Blockbuster had the Un-edited edition of this film so I picked it up...wow, what a powerful piece of cinematography. I do enjoy a good tragedy but some of my friends think life is depressing enough and prefer escapism in their movies...those people shoudl not watch Requiem for a Dream. It's the story of people making horrible choices which ruin everything and drive them even further into misery, but more than that is is an AMAZING performace by Ms. Burstyn as the elderly mom who takes diet pills and loses her mind.
The scene at the end where Jennifer Connelly performs a sex show for drug money is famous on YouTube but just looks really uncomfortable.
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Beloved: *who has been ACCIDENTALLY locked out, speaking through letter box* can I come back in?
Sparky: Hmmm, empty your pockets
Beloved: *empties pockets. Snow balls fall out*
Sparky: Uh-huh, take off your jacket.
Beloved: *removes jacket. more snowballs are jetisoned*
Sparky: And the shirt.
Beloved: Awww c'mon
Sparky: Shirt.
Beloved: *grumbles* *removes shirt, more snowballs tumble*
Sparky: Lean against the door frame, legs spread
Beloved: Should we really be having sex games on our doorstep?
Sparky: *glare*
Beloved: FINE
Sparky: *cautiously approaches and searches Beloved. 4 more snowballs are found*
Sparky: Get in the house. I'm locking you in.
I'm going to have to spend all day watching him. yes yes I am
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Sparky: *In grumpy morning mode* have briefcase, pen, wallet, phone, keys, shoes (yes, I do tend to forget). Ok ready *opens door* and...
Beloved: SNOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
Sparky: Snow. *gives Mother Nature a dirty look* You're totally making me regret reducing my carbon footprint, madam.
Beloved: snow snow snow snow snow snow snow SNOW! *starts making snow balls*
Cat: *looks outside* *gives world a most outraged glare* *goes back to bed*
Sparky: *closes door, possibly, just possibly ACCIDENTALLY locking Beloved out*
Sparky: *calls work* I'm afraid I can't come in today, I'm...
Secretary: Ooh ooh, wait, there's someone here who wants to hear this (In the background: Senior Partner! It's Sparky!)
*connecting phones are picked up*
Senior Partner 1: It's snowing, so I imagine you have been terribly afflicted by leprosy, scarlet fever or the ebola virus?
Sparky: I was going to go with smallpox
Senior Partner 2: I'm bored with diseases. I prefer animal maulings.
Sparky: Any preference?
Senior Partner 2: We haven't had marmosets yet.
Sparky: Of course. Well, this morning I got up and to my horror found that my kitchen was infested with marmosets, no doubt planted by disgrunted mafia contacts. And they'd eaten all the coffee and were on a caffein fueled rampage. It was only with cunning and daring that I managed to subdue the squeaking hordes.
SP1: Do marmosets squeak?
Sparky: probably. These ones did. If marmosets don't, insert "mutated squeaking, caffein fueled marmoset hordes"
SP1: Of course. And you suffered severe injury
Sparky: I drove them off, but not before they ate my right leg. And left ear.
SP2: How tragic
SP1: Do you have court today?
Sparky: Of course not, it's Friday*****
SP1: Appointments?
Sparky: Still Friday
SP1: Why do any of us even come in on a Friday?
SP2: Because we pay them to, obviously. And they need to keep up on their solitaire skills.
Secretary: We have a champion solitaire team now!
Sparky: Solitaire team? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
SP1: We will see you on Monday of course?
SParky: My leg should have grown back by then.
SP1: Good, no excuses for Monday, not even if the snow is higher than your house
Sparky: what if Beloved dies from hypothermia?
SP1: I'm not answering that. You have a chest freezer. I would be liable
Sparky: See you on Monday then
SP2: Bring me a marmoset!
*****Friday is the BEST day for summary judgements. Because everyone wants to go home early. If you want the court to actually give a shit about your case, don't pick Friday. Court case on which your life depends < 3 day weekend. I'm just saying.
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I think a totally new body in which to live in would be it. Lush forests, totally different way of life. More of an adventure I think than the normal life here. Saturday at 10:30, seeing Avatar. IMAX and 3D. This is going to be awesome.
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But I love it when the cause is doing art all night.
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Sparky is also considering carpeting the kitchen. Sparky is also reminded to never let the coffee machine in upstairs study run out of coffee again.
Sparky's Feet: *in bedroom* hmmmm thick warm carpet
Sparky's Feet: *in Landing* hmmm snugly carpet
Sparky's Feet: *downstairs to hallway* warm and soft hmmmmmm
Sparky's Feet: *in kitchen* AAARGH! ICEBERG ICEBERG! RUN AWAY!!!!
Sparky: *glares at tiles* *is unable to leave hallway* Tiles. Cold.
Beloved: *watches with interest*
Sparky: *touches one foot to tiles* Tiles. Still. Cold. *removes foot*
Beloved: *giggles* Morning brain is frozen.
Sparky: *tries again* Tiles. Still Cold.
Beloved: *pokes Sparky*
Sparky: *Tries to bite. Misses*
Beloved: *holds up slippers* Maybe try these?
Sparky: *ignores* *tries again* Cooooold.
Beloved: Simple answer! Right here! *waves slippers*
Sparky: Yes - Beloved make coffee *wanders off where the carpet is squishy and warm*
Beloved: *throws slippers*
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The title to their vile question has been changed. After the net exploded and even the political parties contacted the director general to see if he was out of his tiny mind, the title was change to ""Should Uganda debate gay execution?""
Uh. That's better but it's not much better.
Again, there is no debate here. There should be no debate here. If we rejected the topic "should Muslims face execution?" and instead went with "Should France debate Muslim execution?" then we'd still be outraged.
Because this is NOT a question. This not something to be considered. It's gross bigotry and you CANNOT give even the slightest indication that it is acceptable to kill gays - ANYWHERE.
Gods, how hard is this to understand?
IMPLYING THAT KILLING GAYS IS A REASONABLE POSITION FOR DEBATE OR CONSIDERATION IS GROSSLY HOMOPHOBIC, DAMAGING AND THREATENING.
Changing it to a single country rather than in general DOES NOT CHANGE THAT
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Dear Dude in car,
Yes, I'm going a little slow. Sorry about that--I was trying to deal with opening my water bottle and, you know, not driving off the road. Raising your hand in exasperation multiple times in a thirty second period? Totally fine (though a little douchey, I think). Even though I was only going a couple mph under the speed limit, whatever.
But you know what's not cool? PANTOMIMING SHOOTING ME.
Seriously, WTF?! In what world is that okay?
Ready to get out of Maryland now.
No love,
Me.
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I worked another half day on Tuesday, and Joe just flat-out stayed home. He played oodles of Warcraft and I watched endless Tabatha's Salon Takeover, which is one of my current favorite shows. The cats expected us to entertain them. That got old.
Stuck at the office today, but there is nothing to do since the students and faculty are all on vacation. I am running out of Kleenex. There is a potluck at the District at 1 pm. but that means walking outside in the blistery cold again, which my sinuses find objectionable.
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The BBC has a nice Have Your Say section where they can pose a question for reasoned and considered debate. Currently they have several running - the BA strike, airbrushing in adverts, when self-defence goes to far, should homosexuals face execution.
Wait.
What?
"Should homosexuals face execution?"
Why is this even a matter for debate? Why is it even considered an acceptable question to ask? Regardless of world politics, is this EVER a question that should be presented as something to be considered, reasoned, balanced? Is this ever a question where, by golly, we want to hear your opinion - kill the homos or not?
No matter what was happening in the world, there is no bloody way the BBC would have the question "Should black people face execution?"
No matter what laws were proposed in any country, the BBC wouldn't even consider asking "Should Jews face execution?"
Even at its most bigoted, the BBC would never ask readers to send in their opinions on whether we should kill muslims. They'd never ask us to send opinions on persecuting to death Asian people.
This is beyond outrageous. This is giving a level of legitimacy to the most toxic form of hate. This is presenting arguing whether we have the right to exist as a reasoned question - as a question for debate!
I have a right to LIVE damn it! I have a right NOT to be killed. We do not deserve being imprisoned and executed for daring to love, for existing! This is NOT a legitimate position. This is NOT a position for reasoned argument. This is WRONG and can you PLEASE stop sending the bloody message that our lives are worth shit, already!?
The complain form is here https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/ please use it. Because this is beyond unacceptable
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That's all.
I have an obnoxious cold or sinus infection or something.
/stabs it
Must go to crits for classes today~
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A short illustration of how bizarre I am and how my mind works.
So the basement flooded.
( And of course, my first action is . . . )
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So we have
Washington DC council votes to legalise gay marriage! Woohoo victory and a step forward!
Lesbian couple in Gibraltar win appeal after they were refused a joint tenancy agreement thank gods - seriously trying to stop gay people living together?
And on the amusing side - Nevada brothels can now have male prostitutes as well! (All discrimination is bad after all). What amuses me about this is this homophobe OBJECTING (calling it a pearl harbour no less!) because it will make the industry less socially acceptable.
Oh please. Is there really a huge number of people who are pro-prostitution but anti-homosexuality? Y'know, don't answer that. It'll probably depress me
And am I the only one who thinks the brothel in question could make a lot of money advertising itself as the most immoral brotherl in Nevada?
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An Anglican Vicar, in the UK, sees the point in Uganda's law. You see, the fact that Ms Ladele wants to impose her religious views on people accessing government services means that Ugandans should look at the terrible state we have reached (preventing civil servants applying their bigotry to their jobs! How shocking!) and of course that would prompt not only keeping homosexuality illegal - but also punishing gays with life imprisonment and execution
I say again, the victories to secure our existance are relatively recent. There are still truly hateful bigots like this man left in the country pushing against our rights to exist and survive, championing the desire to hate, fighting for bigotry in law and through the nation. That is deeply frightening and reminds us that we can't stop working to protect ourselves
To add to further grief Rwandar is likely to vote on criminalising homosexuality. Yet more religious ties with the west. We have a long way to go for freedom and equality - or even the right to exist.
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Yes. I think it's a sad point in society that we normalise a particular way of being. We decide that being a certain way is appropriate and people who aren't that way are somehow deviant or less worthy than those who conform. I think that definitely includes people who do not want (or cannot find) partners and people who do not want (or cannot have) children. They are seen as being wrong, selfish or otherwise not as worthy as people who procreate And I think the holidays are even more pressurising because we do portray these holidays as a time for children (I'm ok, I have Beloved - :P) it's about the kids and apparently those of us without kids are missing out by not being woken up at 5:00am (hear that Beloved? We're supposed to MISS OUT on that) by kids who sling wrapping paper everywhere and make a ridiculous amount of noise before you've even had coffee Since we are so deprived, I think we're entitled to drink more booze to make up for it.
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To remind us why we fight and why we have to fight. To remind us that we are not safe. It’s important to remember that for so many our very lives and physical safety are worth nothing. It’s important to remember that when we’re pushing for gay rights we’re pushing for our very right to exist and exist as people.
Gay rights activist in Honduras assassinated in drive by shooting. A very brave man - he had been assaulted and persecuted before and now he is dead - at the age of 25. Sadly such violence in Honduras is horrendously common - there are places where our lives are worth less than nothing, where our deaths are celebrated and our pain considered laudable.
Speaking of which, 12 gay men face execution for homosexuality in Iran. 8 of them are teenagers. Kids. They’re killing kids for being gay. Gods preserve us from bigots who care so little for life. Such is how little our lives are valued. Uganda isn’t the only nation seeking to wipe us off the face of the world - not by a long shot.
And talking of Uganda. Many people breathed a sigh of relief that Uganda was dropping the death penalty clause for their horrendous homophobia bill. Don’t take your eyes away yet. That is in no way certain and the proposer of the bill and his supporters want to kill gays still. Don’t let one vague report counter the actuality of what is being pushed - they just want us to look away while they hide the bodies.
Sadly this is a problem that is spreading, Homophobia in government is increasing in Rwandar and there is talk of introducing a law criminalising homosexuality. In Nigeria, where homosexuality is already criminalised and faces brutally harsh punishment in the northern provinces, there is talk of expanding the persecution.
In South Africa (and elsewhere, so very sadly) Lesbians are being raped to ‘correct’ them so low are their bodies valued and so much are they hated that these repellent views are held.
Here we have our lives ended with little state intervention or actually by the state. Here we have a clear message of how little our lives are worth - and it is exacerbated by the world’s general indifference. There are no moves for sanctions or penalties for a nation that does or tries to massacre or torture us wholesale. Aid and trade does not stop just because it happens over the bloodied corpses of homosexuals. Relationships do not sour because of our spilled blood - our lives have no value to far too many.
And in no way is that limited to developing nations, though they may have the most repellent laws and consent to persecution on their books.
First - remember that homosexuality has only been decriminalised in the western world relatively recently. In the UK, we were criminalised in 1967. In parts of the US it was criminalised in some states as late as 2003. 2003 - think about that. And there are still people like this out there, among us I’ve just spent 2 weeks arguing with homophobes DEFENDING the Ugandan kill-gays bill. Don’t say it can’t happen here. Don’t say there aren’t people here that want this
In Utah a gay man was brutally and horrifically beaten to the point where he needed reconstructive surgery on his face by a gang of men. A gang of men attacked him because he was gay. The sentence? A year. This tells you how much gay lives are worth to that court.
In New York a gay man was beaten by bouncers for daring to dance with his partner. Apparently we’re forbidden to dance with our partners unless we’re in a gay bar.
Would you beat ANYONE over who they were dancing with? It takes so little for the homophobes to violently attack us.
In Texas an 18 year old gay men is kidnapped and sexually assaulted. The perpetrators are arrested (though oddly slowly) but the bail is set at a ridiculously low level.
In London, David Kilcullen has been found guilty of murdering one member of a gay couple and brutally assaulting the other. I will watch for his sentencing - but again we saw the damned gay panic defence raised in a court room. Again we had the idea that this could be a justification for violence against us and it wasn’t just laughed down, even if little credence was given to it.
To these people our lives are worth nothing. The sad thing is - I’m not entirely sure the powers that be disagree with them
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Austria approved a bill to allow civil unions! It’s not perfect of course - and we should not settle or stop at cut-price almost marriages because that message is so destructive - but it’s a step forward.
Argentina’s woman of the year is a Trans woman congratulations Ms. Romero!
Despite some grossly homophobic campaign against her Annise Parker won the race to be mayor of Houston. Houston is now the largest US city with an openly gay mayor Double congratulations Ms. Parker.
Closer to home we have:
Lillian Ladele, the marriage registrar who wants to... uh, stop doing her job but still get paid has lost another appeal (of course, Christian organisations, full of love and money, are determined to keep funding her quest for bigotry, to deny GBLT people access to government services and to apply a religious test to government access). Thankfully, the courts are reluctant to agree that government employees should decide who has access to government services based on the prejudices of their religion - because that would be very very very very silly.
Fellow homophobe, Richard Leonard, has been evicted after making life hell for his neighbours with homophobic abuse. This is extremely important - such abuse is intolerable and unacceptable and we need to make that unequivocally clear.
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Jeez Beth GO TO BED WHY ARE YOU STILL UP YOU HAVE A BUSY DAY TOMORROW
Internets are soooo tempting though mmmmyesss
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