Julianne Moore Cries Over Everything

Everything in the literal, not-at-all-hyperbolic sense. BEHOLD: over three minutes of Julianne Moore crying.

Naked Lunch

This is one of those rare examples where the movie just breakdances in circles around the book. i'm sure a lot of people would disagree with me if they heard me say that, or saw me write it, but suck it. and take that berét off, you look ridiculous.

*Naked Lunch as a book is challenging to the point of absurdity. It's sort of like Burroughs' heroin addled spin on Finnegan's Wake-style convolution. i am personally convinced that ninety-nine out of every one-hundred people who claim to have read and enjoyed it either never read it at all or are lying. maybe one in a hundred people that says they read it even sort of understands it, let alone ADORES it the way people claim to. my best friend rob would put it on the pretentious book rack at the book store where he works. Still, i don't think it's ever been out of print- people LOVE to own books that are controversial, drug related and (to most) unreadable. See: bookshelves of people who were fifteen or so in 1996 that own suspiciously pristine copies of Irvine Welsh's 'Trainspotting.'

the MOVIE, however, is one of my top three favorites ever, i think. It's playing tomorrow night at the Loft Cinema in Tucson. i'm GOING. Me and my first boyfriend were very big into it, it was kind of bizarro romantic. the first thing he ever gave me was a little plastic toy mugwump. he'd make his own postcards that he'd send me and on them would be these little sketches of Naked Lunch creatures in between his insanely small taiwanese handwriting. ANYways, yeah. Such a great preview, too. and the colors and everything he uses are just amazing. i would LOVE to see Cronenberg go back to this kind of project. he's such a master. he needs to work with judy davis again, too!

*i LOVE Burroughs, but i don't like abstraction upon abstraction upon abstraction. maybe i'm just not smart enough or something, i don't know. if you have to have a debilitating drug problem to understand something, MAYBE IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE AS MUCH SENSE AS YOU THINK IT DOES.