i paid, and paid, and paid ~

i actually paid for my journal finally ~ i've been using it long enough and seem well-entrenched here, so it's fair (and i've been trying to make a better point of telling or showing people that i appreciate their work).

of course now that i can customize the look of my blog, i'll prolly get all jiggy with it. i switched (at long last) over to the new system and got a new template, but i'm not 100% happy with it. makes reading my f-list kinda hard, actually. anyway, i'll futz with it.

in the meantime, i have all manner of new avatars ~ or at least temporary toys until i get around to making some cool ones.

i'd build a mood set, but that seems like so much work (and how can you choose a theme?)

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and then i wrote a long post about cultural imperialism in america and general american intolerance, but now i feel better, so let's just say both of those things aren't good and be done with it.

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finally, i realized after posting this review in catholic_media that i really would like to keep a complete record of all the movies i write about, so i'm reposting it here, cut for those of you who have already read it.

( review of The Confessor )

one of the many variations on the poster for this film ~
i really dig the black and white and red!

i must have come across five different posters while looking for a picture to post (in fact, I couldn’t find the film at all listed under the new title yet ~ not even at imdb.com). clearly, the company was having trouble marketing it, which raises a lot of interesting conundrums. Emily Rose was sort of sold as a horror film (even though it really wasn’t). this was was sold as a murder mystery, but it’s so unshocking (even banal) that the spin on the packaging is actually pretty gratuitous (all that blood and penitence going on there!).

i guess it's hard to market a Christian film these days without trying to sell it into a genre. it seems to be the way of the world.