meat spin

last friday, i watched bruno with my mother at the cinema.

i've seen a lot of racy r-rated movies with my mother so it wasn't like she's really prudish or anything. she works at a hospital so she's not phased by crude things and we usually get a good laugh out of it. however, bruno was so bad that my mother and i walked out after watching the first 40 minutes and we refunded our tickets.

the clean parts were pretty funny but the dirty parts made trashy internet porn look like classy artistic nudity. some people have been saying that it's supposed to be so awkward that it will make you laugh at yourself for feeling awkward but it even made me feel really uncomfortable and grossed out and i NEVER get grossed out. the worst part by far was the seen where there was a close-up of bruno's dick and it was spinning around like a propeller. talk about a major turn-off. it was really disappointing because the trailers on TV looked really good. i know that a lot of ppl didn't expect much from the movie because of borat but i thought that borat was kind of funny.

my mum and i didn't have a ride for the next couple of hours so we decided to visit Chapters, which is across the parking lot from the cinema.

i was super excited because i got a book about vintage fashion and then i found my favourite volume of my favourite comic: transmetropolitan by warren ellis! right next to the transformers section lol. i was really excited because i've never seen it at the bookstore before... in fact, i've never seen that comic anywhere except through online scans so when i got to physically hold it, i was blown out of my mind. what i loved about transmetropolitan is that it really opened my eyes to the world around me. a lot of the issues that happen in the story are like every day live and can be applied to real life issues - such as the last american presidential elections (the one in transmetropolitan is so similar even though it was written years prior)

here are some pics of the volume:

this is the front cover. this volume is called the new scum and it features the "hero" of the story - Spider Jerusalem, a famous journalist.


this is part of the back cover. it features one of Spider's favourite phrases and a plot summary. and some reviews by some ppl.


the first chapter/issue of volume 4. each section is about 22 pages long. the background shows election posters. the story happens in a futuristic society (the near future)



i really adore his tattoos and i like how much detail is put into every drawing



i think it's neat how the rain looks in this picture. the rain is quite subtle in the original image but in this photograph, it looks really defined


I've always really liked this cover. It reminds me of the front page of a newspaper + i like anything related to aliens and tattoos and bubblegum


It's a shame that this photo came out so blurry. This is what the letter says:
"To: SPIDER JERUSALEM

Originally to MITCHELL ROYCE
cc: GARY CALLAHAN

Spider Jerusalem is requested to attend Greenbrook Tower at eleven a.m. to conduct an interview with Senator Callahan. Failure to do the Senator the same courtesy done the President will be perceived by this office as press bias and deliberate insult.

ALAN SCHACT
Political Director

DO IT - R"


Haha i really love this picture. Royce looks so crazed. Royce (mentioned in the note in the last picture) is Jerusalem's editor. This is the last chapter/issue in this volume



this is the first page of a random mini-story at the end that doesn't actually have anything to do with the plot. it's just some more spidery goodness. yum yum ♥





















at the back of the graphic novel, there's a cover gallery which shows the cover artwork for transmetropolitan. the one with the smiley face is my favourite one of all time. the 3 eyes represent the transient community - they're a community of ppl who are trying to become aliens and they're pretty much outcasts of society



this page shows all the volumes of transmetropolitan. there are 10 volumes in total plus an extra one at the end - volume "zero". in total, there are 60 chapters/volumes and it is well worth the read: i strongly recommend this series to everyone but you need to read each volume in order for the next one to make sense. the volume i have is at the top right.