Posted by Narcissist at sdn-ar-004cthartp143.dialsprint.net on November 20, 2001 at 12:17:52:
...something I downloaded.
And she just mentioned Chasing Amy. How much she loved the movie. Now, I'm sure this has been mentioned before... but I wanted to mention it cause it's the first I heard it.
From Janeane's bit:
::::I loved Chasing Amy, I absolutely loved it. I really, really did. I thought it was so great. It was a romantic comedy for people who hate romantic comedies, basically, and it spoke to a demographic that never, ever, ever gets addressed. The kind of smoking, comic book reading, ya know... um... I can't really be clear on what I mean, but if you know what I mean you know exactly what I'm talking about. It was such a great movie, but here's the thing about that movie that made me weep. The scene in which Ben Affleck (the dreamy comic book artist) stops the car and professes his love for Joey Lauren Adams (the baby-voiced lesbian) and -- that's also my favorite, these male movies with the lesbians that look like that, did you go to the dykes on bikes parade, I don't think so... not a lot of Joey Lauren Adams walking around at the dykes on bikes...::::
Very cool! (and I'd like to add that I think Kevin nicly covered the hottie lesbian base with Hooper's addressing of the issue in the record store)
(then she talks about her favorite kind of gay in the gay-pride parades.. "the banta-weight Hispanic"... very funny stuff, but I'm not up to transcribing it)
OK, then she gets back to what she was saying...
::::The thing about Chasing Amy was, when Ben Affleck pulls the car over and talks to Joey, and tells her how he feels about her, and I was going "that will never happen to me", "that will never, ever happen to me", and by the way, honesty does not work except for celluloid, so don't even try that, but to tell people that you like them will only serve to make them not like you, I mean basically that's all that's going to do. No matter how much you like them, if they're going to give you a full disclosure, now they're not cool, you like me? .... so even if it did happen to me, it can't happen to me because if comes the guys says I love you, and I'm better for loving you...or all this stuff... then I would be like, well you're just going to have to take me home, because I don't respect you at all anymore. Be a man! God, be aloof, what's your problem? You want me to like you, don't pick up that phone...:::::
Is this before Dogma? It's got to be, right? I guess I need to listen to it more thoroughly to hear the references and figure out when it's from.
Anyway, wanted to share with anyone who might not have heard it. I ADORE Janeane Garofalo, and she SO should have been the lead in Dogma. Maybe it would have given a shred of likeability to Bethany (I'm sorry, but I hated her... I hated the way she delivered every one of her lines).
I want to see her in Jersey Girl! Please, Kevin :o)!
-Amy