13 Notes Worth Noting
Last Thursday, received a headache-inducing Flash/Mail. A Flash/Mail is an e-mail blasted directly into your subconscious via sky lasers.
Read the contract before you sign.
The Flash/Mail told us we’re moving to a possible new system & to back up all relevant Stubstack notes into posts on the home site, thefiesta13.com.
By Friday.
In the new system, each Last Week’s Notes must contain only 13 notable notes. We pick. They never read. Another Last Week’s Notes tomorrow.
Let’s Gooooooooo.
It’s Frankenstein Friday!
How many of these 20th Century Frankenstein movies have you seen?
This is a preview of an upcoming all Frankenstein game. We’re watching them in order & just finished Black Frankenstein.
Yesterday, we wrote a short column about You Can See Everything comparing the characters to a malignant narcissist we knew & his captured girlfriend.
Then, went in and fixed a typo & accidentally deleted the note.
Now, a day has past & we’ve read roughly 10,000 columns about the movie. Our desire to recreate the column better is now completely gone.
Over the weekend, we tried the first game of The Fiesta 13’s The Big List Trivia Game. Soon, we’ll host games on Stubstack using Tabletop Simulator. You don’t need a copy to play. If interested, let us know. We’re adding cards eventually as well, so each game will be different.
Looking forward to a better future…
Jennifer’s Body Double Indemnity (A Fiesta 10/13)
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In 2009, Jennifer’s Body walked on by. Maybe we got the wrong idea from marketing, but the focus on Megan Fox dissuaded us from seeing the movie. We like Diablo Cody & Amanda Seyfreid. We skipped & kinda forgot.
Then came horror Stubstack. For a while, every fifth column was about Jennifer’s Body. So, we were reminded. We didn’t read the columns because we hadn’t seen the movie.
We took the hint & watched JB last night. If someone had said, at any time in the last 15 years, Amy Sederis has a small part in the movie, we’d have watched JB that evening. She’s a National Treasure.
We’d also like to apologize to Megan Fox. She was the right person for the role. She was a real Transform-er. We write to share jokes we hate.
Here’s our theme for The Jennifer’s Body Stubstack Canon:
Jennifer’s Body is also a Noir.
We’ve always felt noirs ran on a personal horror & more noirs, just by upping the body count, would be horror movies.
The Structure. Classic Noir Structure. A flashback wrap-around that finishes the story when we come back to present. Even an internal flashback, further fracturing the storyline.
The Plot: A weak protagonist, blinded by loyalty and latent attraction, is dragged by the femme fatale down the road to evil.
Needy: Jennifer’s corrosive influence exacerbates Needy’s flaws.
Jennifer: Not a full femme fatale as she’s possessed. However, most of the unpossessed scenes show her as less than a good person. The ironic nature of the possession is her extra bitchiness is discarded as Jennifer being Jennifer. So, yea, she is an unwilling femme fatale. Was at least a femme fatale in the making.
Needy’s Boyfriend: Most noirs have ‘The Good Girlfriend’. We see her in the first act & at the end. He fulfills this role, normalcy to counteract the corruptive characters. Our favorite scene, his death monologue. From “I’m sorry I didn’t believe you” to “I Love You,” his monologue is everything a girl wants to hear from their dying boyfriend.
The Slang: Obviously heavily influenced by Heathers, the cutting slang is used the way language is used in noirs. Both as an isolation to those who don’t know the slang & as a way to obsfucate language’s meaning.
Only the ending didn’t fall into a classic noir plot-line, but horror.
We generally dread writing about noir & other genres. Noir-heads get super weird about what they define as noir. However, Horror-heads have no problem expanding horror’s boundaries. Like the true statement: the original Willy Wonka is a horror movie. True Fact.
So, Horror Stubstack, is Jennifer’s Body a noir?
Watch a double feature of Jennifer’s Body & Double Indemnity & get back to us.
We’re cowards. That’s how we are today. Hopefully our story can help others.
Last week, we signed up to canvass for a local candidate. We’ve never canvassed before. There’s never been a reason. Not where we live. The way it worked out, we got a big list of voters in our neighborhood. We went out, knocked on about 20 doors with no answers. Looking at the list, most of the names on the list were 70-year-old Republicans.
After we got home, we started having panic attacks at the thought of going back out. We were going out again on Saturday, but spent the day in a panic attack. We’re BiPolar, but not cowards. We’re not Kayne, we do not blame our actions on mental illness. We take full responsibility for every shitty manic decision we’ve made.
We just called to say we couldn’t finish the list. We’ve been doing so well for the last two years, this stunned us. The panic attacks. We need to fight for this election. This is not a time for cowards. We’ve directed a dozen or so news shows while having an extended panic attack & even full nervous breakdowns. We don’t quit. We still do it. We show up & finish. We’ve taken one of those new-fangled “Mental Health Days” only after the staff made us.
The strange thing is, Bipolar can be a strange superpower. We have no problem doing things that scare others. We’re not scared of public speaking, for instance.
Not sure how can this help. Only that, even if the world or others can frighten you, hopefully you can still find a way to help.
We’ll have a political sound collage tomorrow.
The US denied foreign election watchers. Only Iran & Afghanistan denies foreign election watchers.
Bad stuff’s about to happen.
This Last Week’s Notes is sponsored by 1964’s PornPod Sex Festival. Use a Time Machine or join the recreation every Saturday at the old, abandoned Blayne Fairgrounds at the edge of town.
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