mindless maggot glare

[freckles_and_doubt]

Fortunately, Jawas appear to have left the house relatively unscathed. Possibly they were very small, discreet Jawas. I did, however, have an icky start to the day in discovering that the rubbish bin was a squirming, writhing mass of maggots (sorry, schedule5), causing me much swearing, splashing around of disinfectant and stomping around with my skirts kited up to my waist. The way the grubs ooze blindly off in all directions when you disturb them... eeeeuw. My skin is still crawling. Bloody hot weather.

Apart from the rot at the heart of society, another Baudrillardian moment, sigh. The local billboards in the last two days have vouchsafed us the headlines "SNAKES ON THE PLAIN" (presumably outbreaks of interest to herpetologists in the low-income suburb of Mitchell's Plain) and "SHAKES ON A PLANE" (engines on cut-price domestic airline flight burst into flame mid-air, causing trepidation in passengers). This worrying trend demonstrates The Triumph Of The Title in a sense quite apart from headline smartarsery. It doesn't matter what that completely ridiculous movie was actually like, its title is now embedded in our cultural zeitgeist. More than that, its meaning and currency are entirely in its label. The surface tells you everything you need to know about the content to the extent where it is the content. It remains to be seen whether 2009's claim to the Snakes slot is as transparently substanceless. It's called Lesbian Vampire Killers. I think its inherent ambiguity flaws it, personally.

Comments

[mac1235.livejournal.com]

Truly a jam jar movie. (Primi Piati drink)

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Why? Your thought processes are, as usual, arcane and cryptic. Expound! (Either that, or admin is killing my brain and I'm missing something obvious).

[tngr-spacecadet.livejournal.com]

Jam Jar = potent cocktail at Primi Piatti.

I still rue the day I watched Snakes on a Plane without sufficient anaesthesia...

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

ah, right, all becomes clear. I was reading "jam jar" as a comment on the pretentious Primi Piatti industrial decor, hence no comprehension. Thanks!

I've never seen the actual movie. I figure I don't have to, see above.

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

And thus your readers across the globe can infer that the last two days have been gloomy and cool, allowing your vocabulary and wit to return.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Strangely true (on the cool front, at least, I make no claims for the wit, although thank you!). Also, I'm frantically busy and the admin is getting me down, so wabbery and distraction is the order of the day.

[(Anonymous)]

I hear that Snakes on a Plane was only the working title. They were going to actually call it something like Pacific Air Flight 121. But Sammy J said no! He signed on to the movie because of the Awesome Name and if they changed it, he was out! So there you go.

And I believe LVK is about killers of lesbian vampires, but yes, highly ambiguous.

scroob

[egadfly.livejournal.com]

And SHEIKHS ON A PLANE just isn't funny any more.

Though with LESBIAN VAMPIRE SHEIKHS, you might be onto something.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Actually I think the local rags have also inflicted "SHEIKHS ON A PLANE" on us in the last few weeks, but fortunately I seem to have blocked the memory.

LESBIAN VAMPIRE SHEIKHS: the something you are on is almost certainly illegal.

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

yup, I spotted SHEIKHS ON A PLANE. It did really happen

[egadfly.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I wonder whether there's a jurisdiction anywhere in which lesbians, vampires and sheikhs are all illegal? 2 out of 3 is easy (and it's not the intolerance of fundamentalist vampires or jihadist lesbians I'm referencing here).