Reasons you will hate me

But TOM CRUISE?!?!? Will I look past his cultish, zealot grin and appreciate it for what it is? Will I?

I totally loved this movie so much that I marched into Borders afterwards and updated my Spielberg library (I'm a long-term fan).

I think he's finally got back into the headspace he was in circa Close Encounters. Fucking ace.

And after the first few minutes, I loved Tom Cruise. So apparently that Uni of Southern California professor was wrong - we can still suspend our disbelief.

if you think that was good, just wait till you see Sin City.

It reminds me oof that episoode where i drove the car off the cliff with Dee in it. Luckily I survived as her massive cans acted as airbags.

Thanks for watching

Toadie from Neighbours

Dang – didn't like it that much. In fact, it lost me after the first 30 minutes. And the ending SUCKED.

Clem, report to me immediately to discuss your book buying habits.

Wow, like IOYC is starting to have an effect.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?"
good q, yo. I means we is all getting the IOYC vibe and becoming REAL journos like he is.

"GREAT NOW WHAT???"

Maybe we should have an "IOYC day" and all post like the orsumness of the IOYC post moronic generation?

"IS THAT A RHETORICAL Q?"
Are you having a fucking go??

I don't know what it says about me, but this is the first of your posts that has ever made me want to give you a fucking huge tongue kiss. Like, massive. Now. You are very funny and when I read this I laughed rather a lot and I'll be over there hiding if anyone needs me.

I'm so with you. It compelled me to write a post about it too.

All except Tim Robbins.

From Trivia for War of the Worlds

While filming in a residential neighborhood in Howell, New Jersey, residents lined up for autographs. Tom Cruise said if anyone pushed or shoved or acted rudely he would stop immediately. One woman pushed her way through and Cruise stopped, just like he warned.

While filming nearby, Tom Cruise along with a 20 member entourage including Steven Spielberg visited a Lexington, Virginia, Dairy Queen. Cruise saw a jar on the counter with a photo of Ashley Flint and her story. Flint was in a go-cart accident a few months earlier, leaving her family with a mountain of hospital bills. Cruise put $5000 cash into the jar.

To all those who enjoyed War of the Worlds, Congratulations. George W Bush, Donald Trump and their neo-con ilk would be proud of you.

Why? Ridiculously large budget that could be better used on things like healthcare or education, a drollywood star paid tens of millions of dollars for appearing (because, you know, he is better than common people and as such deserves it), the way it promotes violence and sophisticated weaponry as being cool, and the fact that the alien attack on the earth can be viewed as representing the attacks on the US on September 11, and as such US action in Iraq and Afghanistan were a justified form of self defence.

You'll be voting for John Howard in no time.

Yes, I was surprised at how much it didn't suck.

Even if there were some weird plot holes. Miraculously EMP-resistant video cameras. Aliens who bury their machines millions of years before they attack, rather than JUST ATTACKING WHEN THE MACHINES ARE READY. Hilarity.

Yes! And it could also be mindless escapism!!

Alecks: FUCK OFF and go back to screaming "mea culpa!" while you masturbate over pictures of starving Eastern European war orphans.

As the original story is public domain, have a look out for two other versions that also came out straight-to-DVD this year. They are meant to be BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD.

My favourite thing in this version was Morgan Freeman playing the Easy Reader - outta sight!

Wohoo! Thank you Clem. I had almost gone the entire day without pissing somebody off.

However I have to say that your resorting to sexual insult is really indicative of your primitive baseness. Remember it is animals whose existence revolves around sex to ensure the survival of the species. Humans as a higher species have evolved above this.

Oh, and if your "Eastern European war orphans" is referring to my ancestry, well you are wrong. As anybody with any semblance of knowledge about the geography and history of Europe knows Poland, Hungary, Lithuania. Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belarus and Western Ukraine are Central Europe. Thus your post should read "Central European War Orphans." Please get it right for little old me.

Aleks. What are you doing? No, really. What are you doing? Is it not enough to have your own blog where you can piss everyone off? If you don't enjoy pop culture/taking the piss/mindless escapism, that's fine. But please don't go all Hillsong on our arses. If you're doing it to get people's attention so they'll visit your blog - where you try to garner affection by talking about how beautiful your relationship is with your family... then... you've just reeled me in to helping you.
*shit*
Well, while we're at it, come over to my blog, everyone, and you'll see Aleks get all fiery on my quaffing abilities and rampant junket-trip-taking media whoring ways...

I'm getting very tired of this.

Dear Aleks

"Remember it is animals whose existence revolves around sex to ensure the survival of the species. Humans as a higher species have evolved above this."

Um, Holy Shit.

I am so Scientifically Aroused by this Breaking News. Are you a Scientist as well as a Possible Journalist and Anarcho-Syndicalist!! (OR EVEN MORE -ISTS!! LOL!!)

Kind Regards
IOYC Justified and Ancient

Listen to Elmo, You will wet your pants over Syn City..

I know so...

From the desk of Hotman Paris
Summitmas I Tower Lt. 17
JL. Jend. Sudirman 61-62
Jakarta 12069

Dear Aleks Anarcho-Syndicalist,

RE: YOUR RECENT BLOG COMMENTS

I write to you on behalf of my client Jess Ausculture.

You have recently entered the blogosphere and begun participating in both the capacity of a commenter and a blogger.

We have noticed a similarity in the self-righteous pretentious ramblings of your comments and the self-righteous pretentious ramblings found on the website The Fucking Latte Left.

While we acknowledge your oft-mentioned hatred of the Latte Left ©, we cannot help but feel you are infringing on The Fucking Latte Left © and Jess Ausculture's exclusive dominance in the "most clichéd leftist antics which give non-right wingers a bad name" stakes.

We respectfully ask you to abandon your po-faced satirical persona lest The Fucking Latte Left become even more insignificant in the Australian blogworld.

The due date to respond to this comment is 8th July 2005. The address to send your response to is:

The Fucking Latte Left.

Yours sincerely,

Hotman Paris Hutapea x

Wow.

Does no one else see how contradictory it is to bitch about how evil Tom Cruise is, then go and watch a film with him in it, blog about how good it is, thereby helping to advertise the film, and at the same time Tom Cruise? Does no one else see how contradictory it is to criticise others on-line in the name of freedom of speech, and then get upset when others criticise people on-line.

Isn't it hypocritical to believe in freedom of speech, unless it is that people say things you disagree with. In which case they shouldn't be allowed to say what they want in a public forum? Isn't that the reason some of you hate Andrew Bolt and his ilk?

As for you Black Wind, fire and steel. Shit, you have made me see the error of my ways. Wait, no you haven't . Don't most people make comments on their blogs on issues they don't have a university qualification on. Are you saying that people in order to comment on something, must possess qualifications in that area? Or is that only in the case of people saying things you don't like/disagree with?

And freelancer, the reason I mention my relationship with my family is because it shapes my beliefs and actions. My family is the most important thing in the world to me, that is why i fight for the things I fight for; I want the world they live in to be the best one possible. I apologise if that notion offends anyone.

It doesn't offend me. I love that you love your family. In fact, it was a lovely post. But I have a strong suspicion you're provoking people just to get them to visit your blog. If that's your MO, then you've betrayed your family by using them as a tool for boosting your own popularity.

Hotman Paris Hutapea
C/O Reasons You will Hate Me

Dear Hotman,

RE: MY RECENT BLOG COMMENTS

Thank you for your letter dated the 6th of July. For reasons I will outline below, I am responding via the blog Reasons You Will Hate Me.

While I do recognise the precedency of the Blog The Fucking Latte Left the said blog has not had any comments posted on it in over a month. As such the said blog under international IT law is considered abandoned, and as a result can no longer claim dominion over the "most cliched leftist antics which give non-right wingers a bad name" stakes.

Furthermore I allege that Jess Ausculture is herself a member of the latte left. As such she is not in any moral or ethical position to espouse such self-righteous ramblings criticising the latte left.

I conclusion I would ask you to advise your client to have a have a latte, or possibly even a glass of chardonnay.

Yours Sinncerely,

Aleks - Anarcho-Syndicalist

If I was really interested in wanting people to visit my blog I would crap on about what happened on Big Brother and use childish sexual innuendos every second line.

The reason I set up my blog was that people told me that I should give people the chance to criticise my views and not just criticise theirs. I was putting, so to speak, my money where my my mouth is: if I really do believe in freedom of speech, then I should allow others to criticise me, not just me criticise them. This is obviously something others out there don't believe in.

Furthermore I allege that Jess Ausculture is herself a member of the latte left.

I have a badge and the membership card and the t-shirt and everything!

Truth be told, I weighed it up and decided that being a shallow ignorant faux-leftist was more endearing to my uni student mates at the pub (where, as one might expect, I quaff chardonnay after chardonnay while spouting off about detention centres and the latest Michael Franti album) than being a humourless overly-earnest preaching leftist.

I am willing to change however. Especially if your lot have good badges.

This is obviously something others out there don't believe in.

I believe in it!

That's why I am positively revelling in our banter x

But oh! Alack! I cannot stay here beating my head against a wall, I have much work to do today - but I look forward to our next textual stoush.

Our badge is our commitment , passion and actions.

I read blogs. I like blogs. I don't write blogs. But bitchy comemnts like a bad case of the clap really turn me off. Especially when Ms Fits goes to trouble of lightening my day with her writing. Aleks what ever you point is I am sure you have a blog to write it on for other people to read about it.
Amusing is good, but petty self promotion for your own blog is oh sooo passe.

It was a bit hard though, accepting Tom Cruise sarcastically saying 'Yeah! ... I'll just put that on my platinum card!' ... Yeah right! Like you can do that Tom Cruise! I suspect you've not been within a mile of a platinum card, you dockworker you! It was a good movie though, and Tom got to do his trademark run, no one can do that run like him. Run really fast with your eyes half closed, then run slightly slower while sneaking looks over your shoulder.

AGENT: Tom, I have this script you might be interested in ...

TOM: Does it have any running in it?

AGENT: Yes, there is a lot of running.

TOM: Do we really need to keep having these phonecalls?

Our badge is our commitment , passion and actions.

Oh my god. I don't mean to keep changing back and forth but I've decided I love you again.

Yes Jess, I wear my heart on my sleeve. The Things I believe in I am passionate about, committed to, and act upon. And being an insomniac gives me more time to work on those things.

However there are just times where I should be committed. See the comments on freelancers article on her blog, the jumping on the bandwagon one.

There are wankers and ther are wankers! There are alos wankers who want to overthrow the government and like the Whitlams!

Tom and Dakota were hosting an award at the MTV Movie Awards.

Has Tom ditched Katie Holmes for a younger, and no doubt tighther little package?

Bless you Hules for changing the subject of commentary from boring narcissism to highly inappropriate/very funny.

I sense there are many pervy clockwatchers anxiously marking time until it's socially acceptable to verbally lust after Dakota Fanning. But that could still be 2 or 3 years away. Pace yourself.