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laramie at 02:03pm on 06/02/2007
laramie at 02:03pm on 06/02/2007It's been a slow start, but at this point I've mopped the kitchen and bathroom floors, shoveled the walks, gone out for fresh catfood and kitty litter and put a turkey breast in the oven to roast.
Right now I've got They Live playing on DVD. I heard that, if you take out the aliens, it's a scary indictment of consumer-driven society.
Meanwhile I plan to continue work on the drawing I started yesterday, before finishing up transcribing the final edits to my manuscript.
Right now I've got They Live playing on DVD. I heard that, if you take out the aliens, it's a scary indictment of consumer-driven society.
Meanwhile I plan to continue work on the drawing I started yesterday, before finishing up transcribing the final edits to my manuscript.
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For the benefit of the rest of you who might be thinking about watching this film:
DO NOT BE FOOLED.
As much as I've liked other movies John Carpenter has done, "They Live" stinks like a mountain of week-old used cat litter. Its much-touted "message" is presented so sophomorically as to make itself ridiculous. As far as I'm concerned, it takes Ray Nelson's marvelous short short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" and turns it into an overlong, overdone, unwatchable travesty.
(Sorry about the tone of this diatribe, but it's the result of my being virtually *forced* to watch it again the last time one of my friends got this bug in their head. Certain parts of my brain have not yet recovered...)
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