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[shadowkat]

1. You ever wish that you could read the spoilers for your own life - as if you were a character in a book and if you could just leap a few chapters ahead and see if...Or hop in a magical blue police phone box and whiz ahead five years, see what's up, then whiz back again?

Probably a good idea that we can't do that right? Because...spoilers.
But somedays, like today, I sort of wish I could..make life less worrisome.

2. Peeked out of mild curiousity at Scott Allie's latest and somewhat inept attempt to comedically induce folks to read the S9 Buffy comics. Dude, I wanted to say, if S8 turned them off...it's highly unlikely they are going to stick around for s9. Actually, after I read his 10 reasons...I think he knows that and has given up on those of us who got turned off by s8 (which is admittedly a gross understatement) or are no longer interested (also an understatement) and is simply talking to the fans remaining (and yes, shocking, I know, S8 actually had fervent fans - there's at least 9 who will most likely stumble across this entry.) So I read the 10 reasons and I thought, hmmm - more like 10 reasons NOT to read the comics, well except for maybe reason #2 - Whedon writes S9. (Depending of course on how you feel about Whedon and how reliable you think Allie is. I'll spare you my feelings on both.).

3. Bret Easton Ellis is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his controversial 1980s satire of privileged metrosexual Wall Street/American white guys entitled American Psycho. Which, while humorous in places - there's a nifty chapter on consumerism and capitalism gone insane with all the branding, it also has to be the most sadistic and misogynist novel that I've ever read. If you are at all curious do yourselves a favor - skip the book and rent Lizzie Borden's Mary Harron's movie of the same name, starring Christian Bale.(ETA: I keep confusing Mary Harron with Lizzie Borden who directed Love Crimes, not sure why.) It's funnier and cuts out all the nasty bits.[ETA: Basically he's just a deranged ax murderer and not a graphic serial rapist and female genitilia mutilator like he is in the book - some men are just afraid of the female vagina or maybe they just want one?] A perfect example of where the movie adaptation is 100% better than it's source material. The fact that Easton Ellis saw the book as autobiographical in some respects and identified heavily with the lead character - makes me wonder about his attitude towards women. I'm guessing being the son (or is it step-son?) or Gloria Steinman did not have a positive effect? (ETA: Per the comments, I confused Ellis with Christian Bale who merely portrayed the lead role in the film - Steinman is Bale's stepmother. Ellis is a misogynistic pig all on his own. Apologies for the confusion.) (There's a sadistic/misogynistic scene in that book that I truly wish I did not remember and motivated me to get rid of it. This scene basically defines the words squick, sadism and misogyny. I think I gave it to a former friend who wasn't bugged by stuff like that. But I considered burning it.)

4. Am considering getting Feast of Crows and Dance of Dragons for Kindle - easier to read or rather easier to lug around. Although not sure why I insist on torturing myself. You have to be a bit of a masochinist to read these books folks, either that or a sadist. Martin does things to his characters that would give Stanley Kubrick a run for his money (forget Stephen King - King is actually sort of nice in comparison, so for that matter is Joss Whedon.) Talk about your violent karmic universes. Will state, that the tv series version of Game of Thrones is actually less violent than the books, and easier to watch, not to mention a lot more enjoyable and a lot less painful - so I have hope for future seasons. Then again, of the books? Game of Thrones was the cheeriest and lightest and least violent and gory.

Okay back to work. It's sort of slow today. Can't you tell?

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[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Lizzie Borden's movie of the same name

I think you mean Mary Harron. Lizzie Borden, like Patrick Bateman, was an alleged axe murderer. :) Personally I love the book, though I can understand why a lot of people find it disagreeable. I'd like to think it takes on a bit of a different flavour after BEE came out, but it's definitely a pretty nasty piece of work.

Whedon writes S9

Right now, yeah. Of course, then he'll be busy and farm it out to Allie as he did with Season 8, but they'll still print his name on every cover.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Okay...I'll tell you why I didn't like the book.

I was enjoying book up until a rather graphic rape sequence utilizing a starving rat and some blue cheese, at least I think it was blue cheese, (won't go into more detail than that because just thinking about it makes me cringe), after that...I decided Bret Easton Ellis was a sadistic creep, although I guess you could state that people thought the same way about Jonathan Swift after a Modest Proposal. But oddly that type of satire didn't bother me. Maybe because it wasn't possible, doesn't really happen, and clearly ludicrious. Wish I could say the same about the rat scene... ;-) At any rate, the movie improved on it - by cutting out those scenes and just having him be an ax murderer as opposed to a sadistic rapist/female genitalia mutilator and ax murderer. I don't know what Ellis has against the female anatomy, maybe it's reverse penis envy?

Believe it or not, Lizzie Borden is a movie director, (yes, some poor woman out there got that name - can you imagine what grade school must have been like?) a somewhat bad movie director. I'm confusing American Psycho's Mary Harron with Lizzie Borden the director of Love Crimes. Go here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102340/.

(Although in reality? Borden directed it. Hollywood hated her take. Because it was a mess. So Kit Carson re-wrote and re-directed it. Then it came back to Borden who edited out half of Kit Carson's scenes. LOL!)

Of course, then he'll be busy and farm it out to Allie as he did with Season 8, but they'll still print his name on every cover.

My thoughts exactly. I deleted a whole sentence where I state: "Yeah right, that's until Whedon finds something shinier and more lucrative to do. Then it will most like be Andrew Chamblis and Scott Allie. "

I do, however, find it rather interesting that Allie in all his interviews and marketing releases feels the need to remind everyone that Whedon is writing S9. It's all by Whedon. As if he thinks we've forgotten? Or maybe, that we don't believe him? Can't think why that would be the case...it's not as if he didn't say the same thing over and over about S8.

[infinitewhale.livejournal.com]

Well, there isn't a whole lot else to sell it with. The leads are trashed. I don't think many people are interested the domestic adventures of Xander and Dawn. Spuffy? LOL. Probably they're aware that the only reason people are reading it is Joss's name and that the people who quit during S8 aren't going to come back and the people who liked it aren't going to go away.

I am curious myself as to the early pushing, though. I wonder if fan response and pre-orders are low or something.