I think that's an understatement, he seems to hate his audience. I got so indignant and angry at his blatant contempt for it while watching Dogville, I wanted to run off the theatre, and would have if the space between the rows hadn't been so narrow.

1. My beloved Sofia International Film Festival, which is THE best thing about living in Sofia, is doing a retrospective of his filmography this year. I feel utterly betrayed. Usually I suspend everything else in my life and break out my savings for this thing - they've done retrospectives of Wong Kar Wai, Kim Ki Duk,…

I ad a friend in college who insisted we go down to some midnight movie house to see That von Trier BummerFest Dancer in the Dark. No, we aren't friends anymore.

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This sounds like a less interesting version of Catherine Breillat's Romance, a very unsettling, but really interesting film about a woman seeking self-immolation through sex. I think Von Trier is a great film theorist, his work with Dogme 95 really shaped modern filmaking. But sometimes I just can't force myself to…

God, he is such a cliché. His younger self would be embarrassed at how ordinary he turned out. There is nothing original about him. An affair with a much younger woman after being married for 20 odd years...how groundbreakingly ORIDNARY. I am actually almost embarrassed for him myself.

I've met Thurston Moore a handful of times, pre-split. He was pretentious and off-putting, even in a casual conversation setting. I should have expected it, given what I know about his writings, personal philosophies, etc. — but maybe I was giving an artist I (at the time) respected the benefit of the doubt. I assume…

I like this a lot! I have almost no shame!

Doesn't that feel uncomfortable? Having your penis squashed against the side of your leg like that? That looks like it would feel really weird when you're walking or sitting or doing anything.

In San Francisco, we have a city health plan, which was voted in by referendum with a surcharge to restaurant owners who didn't provide health insurance. Of course, the restaurant owners association was totally against the bill and insisted over and over again that voters simply didn't understand the bill because if…

Cripes, when the pizza place I work for had to raise its prices we told the truth—the cost of flour has shot up. The owner didn't try to blame his employees for wanting the occasional antibiotic or new pair of glasses.

As a 'dude' (urgh) who was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa when I was younger I can confirm that neither of the sexes are immune to any kind of worries about body image. I consider confident people pretty bloody lucky. I think once your own life (or the people you love) has been put on the line a couple of times,…

I just want to point out that this finding in no way diminishes the fact that women are bombarded with stimulus designed to make them self-conscious about myriad facets of their lives. It is a huge problem. The conclusion here expands that notion to include men. We all, as consumers are the victims here. Women have it…

I'm not hung up on monogamy; I'm hung up on not getting the clap. Or HIV. Or HPV. Or herpes.

This story has been going around for a few days now—if you read the source material, it was mom's idea. The girl liked to play dress up and started using mom's scarves and sheets to make dresses, so one day the mom got tired if finding her stuff in the kid's play area and suggested they make some dresses out of paper.…

Yeah, the "When you're on your period, I'm banging the neighbor next door" example is extreme, but I want to hear more about how non-monogamy among couples with different sex drives can play out in a healthy way in a relationship. The, "Give me more sex, or I will have to go elsewhere to get sex" ultimatum sounds…

Bring out the torches....

I have a theory that with many online daters - especially with POF 'event organizers' - that the dating site IS their mate. If they actually found someone, they either wouldn't know what to do with them or would subconsciously sabotage whatever budding relationship there is in order to re-enter the dating scene.

In my experience as a high school teacher, the "popular" kids excel at working the system to their strengths - whatever those might be. And I've taught really genuinely decent "popular" kids to total degenerate "popular" kids. I'm not old enough to know what happens to all/most of them, but I would bet they remain…

I think people who do are being remarkably short sighted. Nowadays a degree is not really a guarantee of earning power or even intelligence.