(Come to think of it, this film's a bit fleeting at its cutely-judged 69 minutes.) All this, and the spectacle of raunchy sex, makes 9 Songs an entertaining if melancholy experience.Traditionally, objectors to this sort of thing airily claim that it is "boring". Others, conversely, might affect to see in the sex infinitesimally subtle narrative stages, and also an intentional commentary on the action in the lyrics of each of the nine songs by Franz Ferdinand, Primal Scream, the Dandy Warhols etc. But I thought it was absorbing precisely because of the absence of artfully positioned ironies and narrative touches: it's just about going out for a good time, and then staying in for an even better time. The sex is absolutely fantastic for Lisa and Matt and then, well, it's not so fantastic any more. As to whether or not it is pornographic, the stakes are not quite so high with that question these days: it is pornographic in the sense that the sex act is shown on screen, complete with money shot.“And that’s just what we know from people telling us on our Facebook page! “We got lucky, we hit on a good idea, and we ran with it.” Since then, he and a rotating staff of friends have organized speed-dating events at about twenty cons per year; Sci-Fi Speed-Dating reality show Geek Love aired briefly on TLC, then moved to gaming website IGN.
“Because people who meet me here, they see everything.” Three years ago, Keri Brugge was dressed as a Jedi knight when she sat down in front of future husband Matt Brugge at Glitch’s first Star Wars Celebration V speed-dating session.
Four months later, they were marching down a wedding aisle to the Star Wars theme song.
(LGBT speed dating generally occurs in separate sessions.) He is strict about lines.
“In Denver we had bigger lines than their A-listers.
He recently dedicated his Facebook page to documenting his quest to slim down for the next Star Wars Celebration. He packs as many speed daters into his sessions as is physically possible; to prevent 82-person pile-ups, speed date rotations must be orderly and quick.
For heterosexual sessions, he pre-registers more women than men, then only admits as many men as there are available women.He narrates the action in hindsight, gazing out over that freezing white mass, a continent unvisited by humans until the 20th century.It's a landscape that reflects both his devastation at the end of the relationship and his passionate memory of Lisa's body, not so much a new-found-land like Donne's America, but an icy enigma, a sexy-scary blank. Poor, muddled Matt is quite unable to talk about his feelings for her, and the nearest he gets is sweetly running into the freezing cold sea on a pebbly British beach to prove his love.My response is like Gandhi's apocryphal reply to the same question about western civilisation: "That sounds like an interesting plan." We behave as if sex is everywhere in popular culture, but despite the ketchupy smothering of everything with a supposed sexiness, despite the speed dating, porn chic, reality TV bedrooms, desperate housewives etc etc, actual representations of ordinary, common-or-garden sex are still very uncommon.So this robust and unpretentious sex film from that extraordinarily prolific director Michael Winterbottom is outside the euphemistic mainstream.Matt proposed by arranging his Star Wars figurines in a diorama version of a Sci-Fi Speed-Dating room.Keri’s engagement ring was hidden underneath Padmé Amidala of Naboo.In Salt Lake City, we had bigger lines than A-listers.” He describes a Sci-Fi Speed-Dating line that once overshadowed a William Shatner panel.My speed dates include a Peruvian movie buff, a Wall Street financier in Final Fantasy armor, and a cosplay photographer from Hong Kong.His Darth Vader costume is worth an estimated ,000. Starting weight, 367, current weight 346.2,” he blogged last week.Glitch’s most prized costume is an Episode III Anakin Skywalker worth ,000, but weight gain currently prevents him from wearing it. Glitch’s speed date hosting style is part stand-up comedy, part Soup Nazi.
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