the jaded viewer

I've recently started reading Chuck Palahniuk's new book Snuff. The infamous author of Fight Club, Diary and new soon to be released made into a movie Choke, has come out thrusting at full speed in this new book. I mean it was inevitable he'd write about this subject. C'mon, you knew he'd write about porn at some point didn't ya?

Plot (thanks Wikipedia)

Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication porn movies. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds through the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, Mr. 600, and Wright's personal assistant, Sheila. With his satirical narrative and thorough research, Chuck Palahniuk reveals through these four characters the little-known facts and histories of not only pornography and sexual deviance, but also acting and life in and out of the spotlight, and throughout the novel shows the rarely acknowledged presence of pornography in modern America.

What's more clever are the fake movie trailers of Cassie Wright promoting the new book. Really funny play on some holly-porn movies.

Check out these hilarious trailers below.

"The Wizard of Ass - Dorothy is Not a Virgin Anymore"

"Chitty Chitty Gang Bang"

"Twilight Bone"

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I'm a born and raised New Yorker. That's where I get my jadedness from. The gritty, never say never attitude. However, on the 7th anniversary of 9/11, I get a tad wee emotional. I was in Manhattan that day and I know first hand what it was like. I walked over a bridge to get home, scared shitless.

Take a look to the faces of the victims who lost their lives.

And do something if you want.

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With election-mania well under way, I'd like to now tell you what my political affiliation is.

Ready?

I'm a horror-crat. Also referred to as a jadedpublican.

Both parties are fucked up. But documentaries about religion are funny. And that's whre Bill Maher comes in.

Real Time with Bill Maher is some good shit. Definitely Daily Show-ish with some Colbert Report and a dash of the Awful Truth.

Bill Maher's doc-hmm maybe more like mockumentary looks to offend more Christians, Jews, Muslums and Hindus than any film...well ever.

Check out the trailer.






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Admit it. You watched the cheesy, over the top miniseries that was on NBC because you didn't want to read the long ass book. Well no need to watch Rob Lowe and Gary Sinise in that abomination, because Marvel put it in comic book form for all us slackers.

UGO.com has a sneak peek at the first 6 pages of the first chapter.

Check out this exclusive preview.

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He's made only half a dozen films but like Stanley Kubrick, the body of work of his films cannot be denied.

They are cinematic experimental, avante garde and magical realism masterpieces.

You may not agree with that conclusion. But the scope of Jodorowsky work is summed up as surreally bizarre with a touch of insanity.

From a western with mythic overtones to serial killers finding religion, it's a world like no other.

If anything, millenials should Netflix the following films to understand why Jodorowsky is important.

El Topo, The Holy Mountain and Sante Sangre are truly works of cinematic astonishments that deserve more art house viewings instead of being relegated to midnight showings.

The clips and trailers below, I hope, can give you a taste of what is, and hopefully that will be enough for a full course meal.

1.) Fando Y Lis (1968)





2.) El Topo (1970)





3.) The Holy Mountain (1973)





4.) Santa Sangre (1989)

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5.) The Rainbow Thief (1990)

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King Shot is supposedly Jodorowsky next film after 3 decades of film hibernation. Hopefully we will see more of the same.

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