you, nancy boy, you.

The thing about Lolita is that the language Nabokov uses is incredibly rich, sophisticated, and infinitely more developed than anything I've ever read in my life. His vocabulary is out of this world, and as I've said before, I've collected practically a novel of hastily scribbled down words that, many of which, I've never even seen before. Therefore, the act of reading anything else after experiencing Lolita, has swayed me to judge other books unfairly, and to cringe in disgust when reading anything remotely "teenie-bopperish." For example: Whip It, now a major motion picture, but a book as well, is so, so inferior to Lolita both in its un-sophisticated language, as well as its story line. I mean, Nabokov writes a book from a pedophile's point of view, and even brings under-age sex into it, which engages the reader in a battle of morals and wits. Compared to Whip It-- wait, I can't. It's incomparable, that's what it is.

But I shall-- compare it, that is. While Nabokov's novel is of (unethical) romance, and is comprised of in depth descriptions of his love and physical attraction to Delores and other nymphets before her, Whip it, barely manages to do so. In fact, one of the main components of the latter novel (?) is a romance between the protaginisht, Bliss Cavender, and the apparently smokin' hot punk rocker, Oliver Something (I can't remember the dude's last name). Yet, in the book, the romance is essentially non-existent. Oh, it's there, but not there. Shauna Cross (the author) talks of kisses, sex, and witty conversations with flirtation, but it's not romance to the level of Humbert and Delores. In fact, in the motion picture, I think they cut out a lot of the romance part, but I didn't see it, so I can't say for sure. AND, the guy who plays Bliss's romantic partner is LANDON PIGG. As in, the guy who sang the song for that diamond ring engagement commercial, where the couple is in the car, and the guy proposes to the girl [which is so not the way it's supposed to go. I mean, take the effort to get on your dang knee]. And there's a song playing in the background, with the lead singer softly serenading like this:

I think that possibly, maybe I'm falling for you
Yes, There's a chance that I've fallen quite hard over you

I've seen the paths that your eyes wander down,
I want to come tooooooo

I think that possibly, maybe I'm falling for you.

No one understands me, quite like you do,
Through all of the shadowy corners of meeeeee

I never knew

 just what it was

 about this old coffee shop, I love so much
All of the while I never knewww

I think that possibly
Maybe I'm falling for you
Yes there's a chance that I've fallen quite hard over you

I've seen the waters that make your eyes shine
Now I'm shining tooooooo

Because, oh, because:

I've fallen quite hard over you

If I didn't know you, I'd rather not know
If I couldn't have you I'd rather be alone

I never knew

 just what it was

 about this old coffee shop, I love so much,
All of the while I never knewwwww

I never knew

 just what it was

 about this old coffee shop, I love so much
All of the while I never knewwwwww

All of the while
All of the while
All of the while: it was youuuuu

It's actually a good song, and Landon Pigg is cute, but not hard punk rocker, who is darkishly handsome (which is what is implied in Whip it).

Here's the video of LANDON PIGG: