IT'S A CLASSY-ASS THURSDAY

[spatch]

There just ain't enough class in this world anymore. Thankfully some folks are stepping up to help get rid of the remainder.

ONE! The bar at the Park Plaza in Boston (the Park Freakin' Plaza, of all places) recently announced a Red Sox-themed drink menu which it will offer during games. One of the undoubtedly overpriced boozicle concoctions you can get at the Park is the A-Roid Cocktail, which is basically a shot of tequila with a chaser of tomato juice. The tomato juice is delivered to you in a syringe. Adam Gaffin at Universal Hub reports that "...state law prohibits the establishment from supplying patrons with a needle to go along with the syringe" so I'm not quite sure how you're supposed to inject the tomato juice into your buttock, but hey, where there's a will, there's a way.

Thankfully those who do not wish to pony up the cash for this can easily make this drink in the comfort and privacy of their own home. (Kids, you may want to ask your parents for help finding syringes.)

TWO! David Hayter is the guy who wrote the screenplay for Watchmen. David Hayter would very much like it if you went and saw his movie, of which he is very proud. David Hayter also wants to let you know that if you have already seen the film, good on you, but he would like you to go see it again. David Hayter obviously has points in this movie and is probably late with the rent. David Hayter is so emphatic in his argument that he uses some rather unconventional rhetoric:

Because face it. All this time…You there, with the Smiley-face pin. Admit it.

All this time, you've been waiting for a director who was going to hit you in the face with this story. To just crack you in the jaw, and then bend you over the pool table with this story. With its utterly raw view of the darkest sides of human nature, expressed through its masks of action and beauty and twisted good intentions. Like a fry-basket full of hot grease in the face. Like the Comedian on the Grassy Knoll. I know, I know…

You say you don't like it. You say you've got issues. I get it.

And yet… You'll be thinking about this film, down the road. It'll nag at you. How it was rough and beautiful. How it went where it wanted to go, and you just hung on. How it was thoughtful and hateful and bleak and hilarious. And for Jackie Earle Haley.

Trust me. You'll come back, eventually. Just like Sally.

David Hayter has just claimed that his film attempted to rape you, and he knows you liked it so much that you'll go back.

David Hayter is one class act!

Happy Thursday, everybody. Now go out there and out-class the world.

Comments

[tansu.livejournal.com]

Well, if Alan Moore hasn't already put a hex on him...

[littlegirltoast.livejournal.com]

...then I very well might.

[ron_newman]

Trust me. You'll come back, eventually. Just like Sally.

Umm ... this is supposed to make me want to see the film? Ugh.

[ilovehpl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was thinking I was going to go see this, but I'm not interested in being cracked in the jaw or being bent over the pool table.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Setting aside his hyperbole, if you liked the trailers, you'll like the movie.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

If you're a fan of the graphic novel, see the movie.

(Yes, of course it's a horrid thing to say, but I'd like to think he was joking.)

[ilovehpl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm enough of a fan that I probably will see it sooner or later, it's just ... Christ, what an asshole!

[littlegirltoast.livejournal.com]

Being a joke scarcely improves a horrid thing to say!

[cheezdanish.livejournal.com]

Whatever happened to old values,
And fine morals,
And good breeding?
Now no one even says oops
When they're passing their gas!

Whatever happened to class?

[dpolicar]

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

....

"Sooooo, Sally can wait...she's know it's too late as we're walking on by..."

[fmi-agent.livejournal.com]

Eeeaggh.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Attention whores - we haz them.

[batyatoon]

And then you will have a BEAUTIFUL BABY FANFIC.

Or something.



Yeah, uh.

[del-the-psycho.livejournal.com]

Snake? SNAKE?! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

Sally?

How come nobody else has demanded the details on the other Red Sox drinks? Is there a Varitekbomb? A Slowell Gin Fizz?

[gee-tar.livejournal.com]

David Hayter really needs to shut up for his own good.

[dcart.livejournal.com]

He's probably just going through his white powder phase.

[giantfightbot.livejournal.com]

I guess the checks for voiceover work as Solid Snake aren't coming in like they used to?

(Unless that's a different David Hayter...)

[spatch]

Same dude. That's the weird thing about it.

[huskyscotsman.livejournal.com]

Wow. Got to admire his diversity, if not a lot else at this point.

[maga-dogg.livejournal.com]

"Hey guys! I figured out what this book's Meaning is! It's flamebait!"

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

You know, way back when Watchmen the comic was actually running, the guy in my dorm who kept pestering me to read it was a major-league creep, a manipulative sociopath who treated women in a skeevy manner. He was also strangely interested in crackpot science and thought I'd be attracted to the advanced physics in the story of old Doc Manhattan. It sort of biased me against the thing.

For some reason, this reminds me of that.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

People who only get the surface message of the piece? ("Beat up women! Then they'll want to sleep with you. And then weird stuff happens, but it's incomprehensible, so get back to the assault and rape.")

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I never actually read Watchmen apart from a few pages, so I didn't realize it at the time, but reading the discussion of the movie's plot makes me think that some of that was actually going on. He also may not have realized that Manhattan's people-as-collections-of-particles worldview was being examined critically, or that all the business about the Intrinsic Field Subtractor was essentially parodic.

But for the writer of the screenplay to not get some of these things, even though people are obviously taking them away from the film, would be very strange indeed.

[littlegirltoast.livejournal.com]

What is with how people just decided that as of all of a sudden it is no problem to think you are madcap hilarious with rape???

Did they cancel all rape and discontinue its trauma for survivors in a sweeping gesture so now it's no big deal anymore?

Because thank goodness for that if so!

Otherwise: it is FUCKING OFF time.

[redtheblue.livejournal.com]

Wow, David Hayter, what an in-your-face, phunky phresh slice of humor from someone with absolutely nothing to prove.