I liked Gummo, but apparently it's "not an appropriate movie" to watch with your "six year old niece". Fine, Sis, I didn't like babysitting anyway.
It's not that Gummo is offensive, it is that Gummo is fucking disgusting. Everyone and everything in it creeps me out with how fucking skeezy and filthy they are. The above scene gives me the chills. It isn't perverted, or cruel, the scene is simply a kid bathing in green water in a rusty, moldered tub while he eats spaghetti. I want to fucking gag thinking about it. Oh, and as for Pink Flamingos, the old woman eating boiled eggs in a crib has the same effect as the spaghetti tub.
Whoa, been away from the intertubes for a while. Mostly hiking, climbing, ice climbing, eating and drinking. So it's all good. It's been an awesome break, and I in no way look forward to classes starting again on Tuesday. In other news, tonight will consist of (hopefully) funny movies, single barrel Jack and Patron Silver.
Was Gummo the one with the boy and the mom (I'll be vague in case somebody here is now interested in watching so doesn't want the plot spoiled)? Is so, then yes, disturbing.
The food thread inspired me to go out and buy all the ingredients for Bulgogi (Korean food). It is now marinating in the fridge, and you should all be jealous you aren't having any. Add good beer, the nfl playoffs and there isn't a better way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
Granted, I haven't fully watched the movies I'm about to mention, but between what I've read and what clips I've watched, they would fit in this list too. Possession (with Sam Neill) Come and See Audition Ichi the Killer The Devils The Baby of Macon The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover The clips I have watched of these movies...............yeesh - the stuff of nightmares.
Anthony Bourdain's Beef Bourguignon. About halfway done. In the coming weeks I've got big plans. Going to make a big ole pot of chorizo to use one night on eggs (frittata), the next on tacos, then a shit ton of leftovers to bathe myself in. The second best taco I ever had was with Mexican chorizo. The first was tongue. No shit. Also going to make Spanish Ox Tail Stew, albeit using short rib or something since I can't find cheap/good ox tail down here. There is nothing better on this earth than slowly braised meat. Tell me this doesn't look tits: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.cevabun.ro/blog/spanish-oxtail-stew-rabo-de-toro/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.cevabun.ro/blog/spanish-oxta ... o-de-toro/</a> Since it's cold going to make a half ass white man Pho as best as I can, too.
If you want to talk about disturbing movies, go watch Incendies. I am not an easy person to disturb. I slept soundly after visits to the anatomy museum, watching videos of people being blown up, watching junkies OD in the ER, and escaped an ICU rotation with only a mild and transient existential longing. But Incendies? Gave me nightmares. It took me a few days before I could masturbate again. And there isn't even any gore in the film. Spoiler Long story short, a woman dies under slightly mysterious circumstances, leaving a letter to her adult twin children to go to an unnamed middle eastern country and find their father. Her kids find out that her mother had an illegitimate baby rather young, and was sent away to university, and later was hired by some violent Christian political party to kill a rival warlord. She was sent to jail, and prior to her release, raped repeatedly as a form of torture. The twins discover that they are the result of that rape, and further discover that the man that raped their mother, and their father by consequence, was her first illegitimate child. We discover that the mother dies because she saw a tattoo on a man's ankle at a Montreal pool, and recognized him as her son. She then goes to speak to him, sees his face, and recognizes him as the rapist, and goes into shock. Yeesh. I mean, a very well-made film, but shit.
Damn you all. Now I'm curious why everyone thinks these movies are so disturbing. Wonder if I can netflix them
I am wishy-washy, now based on CharlesJohson's pic, I may be back to beef stew. This recipe: <a class="postlink" href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/01/beef-stew-with-beer-and-paprika/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011 ... d-paprika/</a>
Well this attempt at roasting chestnuts turned out to be a bust. Half of them seem to be either rock-hard or have a nasty, powdery dark-green fungus growing inside. What the hell.
I know, right? I'm totally in for a week of the most disturbing movies of all time. I read the Wikipedia entry for Salo and it sounds awesome and that picture bothers me not even a little bit, so we'll see.
So, you two have joined a group of jaded internet miscreants, and upon seeing where their lines in the sand are drawn, have decided, "pfft, it can't be that bad..." Godspeed. You'll need it.
Miscreants? Dude, it's Saturday night and you're roasting chesnuts. Mothers, lock up your daughters, ghettoastronaut's on the loose and may respectfully invite them to a Sunday morning picnic.
The only one you are really wrong about is Come and See. That movie is awesome. But yeah, go watch Salo, you will be very disgusted.