Broccoli would be better if it were made of meat and slathered with BBQ sauce

[vovat]

bethje and I watched Trainspotting last night. She'd seen it before, but I hadn't. I'm not sure what I thought of it, because it wasn't much like any other movie I've seen. I will say that Scottish accents seem to be custom-made for being pissed off. I guess Belle and Sebastian prove that you can use that accent without sounding that way, though. {g} Oh, also, isn't the age of consent in the United Kingdom 16 or something? So just how young was that underage girl supposed to be?

On a mailing list I'm on, someone posted links to two reviews of a pre-release screening of the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie. I always find it a little odd when someone complains that people who haven't read the books won't get the movies, I guess because I expect pretty much everyone who's watching the movies to have read the books. I'm sure there are exceptions, like when a non-book-reader is dragged to the movie by someone who IS a book fan, or (as in the case of the people who posted these reviews) if they don't actually know what they're seeing ahead of time. I don't think reading a book should always be a prerequisite to seeing a film based on it. Hell, I've seen two movies in the past week that are based on books I haven't read and probably never will read. Harry Potter kind of strikes me a special case, but maybe that's just because most people I know have either read the books before seeing the movies, or else are uninterested in the whole thing and haven't done either. I guess my point is that I don't think a movie that assumes knowledge of the book is a bad thing, although maybe it should be advertised as such.

Have I already talked about how ridiculous it is when people make a huge deal out of borders and immigration? I mean, aren't all these borders pretty arbitrarily defined in the first place? I'm certainly not saying that anyone should be allowed into any country at any time, but I have to wonder about people thinking more restrictions on immigration and border crossing would result in a significant reduction in terrorist activity. Yes, if someone is actually trying to bring bombs across a national border, or has a known criminal record, that's one thing. But don't most terrorists (and other criminals, for that matter) manage to perpetrate their horrific actions by NOT arousing suspicion? I have a disturbing feeling that a lot of the people who want tighter restrictions on immigration actually want what amounts to racial profiling.

Finally, I saw this in rockinlibrarian's journal, and I might as well go ahead and try it, even though I'm sure I won't be able to come up with answers for many of them (and that's assuming anyone will even reply).

1. Reply with your name and I will write something about you.
2. I will then tell what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. If you were a fruit you'd be...
4. I will say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I will tell you my first memory of you.
6. I will tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. Put this in your journal.

Comments

w00t

[obsessical.livejournal.com]

I love things like these :)

Ren

Re: w00t

[vovat.livejournal.com]

1. I think you might be the youngest person on my friends list, although I'm not totally sure.
2. Some of the stuff from Here Come the ABCs
3. Oh, I don't know. Some kind of apple? I really don't have any reason for that choice, though.
4. I can't think of anything.
5. Well, I remember seeing your posts to the tmbg community.
6. A sheep, because you always take these memes from me. {g}
7. How did you first get into TMBG?

Re: w00t

[obsessical.livejournal.com]

Re: 6 - It's true. I'm just a sad, sad meme whore. Can't get enough. Kinda like heroin.

and Re: 7 - My aunt gave me Flood when I was young and impressionable in the second grade, before she moved to Texas. I used to listen to it over and over again, and make little hand motions to go along with We Want A Rock (which was my favorite song for the longest time). It was awesome because my friends liked the Tiny Toons videos, and I was all "Pshaw. I know that song." And I bought DAS and No! and The Spine when they came out (because i really had no clue the band had done anything else. the last band my aunt had gotten me into was trout fishing in america, and they're fairly novelty-esque), and it wasn't until I saw them do Experimental Film on Conan that I realized there were two Johns and they were good lookin'.

Re: w00t

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Heh, they used to (and maybe still do) play Trout Fishing in America a lot on the kids' show on WXPN. That was actually the first place I heard "Birdhouse In Your Soul," the first TMBG song I really liked. I think I'd heard "Particle Man" and "Istanbul" before that, but they didn't really thrill me.