Snoqualmie

In case it's not immediately obvious to others, the strings of "OMG"s are not used seriously.

Congratulations! Back to school! School's back for the spring!

...BBQ? How about 'WTF'?

Dune sounds like a good idea. There's nothing like two hours of David Lynch-inspired confusion to kill even the highest high or fuck with the coolest mellow. Just be warned, you WILL be walking around saying "I'm packing this...for The Crossing" afterwards.

Nooooo, no, not that Dune. Disc 1 of the miniseries! I've been assured it's far better than anything David Lynch could ever aspire to.

That isn't actually what I've been told, but I'm extrapolating based on the praise I've heard for the Dune miniseries and my own personal opinion of David Lynch. I have faith in the accuracy of my estimation. I have no faith in David Lynch.

I hope a little book learnin will fix that anti-Lynch attitude, missy. SCHOOL FOR DIANNA! SCHOOL FOR DIANNA!

Jason, I hold you (and everyone else involved in the watch-all-of-Twin-Peaks project) as responsible for my dislike of Mr. Lynch as Mr. Lynch himself. I fondly remember the food and company, and unfondly remember the show.

Congratulations!

And Dune: The David Lynch movie was terrible. What I saw of the Dune Miniseries was quite good. Unfortunately college started for me in the middle of it so I've never gotten around to see the rest of it. But it gets a qualified up-thrust appendage from me.

miniseries is good! i have the children of dune miniseries too if you want to borrow that next. really, i own both. so if you wanted either of them you could get them on saturday.

Oooooh! I think I might like to borrow... both, come to think of it, since we have to get each disc separately from GreenCine and they put each miniseries on 3 discs (why 3 discs?).

I'm maybe an hour, or ninety minutes, into it and quite impressed. It's still weird and convoluted -- that's Frank Herbert's doing -- but unlike the movie it's coherent and believable, with more substance than style. So far we've had much more time spent on inter-house politics, and much less time on internal monologues consisting of, "The worm... the spice! The worm... the spice!" Likewise, more time on developing characters, less time on Sting looking googly-eyed and not doing anything.

I have a feeling this will turn into an actual review once I'm done watching the miniseries, but for now all I have to say is that part of Rabban's costume is actually a dildo harness. Hot.

Ah.

Perhaps the dildo harness and the abovementioned "qualified up-thrust appendage" are related.

I think that's the first time anyone has described "The Beast" Rabban as "hot."

He's not much of a beast, is he? He's kind of more of an incompetent. And his clothing ambiguously suggests that he has no dick.

One thing that neither the Lynch nor miniseries versions really capture is how much of a monster Rabban is. The miniseries at least mentions it near the beginning, but doesn't spend enough time for it to sink in.
The Baron unleashes Rabban on Arrakis so that everyone will be relieved when Feyd takes over. The idea being, Rabban is *so* horrible, that even the beautiful sadist will be a welcome relief. It's true that Rabban is meant to be an incompetent, but he's merely incompetent at political manipulations and scheming. He's absolutely terrific at having thousands of people tortured to death.

Goddamnit, now I'm going to have to go acquire myself a copy so I can figure what you're talking about. I saw it five years ago, so I don't recall anything about Raban's clothing, let alone anything that would suggest he's dickless.

Although I suppose all that nastiness could be compensation for his lack-of-dick...

He's wearing a dildo harness, which the costume designer apparently saw and thought that the steel ring in the middle was some kind of futuristic crotch-armor rather than a device for holding a synthetic cock. It's even got a chain attaching it to his belt (in case he loses it?). You just go and watch it again and you'll see.

And I'll have to go and read the book again, because the idea of Rabban as a beast has apparently really fallen out of my head. I've gotten absolutely no such sense of him from either the movie or this. As you've described it it certainly makes the contrast between him and Feyd, which seems otherwise to be interesting but singularly pointless, much more significant.

You know, Jacob, what you just explained illustrates another problem with the movie. David Lynch's version of the Baron had nowhere near the subtlety for that kind of plan. He was just a repugnant fool... when he should have been a scheming repugnant fool.

this will make more sense after you've seen it (theoretically), but i once wrote a "review" of children of dune. or at least about penises. penii. we've had this plural penis conversation before too.

why could'nt you use someone else name to cruse instead of my father's name like Mohamdamn or Benladen damn but not my father's I hope you know that you are cursing the veryone that created you and me so please think about it.

One, I'm shocked that this is the most blasphemous and offensive thing you can find on my blog to complain about. It's like dragging Pol Pot to court for an overdue parking ticket -- on the right track, yes, but possibly not in possession of all the facts.

And two, I'm composing a post to address the substance of your comment even as we (don't) speak. So you may rest assured that you have made the heathen take notice, though I guarantee you're not going to like the kind of notice she's taking.