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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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I've been listening to the first track on this myspace page (Pink Panther theme as mambo w/sick trombone playing) all morning.

http://www.myspace.com/la33

Ooh. I like.

aw. kitties. :)

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

I'm having dinner at my mom's house that night, but if you're still hanging out past 9 or so, I might be able to make it.

I think high school kids have sex in cars & maybe parks more often than at parties although I know a number of girls who had sex at parties in high school too.

i had the good fortune to be a latch-key kid. :)

Evan's attitudes towards women in the movie were embarassingly close to my own in high school (and still now, to some extent).

I haven't seen the movie, but I can't imagine it would be any more graphic about teenage sex than, say, KIDS.

i had the good fortune to be a latch-key kid. :)

I wasn't, but my female "best friend" was. The majority of my initial sexual explorations occurred on a living-room couch at 4 PM.

xpost no no it's definitely not. It's just the Seth character is SOOOO foul-mouthed, to the point of his obscenity being a kind of poetic incantation against his terror of rejection by actual girls.

It wasn't that graphic, Lechera. It was just the idea that bothered me. I never saw KIDS.

I saw KIDS and thought, "these people remind me of people I knew in high school only they weren't in new york." So there's that.

Kids is meant to be disturbing, though, whereas Superbad is a lot closer to my relationships in high school, both on the male and female side of things. Kids had scenes of guys doing anything to have sex, whereas Superbad has scenes of guys who have no idea WHATSOEVER what to say or do around women.

Which is funny.

I liked it when McLovin tells the girl what time it is, out of nowhere.

I liked it the first time I saw it in the preview like a month ago. Not so much after seeing it like 800 times.

So it's about the sexual foibles of nice boys? Hm. Interesting. I really haven't seen the movie so I have nothing to say about it other than I have no idea who/what a McLovin is.

I hate it when you can tell when a joke from the preview is coming up in the movie, because people always laugh louder at jokes that were in the preview, but it's like a forced laugh, because everyone knows what's going to happen.

I didn't see that in the preview, Nick.

I did notice a couple lines that were in the preview but NOT in the movie, though.

Totally, N.

I don't know if you could say his best buddy is a "nice boy," though he's definitely virginal. He's completely foul-mouthed and obsessed with drawing penises and watching porn.

I guess I should see this now, although a) the thing I said earlier about not liking to watch mainstream comedies in the theater still holds, and b) I'm not sure I can convince Kr to see it (she's mostly interested in documentaries these days).

I never saw the preview.

I knew I was going to love the movie when Seth was explaining how hiss sexual career peaked too early, and Evan says, "You're like Orson Welles."

I was pretty well sheltered from the KIDS-like kids. I had friends who had sex with their boyfriends, but felt sorry for them, thinking they had been tricked into doing something against their better judgement. Then again, most of the kids I knew having sex were also getting pregnant and dropping out of school before 9th grade, which was definitely a deterrant. It was part of the world of rural white trash. You had sex > you got pregnant. You partied > you were involved in that year's horrible drunk driving incident.

I think I just hung out with too many sheltered weirdos and nerds to know too many people who were having sex.

You had sex > you got pregnant.

this is true. Having sex is indeed better than getting pregnant.

:)

Ha ha.
I guess I just mean to say that our sex ed classes were not very informative in the way they should have been.

Also, you can add to that equation the lack of abortion as a possibility in the world of rural conservative politics.

But whatevs. I don't feel like thinking about teen promiscuity any more today.