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Saw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang at the on-campus theater last night. OH RDJ. <333333 What do I have to do to be in the Avengers movie? Seriously, dude. Besides the obvious steps of, uh, building up an acting career in Hollywood. *rueful*
(Speaking of, I heard some casting rumor about Thor and now I can't remember who it was. *frowns* Anyone got an idea? It was somewhat unexpected but not bad. Brad Pitt?)
Anyway. RDJ. GAY PERRY oh my god. I cannot handle the amount of awesome. Now I want a triple feature of The Big Lebowski, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and In Bruges. (One of these things is not like the other, but I think In Bruges fits the general kind of aura of KKBB well enough to qualify. Also, Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes. 'nuff said? 'nuff said.)
I feel obliged to say something, though, about how annoying I find it that in so many movies/TV shows, the inamorato is considerably older than the inamorata. RDJ was 40 and Michelle Monaghan was 29 in KKBB. Nathan Fillion is eight years older than Morena Baccarin. Edward Norton is eight years older than Liv Tyler. Richard Gere is nineteen years older than Julia Roberts.
I mean, I know age is not an insurmountable difference in real life, it's just . . . it's a real double standard in Hollywood, I think, part of the whole industry's difficulty in dealing with women aging. Hell, Harmony says it in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: "She's 35. Her career is over. Give it up."
I think that's part of why I like Paul Gross and Martha Burns in Slings & Arrows so much. It would be so easy to have Geoffrey's romantic interest be someone younger and hotter, but instead, they're the right age for each other. (I mean, it helps that Paul and Martha are married in real life, which makes all of their scenes together so much sweeter, to my eye.)
About the only instance I can quickly find where the actress is older is Sela Ward and Hugh Laurie, and she's only three years older than him, so they fit in the same age bracket, really.
Hokay, thus endeth the pop culture rant.
Life continues apace; school continues apace. I had my first experience buying condoms on Saturday -- they're for a scene I'm directing that involves a condom being blown up like a balloon, so I had to get non-lubricated ones -- which was not particularly wacky; the cashier tried to ring up the box and thought it didn't go through at first, and you could see on the poor girl's face that she thought she was going to have to do a price check. Finally she got it to beep -- and ended up charging me twice. But she didn't charge me for the tights I was buying at the same time, so I'm really only five dollars out, and one story up.
The only other really cool news is that I now weigh 119 lbs, which puts me nicely in my ideal weight range for the first time in . . . a long time. I think. I weighed in at 124 at my last physical, which is just on the edge of overweight for my height.
More importantly, though, for the first time in a long time, I like what I see in the mirror. I'm not 100% sure whether this is because I've actually lost weight, or because I've finally managed to smack my brain into having a good self-image -- but I feel like I look good.
Which is probably a lot less momentous to everyone else, but dude. I'm happy about it.
(Speaking of, I heard some casting rumor about Thor and now I can't remember who it was. *frowns* Anyone got an idea? It was somewhat unexpected but not bad. Brad Pitt?)
Anyway. RDJ. GAY PERRY oh my god. I cannot handle the amount of awesome. Now I want a triple feature of The Big Lebowski, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and In Bruges. (One of these things is not like the other, but I think In Bruges fits the general kind of aura of KKBB well enough to qualify. Also, Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes. 'nuff said? 'nuff said.)
I feel obliged to say something, though, about how annoying I find it that in so many movies/TV shows, the inamorato is considerably older than the inamorata. RDJ was 40 and Michelle Monaghan was 29 in KKBB. Nathan Fillion is eight years older than Morena Baccarin. Edward Norton is eight years older than Liv Tyler. Richard Gere is nineteen years older than Julia Roberts.
I mean, I know age is not an insurmountable difference in real life, it's just . . . it's a real double standard in Hollywood, I think, part of the whole industry's difficulty in dealing with women aging. Hell, Harmony says it in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: "She's 35. Her career is over. Give it up."
I think that's part of why I like Paul Gross and Martha Burns in Slings & Arrows so much. It would be so easy to have Geoffrey's romantic interest be someone younger and hotter, but instead, they're the right age for each other. (I mean, it helps that Paul and Martha are married in real life, which makes all of their scenes together so much sweeter, to my eye.)
About the only instance I can quickly find where the actress is older is Sela Ward and Hugh Laurie, and she's only three years older than him, so they fit in the same age bracket, really.
Hokay, thus endeth the pop culture rant.
Life continues apace; school continues apace. I had my first experience buying condoms on Saturday -- they're for a scene I'm directing that involves a condom being blown up like a balloon, so I had to get non-lubricated ones -- which was not particularly wacky; the cashier tried to ring up the box and thought it didn't go through at first, and you could see on the poor girl's face that she thought she was going to have to do a price check. Finally she got it to beep -- and ended up charging me twice. But she didn't charge me for the tights I was buying at the same time, so I'm really only five dollars out, and one story up.
The only other really cool news is that I now weigh 119 lbs, which puts me nicely in my ideal weight range for the first time in . . . a long time. I think. I weighed in at 124 at my last physical, which is just on the edge of overweight for my height.
More importantly, though, for the first time in a long time, I like what I see in the mirror. I'm not 100% sure whether this is because I've actually lost weight, or because I've finally managed to smack my brain into having a good self-image -- but I feel like I look good.
Which is probably a lot less momentous to everyone else, but dude. I'm happy about it.