I so agree. This site and a few others are the only ones I fuck with now. I’m tired of social media, too many crazies.

Isn’t this NOT the first time he’s said it either, or is my memory playing tricks on me? I could have sworn he said it before.

I wanna say I got YM up until the very very end and it CRUSHED me when they disbanded. By comparison, Seventeen didn’t do much for me. I did love Cosmogirl too and I remember Atoosa’s monthly letters. It’s funny how people still remember Atoosa and all the jokes about her haha. Fuck, now I’m remembering so many…

Oh hun they’re LONG gone. But I can send you a link to a blurb about it on this website: http://popdirt.com/rca-responds-to-unflattering-christina-aguilera-ym-article/11709/ 

This reminds me of YM Magazine (does anyone remember them? I miss them) and that super WEIRD article about Christina Aguilera that they published. It was the meanest thing I had ever seen in a Teen Magazine. It still stands out in my memories haha.

I think that they’re still estranged. Tbh, I don’t have too much faith for him being a good father given his work, haha. I think that movie was intriguing, people are always willing to look the other way when someone is talented, even if they’re kind of a fucked up person.

It is and yet it isn’t because Enid is also a flawed person. I see her as a proto-Lena Dunham in that she’s not a wonderful person but someone who brings down people around her. It was a bit of a departure from the book, where she’s a little more straightforward. So I think your statement applies to the book moreso…

that’s sad

Agreed. Tbh, even if for other people this movie isn’t an example of that, I have seen white people try to commodify many foreign films in a “kitsch” way that slightly irritates me within the film collector circles I mingle with. Part of the beauty of cinema is that just like clothes and food, it represents different…

But just because it was never meant to be doesn’t mean that you can’t analyze it from that perspective either. If it wasn’t meant to explore racial issues, why introduce them? And the film very clearly does in the guise of a provocative piece of advertisement that Enid uses to invoke a reaction out of her classmates…

I prefer that to the Trump Supporters I have to read posts from.

Well put. I agree with you. This article isn’t perfect but you can’t avoid the racial aspects of the film.

It is better, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. That said, yes, I love the film too. And I watched these films and Welcome to the Dollhouse a lot growing up, along with Carrie. Very angsty kid.

I’ll agree with you that that scene is lampooning the whole nature of art installations and “finding” art that you had no part in creating and calling it brilliant for the sake of it (in other words, making fun of Concept Art). But at the same time, I agree with Rich that Enid’s failure at even that is sort of played…

Oh Goddddd...that is messed up.

What about his son? His son was very sad :(

Happiness is FUCKED up.

TBH, I completely agree with you. I don’t know why no one ever points out how wrong it was that someone so old slept with a teenager. In fact, why didn’t Rich point this out? Hahah. It’s so disturbing. In a way, Rebecca became the most mature out of everyone: she just wanted to get an apartment, and Enid started…

But even Rebecca changed too. Rebecca pretty much turned into the people they hated and Enid resented her for that. Seymour started dating and Enid became alone again.

I thought what was more fascinating was that Enid kind of dragged everyone down with her (like Seymour, as an example, who ends up having a freak out at that store and gets taken down by that dude with the mullet and fanny pack). She’s not capable of growing as a person in her environment and it laments her to see…