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[catscradle]

Went out to lunch with Nick today and showed him how I've perfected swallowing food whole. I find that with eating, despite my shear will to eat solid foods, I really need to stick to the mushy stuff. The lower left jaw just refuses to heal right. Might be due to the two root canals I got a few weeks ago - both in the lower left jaw. The wisdom tooth was touching the root canaled molar.

Christ I'm loopy right now. God help the students that ask me questions...

I saw Carl, my thesis advisor, at lunch today, but successfully avoided him. Just couldn't cope with that today. He's got this lisp and given how I'm talking lately, I don't need him thinking I'm making fun of him. It didn't help that Nick mentioned he really wanted to hear Carl say "Suffering succatash!"

On Bush and gay marriage - I've not said much on the issue aside from providing info on how to contact your representatives, simply because I feel we're all pretty much intellegent people that understand the abject stupidity of the Bush administration. This is just one of those arguments, to me at least, that's so obvious that to actually argue it makes me feel like an imbecil. I know at the top level this is a very serious argument that needs to be had - but I feel like an idiot having it. Gay marriage is not going to lead to the break down of society. Gay marriage is not going to lead to gays recruiting otherwise straight minors into a life of wild, gay debauchary that will end in a heroin addiction and an attrocious review in Boy George's Taboo - I mean I feel silly saying these things. So I'm saving it for my congress and senate people and trusting my friends here have the ability to come to a sane conclusion on their own.

Just a personal thought after watching The Ice Storm last night - I'm not sure having Tobey McGuire and Elijah Wood in the same film is a good thing. It just leads to unfair comparisons and poor Elijah's part can't compete with Tobey's. It's not his fault. . .

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[almostnever.livejournal.com]

It just leads to unfair comparisons and poor Elijah's part can't compete with Tobey's. It's not his fault. . .

Heh. I came to the opposite conclusion. I thought Elijah's character got the two monologues that really key into the main theme of the film. Plus, Tobey only got to kind of fondle Katie Holmes and Elijah got to actively mack on Christina Ricci... :D

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

I'd say Elijah got the two key syllables that keyed into the film. And I do get that his character was just a very damaged person - so he indeed did have the role that tied into the movie far more than Tobey (who seemed the odd character out in that he was likeable and well adjusted). But Tobey had more dialogue and spoke more intelligently. My point was more a silly one that Elijah's character was slightly more obtuse than Tobey's. I read a review that said he was a stoner, which was why he was like that - but I don't recall seeing him do any drugs. Did I miss that or were we suppose to infer that?

And man, Christina picked the little brother over Elijah, that's not good for the ego. It's probably a good thing he never found out about that.

I was really hoping that Tobey would get back in time to save Elijah and they both realize their love for each other - but alas that was never to be. God, they'd make a cute couple though.

[almostnever.livejournal.com]

A couple? Well, in a Narcissus kinda way maybe-- the first time I saw the film, I was convinced it would be revealed that the two of them were half-brothers or something. The resemblance is there.

I've read the book, and book!Mikey was a stoner, but book!Mikey was not the same as the film character imo-- for instance, the book version was not angelically beautiful and prone to rhapsodizing about perfect geometric space. Film!Mikey's abstract dazed mien might have been drug-induced, or might have been related to his father's disconnected detachment.

Also, it's probably clearer in the book what's happening between Wendy and Sandy (the little brother)-- she comes over looking for Mikey, Mikey's not there, there's a little bit of "Well, I'll show him" about it when she spends time with Sandy rather than going out looking for Mikey. And then she gets caught up in the idea of initiating Sandy into adulthood. Or rather, her suburban-upbringing-spawned, rather sad vision of what adulthood largely consists of: drinking and illicit groping.

I really love that movie. And now I'm thinking happy Tobey/Elijah thoughts, so that's brightening my afternoon. Thanks. :D

[vasiliki.livejournal.com]

succatash? I don't get it. -_-;

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Succotash is actually just a corn based vegitable dish in the US, but for whatever reason they used it as a slang for "suffering savior" during the latter part of the 19th century and the early 20th. In the early Bugs Bunny cartoons, a character named Sylvester the Cat spoke with a lisp and used to say "suffering succotash!" as an explictive. No one here really uses that term anymore, but most here would recognize it as a Sylvester line *g*