movies, mayhem & miscellanea
I just changed my default icon. Now, for some, that's not a big thing, but I rarely change it. I'd had the one I replaced for something like two years, and the one before that for at least one. The reason I change them so rarely is because I have to really like the icon. I don't think I've ever had a default that I haven't already had in use for at least a couple of weeks. Just to be sure.
This icon I just love more and more. Which is strange, because when I made it I wasn't at all sure about it (a sure sign I'll delete it fast. Well, not such a sure sign anymore) and even made two versions of it just in case the black border started to bug me. (It hasn't.)
I really thought that yesterday's post was going to be the fresh start after all this LJ crapola, but LJ's latest " anorexia=just striving to be thin" and " text links are cause for suspension" idiocy has just gotten me riled up again.
By this point I'm kinda like "whatever, bring it on, I'm just gonna keep on doing what I'm doing until I'm no longer welcome here". Of course, my opinion of the LJ staff as people is now in the toilet (my opinion of them as professionals went down the tubes loooong ago). What I've taken away from this whole debacle is that they're a bunch of homophobes who have no compassion or understanding for people with a deadly disorder and that they like to ridicule their customers. Wow, that's quite the accomplishment in less than a week.
I'm slightly amused at the thought of the possibly thousands of users who linked to those images/the sites that caused the suspensions in the first place that are now in danger of becoming suspended themselves, even if they did it because they were disgusted with them. Because link=approval, just like LJ interest=approval, don'tcha know? And LJ is now apparently taking responsibility for content hosted on other sites, even if they explicitly say they aren't.
Just when I think they can't get any lower they find a basement door. *sigh*
Yesterday I watched Blades of Glory. And I liked it! I'm not much of a Will Ferrell fan, because I don't like that over-the-top style acting that he (and many comedians, to be fair) has. However, the material can help with that, as it did with Stranger Than Fiction (he wasn't able to do his signature acting thing because it didn't work for the part), or GREAT co-stars can help. The movie, for me, was really all about the Jenna/Will/Amy trio of AWESOMENESS!
Also, it was kind of fun to see a parody of The Cutting Edge. Even the Iron Lotus was a rip-off of the Pamchenko! It did kind of bug me that we only ever saw one set of scores, though. I mean, doesn't everyone know that you get scores both for artistic and technical merit? And that there's a short and a long program? And that there's no actual "skate-off" or a finale? If you make a movie about it you'd think you'd do a little research.
Um, I also rewatched P&P again, because apparently I'm incapable of seeing any caps from that movie without rewatching it.
On the TV front, I watched the pilot of Oz, and wow, it was even more depressing than I remembered. I mean, I recognize that it's a quality show, I just don't know if it's a quality show that's for me.
I watched the first two discs of Avatar and so far, so good. There's still the animation factor, but it's engaging enough that I enjoy it nonetheless. Actually, for me it's not so much enjoyment that's a problem, because I do enjoy shows like Futurama and The Simpsons, it's the investment. I just don't get invested in animated characters. I don't know if Avatar will change that, but so far it's never happened, not even in animated movies that I watched as a child.
This icon I just love more and more. Which is strange, because when I made it I wasn't at all sure about it (a sure sign I'll delete it fast. Well, not such a sure sign anymore) and even made two versions of it just in case the black border started to bug me. (It hasn't.)
I really thought that yesterday's post was going to be the fresh start after all this LJ crapola, but LJ's latest " anorexia=just striving to be thin" and " text links are cause for suspension" idiocy has just gotten me riled up again.
By this point I'm kinda like "whatever, bring it on, I'm just gonna keep on doing what I'm doing until I'm no longer welcome here". Of course, my opinion of the LJ staff as people is now in the toilet (my opinion of them as professionals went down the tubes loooong ago). What I've taken away from this whole debacle is that they're a bunch of homophobes who have no compassion or understanding for people with a deadly disorder and that they like to ridicule their customers. Wow, that's quite the accomplishment in less than a week.
I'm slightly amused at the thought of the possibly thousands of users who linked to those images/the sites that caused the suspensions in the first place that are now in danger of becoming suspended themselves, even if they did it because they were disgusted with them. Because link=approval, just like LJ interest=approval, don'tcha know? And LJ is now apparently taking responsibility for content hosted on other sites, even if they explicitly say they aren't.
Just when I think they can't get any lower they find a basement door. *sigh*
Yesterday I watched Blades of Glory. And I liked it! I'm not much of a Will Ferrell fan, because I don't like that over-the-top style acting that he (and many comedians, to be fair) has. However, the material can help with that, as it did with Stranger Than Fiction (he wasn't able to do his signature acting thing because it didn't work for the part), or GREAT co-stars can help. The movie, for me, was really all about the Jenna/Will/Amy trio of AWESOMENESS!
Also, it was kind of fun to see a parody of The Cutting Edge. Even the Iron Lotus was a rip-off of the Pamchenko! It did kind of bug me that we only ever saw one set of scores, though. I mean, doesn't everyone know that you get scores both for artistic and technical merit? And that there's a short and a long program? And that there's no actual "skate-off" or a finale? If you make a movie about it you'd think you'd do a little research.
Um, I also rewatched P&P again, because apparently I'm incapable of seeing any caps from that movie without rewatching it.
On the TV front, I watched the pilot of Oz, and wow, it was even more depressing than I remembered. I mean, I recognize that it's a quality show, I just don't know if it's a quality show that's for me.
I watched the first two discs of Avatar and so far, so good. There's still the animation factor, but it's engaging enough that I enjoy it nonetheless. Actually, for me it's not so much enjoyment that's a problem, because I do enjoy shows like Futurama and The Simpsons, it's the investment. I just don't get invested in animated characters. I don't know if Avatar will change that, but so far it's never happened, not even in animated movies that I watched as a child.