Me, sans ass

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http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2003/08/28/bissell/index.html

"I do not know when or why I began to love speed metal. I just do. On top of that, I have never, to the best of my knowledge, heard a song by the Replacements or Hüsker Dü. The musical question that most bedevils me is not when R.E.M. or U2 or anyone else began to suck/got really good but rather that of why everything Metallica recorded after "... And Justice for All" is so tragically, inexplicably awful?"

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"which advances the claim that by compelling male viewers into positions of primeval empathy with the final, prototypical "survivor" figure in horror films, almost always a young woman, they actually force the issue of transgender identification far more than any Alice Walker novel."

This is a very interesting article... esp. this part. :)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

As someone who probably lacks an appropriately subtle and nuanced appreciation for slasher flicks [translation: i think they're lame, hokey, and pointless - i never went on dates to the movies when i was the right age to appreciate having a girl i was trying to get naked scream and cringe against me, and am thereby utterly without any nostalgia for anything in the genre], I don't think I'm in a position to comment on that.

That said, I'd rather watch "Jason X" than read "The Color Purple," if only because A) It'll take a hell of a lot less time, and B) there are hot chicks present. I doubt there's a gradient of enjoyment that's really present between one or the other, just minor mitigation of the "oh, for fuck's sake, can we put on "Blazing Saddles," please?" factor.

And, really, I usually hope the heroine in those flicks meets a messy and violent end, because, usually, they're so pointedly stupid and ill-equipped for survival, that it's a joke when they inadvertently off the baddie. Give me a strong female protagonist, like Ripley, not some flailing T&A starlet.

Elvira is excused, because in addition to being truly hot, she had a terriffic sense of humor. Not only can she make others laugh, she looks great doing it herself.

Hi, I'm crass. ;)