Sparked by Juno (Tom's opinion)

[Matt]

The blurb has to be read to be believed:

Why, you might ask, would a healthy, college-educated young woman start stripping for a living, when she could work in a nice, clean office? Cody, now an arts editor for Minneapolis's alternative weekly, had spent her whole life (all 24 years) "choking on normalcy, decency and Jif sandwiches with the crusts amputated." When she moved from Chicago to Minnesota to live with the new boyfriend she'd found on the "World Wide Waste of Time," she took a job at an ad agency—a setup with good "porn shui" (desk well angled for undetected online porn surfing) but not much else. Attracted by a local bar's amateur stripping contest, Cody soon moved from stage stripping to lap dancing, from tableside to bedside customer service and, finally, peep-show sex. Removing her clothes and dry-humping strangers in sex clubs had become her way of escaping premature respectability. Quite inexplicably, her boyfriend was completely cool with her new occupation, even joining her on occasional sex jaunts. When the inevitable burnout set in, Cody switched to phone sex, until that, too, got old, and the 9-to-5 straight world beckoned. Cody's so alarmingly entertaining, readers will wish the book were longer, though they'll be glad it ends before anything really ugly happens.

[todd]

Its hilarious when people say the stilted dialogue in Juno was designed to mimic the language of teenagers - because if you read any interviews with Diablo Cody, you realize that it's just the way she talks.

"world wide waste of time"
"choking on normalcy, decency and jif sandwiches with the crusts amputated"
"porn shui"


ugh

[gravy boat]

I hope Juno is better than There Will Be Blood. I don't care what the critics say, that movie blew.  Great filmography or whatever, but that's about it. Daniel Day-Lewis played Bill the Butcher Goes West and people fall over themselves.  Come on.

[Martin]

YOU come on.

[Matt]

Great filmography or whatever, but that's about it.

Well, you certainly talk the talk, but I must disagree with you.

[John Junk]

You know what sticks in my craw about that? The fact that you know that she was just doing it as a lark with the intention of writing about it later, just as a tourist to give herself an angle.

Everybody hate's a tourist.  Especially when she thinks it's all such a laugh. 

Diablo wants to live like common people.

[dania]

I hope Juno is better than There Will Be Blood. I don't care what the critics say, that movie blew.  Great filmography or whatever, but that's about it. Daniel Day-Lewis played Bill the Butcher Goes West and people fall over themselves.  Come on.

I think you mean cinematography.  Filmography means a list of films.  Your new nickname: Cameron Diaz. 

[Laurie]

Actually, "cinematography" is kind of passé. It's simply called "photography" these days.

[dania]

Actually, "cinematography" is kind of passé. It's simply called "photography" these days.

Maybe they could be condensed and unified a-la "meta" and "aggro" (or "ag" as some might prefer) with this catchy term:

Togra[noun]: shorthand for cinematography or photography.  A newish "indie" slang term that implies the atristic elements observed in visual media.  Ex: <The film won in four different categories including Best Director, Achievment in Sound Mixing, Best Original Song, and Togra.>

[buffcoat]

I say we whoop gravy boat like Cher.















Too much, Gagneaux?

[Josh]

[Laurie]

There are few things I hate more than picking inedible flowers off of my food. It's not garnish if I can't eat it, okay? You know what I hate even more than that? Diablo Cody's cloying dialogue. Yucky yuck yuck.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

...If only to see someone stripper-dancing to a Belle and Sebastian song.

thats not too far off from reality, i suppose.  theres a girl in these parts they call, "The Death Cab Stripper" for her sensual rendition to a death cab for cutie song.



granted, i wasnt there.  but i got to hear about.

[Laurie]

I know a girl in PDX who strips to a Stephin Merritt medley. The song "Underwear" is featured.

[Vanilla Soup]

If any Juno dislikers out there are looking for a way to make their own heads explode, please consider the following, via the NY Post:

February 26, 2008 -- SOME fashionistas wondered why Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody wore flats with her leopard-print dress to the awards - but it was just her way of putting the screws to shoe designer Stuart Weitzman. Cody had been set to wear Weitzman's $1 million pair of diamond-encrusted heels. But when she found out she was being used for free p.r., she took to her MySpace page and fumed, "They're using me to publicize their stupid shoes and NOBODY ASKED ME. I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide. I'm sorry if I sound like a party-pooper, but Jeebus."

She had no idea that the people giving her free clothing to wear were just in it for the PUBLICITY. 

On the upside, she really stuck it to that shoe designer by keeping this all so hush-hush.

Oh, wait.