So over at my blog I am getting started Blogging Eclipse, check it out. Meanwhile, we wrapped up New Moon last week. The directory, containing most of the notable posts, is here.
The whole site is redesigned and everything, so if you haven’t been there in a while, go check it out.
Two of Angry Films Productions cast recently graduated, they were sat down and asked to answer 3 quick questions… This is the result.
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I suppose it only makes sense that in a story built on blunders of an ever increasing magnitude, sooner or later we would get one monstrous fuck-up, a boner for the ages, in which Alice, Jacob, Bella, and Edward all share the blame (though I mostly blame Jacob). And it only makes sense that said ultimate boner would reflect the Romeo & Juliet motif by copying Romeo & Juliet exactly. Are we really going to let S. Meyer get away with taking this post-modern awareness of Romeo & Juliet all the way up to the water’s edge, only to ditch it when it becomes inconvenient? When is Alice going to turn to Bella and Jacob and say, “We’re all a bunch of fucking morons!”
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This was a contest entry at apartments.com but it didn’t make the first cut… I guess… So instead of wasting a good video we thought you might enjoy watching it…
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“Speaking of which,” Alice says, “would you like to explain to me how you’re alive?” Bella, who for weeks has been LITERALLY incapable of putting two and two together, figures out immediately that Alice saw her on the cliff. I’m not complaining that Bella is suddenly operating at normal human intelligence levels again so much as I am still complaining about what a dipshit she was for the last few chapters. Did she sustain a head injury on the motorcycle a few weeks ago?
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“She wakes up screaming, but Charlie is so used to it by now that he doesn’t come in to check. Probably not a good thing, given the Victoria situation. Someday she’ll scream and really need it, and help won’t come. Like that old story about the boy who cried something. What was it? ‘The Boy Who Cried Tiger’? I can’t remember.”
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“I can’t wait for all of this to stop being mysterious; I feel like we’ve been solving this case for years. This investigation is like a season of The Wire, only not as good and with no Omar. If this story had an Omar it was Laurent, and we’ve (probably) seen the last of him. I think in this analogy, Edward is Bunk, Emmett is McNulty, Alice is Kima, and Bella is Stringer Bell (heh, but really). Sam Uley is Chris Partlow and Jacob is Michael. Carlisle is too morally upright to exist.”
Sometimes I feel like I don’t understand this country anymore. In theory, I understand dissatisfaction with government. In theory, I understand criticizing the president. But I think most people dissatisfied with government today are in practice dissatisfied with a made up idea of government that doesn’t even exist, and are criticizing a fictional, super-villain conception of the president, planted in their heads by people who are either equally as stupid as they or are particularly craven. Converse (1960) found that most voters can’t really form ideologically coherent opinions anyway: ask if they want to cut spending and they will say yes, but take them down a list of government programs and ask them if funding should be cut and they will say no for every single item on the list. It was ever thus. But sometimes I feel like it’s different now. Different and worse.
And so from time to time, I take a look at DogPile’s Search Spy, a handy little function that shows you what America is searching for in real time. When I do it, I feel like I am closer to my fellow citizens. And usually I am reminded why I don’t like being very close to them in the first place, and most of my fears are confirmed.
What is America searching for? [4 pm, June 1st]
“man and woman having sex”- This has got to be the most uncreative porn search I have ever seen.
“chlamydia screening minneapolis st paul”- And that is the most creative porn search I’ve ever seen. Oh, is that not what that is?
“best rated eyelash curler”- People rate eyelash curlers?
“lippy chicks on tumblr”- I thought maybe this was a band or something. IT ISN’T. Do not search this! People have weird fetishes.
“little lupe”- Kid’s show or porn star? I’m going to guess porn star.
“signs a woman is interested in you”- I’m going to go out on a limb and say she’s not.
“ecstasy pill identifier”- Someone is BUSTED.
“filet mignon in garlic butter”- When you see that everyone is searching for porn and something normal comes up it’s hard to believe it’s not some weird fetish thing. Someone is probably just looking for a recipe, but it’s hard to shake the image of a fat guy having sex with a steak. Isn’t it?
“anti-illegal immigration laws”- See, this is what Converse was talking about.
“communist, fachist, imperialist”- Converse is rolling in his grave so hard he exhumed his own corpse. And then someone did a search on necrophilia.
“make your own motivational poster”- Aw, that’s just kind of sad.
In that it is really long. This book is so long! The good news is we are doing A LOT of discussing, and the third official Roundtable has just wrapped up, and it is funny. You should read it!
“Thousands Of Graphic Design Students Are Weeping With Impotent Rage.”
Go forth and be fruitful in your reading of Twilight.