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This week, in honor of the Olympics, I bring you the inimitable Eddie Izzard describing the (highly amenable) course of the Olympic games if everyone competed, well, stoned.
multimedia monday: stoned olympics
15 Monday Feb 2010
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in leiu of part four, we bring you men in kilts!
13 Saturday Feb 2010
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So it’s been one of those weeks where every day seems to run from about six am to midnight without a lot of time to stop and pause for breath. Let alonge movie quote blogging. So Hanna and (much more tangentially) I are taking a pass this weekend on the final installment of the movie quotes post.
If you are absolutely positively dying to read lists of things related to film and our commentary about them, then you can enjoy last years’ list of twenty-nine of our favorite romantic movies.
Meanwhile, we were sucked into watching the latter half of the opening ceremony of the Olympics last night and were completely won over by these guys (and gals)
Who played fiddles, had GREAT body art, and did step dancing in doc martens to boot
And in case you happened to miss the show, here’s the answer to the mystery of who was going to carry the torch on its final leg to the stadium.
Enjoy the long weekend, sports (if you like that kind of thing) and movies (if you enjoy that). See you back here next Saturday for the concluding installment of “don’t ever link those two things again…”
*image credits: Winter Olympics – Opening Ceremony and 95658513PB085_Olympics_Open @ Flickr.com.
multimedia monday: "i can download protection for up to a thousand periods!"
08 Monday Feb 2010
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TECH UPDATE: Reader Saskia Tielens alerted me to the fact that this video is marked “private” and will not play as an embed. I will try to locate a usable video! ~A.
Further tech update: Finally had a chance to find a YouTube version that wasn’t private. The embed should work now ~A.
After Apple announced that it’s latest gadget was going to be named the iPad, a number of my feminist blogs pointed out that “tablet computer” was not the first thing that came to mind when they heard the word. Turns out (hat tip to my friend Rachel for the video link) that MadTV was ahead of them.
I’ve seen critiques of the iPad/period jokes based on the fact that they’re predicated on the idea that periods (and by implication the working of women’s bodies) are gross and icky . . . and Hanna contends the joke is just a “groaner.” Personally, while I recognize the validity of both of these criticisms, I also think the MadTV video is making fun of the cheeriness of menstruation product and Apple product marketing than passing judgment on the inherent value of either.
"don’t ever link those two things again…" (3 of 4)
06 Saturday Feb 2010
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guest post by Hanna, cross-posted at …fly over me, evil angel… if you missed the first two, read installment one and installment two.
a quick review from last week saturday: in the spirit of “don’t complain about something if you’re not prepared to do it better,” i noticed over the past couple of weeks two lists — one from wired and one from a blog i know not of called ink-stained amazon which i have to say is beautiful to look at it — that both purport to be ‘essential lists’ of ‘geek culture’ quotes.
ahem.
okay, so the wired list starts off with monty python and the holy grail and the amazon list includes the sarah jane adventures — but i’m still not wildly impressed with either one.
i figured i could do better.
then i thought about it and realised that, on my own, i didn’t have the time to do better so i roped in my ever-patient girlfriend to help me do better. 🙂
first off, a couple of notes:
1. this is for fun. if you’re not amused, go read something else. i won’t be offended, promise. that being said, suggestions and additions (politely phrased!) are welcome in the comments. but keep in mind this is installation 1 of 4! not everything will fit in here.
2. these are probably mostly going to be dredged out of my memory, anna’s memory, imdb, or official show/movie sites. inaccuracy is, therefore, almost inevitable. not to mention repetition of shows or characters. if this annoys you– well, make your own list. 🙂
3. i’m not aiming for some kind of “worst to best” or “best to worst” list. they’re here because the two people making the list think they’re fun or because one of us was able to strong-arm the other into including them. brief context is provided where anna or i thought it was necessary.
5. i am aiming for 4 posts of 25 quotes each over the next 4 weeks. tune in each friday/saturday for your new installment! and here’s the link to the first post and to the second…
okay, and that being said…
1. Madame Klara Goteborg: “I may have been a distraction to men — never a burden!” Journey to the Center of the Earth.
2. The Doctor: “What’s wrong with this jumper?!” Doctor Who, several episodes from Christopher Eccleston’s sole (bastard) season.
3. Eddie Izzard: “I grew up in Europe…where the history comes from.” Dress to Kill.
4. Pennywise: “Everything floats down here.” It.
5. Ianto Jones: “Lots of things you can do with a stopwatch.” Torchwood, “They Keep Killing Suzie.”
6. Peasant: “Help! Help! I’m being oppressed!” Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
7. Nanami Kiryuu: “Oneeeee-samaaaaaaaaaaa….” Shoujo Kakumei Utena, more episodes than I like to remember.
8. Jake of New York: “Go, then. There are other worlds than these.” The Gunslinger.
9. Bernard Woolley: “It used to be said that there were two types of chairs for two types of ministers. One sort folded up instantly; the other went round and round in circles.” Yes, Minister, “Election Night.”
10. Dave Lister: “Look out, Earth! The slime’s comin’ home!” Red Dwarf, “The End.”
11. Sarah: “You have no power over me.” Labyrinth.
12. The Ood: “Your song is coming to an end.” Doctor Who, “The Planet of the Ood.”
13. Sally: “I feel there’s something in the wind / That feels like tragedy’s at hand…” The Nightmare Before Christmas.
14. Tom Servo: “If you get near a song, play it!” Mystery Science Theatre 3000, “Mr. B Natural.”
15. Jeff Slater: “We’re entering a weird area, here.” Tootsie.
16. Bernadette: “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — no more fuckin’ Abba!” Priscilla: Queen of the Desert.
17. Leia Organa: “Aren’t you a little short for a stormtrooper?” Star Wars: A New Hope.
18. Don Logan: “You’ve got lovely eyes, Deedee. They real?” Sexy Beast.
19. Mau: “Does not happen!” Nation.
20. Granny Weatherwax: “I can’t be havin’ with this.” More or less any of the Witches books in the Discworld series: Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, etc.
21. Kyle Broflowski: “I learned something today…” Any episode of South Park between the 1st and 8th seasons…’cause that’s as far as I’ve seen!
22. Ray: “One gay beer for my gay friend and one normal beer for me ’cause I’m normal.” In Bruges.
23. The It Man: “It’s….” Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
24. Captain Jack Harkness: “Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, ‘That could be more sonic?'” Doctor Who, “The Empty Child.”
25. Sullah and Indiana Jones: “What are you going to do?” “I don’t know — I’m makin’ this up as I go.” Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
multimedia monday: 9
01 Monday Feb 2010
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As the semester gets underway, I’ve been trying to find ways to organize the links I’d like to share here on the blog and also write smaller posts so the blog stays fresh but I don’t begin to feel burdened by commentary. So in addition to the Sunday Smut list, I’m adding a “multimedia monday” weekly feature that’s going to highlight one of the online audio or video links I’ve listened to or watched during the previous week.
To start us off, then, here’s the trailer for the film 9, which was released last fall and which Hanna and I finally had a chance to watch this past Friday.
I really don’t understand how this film got so little press when it came out, since (along with Coraline) it’s easily the most magical bit of animation I’ve seen since Wall-E. Darker, perhaps. It certainly doesn’t end on a cheerful note. But visually, it’s a glorious piece of imagined reality: from the moment the story opens, you’re sucked into the world of these small created beings who are all of the (humanity? well, we aren’t quite sure) that is left on a post-apocalyptic world after the humans have destroyed themselves. All that’s left, that is, except for malevolent machines.
The only real flaw, I thought, in the film, was its ending, which was surprisingly pat given the inventiveness of the rest of the story (and the storytelling team that’s behind it). The surviving beings are left to make of the world what they will, hopefully doing a better job than those who came before. It’s not a bad message, just a little . . . simplistic? unreflective? I’m not sure. I was not left satisfied. It shoehorned in a sort of adam-and-eve theme that explained the need for the one female voice actor in film otherwise full of male voices — not that I opposed having a female character: I was kinda waiting for one to show up. But I also object to specifically creating one so that the end of the film contains the possibility of some sort of hetero reproductive model of future civilization. Personally? I’d put my money with the librarians.
That small critique aside, it was a gloriously realized world with great heroes and villains, and I heartily recommend it to y’all. Best wishes for the week ahead.
"don’t ever link those two things again…" (2 of 4)
30 Saturday Jan 2010
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guest post by Hanna, cross-posted at …fly over me, evil angel… if you haven’t already, you can see part one from last saturday.
a quick review from last week saturday: in the spirit of “don’t complain about something if you’re not prepared to do it better,” i noticed over the past couple of weeks two lists — one from wired and one from a blog i know not of called ink-stained amazon which i have to say is beautiful to look at it — that both purport to be ‘essential lists’ of ‘geek culture’ quotes.
ahem.
okay, so the wired list starts off with monty python and the holy grail and the amazon list includes the sarah jane adventures — but i’m still not wildly impressed with either one.
i figured i could do better.
then i thought about it and realised that, on my own, i didn’t have the time to do better so i roped in my ever-patient girlfriend to help me do better. 🙂
first off, a couple of notes:
1. this is for fun. if you’re not amused, go read something else. i won’t be offended, promise. that being said, suggestions and additions (politely phrased!) are welcome in the comments. but keep in mind this is installation 1 of 4! not everything will fit in here.
2. these are probably mostly going to be dredged out of my memory, anna’s memory, imdb, or official show/movie sites. inaccuracy is, therefore, almost inevitable. not to mention repetition of shows or characters. if this annoys you– well, make your own list. 🙂
3. i’m not aiming for some kind of “worst to best” or “best to worst” list. they’re here because the two people making the list think they’re fun or because one of us was able to strong-arm the other into including them. brief context is provided where anna or i thought it was necessary.
5. i am aiming for 4 posts of 25 quotes each over the next 4 weeks. tune in each friday/saturday for your new installment! and here’s the link to the first post way back there last week saturday. or sunday. or something.
okay, and that being said…
1. Evelyn Carnahan: “I — am a librarian!” The Mummy.
2. Stormtrooper: “Look, sir — droids!” Star Wars: A New Hope. [and a freebie ’cause i always think of it now when i have to find the sw movies by number — Eddie Izzard [re the Lucasian number scheme]: “He’s fucking with us numerically, you realise that, right? ‘Kids, count to 10!’ ‘4 5 6, 1 2 3, — uh –‘” Circle.]
3. Luke Smith: “I think I may have made a social blunder. I showed them how to destroy the world.” The Sarah Jane Adventures, “Revenge of the Slitheen.”
4. The Doctor: “Because I’m very clever.” , “Midnight.”
5. Dutch [to the Predator]: “You are one ugly mother-fu—” Predator.
6. Ellen Ripley: “This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.” ALIEN.
7. Red Queen: “You’re all going to die down here.” Resident Evil.
8. Mercedes[to Captain Vidal about his infant son]: “No. He won’t even know your name.” Pan’s Labyrinth.
9. Captain Jack Sparrow [to Kraken]: “‘Ello, beastie.” Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.
10. Eddie Izzard [re: the British Empire]: “We ruled the world through the cunning use of flags.” Dress to Kill.
11. John McClane: “Yippee-kay-yay, motherfucker.” DieHard.
12. Malcolm Reynolds: “Were there monkeys, Kaylee? Space monkeys?” Firefly, sorry, forgot which episode. Second or third, I feel…?
13. Chancellor Palpatine: “The Sith had many powers, some considered to be unnatural.” Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.
14. Neo: “Whoa.” The Matrix.
15. The Doctor [immediately prior to regenerating]: “The end has come — but the moment has been prepared for.” Doctor Who, “Logopolis.”
16. Jozef Kastan: “You seriously drink this stuff? What is it — like, non-fat, vegan, soy blood?” Moonlight, no idea which episode.
17. River Tam: “I can kill you with my brain.” Firefly, no idea which episode. whoops.
18. James Bond [when asked how he would like his drink prepared]: “Do I look like I give a damn?” Casino Royale.
19. Alice [to the White Queen computer about the Red Queen]: “I knew your sister. She was a homicidal bitch.” Resident Evil: Extinction.
20. Capa: “When a stellar bomb is triggered, very little will happen at first -and then a spark, will pop into existance, and it will hang for an instant, hovering in space and then it will split into two, and those will split again, and again, and again… detonation beyond all imagining – the big bang on a small scale. – a new star born out of a dying one… I think it will be beautiful. No, I’m not scared.” Sunshine.
21. Captain John Hart: “Did I mention I’m armed?” Torchwood, “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.”
22. The Doctor [on Rose pointing out that he sounds North of England]: “Lots of planets have a north!” Doctor Who, “Rose.”
23. Riddick: “Anybody not ready for this?” Pitch Black.
24. Rygel: “I am Rygel the XVIth, dominar of over six billion people — I don’t have to talk to you!” Farscape, no idea which episode. something in the first season, i feel.
25. Buffy Summers: “You forgot about dawn. It’s in about six hours, idiot.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Welcome to the Hellmouth.”
"don’t ever link those two things again…" (part 1 of 4)
23 Saturday Jan 2010
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cross-posted from …fly over me, evil angel…
Hanna’s recruited me to help her come up with the next 75 quotes for parts 2, 3, and 4 . . . problem is I have a really, really hard time remembering snippets of things. my brain doesn’t think in quotations very easily. so my contributions end up sounding a lot like, “oh! you need to include something from that scene with Jack and the Doctor and the banana” or “that bit from ‘Merlin’ where Arthur was harassing Merlin about the bedclothes.” Me <– Not very helpful.
Nonetheless, she gives me entirely undeserved credit below and has been generous enough to share html so I can cross-post it here. Enjoy the glorious depths of her encyclopedic memory and look here for further installments throughout the next four weeks.
okay, so in the spirit of “don’t complain about something if you’re not prepared to do it better,” i noticed over the past couple of weeks two lists — one from wired and one from a blog i know not of called ink-stained amazon which i have to say is beautiful to look at it — that both purport to be ‘essential lists’ of ‘geek culture’ quotes.
ahem.
okay, so the wired list starts off with monty python and the holy grail and the amazon list includes the sarah jane adventures — but i’m still not wildly impressed with either one.
i figured i could do better.
then i thought about it and realised that, on my own, i didn’t have the time to do better so i roped in my ever-patient girlfriend to help me do better. 🙂
first off, a couple of notes:
1. this is for fun. if you’re not amused, go read something else. i won’t be offended, promise. that being said, suggestions and additions (politely phrased!) are welcome in the comments. but keep in mind this is installation 1 of 4! not everything will fit in here.
2. these are probably mostly going to be dredged out of my memory, anna’s memory, imdb, or official show/movie sites. inaccuracy is, therefore, almost inevitable. not to mention repetition of shows or characters. if this annoys you– well, make your own list. 🙂
3. i’m not aiming for some kind of “worst to best” or “best to worst” list. they’re here because the two people making the list think they’re fun or because one of us was able to strong-arm the other into including them. brief context is provided where anna or i thought it was necessary. i also tried to find links for character images that were from the episode/scene/moment where the quoted line was spoken. this isn’t always possible but i’m fairly pleased with myself for getting as close as i did! fair warning: links may contain spoilers, particularly links to doctor who or torchwood episodes.
5. i am aiming for 4 posts of 25 quotes each over the next 4 weeks. tune in each friday/saturday for your new installment!
okay, and that being said…
1. Tim Latimer [talking about the Doctor]: “He’s like fire and ice and rage. He’s like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. He’s ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and can see the turn of the universe…and… he’s wonderful.” Doctor Who, “The Family of Blood.”
2. Captain Jack Harkness: “Torchwood: outside the government, beyond the police. Tracking down alien life on Earth, arming the human race against the future. The twenty-first century is when everything changes. And you gotta be ready.” Torchwood, Season 1 opener on all episodes.
3. Brother Justin Crowe [talking about his upcoming radio broadcast]: “In a single coast-to-coast broadcast, I will speak to more souls than our Lord did in his entire lifetime. It’s going to be breathtaking.” Carnivale, “Ingram, TX.”
5. Murtagh [in reference to a stone wall he and Eragon have run up against in their attempt to join the rebels]: “Tell me your vision looked something like this.” Eragon.
6. The Guide: “Don’t Panic.” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
8. M [to James Bond as he almost says her real name]: “Finish that sentence and I’ll have you killed.” Casino Royale.
9. Captain Jack Sparrow [in reference to almost anything]: “Not good — not good!” Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl.
10. Alice [before killing the monster that used to be her work partner and “husband”]: “I’m missing you already.” Resident Evil.
11. Riddick: “If you can’t keep up, don’t step up. You’ll only die.” Chronicles of Riddick.
12. “I’m going to curl up in his sock drawer and sleep for days.” MST3K riff in MST3K: The Movie: This Island Earth.
14. C-3PO: “Shutting up, sir.” Star Wars: A New Hope.
15. Dr. Frank N. Furter: “What ever happened to Fay Wray? That delicate satin-draped frame…how it clung to her thigh as I started to cry… ’cause I wanted to be dressed just the same…” The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
16. Jim [wandering in an empty London]: “Hello! Hello — hello! Hello!” 28 Days Later.
17. Temperance Brennan: “I don’t know what that means.” Bones, multiple episodes.
18. Plankton: “Well, goodbye, everyone. I’ll remember you all in therapy!” Spongebob Squarepants, “The Algae is Always Greener.”
19. Wesley Gibson [talking to Sloan who may, or may not, be trying to induct him into a secret brotherhood of assassins]: “So do you make sweaters or do you kill people?” Wanted.
21. The Doctor: “Well, progress is a very flexible word. It can mean just about anything you want it to mean.” Doctor Who, “The Power of Kroll.”
22. Michael Corvin: “Are you fucking kidding me!” Underworld.
23. Mme. de Pompadour [talking to/about the Doctor]: “Such a lonely little boy. Lonely then and lonelier now.” Doctor Who, “The Girl in the Fireplace.”
24. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker: “We’re smarter than this!” “Apparently not.” Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.
25. Marvin the Paranoid Android [about life in general…]: “I have this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side…” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
guest post: "quod…….the fuck"
16 Saturday Jan 2010
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Hanna reviews the Eddie Izzard show we saw on Tuesday. Cross-posted from …fly over me, evil angel…
so a few last thoughts on the eddie izzard “big intimacy” show and then i promise i’ll shut up about him for awhile.
as you may have noticed in my thursday post, anna and i had a phenomenal time at the show. neither of us are big on concerts, shows, or big arena-type events and it was the first time either of us had been at the banknorth garden. i have to say, though, for a relatively big event, the running of it was really smooth. the banknorth staff were really helpful and very polite. our tickets got upgraded very seriously at the last minute — not that we realised this until we were sitting down and triangulated where our original tickets would have placed us — and the process went really smoothly.
with the new tickets, we weren’t quite “stage-side” but we were way closer than we would have been which was originally somewhere in the nosebleeds of the nosebleed section. we wouldn’t really even have been able to see the jumbo-tron screens very well. as it was, we were about a dozen rows back from the seating on the actual floor and just about ideally placed to take advantage of the three gigantic screens on the stage. mr. izzard looked quite tiny by comparison to the giant digital versions of himself. he did realise this and made a point of telling the audience, particularly those in the front rows, that they weren’t to feel obligated to try and look at him: “because, really, that guy up there? he’s doing the exact same things as me. except — maybe a bit slower.”
honestly, i thought he was hilarious. three hours worth of pretty damn solid hilarious. when considering live performances, i try to take into account — for some strange reason — whether or not i could or would be willing to try and do the same kind of thing. in this case, hell, no. i am in awe of his skill at a) remembering material; b) handling an audience; and c) making them both seem effortless. i mean, i am sure he could recite this material if woken up out of a dead sleep he’s said it that many times — and it seemed new. it seemed as though he were just making some of it up for our benefit right then and there because he thought we’d think it was funny. making that kind of connection with an audience of several thousand people is a fucking impressive skill. this is why great rock band front men are great. the same skills apply here, i feel.
and you know what else is a fucking impressive skill? getting that same audience of several thousand people in tears of laughter over latin. latin, people. (i apologise for the sound quality on this one; it’s a little dodgy. but also lots of thanks to anna for digging up all the youtube clips for me when i didn’t have the time to do it in time to put this post up.)
i did have a moment or two of indecision when it came to using these at all since “no recording” rules were on the tickets. but then i decided…well, what the fuck. it really is too funny to give up the opportunity of illustrating my point with primary source material, so to speak.
the only real irritation in the show came from two young women seated behind anna and myself — they left just after the start of the “second act,” thank god, or i would’ve had to dopeslap them — who insisted on critiquing the show quite audibly and discussing their social lives when they weren’t commenting that, “oh, he’s done that joke before” or “that’s just what he did in st. louis.” well, yes, probably both true. two essential points that you’re missing here: a) he is here, now. why don’t you shut up and enjoy the show in front of you? and b) there’s a fine line between “recycled material” and “a long-standing joke with the fans” both of which he had but he mostly managed to keep the first feeling like the second. it has to do, i think, with the variety of characters he manages to summon up out of thin air to populate the stage and illustrate what he’s talking about:
Quick Hit: Babies (Video)
06 Wednesday Jan 2010
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via Lauren at Feministe comes this trailer for a new documentary following four children in their first year of life on location in Bayanchandmani, Mongolia; Opuwo, Namibia; San Francisco, USA; and Tokyo, Japan.
Happy Wednesday everyone; enjoy :).
Quick Hit: Transgender Basics (Video)
29 Tuesday Dec 2009
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This video from the Gender Identity Project has been making the rounds on the blogs I read regularly; I finally had twenty minutes last night (and a computer with sound!) to sit down and watch it.
I’m fairly new to the subtleties of transgender identity, and while I enjoy reading feminist theory (can’t say often enough how much Julia Serano’s Whipping Girl helped me wrap my brain around trans issues) a lot of people I know just aren’t that into it, and trying to explain the current connotations of sex vs. gender — not to mention what people mean when they start talking “trans” — can leave me feeling inept. I really like how this video breaks it down without using too much insider language while at the same time not talking down to their audience. Definitely something to keep in the “resources” file.
Jos at Feministing reports that, as of yet, there is no transcript available, but tnat a volunteer is working on one. Hope it will soon be available through the GIP website, if you are interested in and/or need one.
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