What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[REPO Man]

Oh, but when people discount my problems, that's fine? I'm just saying one's problems could always be worse.

[marurun]

You are a unique case. But point taken.

[SamuraiMegas]

How about you man up and sling some dope so you can move out of your shitty town?

[REPO Man]

How about you man up and sling some dope so you can move out of your shitty town?

Because it's illegal?

[MrPopo]

Try being gay in a predominantly straight town.

That would be almost every town?

[Ack]

Try being gay in a predominantly straight town.

That would be almost every town?

He should really consider moving somewhere that would be better suited to him, like New York City or something. Surely, after more than a decade of planning and saving, he has the funds for this.

[REPO Man]

Okay, let me rephrase that... "Try being one of the few gay men in a predominately straight town." Of course, that's probably for the best in my case since I'm damn near related to everyone born and raised on this island.

Also, I made a crapton of fake Criterion covers based on films I'd love to see as part of The Criterion Collection.


This is for Taxandria, a brilliant fantasy film about a young prince who's told by an eccentric lighthouse keeper about a land called Taxandria. In it, scientists doubled the sun and brought about a near-apocalypse. This led to the abolition of science, history and time, forcing the decimated populace to live in the Eternal Present. But one young man seeks to break free from Taxandria's oppression.

I used to have this on an imported DVD that could only be played on my region-free DVD player. Sadly the latter broke and the former got ruined in a flood.



This used to be my favorite movie as a kid. I even gave copies to my niblings for Christmas. I used what I believe was the German poster and found a logo with a transparent background, but since the letters "Adventures in Slumberland" were white, I selected those words and inverted the colors.




I've never seen this two but I'd love to, and since they're both directed by Rene Laloux and Laloux's Fantastic Planet got a Criterion release, I figure these two are just a matter of time.

Literally just a random poster with minimal words and, in the case of Time Masters, the title in English, if only so I wouldn't have to add the English title in parentheses and have it look off.



The second part of Gregg Araki's Teenage Apocalypse trilogy, not to mention his first to feature heterosexual protagonists, I used to have the Lionsgate reissue of the piss-poor 4:3 pan-and-scan TriMark DVD.



The follow-up to The Doom Generation, which Gregg Araki describes as "[Beverly Hills] 90201 on acid". There never was a Region 1 DVD release.



Gregg Araki's 2010 film, which seems to have similarities to his unaired MTV pilot "The World Ends With You". To me this seems to hit similar notes to Shin Megami Tensei for the Super Famicom, in that in both the main character is part of an apocalyptic prophecy, has prophetic dreams and meets two guys that seem to fight for conflicting ideals, a la the Lawful Hero and Chaotic Hero. Also, interestingly, both Kaboom and SMT1 feature a character named Thor.

For this, I took the Italian Kaboom poster, color to alpha'd the white portions, slapped a random photo of an atomic bomb going off and then inverted the whole damn thing. The logo was lifted from the German box art.

EDIT: looked at the Kaboom cover on my tablet and I noticed that the transparencies look off. So I'll have to redo that one. It's my fault for having the brightness turned up so high on my TV.

[Note]

It's spring break right now for me. It's been a wild few weeks. I'm working three jobs now, my mom just got diagnosed with breast cancer, my grandma moved in with us to help out and now she's broken her foot so I have to take off 2 jobs on Saturday and drive her home to Louisiana. Messed things up with a woman and made a bit of an ass of myself too... Stressful times! Least I got money in my pocket.

Sorry to hear about your mother's health situation. Hoping everything will be alright for her.

Don't sweat the girl problems, it'll take some time to figure things out with dating but you'll get there. You'll meet plenty of other people and being into music, fashion, and art will certainly help with that. Play it cool and don't over think things.

Keep your head up!

[REPO Man]

Well wishes to SamuraiMega's family.

[REPO Man]

Fixed my Kaboom cover: