Friday Miscellany: Honey! Squid! Centipedes!

[naomi_jay]

So I've been washing my face with honey this week. I know! I would never have thought of it if Stacia Kane hadn't tweeted a link to Crunchy Betty's website. Now I'm obsessed. Seriously! My skin is already so much better than it was on Monday. I haven't had to use any mosturizer or other skin products, and my skin is all soft and healthy-looking. I've just been doing it in the mornings so far, as you're not supposed to use it on dirty/made-up skin. I don't wear much make-up, but I prefer to take it off with a cleansing wipe, so. I'm considering picking up some baking soda, as you can use that with honey as make-up remover. I'm spending way too much time on the Crunchy Betty site now. I'm getting a real interest in the whole sustainable living/natural beauty stuff, and her articles are just right for me - simple, inexpensive, and involving a minimum of effort. So yeah! I absolutely recommend washing your face with honey. I've struggled for years to find the right combination of goopy products to keep my skin looking nice and healthy, and all I had to do was slather myself in honey.

In other news, like all the best people this week, I have made myself a squid!

His name is Squamous and he just escaped a killer whale, apparently. Good for him!

In other other news, The Human Centipede 2 has had it's UK ban rescinded. It'll be classified as an 18 after 2 minutes and 37 seconds of cuts. I'm really enjoying the review that claims it's ban would have saved UK viewers from "a shockingly boring film" and that "nobody outside of a world-class psychiatrist could explain what Human Centipede 2 is." Of course, I am reserving judgement until I've seen it (our friend James is over in the UK at the end of October and we've decided since we watched the original with him last year, we should save the sequel for him too. Because we care), but based on the reviews I've read, it seems like the problems of the original are still present here: namely, all Tom Six has is his central concept and he lacks the balls to actually deliver the grossness and ick factor he purports to be presenting. We shall see.

Comments

[tezmilleroz.livejournal.com]

Aw, Squamous is a cutie - and you're very kind to wait for James :-)

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Sadly, James will genuinely appreciate it.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Well, it's nice to know that the Human Centipede Sequel looks to be every bit as bad as the first. BUT WILL IT BE AS LULZY.

Reading that review makes me think this movie is pretty much Freud's wet dream.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

I can't find the link now, but I read a review yesterday that said Six had attempted something clever (engaging in a dialogue with the audience who had asked for more gore, more violence, and more graphic centipede stuff) but failed to actually deliver them the extremes they wanted. So I guess he's at least attempting to "say" something with the sequel. I'm guessing he fails.