Nonsense never stops

We are pleased to announce the grand opening of a brand new totalitarian regime specially built for children.

Chanting ancient pagan rites over coffee.

Flatten the dough with your calloused palms until it is approximately the thickness of a deflated balloon.

Gourmet.

Cabinet.

Magnetic.

Burlesque.

Substrate.

Bantering with the man who stole my pubic hair.

It really is a tragedy, all this death being born around us.

I'll shit in your mouth until you speak the truth.

Growth substantial a show group polling corporate new our by produced studies latest the.

Nonsense of the day

God ate all the food with his hurricane mouth, leaving only shattered glass from the window he broke in through.

I want to wrestle cacti with you until our feet turn orange.

Open door police hoarding all my goddamn grass.

And so it ended as it began, with a shower of blood from a torn vaginal wall.

Imagine my horror when I discovered her new phallus.

Watch out for the trapped doors on the east side of...

I want to throw my life into a wishing well.

It's not new, but it's new to me.

I have a crush on a woman old enough to be my grandmother.

Isn't she just captivating? Now get ready to have your heart broken...

Yeah. It's all just too much for me. I'm going to have a good cry. That is exactly what music is supposed to be. Get this album. Seriously.

Rupert Everett says being gay is still a bad career move...

QUOTE: "[Announcing that you’re gay is] not that advisable to be honest. It’s not very easy. And, honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out. … The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business."

—actor Rupert Everett, who voiced Prince Charming in the Shrek movies and Mr. Fox in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He may be most well known for his role in 1997’s My Best Friend’s Wedding

[huffingtonpost.com, 12/2/09]

This makes me want to cry and wish I could laugh. I stumbled across it on list of other really distressing quotes. I guess it should serve to remind us all of ideas that I can't honestly fathom standing behind. Dangerous. Scary. Completely and utterly heartbreaking. I hate progressive liberals whining about intolerance as much as the next progressive liberal, but come on world! Grow a pair and stop this nonsense.

New Nicholas Cage movie has critics dusting off their thesuaruses

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans




Critics seem to be pretty divided over how good (or shitty) this movie is, and even more divided over why. The reviews range from 20/100 to 100/100 on metacritic, but when it comes to explaining those numbers, they all just cranked the bullshit machine into overdrive. Look at these excerpts:

"Cage is not quite Aguirre or Fitzcarraldo in the Big Easy. But his performance hits all the right mythopoetic beats, rising above the thin script and late-night-cable aesthetic."
Kieth Uhlich, Time Out New York

[That's definitely what I go to the movies to see... an actor striving to hit all the mythopoetic beats.]

"The marvel of Cage's performance is that, somehow, it's all of a piece. That's the marvel of the movie, too. This is one fever dream you'll remember whole."
-Paul Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

[Hmm... it's one of the best movies of the year because it's like a fever dream you'll remember whole.]

"The sparkle is what's been missing in the star's (Cage) recent performances. What's not to love in a movie that transmutes Terence's moral squalor, and the squalid state of post-Katrina New Orleans, into darkly comic gold?"
-Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

[Ooohhh... it's the sparkle - no wait! It's the movie's ability to umm... transmute Terence's moral squalor, and the squalid - what the fuck? Really. What the fuck.]

Now, here's the really good news: Without the collective guidance of these "entertainment experts," we, the movie-loving public, can form opinions of our own. These divisive little art projects only seem to come around once or twice a year, so enjoy it. Buy yourself a ticket (or just follow the link up top to the torrent) and join the conversation. Whatever you say, I guarantee it won't be as inane than this:

"Less like a movie than an interpretive-dance piece, with Cage as its lurching, depressed-satyr star."
-Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com