Sin City-Nothing but a patriarchal parade of violence and stereotypes against women!

I just came in from watching "Sin City" at the boys house....WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THAT MOVIE! Im sorry but its sick! Yeah the cinamatography is cool and all....but talk about over glorified violence! I cant even count the number of objectionable images of women I saw in the 45 mins I could (barely) stand of it. Not to mention the women being literally slaughtered. The part that really got me was the second half in which a renegade 'hero' is looking for the killer of Goldie, his lover who was killed in her sleep...blah blah blah... turns out a psychopathic killer was butchering prostitutes on his farm and feeding their remains to his dog...then eating the rest himself, keeping their heads as souveneigrs. Did the makers of this movie forget that a court case was raging in Vancouver not to long ago over the Pickton Farm murders....where a man brutatly killed over 22 (known) women many of them prostitutes and fed their remains to his pigs, keeping various body parts in his freezer as souvenirs????????????????? ALl of this on a farm... Seing any similarities?
What was Robert Rodriguez thinking? Shame on him and the actors that worked for him for perpetuating harmful stereotypes and making entertainment of the nightmares of countless family's of the lost women of the Downtown East Side of Vancouver (DES), Green River Murders and countless other women's lives who have been lost....their trial's not fairly prosecuted, made public or ignored for far to long because they are street workers, addicts, poor or First Nations.
That all being said I have found a link to the Pickton trial I found very intersting...I did not know that Robert Pickton was a billionaire pig farmer, or that he was arrested for murder in 1997 but released....shortly after that 30 women went missing from the DES, 22 of those womens DNA were found on his pig farm. But hey, who are the cops going to believe? A billionaire pig farmer who supported his community and Little League Team or a poverty stricken, addicted prostitute from the DES? How did the cops not find it odd that a millionaire was hanging out in some of Vancouvers seediest bars in the first place????
Sometimes the sorrow of the world is so heavy on my chest I dont know if I can stand it any more.

Pickton Farm

The F Word- a great critique of Sin City

cooooorrrrrina corrina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh how I love thee!

This entry is dedicated to Corrina...the raddest grrrrrrrrrrrl I ever did meet! Since I keep missing your phone calls my darling I thought Id write a lil something for you to read on your journeys. We've been through shit loads together...me runnin away from home and crashin your familys pad, our dirrrrty punk rawker days leading to our insane bubblegum raver days, stupid boyfriends (rember creepy whats his name Enya listning mother fucker that i yelled at? and lets not forget shithead the first!) , traveling India together and getting food poisoning ( the girl hopped a motorcycle to come and see me in the hopsital and wound up lying beside me with a burn on her leg from the exhaust pipe as we watched Conan the Barbarian in Hindi.....), bellydancin away our blues, and as allways gettin good ol cambie styles drunkedty drunk drunk together! Who else would I go to my grad boat cruise with in a purple wig with pants to match and rawk out to the violent femmes? Or run around Seymour Hights stealing Windchimes from peoples porches all stoned? Corrina is the most fearless woman Ive ever met....as we speak she is flying from Singapore to Thailand after having spent the past while in Australia with her amazing boyfriend that...by the way...SHE asked HIM to marry her!!!!! ISN'T THAT RAD! Corrina you are such a balsy babe...Honey you gots eggs! I miss you to bits and hope you are having a blast on your travels!

Well that didn't take long...

Wow! I lasted a whole 3 weeks at a certain corporate coffee shop (hey I don't wanna get sued!) before I wanted to kill myself...I gave a weeks notice yesterday. Suzie feel free to do your little happy dance. Yeah it was so not for me, waaaaaaaaaaay to corporate and I know some of you are thinking "duh!" but I was broke, and no one else in this city was gonna offer me a job so I took it. But man oh man...I do not jive with the corporate work enviro, dress codes, time clocks....BAH! At my other job our 'till' is a desk drawer and we write our receipts by hand for chirsts sake! And it suits me just fine. I just cant flow with the whole "one right way" thing. One right way to make a burger, one right way to make a latte, one right way to rule the world.....If any of you have read Ishmael you'll now what I am talking about. It is the doom of our culture and of the planet itself. Yes even something as little as the "one right way to make a latte". There is no one right way to live, eat or breath...It doesn't exist. Humans are the only creatures to think this way and it is what is killing us. This "one right way" mentality only calculates efficiency and productivity as beneficial no matter what the cost. Garbage, toxic waste, backroom corporate deals are all necessary if they are following the "one right way". If this seems a lil abstract to you I suggest you read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, it is an amazing book that has drastically changed the way I view the world.

(so anyways yeah, the leftist leaning feminist in me kicked my ass and made me quit...She's so cool!)

Huricane Katrina

So on my way to work today I picked up a copy of Dose to pass the time on my subway ride to work. I opend it to the second page and promptly choked on my coffee! An email from a wack job saying that the satelite images of Huricane Katrina on the NOAA website look like a fetus. To quote "...look like a six week old human child...reminiscent of a commonly used pro-life picture of early prenatal development...Lousianna has 10 child-murder-by-abortion centres" Whoa people...do you have nothing better to do with your time. First off the image looks nothing like a fetus and secondaly what exactly are you alluding to!!!!!!!! Who cares if New Orleans has 10 abortion clinics? Last I checked abortion was still (thank God) legal...I think we all know what you were alluding to and the thought of it sickens me...SHAME! To make matters worse famous Guitarist Sanatana has claimed that New Orleans suffering from Katrina was due to a "lack of spirituality"!!! And to beat this horse even deader Repent America has been tooting the 'gloy of Gods rath' saying that Huricane katrina was a result of New Orleans 'wicked ' lifestyle. To quote "Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city," stated Repent America director Michael Marcavage. "From 'Girls Gone Wild' to 'Southern Decadence,' New Orleans was a city that had its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. From the devastation may a city full of righteousness emerge," People are dying, or barley gettin by as they wade in toxic waters filled with gss and corpses and you people are sitting around all high and mighty saying it is Gods wrath for living in sin?????? HOW DARE YOU! New Orleans is a beautiful city with an amazing culture. Frankly the rest of the world could take a lesson from New Orleans and learn to embrace their 'wild' side a little more, let their hair down, relax and have a good ol time. Sadly I fear New Orleans will never be the same again and that the once beautiful city is lost. Prol-lifers, born again christians, or just plian asshole wackjobs-show some respect and shut the hell up!