Translation Please!

Eric D Snider from film.com has this to say as to what filmmakers say and what the mean:

What they say: "We really listened to the fans on this one."
What they mean: "If this movie sucks -- and believe me, it does -- it's your own fault."

What they say: "This movie wasn't made for film critics."
What they mean: "This movie wasn't made for people who see a lot of movies and are knowledgeable and passionate about them."

What they say: "It's not a remake; it's a re-imagining."
What they mean: "It's a remake."

What they say: "We didn't plan on doing another sequel, but then we found a story that we really liked, and everything just came together."
What they mean: "We didn't plan on doing another sequel, but then the studio backed a dump truck full of money up to my house."

What they say: "I sat down to read the script and was immediately drawn into this character."
What they mean: "My agent described the character to me in a way that sounded like I'd get to wear a lot of pretty dresses if I signed on."

What they say: "It's the most amazing cast and crew. We really were just like a family."
What they mean: "The kind of family that fights a lot and sometimes has sex with each other, that is."

What they say: "This was a story that I just HAD to tell."
What they mean: "This was a story that I just HAD to tell, according to my contractual obligations."

What they say: "We tried to stay very faithful to the book, but of course you have to make some changes when you make a movie."
What they mean: "Any similarities between this movie and the book it's based on are purely coincidental."

What they say: "Working with a legend like Meryl Streep [or whoever] was a dream come true. She was like a mentor to me."
What they mean: "I'm fairly confident that by the end of the shoot, Meryl Streep knew what my name was."

What they say: "The production was grueling. It was very physically demanding. It was one of the most difficult things I've ever done."
What they mean: "The air conditioning in my trailer was on the fritz, I sometimes had to stand in the sun for a few minutes before my stuntman took over, and much of the $7 million I was paid will be eaten up by taxes."

Deceptive Yard Signs: Ref. 71 is NOT about gay marriage.

Enough signatures have been counted and verified to put R-71 on the ballot this coming November for Washington state. Putting R-71 is detrimental to equal rights. It jeopardizes a number of civil rights a registered domestic partnership has, specified by the state government. However, now that it is in the ballot, those who want to maintain the current state bill want to check approve for R-71. Here is what will appear on the ballot:

Assigned Number: 71
Filed: 05/04/2009

Sponsor
Mr. Lawrence Stickney
P.O. Box 501
Arlington, WA 98223
Phone: 360-631-1894

Ballot Title


The legislature passed Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5688 concerning rights and responsibilities of state-registered domestic partners and voters have filed a sufficient referendum petition on this bill. This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations accorded state-registered same-sex and senior domestic partners to be equivalent to those of married spouses, except that a domestic partnership is not a marriage. Should this bill be:

Approved ___
Rejected ___

Click-y for the link to the Secretary of Washington State to see ballot and full text of referendum.

What really chaps my hide is that the people who oppose the State Bill are making it a whole other issue. They are touting this as a gay marriage bill or calling it a "Trojan Horse" to gay marriage. If you look at the ballot it says "domestic partnership is not a marriage." It is also appalling that this yard sign is out there.
Fine if you want to reject R-71, okay if you think marriage is "one man, one woman," but do not put the two together because the issue at hand with this referendum is NOT the definition of marriage, but the rights given to domestic partnerships.

Approvereferendum71.org has more information about the issue and it is not misleading the voter into thinking it is another issue. This site has good information on what the bill encompasses and what it protects.

How many times can we say "f*ck" in one advice...

From the Savage Love Column on The Stranger:

I've been in a relationship with my boyfriend for the last five years, and we moved in together this past year. Our sex life is not too active and it's an issue we've discussed numerous times. This has caused my self-esteem to plummet. And this aspect of our problem has made me very resentful: We're very into D/s play and discovered our kinky interests early on. In fact, any time I bend him over and spank him or add a bit of bondage, our sex life picks right up again. I resent the fact that this is the only way I can get him interested. Is it possible that he's only interested in kinky sex? Does it mean that good old-fashioned vanilla is out of the question?

I enjoy kink just as much as he does, but every once in a while I just want to be fucked. He's actually had difficulty staying hard before if we're "just" having missionary.

He Only Likes It Kinky

You have leverage here, HOLIK, use it.

The next time you wanna get fucked good and vanilla, HOLIK, whisper in the boyfriend's ear that you are so gonna tie him up and beat his ass... tomorrow night. Then tell him if he wants that—and tell him that you know he wants it because he's a dirty little pervert—he's going to have to fuck you right now, and fuck you hard, and fuck you the way you wanna be fucked. Then once he's fucking you, HOLIK, whisper something vaguely threatening in his ear once in a while—something about the beating he's earning with his good vanilla behavior—and he won't have any trouble staying hard.

I needed a cigarette after this...

Music video picks for the week

okay so instead of blathering about who is hot and who is not according to Billboard, how about if I just get some music videos together. Since MTV can't seem to do it anymore.

Metric - Help I'm Alive

Muse - Uprising

La Roux - Bulletproof

Passion Pit - The Reeling

Rock Paper Scissor Lizard Spock...

I cannot claim this but it must be shared!

We'll be honest here. We hadn't heard of Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock until that episode of The Big Bang Theory. You could say that prior to that day we were traditional roshamboists. When we heard Sheldon explain how it works and why it's superior to your standard-grade RPS, we immediately paused the TV and went over to teh Intarwebs to do research. And indeed, we found the page by Sam Kass, the genius behind this version. His phenomenon must now be part of our life. However, none of us knew anything about this version of the game. So we ended up playing Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock to figure out who had to write the copy for this shirt. It went a little something like this:

Fearless Leader: "One, two, three, SHOOT!"
Rules Lawyer: "What's that?"
Free Thinker: "It's a zombie."
Rules Lawyer: "There is no Zombie in Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock."
Free Thinker: "Braaaaaainsssss."
Rules Lawyer: "There are no Brains in Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock."
Merchant Monkey: "Lizard and Spock have Brainnnnnnnsssss."
Second Merchant: "Right. And Rock bludgeons Zombie into a small pile of blood, teeth, and hair."
Free Thinker: "Awwww."
Fearless Leader: "Are you two done? Okay. Again. One, two, three, SHOOT!"
Rules Lawyer: *raised eyebrow*
Free Thinker: "It's the Large Hadron Collider."

Unfortunately, there is only a shirt for Rock Paper Scissor Lizard Spock... I'm now patiently waiting for Rock Paper Scissor Lizard Spock Zombie LHC.