tbf, Lenny Kravitz does have a nose.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Sulla_Glyptothek_Munich_309.jpg/393px-Sulla_Glyptothek_Munich_309.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
and pupils (though somewhat dilated.)
― pplains, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoYzcbhE-w8
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
battle royale was only ok
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, November 18, 2011 1:15 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
pffft pffft post
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
I never saw the Battle Royale movie but the book was SUPER ENTHRALLING
I've been avoiding The Hunger Games because I wasn't sure I wanted to read Battle Royale Lite; having them linked more directly to Twilight is even more of a turn-off
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
the movie is great dan u should watch it!
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
I actually wanted to start a thread for a serious discussion about "movies that should've been video games" but then I realized that I don't really care about the thoughts people really have about either I just like interacting with them
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
i like the books, with some reservations. the way they're like twilight is the way a lot of ya books about a girl are like twilight: there's a love triangle. they're a lot better than twilight, like almost everything in the world.
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
TUOMAS OTM
very good find
― yo zuccotti (J0rdan S.), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
I am a racist so if there are any other racists around we can just have the vid game/movie discussion in this thread and it'll be on topic
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
not thinking lenny kravitz is attractive is like the #1 sign that u are hella racist
― max, Friday, November 18, 2011 6:09 PM (17 minutes ago)
true true
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
max went gay just to prove hes not racist smh
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
'ringtone' is the preferred term
― max, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
Lenny Kravitz apparently an apostate Jew, I think I am racist against him now
― ooh i love my loaf n jug! (silby), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
the reaction to the lenny kravitz casting makes me hate people, but the reaction to the rue casting is mindboggling. she's very clearly black in the book.
OK, I didn't realize this, but I've only read the first one.
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
she's only in the first one! i guess people sort of skim YA sometimes. district 12 is evocative of Reconstruction-era south black sharecroppers. district 11 is reminiscent of Appalachian coal miners.
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
I never know when people are supposed to be black in books unless the book says "this character is black". "Dark skin" doesn't register for me as "this character is some sort of futuristic black person".
Haven't read hunger games
― ooh i love my loaf n jug! (silby), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
district 9 is an apartheid allegory
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
i do watch books like a hawk for race markers
― horseshoe, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
lol shut up jho i am clearly invested in the hunger games for some reason
do you even realize what an amazing joke i made, do you?!!
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
I have never heard of Hunger Games.
― crüt, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
But I'm still appalled that there are black characters.
gonna do a phd on this brb
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
recently saw a glenn ligon exhibition and holy shit the white people who were walking around and looking at the work and talking about all of it were just so fuckin racist, I mean museum chatter is prob some of my fav shit to overhear in the world but I was leaving rooms just to get away from people
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
why you gotta bring markers into this
― dayo, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
so this isn't about romans.
― pplains, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
come come there's lots of acceptable bigotries in ireland!
Well, yes, here too. I meant acceptable amongst liberals/leftists who would oppose any other kind of prejudice. People here who would oppose any other kind of prejudice or racist language are more than happy to complain about 'gypos' or 'tinks' etc.
― sleep daphnia (dowd), Friday, 18 November 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
*masturbates furiously to pic of lenny kravitz, rids self of last vestiges of racism*
― I gave your mom morgellons (buzza), Friday, 18 November 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.baltimoremd.com/images/anim/eyes.gif
― am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
the movie is pretty good, the book is better. I have no interest in Hunger Games, sounds like a stupid ripoff designed to appeal to um people other than me.
I was kinda shocked to see Battle Royale in a children's book store the other day. Like, really this is appropriate for 12 yo or whatever? (tbf it was on the same shelf as Tolkien/LOTR) I guess I read some gnarly shit when I was 12, I just remember this book being particularly brutal...
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 November 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jWkZ0.jpg
― dayo, Saturday, 19 November 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
Racism isn't even the biggest problem I have with that.
― ooh i love my loaf n jug! (silby), Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
yah it begins sarcastically and then is plainly moralistic, that sort of stylistic miscegenation suggests the internet isn't even trying to raise its young content farmers
― The Triumph of the Will High (nakhchivan), Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
lol all the guys taking cell phone pix
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
maybe she has a hilarious tramp stamp
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
one guy has the im totally gonna put this on my tumblr look in his eyes
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
i got your dam district 9 joke, icey
― horseshoe, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
~7 hours later~
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
haha i am shaking my fist irl
― horseshoe, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
thanking u
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
she's only in the first one!
Oh, duh. :)
i guess people sort of skim YA sometimes.
Possibly true.
district 12 is evocative of Reconstruction-era south black sharecroppers. district 11 is reminiscent of Appalachian coal miners.
I think you have these reversed?
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Saturday, 19 November 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
yes, you are right
― horseshoe, Saturday, 19 November 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
district 12 has enough references to the pale merchant families and the darker seam families for there to be a few theories about katniss's background/appearance. also, the lyrics to the hanging tree also seem to reference lynching: http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Songs#Lyrics_2
― gyac, Sunday, 20 November 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
This is like the opposite of when I read the first three HARRY POTTAR books and thought Hermione was black and was hella confused when I saw the movie poster. OR IS IT??
― Loud music stressed out sad Shadow (Abbbottt), Sunday, 20 November 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.observer.com/2012/01/gawker-blogger-fired-racial-slur-01052011/
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 January 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
Seems really odd to me that this happened at all considering like Gawker and TMZ are like dually responsible for the internet outrage culture of "Once potentially a racist, always a flaming contemptible racist." I figured dude should be like hyper aware of shit like this
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 January 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
I would not be at all surprised if the uproar was over making fun of Kanye's dead mother rather than any allusion to a racial slur, considering the linguistic limbo over the difference between "-a" and "-er".
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Friday, 6 January 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
the joke was really offensive and i do think calling a black person the n-word is a straight up fireable offense but i was more rankled by his no-stakes apology. "sorries all around!" is like an apology from that girl from ucla that made that video about asians in the library.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 6 January 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
also feel like writing a post on gawker about DONDA and not knowing that donda is the name of kanye's dead mom is a fireable offense in of itself.