Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Friends of mine buy books by the truckload, but prefer to use independent booksellers, and there’s also the fact that people can often buy books from Amazon and get them shipped cheaper than actually buying the same book in NZ.
Or The Book Depository, whose world-wide free postage has been mentioned here more than once. Which is great as long as the British pound is reasonably favourable, but here's my fundamental issue with buying books on line: You can't appreciate a book as an object when all you've got is a cover scan. (I should go into bookstores with a pair of white gloves, because they are my tittie-bar.) And how do you browse on-line? Some of my best purchases -- and longest-lasting literary romances -- were a result of going into a store looking for one book, and stumbling (in one case literally) over another that I'd not even heard of.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Russell Brown,
Also, Amanda Palmer totally put her foot on my chair and dominated me this evening. And sang. Man, she has a voice.
That she does – though, honestly, I always like the theory of the Dresden Dolls more than the practice. Neil Gaiman is a soppy old bastard who really loves and misses his wife though, bless ’m. Please send her home in one piece, or the internet will burn New Zealand with angry geek fire.
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Muse: Shelf Life: The Dying Elephant in…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Grrr… Fixed -- along with the four other spulling irrors I'm sure you were just being polite in not pointing out. While laughing.
Obviously, applying the riding crop of loving parental correction isn't working on my inner proof-reader. Bring out the gimp-wear!
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Danielle,
There’s always that derailing asshole guy in these discussions, and then it inevitably turns into one of those rhetorical logic-offs… when it’s actually *your life* we’re talking about. Sorry. :/
Hey, some times you've just got to join Mr. Cee-Lo Green in an un-sanitized chorus of 'Fuck You'. (yeah, you too Paltrow and Glee)
Now, anyone feeling any sympathy for people like Andrew Sullivan who've shovelling this kind of shit from all sides for close on two decades?
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Muse: TV Review: Good Gods Almighty!, in reply to andin,
Whaat? Did you not see Monkey?
Oh, yes and it was enormous fun. But there, even the Japanese original (which was 13 episodes longer than the dubbed version, for reasons I can't figure out) was aimed at children. Of course they were going to play up the action and knockabout farce that were very much present in the novel, and not so much with the poetry, philosophical and religious dialogues and the now obscure political and social commentary. .
But at the risk of being all PC, I would hope that if the BBC were taking another pass at Saiyūki they'd dial back on the British actors doing their best panto "Oriental" accents. That needs a bit of "well, it was the 70's" filtering, and I'm glad that (for example) the English dubs of Studio Ghibl films don't go there.
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Muse: TV Review: Good Gods Almighty!, in reply to philipmatthews,
Simon Wilson of Metro reviews on Nine to Noon, link through here:
The funny thing, I'd probably have said much the same thing after one episode of Outrageous Fortune, and looking back at the first series it's pretty obvious there was a process of discovery and refinement going on. That's where television can get really interesting. One pretty extreme case is Cougar Town -- at the risk of sounding bitchy, Courtney Cox as the titular cougar, not interesting. Which is why it rather quickly morphed into a rather engaging ensemble comedy about Courtney Cox's self-absorbed dingbat and her functionally dysfunctional extended family.
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Muse: Reel Life: Pliéing Turkey, in reply to philipmatthews,
Trailers for Never Let Me Go have been running for a couple of months in cinemas. Rialto is talking about a March 17 release date:
Thanks, Philip. I hope it will be screening elsewhere, because I no desire to set foot in Rialto Newmarket unless I'm being paid to do so. When a screening starts fifteen minutes late, and the first half hour is out of focus, the last response I expect from the staff is "What do you expect me to do about it?"
"Go fuck yourself, as soon as you've refunded the tickets of me and my party" is what I should have said. But there's a less confrontational but still satisfying come back in a highly competitive marketplace; taking your patronage elsewhere.
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I think (with the proviso that I can and will be wrong at times) that the label no longer works properly
I know it's not a direct analogy, but I always die a little inside every time I see "queer" used as a shorthand for 'all not heteronormative people' -- and I can respect but remain unconvinced by all the arguments that you can recontextualise a vile hate-term like that, any more than I accept referring to myself as a nigger takes the sting out of that hate-bomb. (Which is a whole other can of linguistic worms.)
In the end, hey, if it works for you let's agree to disagree and move on. Goes back to a way that I can respect the person's right to make a choice while not always agreeing with, or even fully understanding, their reasons of doing it.
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Muse: TV Review: Good Gods Almighty!, in reply to Simon Bennett,
Where did you get that crazy idea from? :)
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Give me a word for “males who believe in some selection of feminist principles”, and I’ll happily use it.
If only ‘Not-being-a-douchebag-to-and-about-the-vagina-bearing-half-of-the-human-race-ism’ would trip of the tongue a little easier, a lot of time and energy would be spared from endless semantic games of Who's A Real Feminist Bingo.
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