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Nov. 28th, 2005 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleOK. I swear to gods there is context for this, but I think I'll get a better data set if I don't give it just yet. This poll is mostly for the male-bodied folks, but female-bodied folks are also welcome to answer, for the purposes of Science, and stuff.
[Poll #621624]
Also, in unrelated news, we watched Velvet Goldmine last night. We in this case means me,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
triadruid, and saffronhare. The film is beautiful, but really, really bad. The whole viewing experience was a little like Mystery Science Theater 3000, the Sexual Tension Edition. I mean, really, the only good bit about the film is that a)Ewan McGregor takes his pants off, b) Jonathan Rhys Meyers wears a dress, and c)Ewan McGregor's character and Jonathan Rhys Meyers' character shag. Which is, really, when you think about it, pretty good. Unfortunately, it's wrapped up in an overwrought piece of incomprehensible, badly-lit, badly-scripted fluff that for some reason also includes UFOs, Oscar Wilde, a mysterious fellow called Jack Fairy who may or may not even be involved in the plot of the film, but shows up at critical junctures anyway, and some fairly unlikely shots of schoolgirls and small boys, interspersed. Also, perhaps, Duran Duran. I'm not sure about that last bit. I wasn't sure about a lot of bits. Most of the movie was spent alternating between going "wow, that's hot" and "what the hell?".
Also, I totally have a complex now about the fact that I will never, ever, ever, be as pretty as Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Ah well.
[Poll #621624]
Also, in unrelated news, we watched Velvet Goldmine last night. We in this case means me,
triadruid, and saffronhare. The film is beautiful, but really, really bad. The whole viewing experience was a little like Mystery Science Theater 3000, the Sexual Tension Edition. I mean, really, the only good bit about the film is that a)Ewan McGregor takes his pants off, b) Jonathan Rhys Meyers wears a dress, and c)Ewan McGregor's character and Jonathan Rhys Meyers' character shag. Which is, really, when you think about it, pretty good. Unfortunately, it's wrapped up in an overwrought piece of incomprehensible, badly-lit, badly-scripted fluff that for some reason also includes UFOs, Oscar Wilde, a mysterious fellow called Jack Fairy who may or may not even be involved in the plot of the film, but shows up at critical junctures anyway, and some fairly unlikely shots of schoolgirls and small boys, interspersed. Also, perhaps, Duran Duran. I'm not sure about that last bit. I wasn't sure about a lot of bits. Most of the movie was spent alternating between going "wow, that's hot" and "what the hell?". Also, I totally have a complex now about the fact that I will never, ever, ever, be as pretty as Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Ah well.
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Mostly unrelated
Date: 2005-11-28 04:09 pm (UTC)Re: Mostly unrelated
Date: 2005-11-28 04:21 pm (UTC)Genitalia
Date: 2005-11-28 05:00 pm (UTC)Amusingly enough, pictures of my genitals -have- been used in an art project in the past, so if you need such, I have some already. (pictures that is. The genitals are likely assumed.)
Re: Genitalia
Date: 2005-11-28 05:08 pm (UTC)Also, I will describe the project in a later post. This was based on a side conversation that discussion of the project engendered, and which I thought was entertaining enough to stand on its own.
Also, yes, I generally assume you have genitals. :)
Re: Genitalia
Date: 2005-11-28 05:18 pm (UTC)That was a horrible cluster-pun, so, of course, now I love you.
(and commas)
Re: Genitalia
Date: 2005-11-28 05:23 pm (UTC)How about two?
Date: 2005-11-28 05:46 pm (UTC)er.
Date: 2005-11-28 05:50 pm (UTC).
::blinky::
Re: How about two?
Date: 2005-11-28 06:02 pm (UTC)Wow.
Yes.
Re: How about two?
Date: 2005-11-28 06:36 pm (UTC)Re: How about two?
Date: 2005-11-28 07:02 pm (UTC)Thank you!!
Re: How about two?
Date: 2005-11-28 07:57 pm (UTC)Re: How about two?
Date: 2005-11-28 09:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-28 09:10 pm (UTC)And sadly, I agree that I will never be as pretty as Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Sigh.....
More than you want to know
Date: 2005-11-28 09:15 pm (UTC)I love Eddie Izzard in this film - he's good at smarmy. And that painting of Jean Harlow above his desk is actually him.
The film is Duran Duran free. However, Placebo play the band that young Christian Bale hangs around with while wearing painful make-up in need of serious derision.
Re: More than you want to know
Date: 2005-11-28 09:17 pm (UTC)Re: More than you want to know
Date: 2005-11-28 09:24 pm (UTC)Also, the musical bits (I thought) were pretty good (I was ludicrously fond of the acoustic guitar bit with Slade in the purple dress "Somebody called me Sebastian"... I giggled and giggled.).
I suppose it does make more sense if it's Iggy Pop. I thought Curt Wild was supposed to be Mick Jagger, but it really wasn't completely working for me. Iggy Pop, could be.
Also,
And I suppose not really Duran Duran -- the fellow at the end though, that was supposed to be Slade. I couldn't work out who he was paralleling at all. Chose Duran Duran more or less at random.
Also, Jack Fairy -- what the hell? It was always obvious that he was important to the plot, but never obvious *why* he was important to the plot. We spent a lot of the film going "What the Hell, Jack Fairy?", in fact.
Re: More than you want to know
Date: 2005-11-28 09:26 pm (UTC)Bah. I dishonour us all.
Re: More than you want to know
Date: 2005-11-28 10:07 pm (UTC)Icon Lust
Date: 2005-11-28 10:12 pm (UTC)Re: More than you want to know
Date: 2005-11-28 10:21 pm (UTC)Oh, the Slade in the 80's after he dramatically changed his image? That's a most insulting portrayal of 80s Bowie based on this period/image. You can kind of follow them along - very young mod Bowie, the dress era, Ziggy & Ronson, with Iggy, etc. Can't tell I live with a huge Bowie fan, can ya? We have a beautiful new book of Mick Rock's photographs from the Ziggy era at work that's full of images highly familiar from the movie. I never know what to make of the movie...seems like a love/bitter hate of Bowie.
Also, Jack Fairy -- what the hell? I've assumed he was supposed to be some kind of godfather of glam and bisexuality paving the way for the others. But it could be anything. He ties into that dorky UFO story, but then maybe that's inspired by Ziggy Stardust too.
no subject
Date: 2005-11-28 10:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-28 10:35 pm (UTC)Re: How about two?
Date: 2005-11-28 11:02 pm (UTC)Science and Stuff
Date: 2005-11-28 11:03 pm (UTC)It might be interesting to separate the results by men and women.
I noticed that you have less faith in your artistic purposes than most of us. :-)
Art, perhaps not.
Date: 2005-11-28 11:18 pm (UTC)Indeed
Date: 2005-11-28 11:23 pm (UTC)Re: Eddie Harlow
Date: 2005-11-28 11:24 pm (UTC)Point to Saff?
Re: Science and Stuff
Date: 2005-11-28 11:45 pm (UTC)Men v. Women
and then sort of a cross-wise thing -- Doesn't think it's Art and wouldn't send, Doesn't think it's Art and would send, thinks it's Art and would send, thinks it's Art and wouldn't send, etc...
Also, it seemed to me that if I were to say that, that I wouldn't expect people to trust me, because really, I wouldn't trust me. Shows what I know, I suppose.
Re: Art, perhaps not.
Date: 2005-11-28 11:45 pm (UTC)Re: More than you want to know
Date: 2005-11-28 11:55 pm (UTC)Re: Science and Stuff
Date: 2005-11-29 12:34 am (UTC)Re: Science and Stuff
Date: 2005-11-29 12:46 am (UTC)*bows*
Date: 2005-11-29 12:50 am (UTC)Re: Art, perhaps not.
Date: 2005-11-29 02:16 am (UTC)Sorry. Gratuitous Oingo Boingo reference.
Re: Art, perhaps not.
Date: 2005-11-29 02:23 am (UTC)Helpful, I am.
Re: More than you want to know
Date: 2005-11-29 07:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 09:47 pm (UTC)