mindless maggot glare
Wednesday, 14 January 2009 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
freckles_and_doubtFortunately, 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, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.
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Date: Wednesday, 14 January 2009 11:45 am (UTC)I've never seen the actual movie. I figure I don't have to, see above.