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ark knight there was plenty to admire many of the performances with heath ledger s joker as a stand out the fact that gotham became a tangible place the sheer scope of the thing the epic scale but i never really got into them never really managed to lose myself in the films and i couldn t quite put my finger on the why i knew that part of it was that the themes were stated over and over and that the film mistook being dour and dark for being intellectual and deep but that wasn t everything then i read many of jim emerson s many pieces about the films and it clicked read the rest of this entry posted in reviews riffs and ruminations week in pop cultrue tagged christopher nolan gary oldman magic mike steven soderbergh the dark knight rises 2 comments what s making me happy this week week 28 posted by hedwig on july 15 2012 in this post the wire season 1 tv recaps a clash of kings locke lamora a s byatt comics joseph campbell and the amazing spider man the main thing making me happy this week is not pop culture related it s that the good stress has finally kicked in for my dissertation i ve been stressed about it for a while but it was mostly the diffuse abstract kind of stress the kind that makes everything feel overwhelming but doesn t stop you from wasting time the internet especially being both the best and the worst procrastinatory tool ever created by man now however it s finally the focused propulsive kind of stress the kind that allows you to write 14 pages of introduction in a week granted it s a first draft at best still missing some crucial elements confused about its audience and with some structural issues that need to be worked out but it sure feels great to see the page number creep upward i did still manage to consume some media however i finished the first season of the wire for instance and it s finally starting to click read the rest of this entry posted in week in pop cultrue tagged a s byatt joseph campbell ragnarok spider man the wire 2 comments on rape jokes posted by hedwig on july 11 2012 i don t really want to get specifically into the whole daniel tosh thing because a i d never heard of him before this and b it s been covered well elsewhere for instance by alyssa rosenberg however the incident has made me think about rape jokes and whether they re even funny first of all a disclaimer i m lucky enough never to have been raped some boob gropage aside i ve never even been sexually assaulted this means i can t speak as to how triggering jokes can be and i won t attempt to i ll stick to analyzing some jokes and the messages behind them i also feel like i should place a tw here i ll describe a fairly violent visual rape joke from a movie later on so adjust accordingly thing is i don t think a blanket rape jokes are never funny is true nor do i think declaring rape jokes taboo is a good thing i think rape jokes can be funny in fact just this weekend a friend showed me wanda sykes detachable vagina bit now to me that s funny and a big chunk of it falls under the qualifier rape joke likewise the here s your rape bit i came across recently i m not a big fan of the execution of that one but the premise is good what distinguished both these examples is that instead of feeding back into rape culture they expose it for the jokes to work you need to be aware of just how pervasive the idea of rape is in a girls education in a woman s life i m stubborn enough that i don t let it affect me much in my daily life i often bike home alone late at night for instance and dress however the hell i please but i m aware that this means that if anything happens to me people are likely to shake their heads and think i should have been more careful and i m aware it s not so easy to shrug of for everyone i have a friend who doesn t want to come over to watch a movie if it means biking home alone after dark these jokes acknowledge this reality and manage to make it darkly funny talking the issue over with bf he mentioned another rape joke in the dutch movie new kids nitro that s in a very different category background about the new kids thing more here originally a series of online sketches it s about a group of decidedly lower class none too bright guys from brabant speaking an exaggerated version of the local dialect and swearing a lot with kut as their preferred insult guess what english word that s etymologically related to i watched the first movie made from the show new kids turbo and thought it was very funny the makers have an impeccable of timing and their strength lies in repetition and exaggeration taking jokes to absurd extremes as an example remember the moment in mean girls where regina george is suddenly hit by a bus well new kids nitro has not one or two but four 4 of those with progressively bigger vehicles and progressively bigger laughs too according to bf at a certain point in the sequel in the middle of a battle a lady from the admittedly easy to ridicule bond tegen het vloeken association against swearing shows up and lectures them now there s a way to make this funny the do you have to use so many cuss words the fuck you talking about exchange from the big lebowski comes to mind the joke in nkn however involves the woman getting bent over and raped with a pool cue yeah see i get that one of their things it to push limits the movie also involved zombies which are put on a train to germany as an endlösing clearly shock is their objective but aside from being tasteless the pool cue thing is just lazy it s not just an easy target but it s hit with the least amount of creativity possible echoing let s teach that uptight bitch a lesson original thought there worst of all it s simply not funny unless you think upsetting annoying women if funny in and of itself it s not like it would have been difficult to think of something better even for instance wouldn t it have been unexpected to have one of the new kids or all suddenly turn around and lecture the woman in extremely posh and articulate dutch about the importance of swearing for language and then show a reaction shot of the woman looking shocked and then saying after just the right length of pauze kut it may not be comedy brilliance but if i can come up with a funnier alternative in ten minutes as an amateur professional comedians should have no trouble finding something better something that doesn t depict rape as a deserved comeuppance for being a prude preferably there is one obvious difference of course between these jokes the first two were made by women the latter by men i don t necessarily think that only women can make good rape jokes or that they can never make an unfunny or unacceptable one i just think the lived experience of men and women is very different so it might require a bit more empathy from men just like i d really have to think before i ever made a joke about say what it s like to be a black person in fact i d probably just reconsider telling the joke so guys unless you re willing to put yourself in women s shoes and i mean really make an effort i d probably just stay away from that particular topic it s just a joke you might say sure just like it s just a movie it s just a saying it s just a word etc these things all reflect and shape society and as such are worth examining and the fact that the most shock jock or anti pc jokes tend to reinforce the status quo tend to uphold existing hierarchies well that s just very fascinating while the new kids and apparently much of brabant uses the term as an equivalent of cunt it can also be more of an exclamation in the same way as shit or fuck it can also become a preposition a kutdag is a shitty day versatile word really and one i kind of like despite its gendered nature the hard k makes it very satisfying to say for those tempted to invoke the first amendment or call this censorship please posted in riffs and ruminations tagged daniel tosh humor new kids rape culture wanda sykes leave a comment what s making me happy this week week 26 posted by hedwig on july 1 2012 a friend of mine got his phd this week cum laude even and he s such a cool guy he had a party at a cinema and showed john carpenter s the thing on the big screen so yeah that made me pretty happy and jump a few times especially during that re animation i d managed to forget about that particular scare somehow and then there s a another thing that s not making me happy necessarily it s a bit callous to be happy about a relationship you don t have real insight in but that s absolutely fascinating the tomkat divorce read the rest of this entry posted in week in pop cultrue tagged celebrity gossip katie holmes scientology the amazing spider man the thing tom cruise tomkat leave a comment what was making me happy last week geeky things in week 25 posted by hedwig on july 1 2012 i started writing this post last sunday but didn t finish and then got crazy busy as in the only night i didn t have anything planned was wednesday and i picked sleeping over the other things i wanted needed to do belatedly then last week s post about doctor who and a game of thrones oh and note to potential employers i swear i m much better at keeping to externally imposed deadlines i never want to disappoint other people but disappointing myself eh been there etc two geeky things were making me happy last week a sci fi show and a fantasy book doctor who and a game of thrones doctor who because i watched the last three episodes of the first season of new who this week and can t wait to see the rest even if it s too bad eccleston will not be returning read the rest of this entry posted in other week in pop cultrue tagged a game of thrones doctor who geekiness george r r martin leave a comment what s making me happy this week week 24 posted by hedwig on june 17 2012 a change of name for this feature i felt like the previous title obliged me to at least try to mention a bit of everything and i d rather just mention one or two things so new title borrowed from npr s pop culture happy hour a podcast i definitely recommend what s making me happy this week well the true blood theme song for one i wish i could say the return of the show is making me happy but it shows no signs of improvement and looked especially poor compared to the great shows we ve been getting lately and yet i still watch and maybe that s partly because the theme song is so perfect putting you in the exact right mood for a large dose of campy fun whether the fun actually follows or not jonathan coulton played it on npr s fun new quiz ask me another this week and it made me feel like today s episode despite the fact that there s little to look forward to except perhaps some jason shenanigans yup that s two npr mentions above it feels so obvious of course someone like me would like public radio but i don t care i love many of their shows and quizzes with answers like cinnabonfire of the vanities definitely fall in the category of things that make me happy also making me happy two genre novels i m reading red seas under red skies the second locke lamora novel by scott lynch on the e book reader and jonathan lethem s girl in landscape in print i m only halfway through both but the former continues and expands a fun fantasy universe with a sting like plot and the latter creates a sci fi world that s completely out there but with a central character that keeps it grounded continuing a theme that s been re occuring lately with sansa in got and sally in man men the main character gets her period and it s described kind of perfectly not making me so happy the dutch soccer team but i might have to keep thoughts about that for another post and at least i have a good excuse not to have to watch the probably excruciating match tonight i m going to see orfeo ed euridice which apparently is quite the spectacle posted in week in pop cultrue tagged girl in landscape jonathan coulton npr red seas under red skies true blood 1 comment my week in pop culture week 22 23 posted by hedwig on june 10 2012 i was away all day last sunday so i m afraid my weekly post slipped through the cracks here then a post for not just last week but the week before that it was heavy on film with 4 cinema visits cosmopolis prometheus moonrise kingdom and snow white and the huntsman 3 of them interesting and one of them charming that would be mk listened to some new music for the first time in a while new albums by regina spektor metric the hives and read quite a bit finished cosmopolis the book and the stories included with i am legend read tarzan of the apes by edgar rice burroughs and the hedge knight by george r r martin what i really want to talk about however is the final two episodes of this season of game of thrones this afternoon i listened to an interview with the director of episode 2 9 neil marshall and was disappointed but not particularly surprised to find out he d been urged by an executive producer to up the pointless nudity you can do full frontal you know the man apparently said adding that he represented the pervert side of the audience look i have nothing against nudity the main reason hbo goes so over the top with it and with swearing too is because the rest of american tv is so ridiculously prudish i don t even necessarily see a problem with people finding the nudity an incentive to watch something the reason i m going to see magic mike in the cinema has little to do with plot or characterization or with producers adding nudity with the express purpose of appealing to the pervert side but game of thrones is taking it to a rather ridiculous level and the nudity in that specific episode felt even more tacked on that usual especially since the girl was a non entity never seen before and probably never to be seen again still i can t help but wonder maybe there s a sneakier plan at work here read the rest of this entry posted in week in pop cultrue tagged game of thrones george r r martin leave a comment snow white and the huntsman posted by hedwig on june 9 2012 note i ll keep it spoiler free above the fold but i would like to discuss the ending below it updating fairy tales is all the rage these days with not just two snow white movies but even a jack the beanstalk one but they ve really never left the public consciousness it can be safely assumed that like vampires and frankenstein s they will never truly disappear since the bare bones of the stories can so easily be adapted to the times the core elements familiar but the subtext fluid the stories of princesses might all look the same and seem to embody only the most antiquated of gender roles but their messages and lessons still ring strong snow white of course has always been about beauty and youth who is the fairest of them all the queen asks eager to hear her own name and furious when it turns out she is fairest no longer surpassed by a raven haired pale beauty with crimson lips in the fairy tale and in the new action movie adaptation snow white and the huntsm...