Letter to LOGO Networks (and all the other outdated "GLBT" orgs)

Something is terribly wrong with these options.

Your "I identify as" selection is quite flawed. "Transgender" is included amongst a selection of sexual preferences, when "transgender" is a gender identity selection and nothing to do with sexual preference; it is a selection for a sex/gender field.

Furthermore, "bisexual" is an outdated and inaccurate terminology that negates the implications of including "transgender"; the term you are looking for is "pansexual". I presume that including "transgender" means you acknowledge the fluidity of sexgender and existence outside the sexgender binary, and I recognize that bisexual may be still included for those who believe that there are only two sexes.

To simplify: "Transgender", "male", "female", "transsexual", "intersexed", and "genderqueer" are sex/gender options. Sexual preference options are "gay", "lesbian", "straight", "queer", "bisexual", "pansexual", "asexual". I realize that even in the queer community there is confusion on this, so it is vital that an organization such as yours, which presents these minority culture constructs to a larger audience must be responsible enough to present these things correctly. I look forward to further correspondence on this topic.
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I am sure that this is not the last of these letters I will be sending out.

the most irrITATed ravING IMP,
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Why 'Haute Tension' Revolutionized the Horror Twist

Advanced sorries for this currently being and imageless post; cannot find my copy of Haute Tension at the mo.

Reposted from a reply to article at Horror-Movies.ca "Horror Clichés that need to Go"; one of the hated cliches is the dreaded last minute "twist" made essential to modern cinema by "The Sixth Sense", but the article also counts "Psycho" amongst the culprits of the last minute twist.

Let me stand up for Aja here. HIGH TENSION has been hailed by the zealously analytical cinephile crowd (of which I include myself) because it offers a twist on the twist. Aja's original script didn't have the reveal until the last scene, but when cutting it, it was suggested to him that the twist come in the second to last reel (remember how we see the detectives watching Marie killing the store clerk on tape BEFORE Marie has her final last battle with La Tueur?). {note: a reel means approx 22mins of film, can vary according to filmstock and is a term used by filmmakers to distance themselves from the language of screenwriters, but it is basically a little less than an act and a little more than one sequence} You can verify this by listening to Aja and Levasseur's commentary track, where I am sure they tell you who gave them this idea.

In this very simple but wholly revolutionary twist on the twist, we know the character split throughout the final act and not at the film's conclusion, making for a most dizzying and frustrating final 20 minutes for the audience. SO MANY people are angry at Haute Tension and accuse it of simple twist device, when actually the film has worked on them better than expected. Aja realized that by revealing the twist just that must earlier than the standard, that he would be producing a whole new breed of story that utterly devastates the twist cliche, and THIS is why so many people get pissed off about the ending.

Very few people can point to what exactly got their panties bunched about Haute Tension other than "the twist ending"; they don't even note that the twist DOES NOT come at the end, but very far (in film terms) before it, and the ensuing ENDING IS frustrating BECAUSE the twist came as what we perceive (due to typical twist implementation practices) as too early and leaves the ending feeling very convoluted and contradictory. We get to see Marie's dual nature played out, knowing that this is somewhere in her fragmented mind, instead of having to rewatch the film for that effect of deciphering what is real and what is imagined. Any other films been able to do this before HT? cuz I'd sure as shit love to know about them.

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JOIN IMPRAVING! and Web 2.Confused

So I'm trying out Wordpress, wondering if maybe I'm missing something at Typepad, and then reassuring myself that I should start focusing on expanding within the Blogger community.

I finally had pingback defined for me, and damnit I want that! I still don't know if I should have ONE blog per topic focus and spread over several blogs, or have one blog with ALL topics, which is what Impraving should be/aspires to be, but I alwasy hold back on adding new topics for fear it clutter the site and add to the already tough navigation. Maybe this all just springs from my inner desire for a third column on this site.... and also a realization that my content output will never match my number of topics due to my own laziness.

Which is why I need to get around Blogger more and MAYBE add some more contributors to this site. This site is meant to be about bitching, and though I am wholly impish, I am too fastidious to create diligent work. ANd that makes no sense because what I am trying to say is that my neurotic desire for perfection makes me cave in to "Aww, Fuck it!" more often than it does %500 more work and time input. Also, imps working in coordination are more powerful than just one (that's why they're imps and not djinns or trolls or demons).\, So I SEEK MORE TO THIS CAUSE.

THE INTERNET IS TOO BIG FOR ONE IMP. WE MUST BAND TOGETHER.

Have or get:
A) A Google Blogger account
B) some modicum of writing talent
C) interest in one or more of the blog's topics (which get vaguer and larger daily)
D) impish disposition
AND THEN EMAIL ME BOUT JOINING THE RAVING IMP - that lil link on the side or IMP AT STONED DOT COM if you don't click linx. lol

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Epic Wall of Death at Slayer

No Real post. Just this awesome fuckin vid I found while looking for crazy Slayer pit moments. I'm a metalhead but I'm also a pacifist hippie pussy, so I could never do the pit shit. But if I had to be one guy in a pit for one moment, it would be that guy at that moment. Truly defines "wall of death".

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TIME Pwned by 4chan EPIC WIN for Humanity

So to anyone who should know this, you probably already know this and thus this is total olds. TIME's Top 100 Most Influential People got totally pwned by 4chan and the infamous Anonymous Marblecake cabal. I found out about this via Geekologie while I was stumbling for news on eye camera developments.

TIME tries to minimize this massive pwn by saying in their official result article:

To put the magnitude of the upset in perspective, it's worth noting that everyone moot beat out actually has a job.
TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel says moot is no less deserving than previous title holders like Nintendo video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto (2007) and Korean pop star Rain (2006). "I would remind anyone who doubts the results that this is an Internet poll," he says. "Doubting the results is kind of the point."

Yup, that's definitely one of the last shrill squeals of mainstream media domination. We are entering a new age wherein manufacturing consent will be majorly difficult for the rulers, as this prank reveals that there is never any one person who can be considered 'most influential'. Individuals do not rule, groups rule. And no group has more power than the unbridled possibilities of the internet.

YOU are the most influential person in the world if you have a brain and internet access. No longer shall our news by dictated by a small group holding all the other cards. I don't have to waste thousand of dollars to attend a brainwashing institution and spend precious years of my life kissing ass and compromising my values to be published. I don't live in the lie world where a "job" equals my assured security within free society; let's face it - this "job" illusion will be busted soon enough, hopefully next. We are truly at a watershed point where the power of true humanity has been unleashed. At this junction, we finally have control over how and what information we obtain. We must be extremely vigilant to keep it this way.

ALSO FUCK EVERY MAINSTREAM PUBLICATION STILL TRYING TO MAINTAIN CONTROL. GIVE IT UP - WE HAVE WON. SHUT DOWN YOUR CRUDE FACILITIES LIKE TIME MAGAZINE AND AT LEAST FACE US ON OUR OWN BATTLEFIELD...OR DON'T AND JUST PLZ FUCK OFF kthx.
_TEH RAVING IMP This Post's Page

The IMP Lives (and is Podcasting)

I swear I ain't dead. I'm just busy being in love, couple that with my undeniable appetite for procrastination and my love of laziness, and my input equals null. But I can't go on like this..... So I must swear to do more articles.

On the frontier:
... IS FUCKING COOL: Rich Fulcher
the 1mP Joins the Trend of Discussing the Politics of Horror Remakes
Hawt Flixsterers Part 3

Kicking about in my head:
Piracy After the Pirate Bay Trial (prolly won't happen coz it would require research)
Childhood Dreams Happening: What I thought Of the Wolverine movie (prolly won't appear here, but just on my flixster page instead)
Why [as] can suck my left nut (it's less tasty) because they've been censoring the MIGHTY BOOSH!!! - prolly won't be written coz that's all I have to say about it, and apparently I talk about in an as yet unreleased episode of my upcoming project - a podcast!
SOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOO...........
I've also been up to groundwork for doing a podcast. Yes - even more self-indulgent and never edited nonsense coming your way in aural form. It's called BOOSH MANGO, and I've a site up, and technically the first episode is up, but I'm considering switching host servers because Pod-O-matic doesn't allow customizable embedding (that I can figure out so far). Also general design and promotion for the podcast is still in progress (as in it hasn't really been done yet).

-t3h raving IMP This Post's Page