie pop, power pop, 80s hair metal (etc. etc.) and will sing along with Pretty Hate Machine just as enthusiastically as I'll sing along with gospel/country. And I'm PROUD OF IT.
Two final randoms: 1. caught some WHAM! videos last night and I wonder why anyone was surprised that George Michael was gay. O_O 2. there's a character on Buzz Lightyear of Star Command called Lord Angstrom. Discuss.
** EDIT:
skivee pointed out that that My Best Friend is a Vampire might not really be the best movie ever, which I'll concede may be the truth. I will never contest the greatness of The Legend of 1900, etc. However, MBFiaV is, without question, the best 80s teen vampire movie, the best 80s vampire movie, and one of the best vampire movies ever made. Vampire movies can be good, bad or fantastic, and this one is more than a little fantastic. It's funny, sensitive, intelligent and peopled with a uniformly great cast. For example: Jeremy's parents think their son's odd behaviour is because he's gay (vampire doesn't cross their mind), and their subplot has them come to terms with having a gay son; working through their prejudices and deciding to be wholly supportive of whatever he is or does in his life. It's touches like that (Auberjonois's character/performance, the "first time, eh kid?" scene, the voiceover during the dream sequence) that make this a damn good movie. (House has something great in RSL, and I'm not sure if they know it. Yes, he does 'exasperated' well, but he does 'impish' far, far better...)
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Date: 2006-02-09 07:19 am (UTC)Wait. I see your point.
Okay, I'll fix the post...
I can't help it.
Date: 2006-02-09 04:10 pm (UTC)I shall check in a second.
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Date: 2006-02-09 07:57 pm (UTC)It's a comedy but it's not mean-spirited or gross like the 90s horror-comedy films. Rene Auberjonois is the most awesome head vampire one could hope for. SO GOOD. I'm going to have to buy my own copy.
*points* I did!
I'll consider this as 'confession' if a priest asks.
Date: 2006-02-09 08:38 pm (UTC)I admit, I don't read parts of your posts sometimes. I go straight for the comments.
And apparently the 'gay subplot/subtext' sections. Which means I actually do read a fair amount of what you write, in retrospect.
"So, are you a priest or aren't you?" (zomg Lost)
Date: 2006-02-09 08:54 pm (UTC)If even I can't remember, I don't blame you at all. :D
And a shockingly large number of my posts mention subtext, so that one's a given.
I have to pack for Belleville. Argh.
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Date: 2006-02-09 06:17 pm (UTC)Doesn't Rene's last name mean,"eggplant"?
I know you have seen Hugh Laurie in, "Black Adder",yes?
He is a comic genius. It's a shock to hear how dead-on his American accent is on "House".
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Date: 2006-02-09 08:01 pm (UTC)Especially since his American accents attempted in A Bit of Fry and Laurie tended to be so bad.
I liked Blackadder Goes Forth the best of the Black Adders.
I'm not sure what eggplant is in French. Wait. Babelfish knows. "Aubergine". So close, it's scary.
No, I'm not the silly one, you're the silly one.
Date: 2006-02-09 08:12 pm (UTC)teehee.
I guess that in fairness, I gotta check out the vampire flick now...dammit.
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Date: 2006-02-09 08:31 pm (UTC)It took us a good four months to track down a copy of the vampire movie and imagine our surprise when it was actually worth the effort. :)
A linguistic adventure beckons.
Date: 2006-02-09 08:36 pm (UTC)I THINK SO.
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Date: 2006-02-09 08:52 pm (UTC)Re: A linguistic adventure beckons.
Date: 2006-02-10 10:37 am (UTC), or "a shapeshifter who can become an oviod fruiting body of a plant in the nightshade family, with a thick gray-purple to black-purple typically smooth skin."
RE: The opposite of good
Date: 2006-02-09 08:53 pm (UTC)Simply terrible. You will love the dialog that makes no sense*
The sets are clearly someone's beach house, a California beach, a cave in a quarry and tank shots at Marineland.
It offers bad acting and TERRIBLE special effects.
Really...hunt down this turkey and have fun.
A few friends got together and watched it last month...We laughed for the whole hour and a half.
* I.E.:In the very first scene, the landing party is coming ashore in an inflatable motor launch.
They make land on a broad, flat sandy beach. The squad commander, played by the guy who was the Professor, on Gilligan's Island, tells a sailor to, "Tie off that line".
They are on a broad, sandy beach...there is nothing within 150 feet to tie the line off on.
Just a few moments later one of the sailors falls stupidly into the water and a FRIGGAN HUGE crab claw snips his head off. The cast reacts in horror for about 30 seconds as Stumpy's body is pulled back into the boat, then...Oh, well. we may as well get on with things.
Later, two guys remarks that they can't do something until "this damned odd weather calms down"...it is a completely still evening.
Poor Stumpy.
Date: 2006-02-10 05:05 am (UTC)It sounds like it was filmed on the same beach. "Tie off that line" indeed. *snerk* Attack of the Crab Monsters, eh?
Maybe the still weather was odd, and they normally get wild winds and rains of frogs and cheesy-line punctuating lightening storms. "All this quiet... it's mighty unnerving, Stumpy."