My Own Private Idaho: now with 30% more plungers

Watched My Own Private Idaho, a movie with River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves that is part Henry IV, Part 2 (yes really) and part a story about drug-using gay hustlers living on the streets.

It was quite good, if quite odd. If you ever wanted to see Keanu in a threesome with two other men, and things like plungers and nipple clamps (yes, really), than this is the movie for you. To be fair, it has an equally explicit het sex scene (blow jobs? Okaaaay) but still. Nipple clamps. And Neo. Not something I thought I'd use in the same paragraph. Hmmm.

The whole movie has an utterly surreal air that works for it, with characters that keep wandering in and out, but my favorite scene is actually the one where Mike (Phoenix) confesses to his best friend Scott (Keanu) that he loves him, despite the fact that Keanu says he goes with guys only for money. And he ends his heartfelt, sad, and really non-speechy comment by saying he wishes he could kiss him. And Scott is silent for a bit before telling him to come here. And then he just holds him. And it's all very tender.

Basically the movie is a trip, but worth a rental.

My Own Private Idaho: now with 30% more plungers

Watched My Own Private Idaho, a movie with River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves that is part Henry IV, Part 2 (yes really) and part a story about drug-using gay hustlers living on the streets.

It was quite good, if quite odd. If you ever wanted to see Keanu in a threesome with two other men, and things like plungers and nipple clamps (yes, really), than this is the movie for you. To be fair, it has an equally explicit het sex scene (blow jobs? Okaaaay) but still. Nipple clamps. And Neo. Not something I thought I'd use in the same paragraph. Hmmm.

The whole movie has an utterly surreal air that works for it, with characters that keep wandering in and out, but my favorite scene is actually the one where Mike (Phoenix) confesses to his best friend Scott (Keanu) that he loves him, despite the fact that Keanu says he goes with guys only for money. And he ends his heartfelt, sad, and really non-speechy comment by saying he wishes he could kiss him. And Scott is silent for a bit before telling him to come here. And then he just holds him. And it's all very tender.

Basically the movie is a trip, but worth a rental.

My Own Private Idaho: now with 30% more plungers

Watched My Own Private Idaho, a movie with River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves that is part Henry IV, Part 2 (yes really) and part a story about drug-using gay hustlers living on the streets.

It was quite good, if quite odd. If you ever wanted to see Keanu in a threesome with two other men, and things like plungers and nipple clamps (yes, really), than this is the movie for you. To be fair, it has an equally explicit het sex scene (blow jobs? Okaaaay) but still. Nipple clamps. And Neo. Not something I thought I'd use in the same paragraph. Hmmm.

The whole movie has an utterly surreal air that works for it, with characters that keep wandering in and out, but my favorite scene is actually the one where Mike (Phoenix) confesses to his best friend Scott (Keanu) that he loves him, despite the fact that Keanu says he goes with guys only for money. And he ends his heartfelt, sad, and really non-speechy comment by saying he wishes he could kiss him. And Scott is silent for a bit before telling him to come here. And then he just holds him. And it's all very tender.

Basically the movie is a trip, but worth a rental.

Poor Sammy...

Just because a lot of my Supernatural posts seem to center on the fact that Dean is a woobie, doesn't mean that Sam's life doesn't suck. So, let's take a moment to peruse Sam's life so far. Because it definitely sucks.

His mother got immolated on the ceiling above him when he was a baby, and that was the end of it. He grows up with not much of a childhood (still, better than Dean's but...), dragged from one seedy motel to the next, basically a latchkey kid, with his father leaving him in his older brother's care, no stable family life, no roots, no normalcy. As father-son bonding time he gets gun training and probably ends up doing pretty dangerous things by the time his age barely hits double digits (if Dean's experience is anything to go by). Any time he wants to do anything semi-normal, like play soccer, it means a huge family row with Daddy Dearest.

When he states he wants to go to college (surely, a normal enough wish, and it's not like he is asking Dad to pay for it), it brings on row of rows, and his father tells him to never come back.

He goes to college and despite his FUBAR upbringing, because of the sheer niceness of his personality, manages to have a nice normal life with friends and a cool girl he falls in love with. And hey, even law school.

Well, enjoy those four nice years Sam, because it looks like those are the only ones you'll get. Because when Sam returns from a trip with his brother, to find his girlfriend Jess imitating his mother, flambeed on the ceiling, her blood dripping on his face. And bye-bye any hope of normalcy. Now he is driven by revenge and guilt and loss (when I found out that he was going to propose to Jess and was shopping for rings, for some reason it just felt worse than before: sort of he ha a nice life he wanted and was within reach of and then...) He is not going to law school, heck, he didn't even get to finish college, and that is a kid who wanted to learn so badly, who seems to be quite bright (he always has his nose in a book, and if he went to college without family help, he must have gotten some scholarships or such).

He is on a never-ending road trip with a brother he loves but is only now getting to know and whose personality is very different. He begins having visions and developing freaky powers. He almost gets killed repeatedly and watches his brother almost get killed. He can't get close to any woman, because he is justifiably afraid that they will be harmed. And he learns that his Mom's and Jess' deaths are his fault, they are dead because the demon who killed them wanted nothing between himself and Sam (I do love how earlier Dean tries to convince Sam it's not his fault). Hello, can you say ISSUES? He felt guilty even before he knew that.

So, yeah, sucks to be Sam.

Poor Sammy...

Just because a lot of my Supernatural posts seem to center on the fact that Dean is a woobie, doesn't mean that Sam's life doesn't suck. So, let's take a moment to peruse Sam's life so far. Because it definitely sucks.

His mother got immolated on the ceiling above him when he was a baby, and that was the end of it. He grows up with not much of a childhood (still, better than Dean's but...), dragged from one seedy motel to the next, basically a latchkey kid, with his father leaving him in his older brother's care, no stable family life, no roots, no normalcy. As father-son bonding time he gets gun training and probably ends up doing pretty dangerous things by the time his age barely hits double digits (if Dean's experience is anything to go by). Any time he wants to do anything semi-normal, like play soccer, it means a huge family row with Daddy Dearest.

When he states he wants to go to college (surely, a normal enough wish, and it's not like he is asking Dad to pay for it), it brings on row of rows, and his father tells him to never come back.

He goes to college and despite his FUBAR upbringing, because of the sheer niceness of his personality, manages to have a nice normal life with friends and a cool girl he falls in love with. And hey, even law school.

Well, enjoy those four nice years Sam, because it looks like those are the only ones you'll get. Because when Sam returns from a trip with his brother, to find his girlfriend Jess imitating his mother, flambeed on the ceiling, her blood dripping on his face. And bye-bye any hope of normalcy. Now he is driven by revenge and guilt and loss (when I found out that he was going to propose to Jess and was shopping for rings, for some reason it just felt worse than before: sort of he ha a nice life he wanted and was within reach of and then...) He is not going to law school, heck, he didn't even get to finish college, and that is a kid who wanted to learn so badly, who seems to be quite bright (he always has his nose in a book, and if he went to college without family help, he must have gotten some scholarships or such).

He is on a never-ending road trip with a brother he loves but is only now getting to know and whose personality is very different. He begins having visions and developing freaky powers. He almost gets killed repeatedly and watches his brother almost get killed. He can't get close to any woman, because he is justifiably afraid that they will be harmed. And he learns that his Mom's and Jess' deaths are his fault, they are dead because the demon who killed them wanted nothing between himself and Sam (I do love how earlier Dean tries to convince Sam it's not his fault). Hello, can you say ISSUES? He felt guilty even before he knew that.

So, yeah, sucks to be Sam.

Poor Sammy...

Just because a lot of my Supernatural posts seem to center on the fact that Dean is a woobie, doesn't mean that Sam's life doesn't suck. So, let's take a moment to peruse Sam's life so far. Because it definitely sucks.

His mother got immolated on the ceiling above him when he was a baby, and that was the end of it. He grows up with not much of a childhood (still, better than Dean's but...), dragged from one seedy motel to the next, basically a latchkey kid, with his father leaving him in his older brother's care, no stable family life, no roots, no normalcy. As father-son bonding time he gets gun training and probably ends up doing pretty dangerous things by the time his age barely hits double digits (if Dean's experience is anything to go by). Any time he wants to do anything semi-normal, like play soccer, it means a huge family row with Daddy Dearest.

When he states he wants to go to college (surely, a normal enough wish, and it's not like he is asking Dad to pay for it), it brings on row of rows, and his father tells him to never come back.

He goes to college and despite his FUBAR upbringing, because of the sheer niceness of his personality, manages to have a nice normal life with friends and a cool girl he falls in love with. And hey, even law school.

Well, enjoy those four nice years Sam, because it looks like those are the only ones you'll get. Because when Sam returns from a trip with his brother, to find his girlfriend Jess imitating his mother, flambeed on the ceiling, her blood dripping on his face. And bye-bye any hope of normalcy. Now he is driven by revenge and guilt and loss (when I found out that he was going to propose to Jess and was shopping for rings, for some reason it just felt worse than before: sort of he ha a nice life he wanted and was within reach of and then...) He is not going to law school, heck, he didn't even get to finish college, and that is a kid who wanted to learn so badly, who seems to be quite bright (he always has his nose in a book, and if he went to college without family help, he must have gotten some scholarships or such).

He is on a never-ending road trip with a brother he loves but is only now getting to know and whose personality is very different. He begins having visions and developing freaky powers. He almost gets killed repeatedly and watches his brother almost get killed. He can't get close to any woman, because he is justifiably afraid that they will be harmed. And he learns that his Mom's and Jess' deaths are his fault, they are dead because the demon who killed them wanted nothing between himself and Sam (I do love how earlier Dean tries to convince Sam it's not his fault). Hello, can you say ISSUES? He felt guilty even before he knew that.

So, yeah, sucks to be Sam.

Supernatural spoilers: my newest fandom is made out of emo twelve year olds?

OMG. The outcry against certain potential S2 Supernatural spoilers (these ones) is cracking me up. Please don't tell me that my newest fandom is made out of 13 year old girls? Yeah, don't tell me because I already know.

( Brief comment on said spoilers, ergo behind the cut )

Supernatural spoilers: my newest fandom is made out of emo twelve year olds?

OMG. The outcry against certain potential S2 Supernatural spoilers (these ones) is cracking me up. Please don't tell me that my newest fandom is made out of 13 year old girls? Yeah, don't tell me because I already know.

( Brief comment on said spoilers, ergo behind the cut )

Supernatural spoilers: my newest fandom is made out of emo twelve year olds?

OMG. The outcry against certain potential S2 Supernatural spoilers (these ones) is cracking me up. Please don't tell me that my newest fandom is made out of 13 year old girls? Yeah, don't tell me because I already know.

( Brief comment on said spoilers, ergo behind the cut )

Farscape and other things.

After seeing this Farscape S3 spam, I am rewatching all of the show. Starting not with Premiere, but with A Bug's Life, because the whole story really starts, in many ways, with AHR but I watched AHR too many times. Awww, who am I kidding. I just want to get to the angst!

John/Aeryn. Still the only perfectly handled TV OTP.

ETA1: Can I have some good Supernatural fanfic recs? I don't care about genre, rating or length. But no Wincest please, sorry (yeah, I know I just narrowed down my potential reading list by 75 percent).

ETA2: Veronica Mars. When does ep 1 of s3 air on CW? When does it start again? I am curious to see if they will make it into a quasi-pilot, seeing that they will need to introduce it to a somewhat different audience.

Farscape and other things.

After seeing this Farscape S3 spam, I am rewatching all of the show. Starting not with Premiere, but with A Bug's Life, because the whole story really starts, in many ways, with AHR but I watched AHR too many times. Awww, who am I kidding. I just want to get to the angst!

John/Aeryn. Still the only perfectly handled TV OTP.

ETA1: Can I have some good Supernatural fanfic recs? I don't care about genre, rating or length. But no Wincest please, sorry (yeah, I know I just narrowed down my potential reading list by 75 percent).

ETA2: Veronica Mars. When does ep 1 of s3 air on CW? When does it start again? I am curious to see if they will make it into a quasi-pilot, seeing that they will need to introduce it to a somewhat different audience.

Farscape and other things.

After seeing this Farscape S3 spam, I am rewatching all of the show. Starting not with Premiere, but with A Bug's Life, because the whole story really starts, in many ways, with AHR but I watched AHR too many times. Awww, who am I kidding. I just want to get to the angst!

John/Aeryn. Still the only perfectly handled TV OTP.

ETA1: Can I have some good Supernatural fanfic recs? I don't care about genre, rating or length. But no Wincest please, sorry (yeah, I know I just narrowed down my potential reading list by 75 percent).

ETA2: Veronica Mars. When does ep 1 of s3 air on CW? When does it start again? I am curious to see if they will make it into a quasi-pilot, seeing that they will need to introduce it to a somewhat different audience.