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slipjig3I recall trying this once before years ago, and the results were...well, "fascinating" is probably the safest word to use here. Let's blow the dust off the cardboard box and see what we unpack, shall we?
The Heretics' Confessional
In a comment, confess your heresies against the common pop cultural belief system. All sins thus confessed may be made freely and openly, and all shall be forgiven, no questions asked. Commentary, discussion and even contrary positions are permitted, but play nice: flaming, trolling or other nastiness shall bring the Wrath of Blog upon thy pate like a hundredweight of roofing tiles. Management reserves the right to close up shop at any time.
I'll begin. *deep breath*
* I found Midnight in Paris to be a load of self-important, self-indulgent twaddle.
* Leonard Cohen, more often than not, will send me shrieking from the room, ears clamped beneath terrified hands. Especially "Suzanne." (See also my reaction to Joy Division.)
* The Last Action Hero had me rolling with laughter. Rolling, I say.
* Not Roth. Not Hagar. Cherone. I'm serious.
* I greet any and all discussions of current and semi-current video games with bored uncomprehending stares.
* I am slowly coming to the opinion that Cameron Crowe might very well be the greatest American director of the last thirty years.
* If coffee vanished from the earth tomorrow, I doubt I'd even blink.
* Any question or opinion that includes both "Marvel" and "D.C." is a question or opinion that I couldn't possibly care less about.
* The fact that the Monkees and Jethro Tull aren't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame makes me want to call the whole operation a sham.
Your turn.
The Heretics' Confessional
In a comment, confess your heresies against the common pop cultural belief system. All sins thus confessed may be made freely and openly, and all shall be forgiven, no questions asked. Commentary, discussion and even contrary positions are permitted, but play nice: flaming, trolling or other nastiness shall bring the Wrath of Blog upon thy pate like a hundredweight of roofing tiles. Management reserves the right to close up shop at any time.
I'll begin. *deep breath*
* I found Midnight in Paris to be a load of self-important, self-indulgent twaddle.
* Leonard Cohen, more often than not, will send me shrieking from the room, ears clamped beneath terrified hands. Especially "Suzanne." (See also my reaction to Joy Division.)
* The Last Action Hero had me rolling with laughter. Rolling, I say.
* Not Roth. Not Hagar. Cherone. I'm serious.
* I greet any and all discussions of current and semi-current video games with bored uncomprehending stares.
* I am slowly coming to the opinion that Cameron Crowe might very well be the greatest American director of the last thirty years.
* If coffee vanished from the earth tomorrow, I doubt I'd even blink.
* Any question or opinion that includes both "Marvel" and "D.C." is a question or opinion that I couldn't possibly care less about.
* The fact that the Monkees and Jethro Tull aren't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame makes me want to call the whole operation a sham.
Your turn.
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(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 05:59 pm (UTC)Obviously, I'm not with you on the coffee question. And I suspect you'd damned well blink, if only from your fiancée's reaction.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 08:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 06:18 pm (UTC)- The only thing I like less than the Peter Jackson Lord of the Ring movies are the J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings books (and related works like The Silmarillion)
- There is not enough money in the world to ever get me to play Titan again.
- I consider Paul W.S. Anderson to be vastly superior to Paul Thomas Anderson in every way.
- Snake Eyes? You know, Brian De Palma directing Nick Cage? One of my favorite of BDP's movies.
- My love of Night Ranger and Loverboy is completely non-ironic.
- Even at its best, Strangers in Paradise was ludicrously self-indulgent, and would have benefited from an editor.
- Other than the current run of Action Comics, I don't think anything Grant Morrison's written in the last ten years has been worth reading even once. And that includes all of his Batman work and Supergods.
- As long as we're talking about the Rock and RollN Hall of Fame, the lack of KISS is a shame.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 07:14 pm (UTC)And why the @%#$ isn't KISS in the Hall of Fame?
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 08:04 pm (UTC)The single take at the beginning? Masterful.
Giving the game away and doing generic "catch the bad guy" things halfway through? Sad.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-31 03:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 07:08 pm (UTC)I still think that Justin Bieber is a 12year old girl. The fact I know his name despite not listening to his/her "music" is rather disturbing on my part.
I have never cared about "keeping up" the Kardashians. When they do something worth noting, I may take a passing interest.
I'm rather fascinated by Twilight. I've no intention of ever reading the "books" or seeing the "movies," but the fact the whole thing is so pervasive for no good reason whatsoever is fascinating. In the whole, oooh, accident by the side of the road kind of way.
I am so stealing this in putting it up on my LJ. Just because.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 07:14 pm (UTC)Muddle of PuddPuddle of Mudd.- I want to punch Diablo Cody until my elbow dislocates. Once for every shitty little self-indulgent neologism or cutesy youth-culture bon mot. Or maybe have Catherine Breillat do it.
- Fincher fucked up Dragon Tattoo, ultimately. Two egregious examples available.
- I'd rather pass a stone than read Michael Chabon. And any Neal Stephenson book after Snow Crash is like listening to a dementia patient after an eight ball.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 07:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 09:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-31 01:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 07:47 pm (UTC)Yes, that translates to "I don't like star wars".
Also wouldn't blink if coffee stopped existing.
I consume so little pop culture that I honestly have no idea what else could go here.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 10:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 10:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-31 01:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-31 01:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 07:54 pm (UTC)These first, I am willing to admit could be part of my personality and brain makeup:
*I think most board games (esp German) are extremely dull and aggravating. I will, however, play Give Me The Brain for hours.
*I extremely dislike Fluxx and related games because the aesthetic and attitudes just annoy the eff out of me.
*Math/Logic/Solve a thing/Find a thing puzzles make me bored and frustrated-I can see how they could be cool for people who like them but so not my bag (this could also be a brain thing or a personality thing which could overlap with the game stuff ).
* I love Southern US cooking and keep bacon grease handy.
* I love Los Angeles. There, I said it. LOVE.
* Alan Moore is still an effing genius.
* I don't read online feminist blogs and do not want to.
* I love makeup and fashion-even mainstream.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 09:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 09:09 pm (UTC)* I have not liked a single thing written by Terry Pratchet.
* Thought Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and its whole series was the most horrid thing I have ever read.
* I am "meh" about the Rolling Stones and the Beatles.
* I don't care for Jonathan Coulton.
* Like another person already, I too love make-up and fashion.
* I don't go to Arisia for the panels, I find them mostly pretentious. I go for the socialization with friends.
* I do not get filk. At all.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 09:24 pm (UTC)- I don't get James Joyce.
- Literary criticism is basically mental wankery.
- I like my gefilte fish plain.
- I like my bagels with either butter or strawberry cream cheese - regular cream cheese is not my thing.
- If Richard Dawkins is Darwin's Rottweiler, then the late Christopher Hitchens was Darwin's Chihuahua, in that he barked a lot and pissed all over everything.
- I like Eurotrash dance music un-ironically.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-30 10:10 pm (UTC)2. I judge Goth children on whether they know any Bauaus beside Bella Lugosi's Dead, and any Shriekback besides Nemesis.
3. I'm not a great fan of Neil Gaiman's novels. He's far better at short stories -- his novels never quite stick the ending as well as he ought to do.
4. All I really know about Batman comes from the movies -- either Nolan, or Burton, whichever. I have never read any of the books, nor am I likely to.
5. I will never forgive Keanau Reeves for Hellblazer. Never.
6. I wouldn't watch MTV today even if it suddenly went back to its 80's format, and showed only music videos -- I like music a little better when I DON'T know how the singer looks in too much makeup and stripper shoes.
7. I don't see Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson movies anymore. Neither of them has made a movie I've felt like paying for in over a decade, and that's without even considering their rather hinky public personae.
8. I still think Aliens was the best movie James Cameron has ever made.
9. I'm glad Peter Jackson cut the Harrowing of the Shire out. I never liked it in the first place, and I'd have left the theatre rather than sit through it.
10. If I see one more ad for one more movie based on one more 80's cartoon or toy franchise, I swear, I will run mad and commence to smite all of Hollywood smartly behind the ear with frozen mackerels.
11. I really do not care about Lady Gaga. At all.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-31 03:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-31 03:49 am (UTC)See? Nothing huge. But it was fun playing. (And, selfishly, I'm glad that so far this entry has not descended into politics. I got annoyed when the previous post did that. Yes, I still remember.)
Finally, my deepest darkest one:
Date: 2012-01-31 08:12 pm (UTC)I love green bean casserole. The one on the fried onions box. Yum.
I don't like Cory Doctrow's writing, blog or persona.
and now the shockingest:
I don't like Readercon.
Thank you, I feel free again!:)
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-31 09:04 pm (UTC)Amy Winehouse is (was) overrated.
I hate when people use "non/un-ironically." What does that even MEAN?!?!
(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-01 03:03 pm (UTC)- To all the guys who wear their pants at or below the hips: you look like a douchebag.
- I actually like carob.
- I really can't stand when people use "impact" as a synonym for "affect." It just seems WRONG to me.
- It also looks wrong when there is no Oxford Comma.
- I don't understand how women can use diaphragms and menstrual cups. They just don't seem like they'd even work.
....and I'll toss one in for my husband:
If someone has one of those "soul patches" and/or a shaved head, he instantly hates them.