temporarily edge for thesis purposes

so right now i'm in a self-inflicted party exile as i have like a month to go before my thesis show. i have been working away, yeah, but i really need to stop fucking around. as a result, i will not be going out or doing anything fun, really, until tuesday, february 26. or maybe monday, february 25, as that is the day i finish installing. anyway, my home life for the past few weeks is as follows: camped out on a couch, swaddled in a faux-fur 'throw', computer, books, tray of tools, clay working shit. the work that i have to do -- namely, faithfully recreating the skeletons of my childhood pets from porcelain -- is tedious, but not exactly mind-bending. the ONLY thing that keeps my ass on that seat, semi-focused, is TELEVISION. maybe it's apparent, but when i have to really examine the passive interests that i truly and indulgently love, tv is pretty much winning by a landslide. anyway, on that note, what follows are my notes on weekend 'work' viewing...

THE BURNING (1981) -- on sunday nights, i think, IFC shows a bunch of grindhouse movies. sometimes they're worth the time, and i say this one is. friday the 13th rip-off with tons of gratuitous violence, including a dude getting his fingers snipped off by giant shears wielded by a burn-victim psycho. this is a summer camp slasher flick with lots of titties and all that. awesome music from yes's rick wakeman.

MADMAN (uhh, also 1981 maybe?) -- another summer camp slasher flick, but seriously, don't bother with this one. boring, not that bloody, not that summer camp-y...i forgot this was on after a while. maybe i took in something valuable through osmosis.

RUSH (1991) -- can't believe i never saw this, and i never knew it was about narcs. duh. i remember when this movie came out, i was maybe in fifth grade, and i was familiar with certain scenes due to clips being present in the 'tears in heaven' video. to my ten-year-old self, the scenes of two people rolling around in beds, on floors, etc., all sweaty and intense, read as the sort of sex scene that i didn't really 'get'. upon watching, though, i know that the bulk of these clips were more like withdrawal than sex...SAVE FOR THE SCENE WHERE JASON PATRIC RAPES THE SPEED RIGHT OUTTA JENNIFER JASON LEIGH. i mean, what the FUCK? anyway, 1970's texas drug rings, greg allman, a hot beardo. this movie is a total downer btw.

APOCOLYPTO -- perhaps the single awesome thing mel gibson has had a hand in.

NEW YEAR'S EVIL (early 80's?) -- uh tuned this off after like 15 minutes, and i NEVER do that because my standards are sooo low. anyway, i'm down with the presence of punk/metal in horror movies -- 1987's 'the gate' and 'trick or treat' (i think that's what it's called, with an alienated teen called 'the rag man' getting haunted by his fave dead rock star's demonic spirit) are awesome examples -- but new year's evil sort of failed to deliver on this, and many, fronts. in the first 15 minutes, anyway whatevs. like my head isn't filled with enough shit anyway.

also watched plenty of reality crap like 'rock of love 2' and more 'celebrity rehab' and maybe like 3 hours of law and order. and yeah, i did get a lot of work done. kind of.