Your Guess is as Good as Mine

I like #Supernatural, #Sherlock, #DoctorWho, and #ProjectRunway and have no one to talk about them with! I also have a blind cat, Fitzgerald Zfluffylumpins DelGato; his seeing eye kitty, Smoky Chunksalunk; a boyfriend; a nephew; and two nieces.

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Deathgasm Review

Title: Deathgasm

Director: Jason Lei Howden

Writer: Jason Lei Howden

Producer: New Zealand Film Commission

Rating: NR (I’d go 17+)

Year: 2015

Recommended?: YES! (I’m a huge fan on New Zealand-based horror-comedy.)

Brodie (Milo Cawthorne i.e. the Green Ranger from R.P.M.) just moved in with his religious fanatic relatives. They are every Bible-thumping stereotype in the book, so they hate Brodie and his heavy-metal loving ways. Eventually, he meets Zakk (James Blake) at a record store. Zakk is a fellow metal fan who probably has an armload of ASBOs and often steals things. They create a band called DEATHGASM with two nerds. Meanwhile, Brodie is crushing on Medina (Kimberley Crossman i.e the Red Samurai Ranger). So of course, Zakk has to convince her Brodie is uninterested and then sleep with her.

Brodie and Zakk break into musician Rikki Dagger’s home and steal the sheet music for “The Black Hymn.” They decide to play it because why not? Because it summons the demon Aeloth “The Blind One” is why not. Oops.

Spoilery Spoilers!

I actually really enjoy this film; I’m glad it was the first I watched.

Pros:

I’m a fan of rock music, and while metal isn’t my favourite, I do enjoy it enough to understand the references and like the music.

I love that the cult leader’s mistress decided to back stab him (LITERALLY!) and become the new cult leader!

In high school and college, we’d often come up with band names with the most ridiculous name winning a prize (normally coffee). These scenes rang very true to me.

Deathgasm is a ridiculous name, and I could definitely see teenage boys coming up with it.

The movie tread the fine line between comedy and horror very well. It’s easy to go too far one way or the other, but this manages it quite fantastically.

The special effects, especially those during “The Black Hymn,” are fantastic. It’s not a CGI fest the way some modern movies are.

I like the heroes didn’t manage to stop Aeloth from being summoned.

Cons:

Other than the harbinger of Aeloth, I’m confused as to whether people were possessed or zombified or possessed through a similar process as zombification.

Why was the new cult leader suddenly naked when she became possessed by Aeloth? When he possessed Zakk, he just changed his form. He didn’t rip off his clothing. I’m okay with nudity, but EQUAL OPPORTUNITY NUDITY dammit!

Brodie killed his cousin while knowing he wasn’t zombified/possessed. It was supposed to be a funny scene, but it made him hard to root for.

It was weird watching the Red Samurai Ranger tear everybody apart with an axe. I kept getting kicked out of the scene because I knew her as a ranger.

So...did everybody go to hell because they were possessed or because they were bad people?

I highly recommend Deathgasm. It’s funny and gruesome. I had a few problems with the theology, but that wasn’t enough to keep me from enjoying it. Definitely not suited for kids or people who don’t like blood, I think most horror or metal fans would enjoy this movie.

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31 Days 31 Movies List

For those watching the livestream and wondering what else we’re watching, here’s the list. 

1. Deathgasm 2. Gallowwalkers 3. The Invitation 4. The House at the End of Time 5. Hush 6. Inner Demons 7. The Pack 8. Pontypool 9. Let Us Prey 10. Starry Eyes 11. The Girl in Photographs 12. Indigenous  13. The Snowtown Murders 14. Stitches 15. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 16. They’re Watching 17. Goosebumps 18. Apartment 143 19. Avalanche Sharks 20. Witching and Bitching 21. Final Girl 22. The Hollow 23. Dark Skies 24. Event Horizon 25. We Are Still Here 26. Exeter 27. We Are What We Are 28. The Unborn 29. Creep 30. The Dead Room 31. Hocus Pocus

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This is me right now. NGL.

[shitmystudentswrite]

African Studies

What is known about Zimbabwe is unknown due to the lack of insufficient facts.

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Whut.

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Pavlov

Pavlov was the famous inventor of saliva.

[lowreswunderbred]

[leepacey]

i’m crying not only did mary shelley invent science fiction with frankenstein, but she also invented post-apocalyptic fiction a few years later

literally just google ‘first post apocalyptic story’ and

everything men love and think is all for them was invented by young women, and usually that woman was mary shelley

[shitmystudentswrite]

Lesbian

in kate chopins story about an our, the main character is a lesbian because she dies because her husband is not dead and she wants him to be dead

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Is this...is this about "Story of an Hour?" Because that's about freedom and how marriage used to stifle that.

[neil-gaiman]

Is there a reason you don't often describe race in characters? when reading Anansi boys I had this weird conception of the characters of Charlie and Spider as white, when on future reads having context it was obvious they should not be.

I actually describe race a lot in Anansi Boys. You know who comes from where, after all. But I only tend to tag the skin colour of the white characters in the book when they first show up.

For example:

 "Excuse me,“ said a small white woman with a clipboard, “are these people with you?”

or

He was a middle-aged white manwith receding very fair hair. If you happened to see Grahame Coatsand immediately found yourself thinking of an albino ferret in anexpensive suit, you would not be the first.

or

They went inside: down woodensteps to a cellar where rubicund barristers drank side by side withpallid money market fund managers.

or

Grahame Coats had goneoff-white – one of those colours that turn up in paint catalogueswith names like Parchment or Magnolia. He said, “How did you getaccess to those accounts?”

or

Her flatmate, Carol, athin-faced white woman from Preston, stuck her head around thebedroom door. She was towelling her hair vigorously.

or

She wore a white blouse, and ablue denim skirt, and over it, a grey coat. She had very long legsand extremely pale skin, and hair which remained, with only minimalchemical assistance, quite as blonde as it had been when MorrisLivingstone had married her, twenty years earlier.

or

Fat Charlie squeezed in nextto a large woman with a chicken on her lap. Behind them two whitegirls chattered about the parties they had attended the previousnight and the shortcomings of the temporary boyfriends they hadaccumulated during their holiday.

(Those from a quick flip-through, and far from exhaustive.)

I hope people find on a careful reading that the race of the various characters is pretty obvious, and is often described (for example, Daisy’s father is from Hong Kong, her mother is Ethiopian). 

I’m sorry you read Fat Charlie and Spider and Mr Nancy and their families as white on first read, but that might have something to do with the way that people’s heads reading a book can default all characters to white, if other information is not immediately supplied, which is a very bad habit, and one I hope Anansi Boys might help people to shed.

And there is, after all, a huge pointer to the race of the title characters in the title…

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sperm don’t become babies

[micdotcom]

This map shows every state where women are more likely to live in poverty than men

Wait… hold up. Every state is colored in. That can’t be right… right? 

Unfortunately, the map is accurate. And it’s especially problematic for millennial women, who are much more likely to have a bachelor’s degree or higher than millennial men, but who are consistently earning less living and living in poverty more. 

[taylormariegreen]

SLAMS THE REBLOG BUTTON

[note-a-bear]

“But women earn more degrees” and still get paid less, so eat my whole ass

[ecstatic-motion]

My cat brought us a present today.  I have never seen a rabbit SO angry. 

****He was set free 10 minutes after being caught, photographed, and driven to a nearby field :)

[cassiebones]

“Fuckin cat thinks I’m a fuckin chew toy. Fuckin humans puttin me in a fuckin box with a fuckin carrot like its gonna make this WHOLE SITUATION SO MUCH FUCKIN BETTER! DO I LOOK LIKE BUGS BUNNY TO YOU, FUCKER?!?”

[jcgreen72]

look at that adorable ball of fiery rage!!!

[cat-overload]

out for a quick walk on Central Park North this weekend source: http://i.imgur.com/8PMxxC0h.jpg

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Fat Cat Simba source: http://i.imgur.com/YUeMNdVh.jpg

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