Comments on: celestial intervention http://antipopper.com/blog/celestial-intervention/ for the unconditional military defence of numerous things Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:28:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jebni http://antipopper.com/blog/celestial-intervention/comment-page-1/#comment-1035 jebni Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:38:53 +0000 http://antipopper.com/blog/celestial-intervention/#comment-1035 <p>Thanks for the recommendation, Mel, I'll check it out. Az, I've only seen The Doom Generation. Being a cinema would be cool. Being asleep would be nicer.</p> Thanks for the recommendation, Mel, I’ll check it out. Az, I’ve only seen The Doom Generation. Being a cinema would be cool. Being asleep would be nicer.

]]> By: az http://antipopper.com/blog/celestial-intervention/comment-page-1/#comment-1034 az Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:48:46 +0000 http://antipopper.com/blog/celestial-intervention/#comment-1034 <p>uh, <em>in</em> a cinema. though being a cinema would be okay too.</p> uh, in a cinema. though being a cinema would be okay too.

]]> By: az http://antipopper.com/blog/celestial-intervention/comment-page-1/#comment-1033 az Tue, 19 Jul 2005 01:46:22 +0000 http://antipopper.com/blog/celestial-intervention/#comment-1033 <p>About the long time to process thing -- does that have anything to do with how so many reviewers of <i>Angels</i> said it seemed 'dated'? I could never figure out what that meant, or what they were referring to.</p> <p>Also, I've been hearing good things about <i>Mysterious Skin</i> but this just makes me want to be a cinema with it on now. Gregg Araki accompanied me on so many crazy queer missions when I was younger. And Ben, have you seen Araki's <i>Nowhere</i>? Alien abduction is also explored there, although it's cheesy slimy, horror-movie style alien visitation rather than anything white-lightey. But there too, the fantastical, apparently hallucinatory enters reality in a really mundane fashion. In a way that's also like the surreal last 10 minutes of Francois Ozon's <i>Sitcom</i>.</p> About the long time to process thing — does that have anything to do with how so many reviewers of Angels said it seemed ‘dated’? I could never figure out what that meant, or what they were referring to.

Also, I’ve been hearing good things about Mysterious Skin but this just makes me want to be a cinema with it on now. Gregg Araki accompanied me on so many crazy queer missions when I was younger. And Ben, have you seen Araki’s Nowhere? Alien abduction is also explored there, although it’s cheesy slimy, horror-movie style alien visitation rather than anything white-lightey. But there too, the fantastical, apparently hallucinatory enters reality in a really mundane fashion. In a way that’s also like the surreal last 10 minutes of Francois Ozon’s Sitcom.

]]> By: MC http://antipopper.com/blog/celestial-intervention/comment-page-1/#comment-1032 MC Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:53:53 +0000 http://antipopper.com/blog/celestial-intervention/#comment-1032 <p>So glad you posted this... the chewing has been worth it. Jebni have you heard of the book 'The Line of Beauty' by Alan Hollinghurst? I've just finished reading it, and found it a great companion to Angels in America... it's written from a gay Brit Oxford boy's perspective during Thatcherite London. Really heartbreakingly good. I'm finding it sobering to watch this incredible period of history slowly rising to the surface of pop culture - it's like the shock of the AIDS crisis, which is hardly over of course, was so immense for those touched by it that it has taken this long to process. Imagine what this means for the societies that are yet to gain any real health reform to deal with it.</p> So glad you posted this… the chewing has been worth it. Jebni have you heard of the book ‘The Line of Beauty’ by Alan Hollinghurst? I’ve just finished reading it, and found it a great companion to Angels in America… it’s written from a gay Brit Oxford boy’s perspective during Thatcherite London. Really heartbreakingly good. I’m finding it sobering to watch this incredible period of history slowly rising to the surface of pop culture – it’s like the shock of the AIDS crisis, which is hardly over of course, was so immense for those touched by it that it has taken this long to process. Imagine what this means for the societies that are yet to gain any real health reform to deal with it.

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