Random Thoughts X

Posted by Tory, April 19, 2005 on 8:00 pm | In Amusements |
  • Jamie Foxx deserved his Oscar. But how come Collateral and Ray can purge memories of gross-out comedies for one In Living Color alum, but The Truman Show and Man on the Moon can’t do the same for Jim Carrey?


    Prolly doesn’t help that when you do a GIS for “Jim Carrey” this is the first image that shows up

    `Cos dude was hella robbed for Man on the Moon. That thing is insane. Just watching his Andy Kaufman shake himself out of the Latka character is enough. And didn’t even get a nomination.

    Sidebar: Didja know that the director wanted Ed Norton for the part instead (blue eyes and stuff)? I think Ed Norton could have been great, too, but it would have been a whole different movie. I want them both to exist, in a dreamy movie-world alternate reality where Renee O`Connor stars in superhero movies.

    Anyway. Fortunately Jim Carrey can cry himself to sleep at night on his big pile of money.

  • Train (or some band that sounds just like them) is totally scamming Oleta Adams in some crap-ass commercial for a car or a credit card or something. “I don’t care you you get to me, just get to me.” Sucks.
  • I realized I haven’t seen Silence of the Lambs all the way through, because I only watched it with my dad, and he`d fast-forward through the naughty bits. Reminds me of the first time I saw Airplane on TCM, and I couldn’t believe all the stuff I`d missed before (also due to being too young to get the jokes). Also on the list of movies I have shame for not having seen yet: Million Dollar Baby, Rocky and Patton.
  • Don’t wear sarongs at the beach. If you are worried about what your ass looks like, you are out of things to worry about.
  • I got an Old Navy belt for like ten bucks, which is cool. But then I got it home and saw it was 100% silk. Not cool. Ain’t nothing made out of silk that should cost ten bucks. It freaks me out when things don’t cost what they’re worth — like I got a nice little soft stuffed bunny at the dollar bins at Target, but you KNOW, you just KNOW that thing cost more than a dollar to make. The materials alone… the labor alone… the shipping alone… it makes me naush to know I got a sweet soft bunnah and some nine-year-old Cambodian girl got about four grains of rice.


    Worth more than ten dollars.

  • Today’s phrase: Taco Girl Stunt. Like, when you’re hanging out with a guy, and you don’t know what you want to eat. Then you decide, hey, let’s go to Taco Bell. So he’s like, okay, and you go to Taco Bell. Then, while he’s ordering, you decide, bah, I’ve got food at home, I`ll just make something there. This is a sort of flibbertigibbet girl thing that I do once in a while that I think it takes a very high pain tolerance to look past. Taco Girl Stunt.
  • Leni Riefenstahl. Of course the first significant female director would be a big old Nazi kraut crazy.

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  1. I despise most of Carrey`s comedic performances. But he was frickin` genius in Man in the Moon and The Truman Show, and should have gotten some kind of award for both. If you look at old Andy Kauffman clips and then look at Carrey`s imitation in Man on the Moon, you almost can`t tell who`s who - *that*`s good acting. The Oleta Adams usage is kinda weird. I love the song, but the commercial version just ain`t right. Silence of the Lambs was the first R-rated movie I ever saw (is that dating me??). Glee. Mmm….farva beans…

    Comment by supremegoddessofall — December 31, 1969 #

  2. “Resevoir Dogs”, “The Usual Suspects”, “Sixth Sense”, “Nightmare on Elm Street,” “War of the Buttons”, “Waking Ned Devine,” and “Eat,Drink, Man, Woman” are a short list of movies that don`t suck.

    Comment by F.A.Y. — December 31, 1969 #

  3. “Silence of the Lambs” is absolute perfection. It`s on my All-Time Best Movies EVAR List, which means I can (and have) watched it hundreds of times, and each time is equally as riveting and good as the first. Superbly done film. “Eternal Sunshine” really surprised me; I tend to not enjoy abstract films, so I was unsure if I`d be able to sit through the whole thing. It either wasn`t as abstract as I`d thought, or it was linear enough for me to follow.. in any case, it was a really awesome, moving film. Lastly, speaking of films I didn`t think I`d like, the “Kill Bills” kicked ass.

    Comment by Alena — December 31, 1969 #

  4. Oh, and I finally watched “Silence of the Lambs” all the way through last night. That`s a damn good movie. Damn hell ass good movie. Perfect, in fact. I always get a rush of adrenaline when I see the Martin girl has the dog.

    Comment by Tory — December 31, 1969 #

  5. O. M. G. I can`t believe I forgot “Eternal Sunshine.” I did see it in the theater, and it rocked me like a hurricane. He forgot Huckleberry Hound. They made him forget HUCKLEBERRY HOUND! AAAAAAAAIIGGGGGH!

    Comment by Tory — December 31, 1969 #

  6. I`m going to take it that you have -not- seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind only because you ran out of time and/or money to do so. I agree that mosy Jim Carrey movies are usually cheap, imbecile-oriented comdey, and that The Truman Show and Man on the Moon (which, sadly, I have not seen all of as of yet) are his signs of greatness, but Eternal Sunshine truly blew me away. It was amazing and thought provoking and sweet deep fried Jesus on a stick Kaufman is a writing genius! And Kate Winslet is equally amazing in it, and they both deserved far more praise for it then they did.

    Comment by JennTheRevolver — December 31, 1969 #

  7. Silence of the Lambs the first R-rated movie you`ve seen? Wow. I was seeing r-rated flicks back when I was 7 or 8 (shows you the healthy kind of living I grew up with!). I remember all the horror, action, dramas, and comedies that were R-rated. Matter of fact, a co-worker and I were talking about Eddie Murphy`s “Delirious” the other day, doing the “You don`t got no ice cream” song. Hilarious stuff…

    Comment by F.A.Y. — December 31, 1969 #

  8. This school has been around for a while, right? The teachers should know what to expect. Betcha half your class is going through the same thing right now.

    Comment by Farseer — December 31, 1969 #

  9. Tory– I loved this post. I laughed so hard; it was brilliant. Good luck with your classes this semester. I start next Monday. So long for now!

    Comment by Shannon — December 31, 1969 #

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Posted by Tory, April 19, 2005 on 8:00 pm | In Amusements |
  • Boy, did I get fat this Christmas. Fat fat fat. Still fitting into my jeans, but in a tight, country-western way instead of a loose urban way. Must have something to do with the 3000 calories in cookies and ice cream I’ve been putting away almost every night. I even gained weight in my ass, which, given my body type, is my body’s way of saying “we have put the fat everywhere else and are now turning to our last resort, the ass, and we are sorry to report it.”

    At the same time, I’ve been knocking out some personal best 5- and 6- mile runs, demonstrating that weight and cardiovascular fitness are hella unrelated and reminding me of a story my dad used to tell about the fat man platoon. Every physical fitness test, there would be the kinda fat Marines (contradiction in terms OMG!!!) who would do borderline or even poorly and be put on this remedial fitness program. So all the fat Marines would get together, run, and then go to lunch. And they got faster and faster and fatter and fatter. Heh heh heh.

    I don’t expect I`ll have trouble taking it off once I get back to school. They just might have to roll me around Stage IV for a little while.

  • There was an opinion piece in the paper about questioning evolution in the classroom, like, hey, here’s how we think people came to exist, but we don’t know. I think that’s actually a hella good idea. I ain’t saying teachers should follow up a warning about evolution with breaking out the Pentateuch — I think every scientific principle that gets taught should have to be prefaced with “this is our best guess at how things work.” When Aristotle proposed the four humours, that was just his best guess, and by failing to question it we were bleeding people for hundreds of years. (Of course, by “we” I mean white people, who stumbled across the scientific method only recently, as opposed to, oh, say, Injuns, who thousands of years ago pioneered environmental technology like “let’s poo more than twenty feet from where we eat,” and “let’s not dump thousands of pounds of cattle waste in the Chicago river.” But I digress.)

    The point is that we have no idea of knowing for sure whether even our current model of the atom is any less laughable than Thomson’s plum pudding model. All those damn orbitals seem super made up to me, like maybe we need some Ockham’s razor in the hizzy. But what I really really think is made up is gravity. Pshaw right, gravity. When my physics teacher started talking about how work takes energy and entropy and blah blah blah, but a force can just force and force forever without expending anything, that seemed to me like a pretty thin veil for “we have no crapping idea.” To me, hearing someone explain gravity is like watching Bush at a press conference — it doesn’t give you any information, it makes you uncomfortable, and the whole arrangement seems unfair.

    Anyway, like my sister said once, God willing we look back on chemotherapy in twenty years and say, “Aargh! What the hell were we thinking?”

  • Gotta go back to school on Tuesday. I`m nervous, like I forgot how to do everything but eat and go running. As soon as we get back, we jump into shooting 5-minute scripts and rotating through the crew positions, and I think the problem is knowing that I`m going to suck up a furious storm. I don’t know how to light a shot — I mean, I know *how*, like physically how to put up a stand and stuff, but the lighting could come out looking all ug-mo and strug-mo and you can’t fix that in post oh-ho no. And I could hold the boom badly, and you could hear all sortsa unkas and thunkas. Or I could pull focus badly. Healthy fear, healthy fear. Gotta suck before you can get better. And I think I`d rather suck at this than be good at most anything else.

    Brace for suckage.

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  1. I despise most of Carrey`s comedic performances. But he was frickin` genius in Man in the Moon and The Truman Show, and should have gotten some kind of award for both. If you look at old Andy Kauffman clips and then look at Carrey`s imitation in Man on the Moon, you almost can`t tell who`s who - *that*`s good acting. The Oleta Adams usage is kinda weird. I love the song, but the commercial version just ain`t right. Silence of the Lambs was the first R-rated movie I ever saw (is that dating me??). Glee. Mmm….farva beans…

    Comment by supremegoddessofall — December 31, 1969 #

  2. “Resevoir Dogs”, “The Usual Suspects”, “Sixth Sense”, “Nightmare on Elm Street,” “War of the Buttons”, “Waking Ned Devine,” and “Eat,Drink, Man, Woman” are a short list of movies that don`t suck.

    Comment by F.A.Y. — December 31, 1969 #

  3. “Silence of the Lambs” is absolute perfection. It`s on my All-Time Best Movies EVAR List, which means I can (and have) watched it hundreds of times, and each time is equally as riveting and good as the first. Superbly done film. “Eternal Sunshine” really surprised me; I tend to not enjoy abstract films, so I was unsure if I`d be able to sit through the whole thing. It either wasn`t as abstract as I`d thought, or it was linear enough for me to follow.. in any case, it was a really awesome, moving film. Lastly, speaking of films I didn`t think I`d like, the “Kill Bills” kicked ass.

    Comment by Alena — December 31, 1969 #

  4. Oh, and I finally watched “Silence of the Lambs” all the way through last night. That`s a damn good movie. Damn hell ass good movie. Perfect, in fact. I always get a rush of adrenaline when I see the Martin girl has the dog.

    Comment by Tory — December 31, 1969 #

  5. O. M. G. I can`t believe I forgot “Eternal Sunshine.” I did see it in the theater, and it rocked me like a hurricane. He forgot Huckleberry Hound. They made him forget HUCKLEBERRY HOUND! AAAAAAAAIIGGGGGH!

    Comment by Tory — December 31, 1969 #

  6. I`m going to take it that you have -not- seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind only because you ran out of time and/or money to do so. I agree that mosy Jim Carrey movies are usually cheap, imbecile-oriented comdey, and that The Truman Show and Man on the Moon (which, sadly, I have not seen all of as of yet) are his signs of greatness, but Eternal Sunshine truly blew me away. It was amazing and thought provoking and sweet deep fried Jesus on a stick Kaufman is a writing genius! And Kate Winslet is equally amazing in it, and they both deserved far more praise for it then they did.

    Comment by JennTheRevolver — December 31, 1969 #

  7. Silence of the Lambs the first R-rated movie you`ve seen? Wow. I was seeing r-rated flicks back when I was 7 or 8 (shows you the healthy kind of living I grew up with!). I remember all the horror, action, dramas, and comedies that were R-rated. Matter of fact, a co-worker and I were talking about Eddie Murphy`s “Delirious” the other day, doing the “You don`t got no ice cream” song. Hilarious stuff…

    Comment by F.A.Y. — December 31, 1969 #

  8. This school has been around for a while, right? The teachers should know what to expect. Betcha half your class is going through the same thing right now.

    Comment by Farseer — December 31, 1969 #

  9. Tory– I loved this post. I laughed so hard; it was brilliant. Good luck with your classes this semester. I start next Monday. So long for now!

    Comment by Shannon — December 31, 1969 #

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