Made of Fail

[thedeadlyhook]

I've missed so many birthdays while generally AWOL. August is a big birthday month! I hope Very Happy Birthdays were had by pukajen, botias, sweet_ali, estepheia, boschette, rainkatt, and tepintzin, and Very Happy Birthdays in Advance to mere_ubu, romanyg, and dessert_first.

Still blocked on fic, in that way of feeling like you were stupid to ever have thought you could write, but oh well. I know these things tend to be temporary, but that doesn't make them fun.

In the meantime, I amused myself with that "First Lines" meme I've seen going around.

Tactic 1: Start With a Query!

"So, are you interested?"

"So what do you think?"

"What are you doing?"

"What is this?"

"Do you trust me?"

"You look... different," Buffy heard herself saying.

"What's this?" Dawn eyes the big bottle of champagne as Buffy pops the cork, pours.

Tactic 2: Where Am I? What Am I Doing?

Buffy got a job.

The door closes in my face and I am left in the hall, my sentence hanging, unfinished.

"Move your leg over there--ahh, that's a good girl."

It all began with a travel guide.

There's music. Country music. The music of pain. And beer, lots of beer. The beverage of pain.

London. It's been some time since he's seen it. His old stomping ground.

Connor knew he was being followed.

She walks, she talks, she shops, she sneezes. Her whole life's been nothing but floods.

Handsome man saves me.

Special Meta Bonus Round!

I want to get this down. It's important I get this down. Before the details fade.

[ETA: I've belatedly realized I didn't exactly follow the rules of this meme, as I didn't choose twenty and didn't put them in any particular order. Shrug.] Suffice to say that my results reflect the sort of patterns I suspect this meme was designed to uncover. : )

In other news, film oddities recently seen by myself and toysdream include Liquid Sky, which I'd remembered reading a review of back in the '80s when it first came out and thought it sounded interesting (a fair assessment, although "weird," "slow," and "garish" would also qualify, without even getting into the musical score - some trippy monologues, though) and Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare starring Jon-Mikl Thor, a heavy-metal act who apparently had career in B-Films that I'd somehow missed. Not quite as entertaining as Horror, perhaps, for lack of hilarious devil-goat shots, but the demonic finger-puppets almost made up for the lack.

On the roster for tonight, Zacharaiah, which promises to be a "psychedelic trip through the Wild West." And yes, we've been raiding the Cult shelf at our local video den, why do you ask?

Coming Soon: A Personal Top Ten List of Movie Musicals. It's a genre primed for a comeback, I swear.

Comments

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

Back when I got review copies of albums from various labels I got Thor's first album, and let me tell you, I put that thing on anytime I needed to pee myself laughing.

Did he look as much like an overdeveloped Ken doll as he did on his album cover?

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

Oh, you bet he did! Beachball-like oiled pecs. Plus the early-'80s bleached hair all teased up and, at the climax of the film, a studded codpiece and cape. It was... inspiring. Especially the DVD extras inteview where he talks about how his sex scene in the film, "just came very naturally," because, you know, Thor's hammer and all. (!)

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

Liquid Sky was the very first movie I ever rented, after I bought my very first VCR.

Something like 25 years ago ...?

My younger sisters still remember & talk about that movie. Heh. It was an interesting choice, definitely (especially since we'd grown up in a very fundie church)!

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

Wow, I can only imagine what that must've been like as a first rental, especially being from a conservative background! It's certainly quite the picture of NYC.

I can't remember my first rental, but I do recall that the first move I saw on cable was Slap Shot, and that with the whole family, and we were all bowled over by the level of cursing. I can still remember all the nervous of my parents at every "f" word.

I was really glad to see Liquid Sky, finally - it was one of those college co-op films that I'd meant to get to, and didn't, and always had it in the back of my mind to check out later. And I wasn't disappointed - aside from the visuals, which were very OMG-'80s-fashion-I-remember-that-Interview-magazine-style-gear!, and the loopy electronic soundtrack, the three things that made the biggest impression on me were the performance-art monologue "you're dead, you you go to hell," the one where the main character paints her face flourescent and says "I was taught to be androgynous... now I'm as androgynous as David Bowie himself" and the general deadpan monotone delivery of the main character in all situations. You really got this picture of the drug scene as being incredibly ...numbing. Which I guess was the point.

[mere-ubu.livejournal.com]

Ha! I remember seeing bits and pieces of Liquid Sky on cable in the 80s and falling asleep during it! I guess it didn't speak to my Arkansas adolescence. Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare sounds like something I really, really need to see.

And thanks for the birthday howdy! :D