Falling in love.

What could be more exciting?

IrresistibleB1tch said:

IrresistibleB1tch said:

StephenColbert said:

who is he?

ZombieKitten said:

public policy advocate and former candidate for US President. brilliant man!!

www.votenader.org and www.nader.org

IrresistibleB1tch said:

I LOVE SATIRE!
[Edited 5/28/06 18:12pm]

StephenColbert said:

so do i

or i wouldn't watch your show!

IrresistibleB1tch said:

Madam, there is nothing satirical about my show

Oh and that appreciation thread Imago just started for me...

If you'd asked me about 7 or 8 years ago, I probably would've said something like, "Meeting the Eat-me-beat-me Lady!":



Nowadays, I would say "Discovering that I don't need to have 'Brushes with "Greatness"' (and I did consider Ms. Eat-me-beat-me to be 'Great', in those days ) to get excited."

Ace said:

She's pretty.

What's eat me beat me?

I went to this place, and so far nothing has beaten that day

ZombieKitten said:

Charlotte honeymooned in Niagara Falls!

Ace said:

actually this is where I honeymooned:

Fauxie said:

ZombieKitten said:

They call the American side "Niagara Falls", too.

Ace said:

Thanks.

Title: Pump Up The Volume
Release Date: 1990
Released By: New Line Cinema / SC Entertainment
Written and Directed By: Allan Moyle
Cinematography: Walt Lloyd
MPAA Rating: R, for language and some nudity

Some spoilers follow; you have been warned

This movie was not at all what I expected. Instead of the early-90's teen rah-rah film I'd had in mind for some reason, Pump Up The Volume was a character and dialogue-driven study of the nature and implications of free speech.

Specifically, Pump Up The Volume is the story of mild-mannered Mark Hunter (Christian Slater) and his alter ego, charismatic late-night radio host Happy Harry Hard-On. Mark is a high school student who is having trouble establishing a social life since moving to a new town. He is lonely, moody, and shy -- except when he fires up the makeshift pirate radio show in his basement. Once the microphone is turned on and the transmitters begin to send their illicit waves into space, Mark becomes Harry, a dirty-talking, cynical extrovert. Mark uses a voice changer he refers to as a "harmonizer" in order to prevent his voice from being recognized by his fan base, which consists of the very fellow students he avoids while at school. Mark's parents are concerned that their son seems to have no friends, but they pretty much leave him alone in his basement; that's his domain. If they searched his room like other paranoid parents, they'd doubtlessly find cigarettes, porn, and a number of inexplicable gadgets.

Harry's show is a hit. Students all over town drive their cars to the geographical locations known to get the best reception; since Harry's radio enterprise is small, he lacks the massive transmitting tower of legitimate stations. On his show, Harry plays songs from his impressive record collection, simulates wild wank sessions by making palm-slapping noises, and reads letters written in by his loyal listeners. Notable are the poems that always arrive in a crimson envelope, by a girl poet referred to as "The eat-me beat-me lady". Her poems are always read with great dramatic inflection by Harry, who wonders about the identity of this mystery vixen.

The first poem we hear read on the air by Harry is as follows:

Come in.
Every night you enter me like a criminal
You break into my brain
But you're no ordinary criminal
You put up your feet and you pop a pepsi
You start to party
You turn up my stereo
Songs I've never heard but I move anyway.
You get me crazy
I say "Do it"
I don't care what
Just do it
Jam me, jack me
Push me, pull me
Talk Hard!

The "vixen" herself is a student named Nora, played by a young Samantha Mathis. Nora is a strong character; she is ever so slightly punk, with a wild streak and a sense of her rights and the rights of her fellow teens. She is the only student to figure out that quiet Mark is actually wannabe shock jock Harry.

From http://www.everything2.co..._id=20141: