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By the way, I’m in love.

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Yes, please! ♥ I’m really surprised we haven’t already... O.o

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sithwax replied to your photo:i think tumblr just threatmanced me

right! wtf is this?

Tumblr put up this lil' heart with weird hovertext messages for Valentine's Day but yeah I don't want Cupid's arrow in my face, my face is like my greatest asset.

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sithwax replied to your photoset:Favorite fictional characters: 01. Vaughan, Crash.

Watched this last night. So this time around I viewed the bunch as cowards. They were fucking not so much to get off but as a form of distraction from how boring life was. “Maybe next time.” Maybe just kill yourself and get it over with. Almost dying is sexier than death…

I wholly agree that there's a lot of boredom in there - the descent into an ultimately shared existential anti-crisis, disinterest/detachment, etc., which makes perfect sense in a Ballardian film. Both emotionally and sexually speaking, the feeling of "being truly alive" one experiences throughout all the stages of a near-death experience, the ways in which the brain and body react both bracing for and during a potentially fatal impact, is a big part of what drives crash fetishists (pun intended?) and edgeplayers to do what they do. In my opinion, that's the most interesting question the film is asking: To what extent will someone go to alleviate their boredom with life?

I don't think I'd personally call anyone in the film cowardly, so much as tired,  turned off and starving for some - any kind of - sensation. I think of Vaughan as a kind of poster child for that frame of mind. He's a caricature of it. I think that's what I love most about him.

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sithwax replied to your post “In which I have little choice but to concede..."

I think I'm attracted to the neurotic and the bipolar. If there is a difference or a slightly lesser evil it should be tattooed on their forehead. Preferably in black light ink so the first thing I need to do is take them to a Spencer's Gifts to see.

Ha. Right?

Taking that idea a step further, this really sheds a more appealing light on the diagnosis cards of old world asylums. It'd be much easier to identify the mentally deficient who get our blood flowing (figuratively... or, well, okay... literally) if we all walked around with them hanging around our necks. "Hrmm... I'm not really looking for an Oedipal complex... and chronic night terrors sounds like an easy fix... Oh, wait! There's one! Narcissistic Personality Disorder with latent homicidal tendencies? Hello there, Sir. I'm Molly. Let's make out."

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sithwax replied to your post: The three things of which I try to remind myself...

I hope your day gets much better. You deserve to have all the things that make you happy. You’re an incalculably inspirational human being to me. Just know that without you our days would be as terrible as yours is today. :) Now fix your computer!

I wish there were a gif that adequately illustrates both wanting to hug someone and give them half of your horror movie collection as a thank you for being such an exceptionally kind friend at the same time.

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sithwax replied to your post: @sithwax

Holy goodness. That sounds amazing.

Doesn't it just? It's pretty damn fabulous. I have a feeling you'd fit right in there. ♥

When we first started kicking around ideas for the Odeum Obscure (which is still on its way up, by the by. I really, really need to send out a message letting everyone know we haven't died...), I thought a weekly review of the Film Streams "experience" would be an interesting feature. It's one of those things that's been around in Omaha for a while now, but so many people seem to be in the dark about it. Which is, I'm sure, to their benefit - those who do go really want to be there. They go hard and they support the organization with iron fists (full of cash and happy tears).