- Entangled by Kate MacDowell – check out her site for more amazing porcelain pieces! (via)
- Huge list of jewelry diy ideas.
- The wedding is over, I’m unpacked, finally well-fed and well-rested! Happy cat!
- I want to make this lil chippy munk!! (via)
- This post about hobbies you kid yourself into thinking you’re going to take on cracked me up. I love crafts (despise scrapbooking though) and I have bought the basics for just about every craft hobby out there. Sewing, painting, drawing, cupcakery, knitting, embroidery, silk screening, sticker making, jewelry making, decoupage, you name it. Sometimes you have to be honest with yourself though, and narrow it down to a few things you really love to do and clean out the rest. I just packed up a grocery bag of my knitting supplies to give away. All I ever managed to complete were scarves. I simply don’t have the time or desire to ever knit again, when I have plenty of scarves already and can buy one for $10.
- I’ve been having an ongoing debate with the bf about rape scenes in movies. I simply cannot watch them. I get a physical reaction – disgust, rage, an angry trembling in my core. We watched The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo recently. I can handle violence in movies but the rape scene was one of the most brutal I’ve seen. But she got revenge!! I don’t care. I have been feeling for a long time that these revenge flicks are just an excuse to have the rape scene. Rich Juzwiak just wrote this. He’s feeling my skepticism as well.
I Spit On Your Grave, in both its 1978 and 2010 incarnations, is a horror film with a deceptively simple premise: a woman named Jennifer Hills retreats to a house in the middle of nowhere all by herself, is sniffed out and raped by locals and then exacts murderous revenge on them. I say that it’s deceptively simple, because what sounds cut and dry has been the fodder for 32 years of debate — is the film merely an excuse to depict a prolonged and brutal group rape sequence with tit-for-tat redemption thrown in to obscure the exploitation, or is it a feminist statement of the enduring strength of woman?
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