great things about this:
- james spader having an emotional moment in a car wash
- "there's no dust in her dustbuster!!!"!!!!
- "be nice to her, mother, or i'm going to beat the shit out of you"
- i want james spader to come over and 'fix my mailbox' please. he was so beautiful in this film. James spader, you look so beautiful i can hardly keep my eyes on the meter.
- susan sarandon making james spader beg…
I was once a girl of eleven who was far too blonde and too obsessive about the things she liked. I liked drag and Kate Bush and books and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I would go into school with my Buffy dedicated journal and I'd talk to anyone who'd listen about what I liked. I found Hedwig at that time, and I felt like I wasn't annoying anymore. My mother walked in on me watching the film one day…
Jools Holland banging out the piano on Town Called Malice. Michael Stipe painting his face blue. Teared up when Tracy Chapman. Ray Davies was so beautiful. PHIL DANIELS PARKLIFE! Incredible! Kylie Minogue looked smoking hot in that leopard print. Freddie Radio Gaga ❤️❤️ Oh what fun! Four hours straight of amazing music!
My very good sis Laura (a big Arkush fan) showed me this in honour of New Year. We laughed so much at these lines:
"Man it's dark out there what's happening?"
"NIGHT"
And
"You ain't blind you just in the damn closet"
And
"ooh, i feel quite different.."
Cartoons playing at the gig? Constant fire and bombs? Giant walking joints? A strange Eldritch drug monster? Malcom McDowell with a huge (fake, i assume. Hope?) bulge? Lou Reed interludes of him as sort…
this film is like glitter, it creates chaos by exploding with flamboyance and sticks to everyone so even if they hate it they're stuck thinking about it for the rest of their lives. youre never free of glitter. youre never free of rocky horror. it's that manic and camp horniness that makes it so intoxicating because nothing is like it. it's lace and leather and cheap perfume and hairspray and garters and crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race- lost in time, lost in space and meaning.
This, surely, is what every girl wants. Weird awkward control freakish twitchy older man who stares at you like he's never encountered a woman before and can't finish his sentences without shaking and moving his hands and blinking rapidly but he gives you quiet orders and you like the orders and the monotony of dull work and you thrill in saying sir
he furiously exercises when you go rooting through the bins for him because it turns him on so much and…
˗ˏˋ jules´ˎ˗ added Lynch/Oz to her watchlist
˗ˏˋ jules´ˎ˗ liked Laura’s review of 60 Songs: BBC Two at 60
˗ˏˋ jules´ˎ˗ liked misiek’s review of Lawrence of Arabia
˗ˏˋ jules´ˎ˗ commented on her own review of 60 Songs: BBC Two at 60
