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Tuesday, January 25, 2005

MY SCAR FEELS BETTER

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright.
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light.


And, somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout,

because there is no joy in Mel Gibson-vill--
mighty Jesus has struck out.


Good. Jew-hating snuff films shouldn't get Oscars. At least not so long as we rule Hollywood.

[As Leon wrote in a blisteringly negative review back in March: "There is only the relentless destruction and dehumanization of a man, who exists here to have his body punished with an almost unimaginable fury. He falls, he rises, he falls, he rises; he bends beneath the blows, but never mentally; his flesh is ripped, his head is stabbed, his eye is beaten shut, his hair a wig of dried blood, he is a pulp with a cause."]