"The Wrestler” is “Raging Bull” for generations X and Y. I appreciate the quality of “Raging Bull”, but I cannot identify with its 1940’s New York Italian American characters, nor do I know anything about boxing beyond the “Rocky” movies. “The Wrestler”, however, has Mickey Rourke, who I remember from “9 1/2 Weeks” and “Barfly”, and the great Marisa Tomei, who gets naked again, following her nakedness in “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”. It’s also about a professional wrestler who peeked in the 1980’s, and it’s ‘80’s rock soundtrack speaks to his life and times. So “The Wrestler” is about a working class athlete with problems and hopes that I can recognize and sympathize with. This is a very well made drama, with great acting and storytelling. Marisa Tomei and her nakedness is a bonus, though her nakedness in “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” is much sexier. The Blu-ray transfer looks low budget, without any gloss or shine, but it matches the subject matter and the mood of the story very well. Reviewed 4/23/2009 after watching on Blu-ray."
Confession:
I really, really want to hate that Gotye song “Somebody That I Used To Know”, but I just can’t.
co-signed
Since the internet will suck for the next 24 hrs, in honor of the SOPA 24hr Blackout, please help yourself and get BLACKOUT drunk
Also educate yourself, here are some links I copy/pasted from another post:
STOP SOPA
THE ESSENTIALS:
- Summary and bill text of SOPA - H.R. 3261: link
- Summary and bill text of PIPA - S.968: link
- Congressmen who support SOPA and how much money in donations they received to support it: link
IN DEPTH:
- Companies that support SOPA - link
- Companies that oppose SOPA & PIPA - link
- Video: What is PIPA and how will it affect you? link
- SOPA 101: An Infographic - link
- Tech Law & Policy: House takes Senate’s bad Internet censorship bill, tries making it worse - Analysis of SOPA & PIPA - link
- First Amendment Legal Analysis and Implications of SOPA - link
- Stanford Law Professors React to SOPA and PIPA - link
- Infographic: What SOPA Means for Business and Innovation - link
- FAQ: How SOPA Would Affect You - link
GET INVOLVED:
- Take Action Checklist to Stop Censorship - link
- Join @YourAnonNews and @AnonymousIRC and pledge not to tweet between 8AM-8PM EST (1300-0100 UTC) on 18 January [check your local timezone here - Use hashtags #SOPAblackout and #J18
- Add the following banners to your Twitter pic: “CENSORED” - link | “STOP SOPA” - link
- How to contact Facebook and Google to support the January 18 SOPA blackout - link
- Contact your local Representative with info and a widget to find them by EFF and Wired for Change - link
- Plugin for WordPress to protest with a blackout: link
- Click “attend” on the FaceBook event page - link
I’ve been thinking.
I don’t post words up here so much as repost other people’s words.
It’s nice really.
"If he releases his tax returns Romney runs the risk, in the current climate, of revealing just how rich he is. For the record, according to Wealth-X, he’s one of the 10 richest people to run for president in the last 20 years. His net worth of $250 million makes him the third richest person to seek the oval office, after Ross Perot (#1) and Steve Forbes (#2). Romney’s wealth makes him one of the 3,140 wealthiest people in the country — that’s the richest 0.001 percent of Americans."
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It might be hard to paint Obama as some prissy Harvard elitist against this guy (via The Dish)
OK, I also like mocking Romney’s campaign.
-Jess
(via stfuconservatives)I for one welcome our Plutocratic overlords, etc.
(Source: ourfuture.org, via stfuconservatives)
People are understandably upset after video emerged of what appears to be U.S. Marines urinating on Afghan corpses. If they’re surprised, however, they need to pick up a history book. Soldiers piss on corpses in every war. On both sides. Soldiers rape civilians, as a rule, in every war that has ever taken place since time immemorial. Rape is a weapon of war. Piss, some people are now learning, is a weapon of war. Some fucked-up, disgusting combination of the two, plus shit and dismemberment, is a weapon of war. Bad guys do it. “Good” guys do it. When a country’s government decides to wage war, they are deciding to sanction piss, rape, and the torture and murder of women and children who had the colossally bad fortune to be in the midst of the war. When the U.S. decided to enter into Afghanistan and then Iraq, they (i.e. Congress and the president, and the myriad companies that profit from war) knew this. I’m not singling out the U.S. here; while we’re as good at implementing the more horrific, soul-erasing weapons as anyone, we’re not alone. Does your country have a military? In times of war, they kill people, and sometimes they piss on them.
If it isn’t clear why I’m detailing this, it is because I want to express an old thought: war is the very worst thing there is. And if you command an army, you better the fuck understand, in your probably cowardly, definitely privileged, likely draft-dodging bones, that when you send soldiers out to fight and die, they are going to do some unconscionable, irreversible things. And they are doing it in your name. Because you told them to. And pissing on a corpse is a FUCKING POEM compared to issuing an order for beautiful young people to go and kill other beautiful young people in a land far away, because you, in essence, “felt like it.”
Previously - On Hating Gay People
(via robdelaney)
