synchronicity

today i finished J-K Huysmans's The Damned and tonight's episode of Two and a Half Men featured Charlie shacking up with, you guessed it, a Satanist.

yes. i need a life here in Spore City.

whoops. excuse me, Punch Drunk Love is on.

later.




back.

i have no idea why i posted this, but i suppose i should say more to kinda sorta make up for it.

i absolutely love Punch Drunk Love, but i'm put-off that MediaCorp TV (Channel 5) decided to cut some scenes out. no these were *not* unnecessary scenes and there was nothing in them to warrant censorship. well, ok, i can sorta imagine why Barry telling Lena he wants to smash her face in before they make love might make some people a little uncomfortable, but cutting the brilliant comedic turn at the end of the confrontation with Dean Trumbell? i suspect it has something to do with fitting the movie into the time slot and still get all the ads in, but it isn't something they'd do for a sure box office hit like last week's X2. i suppose i should be thankful they even bothered to put PDL on the air in the first place and this is probably unfair and judgmental and much too generalizing a statement for me to make, but i'm a little too put off right now to let my internal editor censor my thoughts, so: this reinforces the image i've built around this place in my head: that of an artificial, deliberately constructed, utterly soulless society where everything is commodified.

er. maybe i shouldn't have said anything else after all.

to divert your attention, i post this:

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/05/35/pt_anderson.html

right. i see Sideways is coming up now and, seeing as it's a movie i haven't seen enough to know if i'm being shortchanged, i'll probably have nothing else to say tonight.

good night.