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cd332.livejournal.comi go to the local video shop to rent austin powers because i derive some sort of inner joy from hurley burley's fabulous up hairdo.
instead i see people dashing from the store carrying stockpiles of "waterworld" and "under seige." and so i find out tonight that the place has folded and is sellling everything on their shelves. first place i run for is the movie The Hunger. that, predictably had been siezed by the local goth kids. next, i run over to foreign, and discover to my great joy that kryzstof kieslowski's RED and alain berliner's Ma Vie En Rose is sitting pretty on the shelf, almost new and unrented (not counting the 86 times I rented out RED, saw the latter twice in a nyc art film house).
this morning, i peruse the booty from the previous night and discover, to my horror, an R-rating on Ma Vie En Rose.
WILL SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW A MOVIE ABOUT A BOY'S INNOCENCE AND TRANSVESTISM MIXED WITH PARENTAL LOVE GETS AN R-RATING?
i am reminded of the countless, literally, hundreds of transgendered personal webpages i come upon where one is greeted with a disclaimer splash page:
"if crossdressing offends you, please do not enter this page....etc..."
then you enter and you discover that many of these people have beautiful, enriched lives.
i have always been against the notion of the disclaimer page for transgender personal webpages. all it does is perpetuate the notion that transgenderism and transvestism is offensive in some way.
we live in a society that has endured a half dozen steven seagal movies and someone with a wonderful life and a story to tell has to apologise for being offensive on their opening page?
instead i see people dashing from the store carrying stockpiles of "waterworld" and "under seige." and so i find out tonight that the place has folded and is sellling everything on their shelves. first place i run for is the movie The Hunger. that, predictably had been siezed by the local goth kids. next, i run over to foreign, and discover to my great joy that kryzstof kieslowski's RED and alain berliner's Ma Vie En Rose is sitting pretty on the shelf, almost new and unrented (not counting the 86 times I rented out RED, saw the latter twice in a nyc art film house).
this morning, i peruse the booty from the previous night and discover, to my horror, an R-rating on Ma Vie En Rose.
WILL SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW A MOVIE ABOUT A BOY'S INNOCENCE AND TRANSVESTISM MIXED WITH PARENTAL LOVE GETS AN R-RATING?
i am reminded of the countless, literally, hundreds of transgendered personal webpages i come upon where one is greeted with a disclaimer splash page:
"if crossdressing offends you, please do not enter this page....etc..."
then you enter and you discover that many of these people have beautiful, enriched lives.
i have always been against the notion of the disclaimer page for transgender personal webpages. all it does is perpetuate the notion that transgenderism and transvestism is offensive in some way.
we live in a society that has endured a half dozen steven seagal movies and someone with a wonderful life and a story to tell has to apologise for being offensive on their opening page?