104: Letter to Myself

Filed under: Podcasts — marina August 27, 2007 @ 6:16 am

I read the comments, Ben reads a letter he wrote to himself in highschool, and I talk about the interesting result that came of reading my piece on the last show.

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The most recent Araki movie is with Anna Faris, and it’s about stoners. *g* Yeah, I don’t know. Hopefully it’ll be cool, I think it’s only been shown at festivals so far. The teen apocalypse trilogy is Totally Fucked Up, The Doom Generation, and Nowhere.

I know, it’s not like I’ve been doing nothing, but junior college is pretty much just an extension of high school. And most people do junior college in 2 years, not FIVE, so…you know. Kind of a fuck up there.

The gay movie does sound cute. (Look, for once I don’t disagree with Ben! It’s like a miracle! *g*)

God, I have such a hard time showing my shit to people for criticism. Like, yeah, I put fic on the internet, but a) that’s not serious, and b) the livejournal format pretty much guarantees that I’ll only get good comments–I don’t even send mine to a beta (editor) like most ficwriters do. But when it comes to showing them poetry or short stories, yeah…I’m very reticent. And I definately don’t like reading aloud.

But actually, during my last creative writing class, I found myself *longing* for criticism—all my peer readers were so fucking *nice* and uncritical, and of course I was totally critical of everyone else’s stuff (because I wanted them to stop writing shitty stuff and get *better*) so I just felt like an asshole all of the time. Also, now I barely write anything that isn’t fanfiction unless I’m forced to for class, because I suck. Hopefully my hour of trainriding will provide some writing time.

I mostly just like The Rules of Attraction, though I like Less Than Zero a bit too, and his newer one was sort of interesting in a self-obsessed way. Hey, if there was no Bret Easton Ellis, Araki’s movies would be way different.

Dude, I totally troll thrift stores for my used books, though hopefully I’ll be going to Book Bin soon. But yeah, I always feel like an asshole for buying from Barnes and Nobles instead of some mom and pop place, but I’m poor! And they have Starbucks–the one near my house lets you use your B&N member card for a discount! (Also, wow, with his LA is a soul-sucking deathtrap thing, Ben basically just summed up every Gregg Araki movie and Bret Easton Ellis book. *g*)

My name suggestions: Tweedledee and Tweedledum (obvious), Zaphod and Beeblebrox (from Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy–he has two heads), Isabelle and Theo (from the Dreamers–in case they like incest), Chang and Eng (from the famous siamese twins). Yeah, that’s all I got. Zaphod and Beeblebrox is my favorite suggestion, btw.

Comment by Katy — August 28, 2007 @ 1:39 am