Cherry Liquor posted a BLOG item over 2 years ago

This about sums it up for me

I'm lifting some of Camille Paglia's commentary about Lady Gaga because it pretty much illustrates what I've been thinking about her so far. The nation's love affair with her is as confusing to me as the same adoration for those Jersey Shore idiots. Have we really all gotten THAT stupid?

..."She constantly touts her symbiotic bond with her fans, the “little monsters”, who she inspires to “love themselves” as if they are damaged goods in need of her therapeutic repair. “You’re a superstar, no matter who you are!” She earnestly tells them from the stage, while their cash ends up in her pockets. She told a magazine with messianic fervor: “I love my fans more than any artist who has ever lived.” She claims to have changed the lives of the disabled, thrilled by her jeweled parody crutches in the Paparazzi video.

Furthermore, despite showing acres of pallid flesh in the fetish-bondage garb of urban prostitution, Gaga isn’t sexy at all – she’s like a gangly marionette or plasticized android. How could a figure so calculated and artificial, so clinical and strangely antiseptic, so stripped of genuine eroticism have become the icon of her generation? Can it be that Gaga represents the exhausted end of the sexual revolution? In Gaga’s manic miming of persona after persona, over-conceptualized and claustrophobic, we may have reached the limit of an era."

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Cherry Liquor posted a BLOG item about 3 years ago

My Movie viewing of 2010 (only movies I hadn't seen before)

I went ahead and did a little revision to my ongoing list of movies that I've been watching since the beginning of 2010. I decided to take out a couple of entries, one because I'd seen it before and one because it was a television series. But this is the list as it stands. The goal, as it is for me every year, is to intake a minimum of 365 new (to me) movies over the course of the year. (As of 3/19/10 - 75 movies watched, making me 3 movies behind where I should be for the movie a day.)

1) District 9
2) Carriers
3) A Perfect Getaway
4) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
5) Munich
6) The Hurt Locker
7) Irreversible
8) Adam
9) In the Loop
10) Halloween (Zombie's version)
11) Shorts
12) The Number 23
13) When a Stranger Calls (2006 remake)
14) Black Christmas (remake)
15) Legion
16) Bruno
17) Halloween 2 (Zombie's version)
18) Uptown Girls
19) The Kid Stays in the Picture
20) Leap Year
21) St. Trinian's
22) When in Rome
23) Happy Campers
24) Couples Retreat
25) A Serious Man
26) Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightening Thief
27) Dare (2009, with Emmy Rossum)
28) The Stepfather (2009 remake)
29) Law Abiding Citizen
30) The Invention of Lying
31) Gamer
32) The Surrogates
33) Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
34) Pretty Persuasion
35) Baby on Board
36) Miss Conception
37) Motherhood
38) Sorority Row
39) Everybody's Fine
40) Splinterheads
41) Hollywoodland
42) Blessed
43) Two Girls and a Guy
44) Cake
45) Drugstore Cowboy
46) Lollilove
47) 18 Year Old Virgin
48) Conversations with Other Women
49) The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
50) Hope Springs
51) The Guru
52) Gray Matters
53) Alice in Wonderland
54) I Hate Valentine's Day
55) All About Steve
56) The Usual Suspects
57) Big Trouble
58) Precious
59) Hachi: A Dog's Tale
60) She's Out of My League
61) Up in the Air
62) The Time Traveler's Wife
63) Dirty Love
64) Freshmen Orientation
65) Greenfingers
66) Surveillance
67) Nine Dead
68) Across the Hall
69) Astro Boy
70) Smash Cut
71) Where the Wild Things Are
72) The Fourth Kind
73) The Informant!
74) The Box
75) Armored
76) Paranormal Activity
77) Boondock Saints 2: All Saint's Day
78) Old Dogs
79) New Moon
80) The Final
81) The Men Who Stare at Goats
82) Brothers
83) The Fantastic Mr. Fox
84) Resident Evil
85) Shutter Island
86) Four Christmases
87) American Pie Presents: Book of Love
88) Christmas with the Kranks
89) 2012
90) An Education
91) Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
92) Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
93) Valentine's Day
94) Bandslam
95) The Oh in Ohio
96) Ladder 49
97) How to Train Your Dragon
98) Killing Me Softly
99) First Daughter
100) The Velocity of Gary
101) Good Hair
102) The Lovely Bones
103) Post Grad
104) Pretty Ugly People
105) Clash of the Titans (2010)
106) Kick-Ass
107) The Descent 2
108) Man on Fire
109) Defendor
110) Iron Man 2
111) Peacock
112) Homecoming
113) You Got Served
114) Hot Tub Time Machine
115) The Spy Next Door
116) Daybreakers
117) Sherlock Holmes (2009)
118) Saw 6
119) It's Complicated
120) Splice