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IN B4 BANNED BOOKS WEEK

If I was a soccer mom, I'd say any book that doesn't have a happy ending. 'Cause soccer parents are complete total wusses like that. If they thought Judy Blume was bad, I would love to see their reactions to Yume Nikki! XD

Like this guy. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW.

Allen Ginsberg is my hero. So is the guy who wrote Where The Wild Things Are, because he tells parents to grow a spine~ ♥

That said, I have no idea why the Lucario, Manaphy and Darkrai movies are rated PG. Especially Manaphy. Dude, is PG the new G these days or is PG a way to draw a more "hardcore" audience so big kids won't have to feel bad about watching kiddie movies or Pokemon or something?

Ironically enough, it's not the graphic sex that bothered people about Lady Chatterley's Lover. Instead, the English were busy going "EWWWW!!11! Interclass mingling! A upperclass lady and a gatekeeper? Now that's squicky!" Weiiiiiiiird. (Which I'm still on a break from. More pr0n, less whining about poor-little-rich-lives plz)

( Here's a silly sample from a book I started that will make soccer moms froth at the mouth~ *giggle* )

Clearly watching the Top 100 One-Hit Wonders of the 80s with my parents has me all geared up~ Off I go to read some more Misery! Now Stephen King, that's another author censors hate~ ♥

[Error: unknown template qotd] Movie: The Lion King. :P I don't dislike it, but I get tired of hearing how it's ZOMG TEH BEZT DISNET MOVIE EVAR!!11!1 I dunno, I just think Simba is a moronic brat and that ruined it for me.

The only thing I liked out of Magnolia was the music and the raining-frogs scene. Everything else was pretentious and depressing and filled with a despicable cast to "represent humanity". Ugh.

The Onion and everyone and their mother is recently BAAAAAAWing how underrated Babe 2: Pig in the City is all because it's darker than your usual kiddy film. Um, no. It should STAY unpopular, because it was that bad. The sequence of events to make Babe's life miserable is annoying and stupid and there's a giant clown who dies, and someone wears his inflating outfit in his place. DO NOT FUCKING WANT EVER. It's a MikeMedia fetish nightmare that should stay buried forever.

Books: Giovanni's Room and Brokeback Mountain. Because the doomed forbidden romance of gay douchebags is ZOMG SO ORIGINAL AND DARING AND DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!1111!1!!11 regardless of the billion times the same plot was written before. I started liking out Great Gatsby but got disgusted by its end. Now for the shocker: A Child Called It. Did you know David Peltzer made it all up? That it was a fake? :P

Food: Tons. :P

Band: I liked one song by Snow Patrol that was cute, but that's about it. Same with Muse with a few of their stuff,  but listen to their 3-5 best songs and you've heard them all. @.@;;; Rammestein isn't doing anything for me either, and I'm not crazy about Marilyn Manson except for oh, a couple of his covers. Ouch. :/ And Nickelback has lost its charm, blegh.

TV Show: Ed, Edd N' Eddy. I HATE that show. It's vile and disgusting and the animation is the ugliest I've ever seen. I can't watch it without feeling sick. :/

The Jonas Brothers need to fall off the planet and die, but no one's surprised by that. :P

What's the line between responsibility and censorship?

You remember your favorite kids classics growing up, like Disney or Bluth or whatever? We go back to watch them again and we realize "Holy shit, this is dark stuff." Take All Dogs Go To Heaven. Rated G. Smushy and cute, right? Wrong. There's gambling, smoking and drinking. We kiddies didn't think much of it back then, but to today's Health Department, it's OMG A BIG DEAL!1!11 and would smack a PG rating for a single puff alone. There's a detailed sequence of both Heaven and Hell (the latter which I recall gave many kids nightmares. Not me, but still scary), so fundies would be automatically pissed. There's death and murder and guns--lots and lots of guns. At which point the soccer moms are screaming. Oh, and there's a scene where Itchy gets beaten up by gangsters. Wow, that's cheery.

So it's just Bluth right? Nope, Disney's sinister too. If I recall, The Great Mouse Detective had a bar and a prostitute. Don't get me started on The Hunchback of Notre Dame either, and it's sugary compared to the book... and STILL dark.

Puri loves all these movies and have fond memories of them from as a kid. It's not like I was OH GOD DAMAGED FOR LIFE!!1!1! like the soccer moms claimed. I knew death happened. I still cried, but hey. Fact of life. I wasn't stupid enough to try smoking on my own. Hell, a lotta the darker themes went over my head until I was already old enough to understand anyway. If an enraged soccer mom whined about the meaning of Frollo's "Hellfire" being him wanting to keep and molest Esmerelda, I'd just give her a confused look and go "...Huh?" When you're a kid, this stuff goes over your head. So who cares?

Since when did people equate G-rated films with stupid shallow happy fluff with no mention of bad evil things like "death" whatsoever? I thought G movies were for everybody, not clueless toddlers that later grow up and get sick and gag at anything labeled "family friendly". Just because something is G-rated doesn't mean it's for ignorant oblivious Peter Pan wannabes. They're capable of substance and conquer just as much as a PG-13 or R movie can. Animation is a medium, not a genre: it's another way to convey various topics. Just look at Miyazaki and anime!

Maybe I'm just scared of soccer moms trying to sugarcoat everything and poison our memories. GUESS WHAT MA: BAMBI'S MOM IS DEAD.

Not saying G-rated film should allow gore and guts or anything like that. There's a fine fine line between having your 5-year-old kid watch Snow White and the SAW films. But if it crosses censorship ("OH NOES IT HAS AN UNHAPPY ENDING!!11!1"), that's when I'll have to look at you like you're the thought police.

I worked backstage for when my Mom and her best friend (and everyone in the Chattanooga Little Theater) performed Sweeney Todd. I don't remember how old I was then; I just know a lotta the themes went over my head. (Hell, I forgotten Mrs. Lovett had a creepy obsession with Todd! XD) I was basically, "Okay, Sweeney wants revenge on the evil Judge who locked him up and took away his wife and daughter. Okay! :D" Puri was a timid one who always covered her eyes and looked away from the throat-slicing scenes. Other than that, Puri was just fine and adored the musical to pieces. :o /was the only little girl who sang "Johanna" in line for entering Dollywood. In the theater, you got a red cut and fake blood on the throat, that was it. If the Tim Burton movie had come out while I was still that age, Mom and Dad would've NEVER let me see it. XDDDDD! Or at least sit with me and tell me not to look at the gory parts, but even then, it's a dark film. Puri would've been too scared. She would've stuck with her theater memories until then.

See? Puri has responsible parents. Nomnomnomnomnom. ♥

Soccer moms aren't thinking what's best for their kid. They're thinking what's best for themselves and their delicate sensibilities. :P