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Hmmmm. It seems that Dave Eggers is the screenwriter for an upcoming Spike Jonze–directed adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. I'm very dubious about this.

Saturday I went to Birmingham to get a new monitor, and while I was over there, I went to see Little Miss Sunshine. I'd heard good things about it, but for some reason I was prepared not to like it—maybe because Greg Kinnear is in it. I dunno. But anyway, I ended up loving it. Smart, funny, and touching. Alan Arkin rules, and even Kinnear is good.

I'm going to start taking squirt guns to the movies with me so I can douse annoying people. There was a gang of aged flicktards who laughed uproariously at every other line in that movie. I mean, it was a funny movie, but not a laugh-a-minute yukfest—but these fools were like a Brady Bunch laugh track.

I've seen twenty fucking movies in the theater this year. I mean, not FUCKING movies, but, yanno, movies.

Do they even have adult cinemas anymore? That's gotta be a weird scene. I remember there being a XXX drive-in just outside the city limits of Starkville when I was growing up. It was funny as hell because it was owned by the same people who ran the straight theaters in town, so when you called their line to see what was playing, you'd get listings for all the movies at all their theaters. They had this cat with a raspy voice, and you'd hear: "Now playing at the State Theater, E.T. . . . Now playing at the Lakeside Drive-In, a big double feature: Young and Wet and Honeythroat."

Did I ever show y'all my MSU alumni coffee mug? Methinks they coulda used a proofreader.

Date: 2006-09-25 04:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmaofoz.livejournal.com
Is that mug really missing a P?

Date: 2006-09-25 04:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wickedflea.livejournal.com
You betcha! I'm beaming with school spirit.

Date: 2006-09-25 04:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mipplet.livejournal.com
That mug is hilarious.

Date: 2006-09-25 04:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wickedflea.livejournal.com
I know! Live up to stereotypes much?

Date: 2006-09-25 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wretchmuffin.livejournal.com
Is the mug certified irony free? For reals?

Date: 2006-09-25 04:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wickedflea.livejournal.com
I shit you not!

Date: 2006-09-25 05:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sweetterrig.livejournal.com
ahhh... they just ran out of room. That is a long ass name to put on a mug.

They thought that they would just cut out a P and no one would notice.

Date: 2006-09-25 06:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wickedflea.livejournal.com
It could well be! :) Hell, most Mississippians even cut out a syllable when they say the name: "Missippi."

Date: 2006-09-25 05:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buscemi.livejournal.com
"I need a spellcheck on this mug, please!"

Did you ever see that PBS documentary on drive-ins? They talked about some X-rated drive-in that people could see for free if they looked over the fence. Heh.

Date: 2006-09-25 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wickedflea.livejournal.com
Haha! Never saw that. I think you probably could have seen the screen at Lakeside from the highway, now that I think of it.

Date: 2006-09-25 07:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buscemi.livejournal.com
It was a pretty entertaining film. Joe Bob Briggs was in it. One of my favorite moments was a guy talking about going to a drive-in in Alaska. There was ice on his popcorn and his Coke was frozen solid! Ack.

Date: 2006-09-25 05:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alicdeni83.livejournal.com
Kinnear was good because his character was a fuck up we were supposed to hate. It worked out well for him. I still can't think about ice cream the same.

As I've said before, I loved the movie. It did so many things right.

Unlike the people who made that cup. Was it free?

Date: 2006-09-25 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wickedflea.livejournal.com
Hell naw, it warn't free! Those bastards at the Campus Book Mart charged $5.98 or something for it.

Yeah, I totally agree about LMS. So good!

Date: 2006-09-25 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lulu-girl.livejournal.com
HAHAHAHA!
Love that mug. LOVE IT.

Date: 2006-09-25 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shlorp.livejournal.com
I hope you haven't seen all 20 by yourself. Don't be like me.

I've always wanted to do something dirty in an adult movie theater. Mainly because I'm a disgusting whore.

Date: 2006-09-25 07:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wickedflea.livejournal.com
Most of 'em. Please don't remind me how sad I am. :(

That'd be pretty fun to get busy in an adult theater. Do you think the ushers would make you stop? Like, is that part of the job description? "Take tickets. Clean theater after showings. Stop patrons from fucking."

Date: 2006-09-25 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shlorp.livejournal.com
I don't think so. I mean, they don't stop dudes from jerking off, so why would they stop them if they had a receptacle right there? It saves them mopping up later.

Damn I'm gross.

Date: 2006-09-25 08:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wickedflea.livejournal.com
They stopped Pee-Wee! Or maybe they didn't. I never heard whether he got to finish.

"Also, ushers must instruct female patrons to swallow or incur a $3 jizzmopping fee."

Date: 2006-09-25 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jdawgspi.livejournal.com
I heart Dave Eggers. If that works out, kick ass.
Your alumni mug reminds me of my senior high school yearbook. It's emblazoned with "Looking Foward" on the front cover. I'll cherish it forever.

Date: 2006-09-25 09:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wickedflea.livejournal.com
I'm kinda ehhhh on Dave Eggers. I didn't even finish Staggering Genius. He'd better not fuck this up, or I'll tear his gonads out!

Date: 2006-09-25 09:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jdawgspi.livejournal.com
I actually liked, but did not love AHWOSG. His other book is much better. And he also adapted that one into a stage play, which I saw in San Francisco and was so good I almost cried. (The play was called "Sacrament!" - but the book had a different title...can't remember just what at the moment. Anyway, better than AHWOSG. If you get the urge to give DE another chance, I recommend. But also totally agree with you about the gonads.)

Date: 2006-09-25 09:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wickedflea.livejournal.com
I am the html fuckin' MASTAH.

Date: 2006-09-26 01:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carocrow.livejournal.com
Did they never hear "M-I-crookedletter-crookedletter-I-crookedletter-crookedletter-I-humpback-humpback-I"?
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