Thursday Noodles - NSFW Edition (9/27)
Recommendations that just might make you clutch your pearls
Gird your loins for some NSFW recommendations this week.
Truly, these might not be y’all’s taste.
No judgment if you’re a tender, delicate flower with a stick up your butt.
[insert laughing emoji to indicate I’m kidding]
No, for real, though. Proceed with caution.
Movie
No Hard Feelings
We rented this a few weeks ago and I’m still thinking about it.
First, it’s funny. Very funny. Jennifer Lawrence makes this movie.
Number B, this feels like one of the first truly Millennial / Gen Z movies I’ve seen. (With Gen X parents, including one Ferris Bueller.)
Among the many things it explores: the gig economy, millennials truly getting the shit end of the stick, sex work, sex really not being all that big of a deal yet a big deal, helicopter parenting, gentrification, and more.
Roman Numeral 3: it features a hilarious and kick-ass, fully nude, fight scene.
Not for the first time, this movie has me wondering whether I would have been better off if I’d been taught that sex was transactional / no big deal, rather than so … fraught. I was taught by ev-er-y-bo-dy out there **waves hands at ethers** that sex is precious and tender and a sharing of one’s most personal being. And that “girls have a hard time separating sex from love, while boys don’t.” And of course, girls who do it a lot or with many partners, are sluts, and sluts are a bad, bad thing to be.
I genuinely think it would have been better to view sex as transactional (and potentially fun) than all that baggage. I bet I would have had approximately the same number of partners, but with less angst and drama. But I’ll never know for sure now, will I?
Another JLaw Movie
This one is very NOT funny. Winter’s Bone.
This came out awhile back but lawd have mercy.
I heard that the film crew consulted with locals where it was filmed - the Missouri Ozarks - to ensure authenticity. The locals told them their Carhartts were too new. So the actors traded clothes with the locals. Locals got new threads. We got a movie that feels a little too real.
TV
Review.
This is one of the few shows we’ve watched more than once. If you find this hilarious, you will find this hilarious. That’s all I can really say.
More TV
Hijack.
A crowdpleaser. Infinitely watchable. But not before a flight.
And More TV
Peaky Blinders.
Damn, this show is excellent. And holy crap it’s gory and violent. I covered my eyes for a bunch of the fight scenes. But damn, this show is so, so good.
RANDOM
The SVAKOM “Amy” Intelligent Vibrator.
$39.99 on Amazon.
Link (Substack isn’t linking it. Too blue, maybe?): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VH86HEW?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_CVFRK7YFRFS29EAPZAQC_1
Y’all the first vibrator I ever bought was from the famous, feminist Good Vibrations in San Fransisco in … 1994, maybe?
That thing was the size and heft of a gotdamn hand mixer.
And, very much like a hand mixer, you had to plug it into an outlet. The cord was not very long. It was loud. And after awhile, it might mash you into a pulp.
Happy to say we’ve come a long way in vibration technology.
This gal, the Amy, is cute, compact, has variable speeds, is waterproof, holds a charge, and recharges with a detachable USB connection (or cube). Great for use alone or with company.
And it is QUIET.
I don’t think I need to say too much more about this.
As with any of my recommendations, your mileage may vary.
All righty then!
Hm. Am I really going to leave you on the note of having recommended a purple vibrator named Amy?
Yes. This week, I think I am.
Blessings on your heads.
And hands.
(And all your other parts, too.)
XOXO
All news to me! I even had to google NSFW. You never cease to amaze me JJ 😉
I too had to goggle nsfw but tickled that I guessed in the ballpark