Monday, August 6, 2007

FRANKIE SAYS RELAX

I suppose "Frank" is the winner of the name that fixator contest. Personally I'd rather call it "that thing that's getting removed at the end of August like my doctor originally promised me," but that's no longer factually accurate.

Of course I can see on the xrays that my bones are nowhere near healed, and of course I can understand that it's going to take two more months, at least, for them to be ready to stand on their own.

But what I can't understand is why my doctor didn't know that before we started this whole thing. The only other option is that he did and he just straight out lied to me. Like he lied to me about how much the lengthening was going to hurt. Hm, I'm starting to see a pattern here...

Since there's not much that I can do about it at this point, I'm just trying to relax and plan out what I want to do with myself for the next two months plus.

We rented Shortbus on Saturday, and the chick at the video store asked Kelly if she knew what it was, then told her it really belonged in the adult section.



Which it probably does. It's front-loaded with sex acts, perhaps solely to shock and jar, and because you aren't yet emotionally invested in the characters, it is indeed shocking and jarring, but as the film goes on and you start to become more emotionally invested in the characters, the sex acts somehow seem less shocking and more just part of the narrative. It's not as good as Hedwig but I think it's worth a viewing for fans of Hedwig. Or fans of porn.

After trying to rent Weeds from the same video store, and having it already be checked out, and then being left with nothing to watch except the horrible War of the Worlds on HBO (really, there's not one redeeming thing about that movie), I finally decided to get Netflix.

Weeds is apparently shipping to me today. I've added Battlestar Galatica and a few random movies to my queue, but I need suggestions, and lots of them, for two more months of viewing.

Help, please.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

i just have (one?three?) word(s) for you:

MI5

it's the best tv show ever, and you can watch all five series on dvd via netflix
the first episode is not so good, but from then on, you're hooked

we also just started watching The Wire
it's like crack
we got pissed off at netflix when the disc came broken this weekend
like really pissed off
hateful

Cladeedah said...

Dude, Laguna Beach & The Hills!! It's pure, unfiltered, free base crack!!!

Is it too late to name the fixator? I was thinking something like Alby the Albatross, or The Punisher (that's what I call the hamstring machine at the gym), or else some famous person's name, like Scarlett Johanssen or something random. Maybe Cillian Murphy or someone like that that's long and slender. OH! I've got it! You should name it James Spader, because if there was a movie about sexual deviancy relating to a fixator fetish, I guarantee he would be starring in it.

Anonymous said...

allison, do you know about netflix friends?
it's competely nerdy, but you can view your friends' accounts as well as their queues and write nerdy little movie reviews and make suggestions to each other.

so i'm gonna go be a dork and send you a netflix friend request. then you will have EIGHT MILLION movie suggestions, because the entire reason i have netflix is for the queue. i love the queue. i don't even care if they send me no movies, as long as i can arrange and rearrange my queue over and over.

also ps. you can set up different queues for different users within your account. so if you're feeling magnaminous (come on! no one can spell that), then kelly can have her own little queue too. but you can do like i do with jessie and just give kelly one movie at a time. :)