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It's finally gotten hot here, after just taunting us for a while. I've discovered I'm pretty much the only person I know who likes summer better than winter.
Dom sighting! I want to know why he's limping. Does that make me creepy?
Tom Felton visits the under-construction HP theme park.
Ned, the Piemaker picspam. Gorgeous.
Supernatural spoilers. SO NOT IMPRESSED.
DO WANT. Zoe's dog tags!!!
People who are good at asking questions and are therefore not me, go ask Joss or Eliza or Tahmoh!
TV Guide's Winter preview featuring Dollhouse, pilot review with lots of spoilers that I'm not going to read.
LJ business dramas are afoot.
Answers to that favourite character meme I did! I have a feeling it tends to be easy to guess mine, most of the time.
1. Lost - Charlie Pace. Uh, because he's Dom, but also because he's sweet and he sacrificed himself to save everybody. I love Faraday too.
2. Firefly - Zoe. She is by far the single most kick-ass woman on TV, ever, which is at least partly because she doesn't have to talk about how kick-ass she is. She just gets it done.
3. Pushing Daisies - Olive. I love pretty much all the main characters, but Olive owns me every time she appears. She's a total firebrand.
4. Supernatural - Dean Winchester. Um. Duh.
5. Chuck - Captain Awesome. Okay, I know he's barely a character, and everybody else is cool and they all get more to do but HIS NAME IS CAPTAIN AWESOME. And EVERYTHING he does is awesome. When his girlfriend went crazy, he was awesome. He's awesome about his girlfriend's brother living with them. When Chuck needed to learn the tango, he taught him half naked. And he's a doctor with enough money to lend tens of thousands of dollars to Chuck's friend as an investment because he cares. HE IS AWESOME.
6. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Tara. Tara has the weakest role physically of pretty much any of the Buffy girls, but she's got the strongest heart and mind (ironically, considering season 5) of any of them. She's kind of the centre.
7. Battlestar Galactica - Helo. He's like the Captain Awesome of Battlestar Galactica, only tortured, and unfortunately shirtless less often.
8. Torchwood - Ianto Jones. There's pretty much nothing I don't love about him. He makes out with Captain Jack, wears suits, and snarks endlessly. He's so contained that when he breaks it's killer.
9. Veronica Mars - Piz. I like Logan. I do. I just think Piz is about the sweetest, funniest, cutest thing ever. It seems my new type is ridiculously attractive, sweet guys. I'm screwed.
10. The Middleman - Noser. Noser just cracks my shit up, he's so laid-back and he never plays guitar. Puppet!Noser is hilarious.
These icons are really pretty.
Today I finally got to see my first movie of the year, Australia
Total feast for the eyes, this one. It's an Epic Movie with a Message, and the Message is kind of hammered home, but since everything else is hammered into you I felt kind of...numb to it by the end. But a hell of a gorgeous way to go.
There's just so much of this movie. It's more like five or six stories in one movie, which made it disjointed to me - you feel like it's over halfway through, but there's still a whole other main plot and several other sub-plots to get through. It's very predictable - I called every death well before it happened, and every plot twist - but it's one of those Epic Movies with a Message where it's not where you're going, but how you get there that matters. I also feel like it was kind of a primer on this idealised, bug-free, old-fashioned version of Australia that ends up talking down to Australians, especially with the titles at the beginning and the end of the film. Oh, speaking of the end of the film, I have no idea what Baz was thinking with those songs over the credits. Terrible.
Uh, so, Baz Luhrmann is totally gay for Hugh Jackman, right? Because he was sexualised so much in this movie. Like, the way Pauline Kael used to complain about women being sexualised in movies, with long, lingering shots of their bodies in various states of dress, including dirty, wet, classy, and nonexistant. He got by far the worst lines, I don't know how he kept a straight face, but I'm not a Hugh girl and even I have to admit he was sexy as hell in this movie. He ticked ALL the boxes - horses, kids, shirtlessness, rugged handsomeness, cleaning up well, sensitivity, manliness, broad comedy. Like I said, there's SO MUCH of this movie.
Brandon Walters, holy crap on a pogo stick. That kid is just beautiful, and he acted the shit out of this movie. From everyone else, everything sounds cheesy and way over-the-top, but he is just so damn believable, even with all the outback magic stuff. I'm glad the kid went walkabout in the end, thoug - I was starting to wonder if they were going to stick with this white nuclear family ideal and ditch the whole 'Aboriginal culture matters too!' concept.
Uh, Nicole was fine. I kept daring her to try to move her face in my head, but she held her own okay. I feel like in the hands of, say, Katharine Hepburn, I would have LOVED this role, but I just felt kind of meh about her. I loved Daisy Wenham as the moustache-twiddling, cat-stroking (well, okay, not so much, but child-beating and fly-killing) bad guy. It could have been total caricature but Daisy gave him more complexity than either of the heroes got. Lots of familiar faces in this one for Aussie audiences, too, so that was fun.
Okay, I'll leave it there, or I'll go on all night, and I want to sleep.
3.5 out of 5
Paranoia, paranoia, everybody's coming to get me
Green Queen
Dom sighting! I want to know why he's limping. Does that make me creepy?
Tom Felton visits the under-construction HP theme park.
Ned, the Piemaker picspam. Gorgeous.
Supernatural spoilers. SO NOT IMPRESSED.
DO WANT. Zoe's dog tags!!!
People who are good at asking questions and are therefore not me, go ask Joss or Eliza or Tahmoh!
TV Guide's Winter preview featuring Dollhouse, pilot review with lots of spoilers that I'm not going to read.
LJ business dramas are afoot.
Answers to that favourite character meme I did! I have a feeling it tends to be easy to guess mine, most of the time.
1. Lost - Charlie Pace. Uh, because he's Dom, but also because he's sweet and he sacrificed himself to save everybody. I love Faraday too.
2. Firefly - Zoe. She is by far the single most kick-ass woman on TV, ever, which is at least partly because she doesn't have to talk about how kick-ass she is. She just gets it done.
3. Pushing Daisies - Olive. I love pretty much all the main characters, but Olive owns me every time she appears. She's a total firebrand.
4. Supernatural - Dean Winchester. Um. Duh.
5. Chuck - Captain Awesome. Okay, I know he's barely a character, and everybody else is cool and they all get more to do but HIS NAME IS CAPTAIN AWESOME. And EVERYTHING he does is awesome. When his girlfriend went crazy, he was awesome. He's awesome about his girlfriend's brother living with them. When Chuck needed to learn the tango, he taught him half naked. And he's a doctor with enough money to lend tens of thousands of dollars to Chuck's friend as an investment because he cares. HE IS AWESOME.
6. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Tara. Tara has the weakest role physically of pretty much any of the Buffy girls, but she's got the strongest heart and mind (ironically, considering season 5) of any of them. She's kind of the centre.
7. Battlestar Galactica - Helo. He's like the Captain Awesome of Battlestar Galactica, only tortured, and unfortunately shirtless less often.
8. Torchwood - Ianto Jones. There's pretty much nothing I don't love about him. He makes out with Captain Jack, wears suits, and snarks endlessly. He's so contained that when he breaks it's killer.
9. Veronica Mars - Piz. I like Logan. I do. I just think Piz is about the sweetest, funniest, cutest thing ever. It seems my new type is ridiculously attractive, sweet guys. I'm screwed.
10. The Middleman - Noser. Noser just cracks my shit up, he's so laid-back and he never plays guitar. Puppet!Noser is hilarious.
These icons are really pretty.
Today I finally got to see my first movie of the year, Australia
Total feast for the eyes, this one. It's an Epic Movie with a Message, and the Message is kind of hammered home, but since everything else is hammered into you I felt kind of...numb to it by the end. But a hell of a gorgeous way to go.
There's just so much of this movie. It's more like five or six stories in one movie, which made it disjointed to me - you feel like it's over halfway through, but there's still a whole other main plot and several other sub-plots to get through. It's very predictable - I called every death well before it happened, and every plot twist - but it's one of those Epic Movies with a Message where it's not where you're going, but how you get there that matters. I also feel like it was kind of a primer on this idealised, bug-free, old-fashioned version of Australia that ends up talking down to Australians, especially with the titles at the beginning and the end of the film. Oh, speaking of the end of the film, I have no idea what Baz was thinking with those songs over the credits. Terrible.
Uh, so, Baz Luhrmann is totally gay for Hugh Jackman, right? Because he was sexualised so much in this movie. Like, the way Pauline Kael used to complain about women being sexualised in movies, with long, lingering shots of their bodies in various states of dress, including dirty, wet, classy, and nonexistant. He got by far the worst lines, I don't know how he kept a straight face, but I'm not a Hugh girl and even I have to admit he was sexy as hell in this movie. He ticked ALL the boxes - horses, kids, shirtlessness, rugged handsomeness, cleaning up well, sensitivity, manliness, broad comedy. Like I said, there's SO MUCH of this movie.
Brandon Walters, holy crap on a pogo stick. That kid is just beautiful, and he acted the shit out of this movie. From everyone else, everything sounds cheesy and way over-the-top, but he is just so damn believable, even with all the outback magic stuff. I'm glad the kid went walkabout in the end, thoug - I was starting to wonder if they were going to stick with this white nuclear family ideal and ditch the whole 'Aboriginal culture matters too!' concept.
Uh, Nicole was fine. I kept daring her to try to move her face in my head, but she held her own okay. I feel like in the hands of, say, Katharine Hepburn, I would have LOVED this role, but I just felt kind of meh about her. I loved Daisy Wenham as the moustache-twiddling, cat-stroking (well, okay, not so much, but child-beating and fly-killing) bad guy. It could have been total caricature but Daisy gave him more complexity than either of the heroes got. Lots of familiar faces in this one for Aussie audiences, too, so that was fun.
Okay, I'll leave it there, or I'll go on all night, and I want to sleep.
3.5 out of 5
Paranoia, paranoia, everybody's coming to get me
Green Queen
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Plus? I am whiter than white and I burn after, like, 5 minutes in the sun.
Also, just once, in the winter time, I would like it to be possible to get snow. It doesn't snow here. Ever. Really.
So, yeah, you go and enjoy your heat. I'll be knitting a sweater, hoping one day I will be able to use it. Maybe next winter? Maybe when I go on a trip to somewhere with more than one season?
I often wonder what this "spring" and "autumn" and "winter" dealios are all about.
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I blame Christmas. And drinking fairly heftily for the last couple of weeks. Hope you enjoyed your Christmas and all that jazz.
- A
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surr ♥s tara
surr ♥s ianto
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Ianto Jones and Tara own my heart.
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Okay, you just totally cracked my shit up.
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I agree with a lot of what you say and I knew you'd enjoy the prettiness of it
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GORGEOUSNESS, more like. There are scenes from that movie that I want to get printed and put on my wall.
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I like your favorite characters. Why did I forget to play?
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Um, because you didn't see the post? IDK.
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Hugh was incredibly hot in this film, and I do think Baz has a man crush.
I agree about Nicole and Daisy (whose character I wanted to thoroughly throttle)
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Daisy was fantastic. He and Brandon Walters were the stand-outs in my book. Hugh really just had to stand around and look pretty, and pretend Nic's face was moving. *ponders* actually, come to think of it, he did a good job too.