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I've been reading Joe R Lansdale's horror-western-sci-fi short story collection Mad Dog Summer. It's bracing yarn-spinning and pretty reprehensible on many levels (most stories seem to involve someone getting ass-fucked in a not-good way - he seems to have a thing about not-good ass-fucking) but it's a long time since I've been so gripped by short fiction. The East Texas setting is pungent and immersive, the dialogue nice and salty. Rather than reading an actual book-type book, you feel more like you're reading a scrawled beer 'n' spunk-stained manuscript you uncovered amid the detritus in a drug dealer's kitchen. Actually, it's amazing, and heartening, it got published at all. Read it now.
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quote:
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quote:
Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts:
where did zygote go.

Didn't someone give him a link to downloadable internet porn?

I imagine he's sat in front of a computer screen, tears rolling down his face as he unwraps the bandages and attempts to wank what's left of his bloody mutilated stub of a penis.

Not a million miles away from the truth, however the real reason for my absence has been due to the fact that I've been on holiday to Turkey for 2 weeks and I'm now working full-time for a 'major company' again and the internet security is so tight that I can't even access my fucking Yahoo email account. Imagine my surprise when, as munching into my home-made cheese and spicy mango chutney sandwich just a few minutes ago, I managed to access TMO!

Anyways...

Reading: That new Stephen King novel, Lisey's Story. About halfway through. Not bad. Getting better.

Started reading Men On Top whilst on holiday with my Dad in Turkey a couple of weeks back, but had to quit reading it after the 'Semen' chapter. Not the best book to read whilst hundreds of miles away from potential sex.

Watching: Heroes. It's probably been savaged on here at some point over the past month or so, but I'm really enjoying it.

Watched Gangster No. 1 over the weekend (wank), along with Mindhunters (also wank) and something else that escapes my recollection.

Fuck, there goes my lunchtime internet slot. Time for a well earned cigarette.

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I watched IT last night, for the first time in years. I knew it wasn't very good, but I had forgotten just how utterly toss it really is.
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quote:
Originally posted by Nathan Bleak:
Yeah, some (all) of the torture stuff was pretty sexy. You listen to all this high-mided debate about the book, all that "honhe-hon he-hon I think it's a portrait of alpha males run amok and it's about how money can allow you to get away with anything", and wonder whether not one of these dudes got the slightest bit frisky at any of it, like when he puts the electrodes on her titties, or any of that stuff. I mean, what the hell is wrong with these people? Even sat up in bed at midnight alone, they won't ackonowledge the tiniest moment of furtive dark pleasure at turning beautiful young women into your meat-sack plaything. Sometimes I think I'm the only normal person left in the world.

Really, though? I mean I'm no stranger to pervy sex but I thought all that was just so vile it wasn't even remotely hot. Admittedly I was much younger then (e.g. more reactionary) but I was still a perve and I felt not a flickr. Just fear and disgust. Did all the blood and drilling and bone and rats-in-vagina actually make your penis hard?
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Nathan Bleak
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See, I thought it was too over the top to be scary. It was a lot like the sort of stuff you get at asstr.org, but better written. I dunno. Maybe it was a phase I was going through - I was looking at a lot of BDSM stuff on the internet at the time, as well, which doesn't do anything for me any more, compared to just pictures of chicks in lingerie. But yeah, a lot of the torture stuff in American Psycho seemed quite, er, exciting. You know. They're all fit chicks (at least, they were the way I imagined them), and fit chicks being terrified and big open mouthed screaming, and pink flesh being penetrated with metal objects, a nipples being tortured. You know. It's all good. Like watching the meat hook scene in Texas Chainsaw, in slow motion while speeding and smoking cigarettes. It's sort of really potent, but you kind of hope at the time noone ever finds that out about you.

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I haven't got up to any torture bits yet. I guess I'm reading pretty slowly? My journey to work is now 10 minutes though.

So far I'm experiencing a mixture between amused, complacent relief that I can feel distanced from Bateman, recognise his behaviour as (or believe that his behaviour is) a parody of neurotic, narcissistic 80s masculine excess, whereas I think twenty years ago I would have only felt envy of his lifestyle and consequent insecurity about my own. (Also, I feel quite superior towards him because he doesn't even have a good time; he doesn't even enjoy himself)

Oh yes a mixture between that -- my sentence broke in half there -- and a sort of guilty aspiration to be more like Bateman. More like Bateman than I am, even. Which is a fair bit. Apart from the slicked-back hair, a lot of Bateman's behaviour could almost be a parody of my ideal life.

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Did anyone see the excellent documentary about young international math' olympiads last night? It was absolutely absorbing, full of fascinatingly brilliant characters who chuckled nervously whenever confronted with emotions, as they fought their ways' to the final select 6 to represent GB at the IMO.

There was a beautifully shot montage of all the nervous tics and fidgetry performed by the olympiads during the x2 4 1/2 hour math contests.

Anyone?

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I watched some of "S.W.A.T." and then a couple of CSI's.
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I watched Der Letzte Mann, an accomplished silent film from 1925 I think, and a YouTube thing that mashed-up the Notorious BIG with Hitler. I recommend people watch both of them.

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quote:
Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts:
I watched some of "S.W.A.T."

I was going to watch that, but decided to watch the snooker instead. It was alright.
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S.W.A.T. was fucking shit.
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I watched The Hamiltons, which was rather good I thought. An independently produced horror film about a family who've recently moved to a new neighborhood after their parents died and they had to sell the family farm, and who turn out not to be as normal as they might seem. Not the most original of scenarios but well made and with some nice twists.
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Has anyone seen a short film with the innocent title "2 Girls, 1 Cup." I hear a lot about it, but I'd like to know if it would be disturbing to watch.

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I saw about the maths people in the really annoying good things you missed last night section of the metro, it looked good. I was annoyed. Especially since I was actually at home watching TV for once! (Wife Swap & Alfie - bad choices [Frown] ).
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quote:
Originally posted by wonderstarr:
Has anyone seen a short film with the innocent title "2 Girls, 1 Cup." I hear a lot about it, but I'd like to know if it would be disturbing to watch.

I've seen it, it just two ugly girls eating poo and being sick into each others mouths, y'know, much like Cardiff town centre on a Bank Holiday weekend.

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quote:
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Has anyone seen a short film with the innocent title "2 Girls, 1 Cup." I hear a lot about it, but I'd like to know if it would be disturbing to watch.

Do not try to watch that. Do not google it, do not image search it. Do everything that is in your ability to forget you ever heard that title. I cannot stress strongly enough how bad an idea it would be to watch it. Yes it is very disturbing, no it isn't in any way enjoyable.
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I heard of a worse one, called "Scat Swap". That one apparently disgusts even graduates of "2 Girls, One Cup".

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I wonder if shteatrfrk (or however he spells it) still has a website. I'd look but I'm at work.

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Yes, apparently people on a forum called "Fucking Nasty Shit" are puking up, repulsed, by that one.

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those girls are going to get ill. I feel a bit sick after a rich meal. I can't imagine how rough you'd feel after eating a cup of shit and puke.
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even if you puked it all out, you're still going to feel bad. Still - young love, eh?
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How much would you do it for, Benway?

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Essen mein scheisse

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quote:
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How much would you do it for, Benway?

a good, universal question. There are so many factors. I don't know. Depends what you're offering.
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Yeah, but once you've said you would do it, for some kind of sum, you've sort of said you're a prossie, haven't you. Then it's just a question of haggling for price.

Or that's what I heard in some apocryphal story. Or perhaps I just mean in a joke, or comedy routine.

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quote:
Originally posted by Abby:
I saw about the maths people in the really annoying good things you missed last night section of the metro, it looked good. I was annoyed. Especially since I was actually at home watching TV for once! (Wife Swap & Alfie - bad choices [Frown] ).

I saw it! Or most of it. There was one who looked like a young Benway, but with fewer teeth, and one extreme aut, who only saw his relationship with other people, such as his parents, in terms of entirely empirical matters, such as 'they give me shelter and food, I give them... er... I don't really know what I give them'.
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quote:
Originally posted by wonderstarr:
Or that's what I heard in some apocryphal story. Or perhaps I just mean in a joke, or comedy routine.

I'd love to know where that quote really comes from. People keep attributing it to Winston Churchill, which is ridiculous. As if the Prime Minister of England would just open a conversation with someone's wife by asking if she fucks for money, and then proceed to further insult her. It's beyond implausible. The other person it keeps getting attributed to is George Bernard Shaw, which seems marginally more likely, especially if its roots are in an exchange in a play, rather than something he said in real life. Who knows. The internet doesn't seem to have a solid answer, and that's about as far as my ideas go with regard to research.

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Flipping heck. A double post. Been a while since I've seen one of them.

[ 16.10.2007, 04:57: Message edited by: Nathan Bleak ]

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The Mary Whitehouse Experience did a sketch that had it being done By GB Shaw, if that helps. Them being historically accurate and all.

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apart from "2 girls, 1 cup", I also watched that new thing starring Fox Mulder. It was annoyingly alluring because this guy - Fox Mulder - basically embodied the man who you'd want to be.

Hugely successful author of only one book that's then been turned into a film (that he hates). So he's talented and loaded. Moves from New York to Hollywood, so he's cultured (new york) and like to party (LA). But he hasn't written since, and he spends his life driving around in a battered 911 (rich yet carefree - doesn't prize material goods for status), boning chicks (a lot of chicks) and hanging out in bars with his agent.

The beginning of the show started with him dreaming about getting sex from a nun, waking up to find himself receiving a blowjob from a hot young chick. Then he's kicked out, drives off in his 911, gets home to meet his hot ex-wife who clearly still loves him. She drops off his teenaged daughter. Then there's a naked chick in his house, waiting for him. Then he goes to hang out in a bookshop and pulls / bones a chick who's reading his book. Later on, after getting drunk and having a go at some woman, he meets another hot chick, and bones her. He drinks beer all the time, and has a fit body. He's not PUAing these chicks either, just wandering around in a kind of stupor, with sex landing on him over and over again.

And at the end he has a little cry because he's lonely really. Boo hoo, poor man. In a ridiculously literal sequence, he's having a tearful end-of-the-night flashback about his wife and kid, and then a cheesy acoustic version of Rocket Man starts playing. So we're treated to the line "I miss my wife" at the exactly the same moment as being presented with a soft focus sequence of his wife. The whole show, in fact, was literal and stupid. Just one long montage showing how awesome this guy's life is, and how cool he is. It's no Entourage. But I guess it was the first episode. I could see it being watchable though, just because there's plenty of tits, a porsche, and LA. And the lead male is a lazy beer drinking bastard who gets laid over and over again.


I also watched "30 Rock", which was very good. Better than the one with Fox Mulder. it included a damning yet touching portrayal of Martin Lawrence as a paranoid and deranged ego maniac. It felt like Ugly Betty, only set in the world of live TV sketch shows. Crazy corporate characters, extremely smart lines, and a generally absurdist portrait of The Biz.

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How did you get on with The Wire, Benway? I've been waiting to hear your thoughts. You didn't hate it, did you? You're not cross with me for recommending it are you?

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I watched one episode and thought it looked pretty good, but since then I haven't been tempted to watch another one. I find it quite hard to keep going back to TV shows where there's a single story arc. It's like settling down to watch a 12 hour film. No matter how good you think it's going to be, there's a sense of "christ, this is going to go on forever". I will carry on one day. But, you know, I could never get into the Sopranos for the same reason. The thought of committing that amount of time to one set of characters puts me off. You know that you're not going to get any resolution after each episode, just another cliff hanger. Even at the end of the series there'll be a question mark. I'm too lazy. But I will finish The Wire, I promise.

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I also watched CSI, and failed to amuse Louise with some very bad impressions of Horatio, talking as he does, but in mundane situations. The contrast between his dramatic and emphatic manner of speaking and the trivial nature of everyday things (such as trains, or telly) was supposed to be funny, but I just ended up being a dick. At least I tried though.
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remember, charlie brooker and flight of the conchords are on tonight.
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no? Have I killed tmo?
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