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[David_Dovey]

ON A COMPLETELY UNRELATED NOTE I always thought Eva Braun was a bit of alright

[Cire27]

Let me be clear: I am not calling Anderson a fascist, nor am I calling his work fascist propaganda. I only submit that certain tastes, patterns, and inclinations of his work can be identified with a fascist aesthetic.

Am I the only one who thought of Glenn Beck when reading that?

[Ozymandias]

[KharBevNor]

Wes Anderson only has one film in 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die, but both Triumph Des Willens and Olympia are included. This is empirical proof of my theories.

[KharBevNor]

Also,

[JD]

[Johnny C]

god i just want to hang out with janelle monae in a totally like non-sexual way she just seems like a super fun person

[Johnny C]

watch a janelle monae music video and try to not feel the same way

[Tom]

Let me be clear: I am not calling Anderson a fascist, nor am I calling his work fascist propaganda. I only submit that certain tastes, patterns, and inclinations of his work can be identified with a fascist aesthetic.

Am I the only one who thought of Glenn Beck when reading that?

I thought that was the joke.

[squawk]

i went from like page 2 to page 4. what is this thread about?

[sean]

tommy asked us to post attractive people

[Johnny C]

bold move

[est]

Try to find a smallish, relatively respectable photo of your all time crush

I honestly don't have an "all time crush".  I have been sitting here trying to think of one for like, 10 minutes.  I just can't think of one.

[Johnny C]

I honestly don't have an "all time crush".  I have been sitting here trying to think of one for like, 10 minutes.  I just can't think of one.

i honestly don't believe it

[Johnny C]

i mean i rolled mine out in what was literally the first reply to this thread

[Lines]

god i just want to hang out with janelle monae in a totally like non-sexual way she just seems like a super fun person

This. This so much.

[allison]

all time crush

[Lines]

Holy large photo, Batman!

[allison]

I REALLY LOVE ICE CREAM




(sorry, fixed)

[tania]

i ate about 15 of those things last semester

[Dazed]

Madeleine Stowe: the thinking man's dream woman.

[tania]

not surprising or original in the slightest, but you can't deny who you really are and who i really am is a woman who has perverted thoughts about this dude on a frighteningly regular basis

[Ozymandias]

Man did anyone save that Meebo convo about trying to imagine that dude getting his bone on?

[Liz]

If I was in meebo at the time I'll have it in my chat log thanks to pidgin. I don't recall this conversation, though, so I probably was not there. When was this?

[Dliessmgg]

[tania]

11:12:41 PM Tania: what is the best thing in the world
11:12:41 PM Dovey: um it is a long title, i need to look it up
11:12:44 PM Tania: quick someone tell me
11:12:48 PM Tania: get this image out of my head
11:13:05 PM Dovey: Angels of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1
11:13:06 PM Stephen: oh yeah
11:13:12 PM Ozy: A happy puppy playing with a kitten?
11:13:12 PM Stephen: that's the one I downloaded the other day
11:13:13 PM Tania: cheesecake
11:13:15 PM Tania: puppies
11:13:15 PM Dovey: tania: puppies!
11:13:16 PM Stephen: Just listened to it
11:13:18 PM Stephen: love it
11:13:21 PM Tania: having sex with george clooney
11:13:28 PM Dovey: corgi flop corgi flop corgi flop
11:13:34 PM Ozy: George Clooney?
11:13:36 PM Ozy: Really?
11:13:39 PM Tania: yeah
11:13:48 PM Tania: he's handsome
11:13:54 PM Dovey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glii-kazad8
11:14:00 PM Dovey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCTN_sDpyP8
11:14:05 PM Ozy: I just...I can't imagine George Clooney really being into sex for some reason
11:14:05 PM Dovey: there you go tania
11:14:10 PM Dovey: soothe yr trouble soul
11:14:17 PM Dovey: unknit brow
11:14:20 PM Tania: yeah i mean it wouldn't be like hot steamy sex
11:14:39 PM Stephen: That corgi
11:14:41 PM Tania: but like maybe we'd bang and i'd tell him about my thesis and he'd be like "wow tania, that sounds really interesting"
11:14:46 PM Stephen: he is belly flopping for all he's worth
11:14:52 PM Dovey: do you know what Jordan i think you are right
11:14:57 PM Dovey: i honestly can;t imagine it
11:15:00 PM Tania: and i'd go "oh man, george clooney just told me my thesis was interesting"
11:15:04 PM Dovey: i think he'd be really great dinner company
11:15:13 PM Dovey: and like just all drinking wine with
11:15:19 PM Tania: hmm
11:15:21 PM Tania: yeah actually
11:15:23 PM Tania: you're right
11:15:24 PM Dovey: but i can not put george clooney in a sex situation
11:15:31 PM Dovey: AND I AM TRYING
11:15:32 PM Dovey: LIKE
11:15:34 PM Dovey: REALLY HARD
11:15:36 PM Tania: i'm thinking really hard about it right now and i can't really imagine it
11:15:40 PM Tania: and i just can't
11:15:43 PM Tania: see myself doing it
11:15:44 PM Tania: damnit
11:15:46 PM tommydski: i think he was basically being himself in Burn After Reading
11:16:01 PM Joseph: I can imagine him post-sex
11:16:03 PM tommydski: just a stupider version
11:16:04 PM Joseph: chatting naked in bed
11:16:09 PM Joseph: not sex itself
11:16:32 PM Tania: yeah
11:16:44 PM Dovey: man
11:16:50 PM Dovey: way to be so charming, Clooney
11:16:50 PM Tania: george clooney's character was the one who built the sex chair
11:16:54 PM Tania: maybe that's what i really want
11:17:00 PM Tania: to have dinner and wine with george clooney
11:17:07 PM Tania: and then for him to build me a sex chair
11:17:08 PM Dovey: so charming that you kind of priced yourself out of the market

[Lines]

You know, I can't imagine Clooney having sex either. At all. But I can easily see him in bed with Tania discussing her thesis.

George Clooney, wtf. You are a dashing man and that is all you will ever be.

[allison]

george clooney: too aloof for you

[tania]

not in the filthy gutter that is my mind he ain't

[Lines]

Dear Nathan Fillion,
Please carry me off into the sunset. I would be very much obliged.
<3 Yours truly,
Me!

[jhocking]

so tempted to photoshop tania and george clooney onto some porn

[JD]

Is it the beard you have a crush on or the man?

[Katherine]

Is  it possible to separate one from the other?  I think not.

[David_Dovey]

Do you know what? This thread should just be completely deleted except for that Brian Blessed photo.

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Subject: TOMMY!!

Body: BLESSED.jpg

[KvP]

Yeah except it's not a film about India. It's a film about white people travelling through a quaint, anglocentric notion of "India". There's all the difference in the world.

FYP

But they save some brown kids so in a way, isn't the entire concept of India as a cleansing bath washing away their white, white problems not problematic at all?
(spoiler alert)

[KvP]

ITT: India as a billion-strong magical negro hivemind

[Johnny C]

But they save some brown kids so in a way, isn't the entire concept of India as a cleansing bath washing away their white, white problems not problematic at all?

that scene actually just affirms that they are like total strangers? what they eventually discover is that they have fundamental human emotion in common with the indian people but very little else, and they are completely out of sorts with these people. after that scene, where they have extraordinary trouble even communicating with anyone, they go home. do you not think that is significant

[KvP]

"people"

[KvP]

I mean what sets Anderson apart from his indie-quirk descendants is his ability to instill real pathos in his central characters but I think in TDL specifically the characters at the periphery suffer just as much as they would in, say, Good Dick or Eagle Vs. Shark. Which is to say, the affect is so heavy that robbed of the focus of the film they become ciphers, and when they don't speak the language of the main characters that effect is compounded. That sort of thing might actually be used well to explore culture shock and the like, but in the end I don't feel like TDL was about anything more than exactly what Anderson gets accused of fixating on - the family issues of disaffected white pseudo-intellectuals. I was sufficiently charmed by The Royal Tenenbaums but it wore very thin in his next two films.

[Dliessmgg]

Is it the beard you have a crush on or the man?

His voice. I want to have sex with his voice.

And the beard too.

[est]

I honestly don't have an "all time crush".  I have been sitting here trying to think of one for like, 10 minutes.  I just can't think of one.

i honestly don't believe it

I can think of plenty of celebs and actresses and models and so forth that I've been attracted to, but none of them stand out as worthy of that moniker.  When I was a kid/teenager there was Mia Sara, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, Phoebe Cates, Tia Carrere, Kathleen Turner, Rae Dawn Chong, Kelly LeBrock, Tamlyn Tomita, Lisa Lopes, and of course, y'know, Carrie Fisher.  There was plenty more then and since then, but you get the point I hope.  I'm not saying that I've never been attracted to any celebs or had crushes on them, etc, I'm just saying that there is no one big one that stands out.

[JD]

Is there any celebrity you'd like to hang out with then?

[Ozymandias]

Jesus, you're old, Ben.

[est]

Yeah I thought we already knew this.  I knew when I was writing that out I'd be showing my age, but whatevs.  I was googling some of them to get the spelling of their names right and all that and wow, some of them haven't aged well at all

JD: Yeah sure, plenty.  Maybe this is because I watched Spicks & Specks last night, but I think that at the moment I'd prob want to hang out with Adam Hills for a bit.  He's always so brutally cheerful and positive.  I don't think I've ever seen him anything but happy.  I'd love to figure out how the hell he manages it, because for the most part it eludes me.

[est]

On the back of that question I just tried to think of the old "what would be your perfect dinner party group?" thing, and I got to three separate groups (enjoyable company, tech talk, politics) before realising I was being dumb.  But there are plenty of people I'd invite that wouldn't necessarily get on well with one another or have anything to talk about.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

RE: ben's old lady list

ally sheedy still looks pretty good sometimes! i just saw her in a new movie or show the other day and she was smokin hot.

i always had a soft spot for her in breakfast club though; even as a kid i was like "fuck molly ringwald, i want to know what's up with that chick!"

[Graphite]

I may be too late for this thread but oh well!







And in my youthier youth, this kid:

[calenlass]

Oh, Stephen Fry. He is not what I would call sexy, but dude has got a brain.

[Alex C]

There was plenty more then and since then, but you get the point I hope.  I'm not saying that I've never been attracted to any celebs or had crushes on them, etc, I'm just saying that there is no one big one that stands out.

I'm much the same way. There's usually been someone in my personal life that I'm pretty infatuated with, for one thing, and I've always kinda suspected that being very fixated on people I'll never meet is bad policy in general. More than anything I guess it just never occurred to me that I'd have to pick one, so why think about it?


As for the dinner party thing, I don't really have a list for that either. If I made one, I suspect it'd be all political figures provided I could basically turn it into a question and answer session. For example, when we discussed a historical figure dinner party as an icebreaker in one of my history classes, I picked a list almost entirely made up of traitors and spies. I guess I'd rather be a nosy bastard than listen to Twain and Voltaire be waaaay more witty than I am.

[jhocking]

Hey tommy, have you seen Match Point? I watched it a long time ago and didn't think it was very good, but I was recently reminded of it and I'm curious what you think of how it depicts American vs. British women.