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I'm kinda surprised by all the raving over Superbad after watching it last night. Don't get me wrong, there were some very very funny moments (the movie could have pretty much revolved entirely around McLovin and the cops and I'd have been happy), but it just wasn't overly satisfying. I think my problem was that none of the main characters were likable enough to really give a shit about them. Seth was just a misogynistic asshole with hardly any redeeming qualites and Evan was horrifically underdeveloped. And I thought the female characters were treated even worse, nothing more than drunken sluts (except for the girl throwing the party obvs). I know I'm reading a lot into a summer comedy, but some of it just rubbed me the wrong way.

Also, parents of the year candidates at our showing. I know you really wanted to see the movie, but was it really neccessary to bring three kids, all under ten, with you? Do theaters even try to enforce this shit anymore?

I was a little underwhelmed too. I laughed a lot, but it wasn't really as complete a movie as 40-Year-Old Virgin or Knocked Up. Most of the laughs weren't really the result of the script or the jokes but were because of the reactions and the high standard of comedic acting - Michael Cera still kicks ass. I thought Seth Rogan and Bill Heder stole the movie as the incompetent cops.

I'm listening to this bootleg of one of Daft Punk's recent sets, and it's pretty awesome because it was clearly recorded from the audience. You can hear the music but it's in the background, and there's one guy standing near the mic saying things like "oh god" and "oh man, Daniel, here it comes" during the climactic build-ups. Plus lots of "woooooo!"s and cheering.

I'm not sure what there is to enforce - I think as long as a parent is there, it doesn't matter how young the kid is? I could be wrong.

My fave line of Superbad: "We should be guiding his cock, not blocking it."

Also: "Spin class ... farmer's market ... pumpkin patch."

I suppose thats true, they can't really do anything.

I liked the Boyz N Tha Hood tribute when McLovin shot up the cop car.

I still find recorded jazz tunes unlistenable

What about New Orleans jazz?

I mean real major, like staring along side Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. Love interest of Jessica Biel.

Hey, I'm in chicago this weekend. Anyone want to drink a beer on sunday?

ok

maybe

Jordan--

I need the atmosphere, otherwise it's boring. Or I guess it could be good background music while eating out.

I'd have all these beers, but I'm going to be out of town this weekend.

I could have a beerz. Mondays are my new Sundays! (I work Tues-Sat)

ed, i just emailed you.

sigh, i've been listed with new 0ffice for a week and a half, and no work yet. i even got up today to call in to get something:"you're like 95% guaranteed to get an on-the-spot job if you call on a monday or friday!" they said.

That is no good. I know what it feels like, too. I fear having to temp ever again.

EZ, i'm not sure about that NYT article. it just seems to be a bit pretentious to call racism for thinking he's a bit nuts when he's claimed that he has aliens in his head. which, you know, maybe he does, but that does sound a little nuts to me.

otm... I'm not convinced that he's as in on the joke as that writer thinks. I have no trouble believing that r kelly is honestly a little bit nuts. I furtherr think it's perfectly ok to laugh at his dumb, pee-fetish mess.

hottest love jam ever:

It's like a jungle atmosphere
And we're two monkeys baby
It's like we're on a vine
The way we're swinging it baby
See, you're a tiger girl
The way you're scratching me
I'm a lion
In this jungle I'm a king
Girl, I got you so wet
It's like a rain forest
Like Jurassic Park
Except I'm your sex-a-saurus baby
You and me hopping
Like two kangaroos
Rattling and moaning
Out here in these woods

i mean, wasn't one of his big defenses in his rape trial that it wasn't him, it was his 'evil twin'? i know i read that somewhere, but can't remember where.

half monkey-lion, half sexasaurus kangaroo man

R. and Kool Keith/Doc Oc/whoever need to collaborate if they haven't yet.

also, one of the allegations in the rape trail is that he would lure underage girls two at a time to have three-ways. So it's only natural that he call his latest album "Double Up," right? Because that's not totally sketchy or anything.

hmm no email colette.

d@li (at) z3r0int3grity dot c0 dot uk

Mornin'.

Some thoughts:
I loved Knocked Up. I enjoyed Superbad alot while I was watching, though I didn't love it as much as Knocked Up. However, afterwards I had this weird emotional pang, brought on partially I think by my religious upbringing and partially by this overwhelming fear that kids might really be like those in the movie. I realize it is just a movie, along the lines of American Pie or Can't Hardly Wait (both of which I enjoyed), but the idea that teenagers might be having sex at parties... well, it disturbs me. This is, like I said, obviously a result of my prudishness and generally judgemental/puritanical attitude when it comes to alot of things. Then I started back into my huge fear that my kids won't be as goody-two-shes as I was, and wondered if I should ever have kids. THEN I remembered this is just a silly summer comedy and I should get over myself. Then I decided I liked it after all and was being dumb.

Goody-two-shes. ha

I think high school kids who have sex at parties are the product of some shaky parenting. They don't ALL do it. Like, the Michael Cera character can't go through with it... he was raised better than that.

I think it's to the movie's great credit that it inspires you to think about it, instead of just get some cheap gross-out laughs and go on about your day.

I liked Cera's character alot. Also, I really liked Emma Stone's character. She seemed really genuine. OTOH, how the hell could she really like Seth?

I just read the Ebert review, which made me like the movie more. He had a good point in saying that the only reason the kids are so vulgar about sex is that they don't really know anything about it.

Which makes their vulgarity kind of sweet.

See, originally thought that the Seth character was just such a dick to his friends through the whole movie that it was really hard to buy his change of heart, but the more I think about it... my friends in high school were all dicks too.

goody-two-shes

R. Kelly lyric in the making.

originally *I* thought

I would have preferred it if Evan ended up with Jules. They seemed like a better match. Seth could have Becca and they could be sexually confused together.

Please to link that, nickums.

Oh and BY THE WAY, now my mom is asking if we could keep her two cats in a dog crate on our patio for a few months??!!!

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070816/REVIEWS/70817001

SARAH NO

Does your mom not understand Chicago weather in November/December?

that is a weird request

Sarah's mom is moving to Omaha and will be in temporary housing that does not allow pets for awhile, is my understanding of the situation.

Yeah. She wanted us to just take the cats for a while, but I said we couldn't house two more kitties (especially the one with the horrible bladder problem). She's grabbing at straws now.

Oh and she will be passing through Chicago today at some point with those kitties, so I should call her and tell her not to leave them at our place. She even suggested they just stay in the back yard and we keep the fence locked. ha

SARAH PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR MOM ISN'T LEAVING THE CATS AT OUR HOUSE. Call her if you need to.

I should just keep them at my desk at work, right? That's a good solution.

Oh, I'll make sure.

http://catsinboxes.com/

Ali
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