I just finished watching The Children's Hour.

( ... fuckfuckFUCK! very spoilery fuck ... )

What dri did this weekend:

( ... of dreams, destructions, desire, despair, destiny, delight and delirium ... no Gaiman, though. )

So. Been anaesthetising myself with movies lately ... on DVD rather than YouTube ... revisiting old favourites as well as catching up on new stuff I haven't seen yet. Finally got around to watching Hairspray which quite wonderfully lived up to all the hype and was every bit as fabulous as so many people have been telling me for years. :p

( ... nothing highbrow here, pet. )

Today I:

--- was woken by hail thundering on the roof. An hour later, it was gone.

--- discovered I have in fact used up the Aunt's 12G monthly download quota. Luckily, it resets tomorrow. :p

--- watched The Wrong Man which I bought before Christmas and was putting off watching cos of the Hitchcock trauma factor. And yeah, it was pretty damned ( Read more... )

Movies watched today on YouTube: 3.

The Women. The 1939 original, omg. Which I still can't find anywhere to purchase on DVD. I only idly put it into the YouTube search cos I was so bored. And omg, nearly fell over myself when it came up with the whole movie and the right version, too! Dear god, it's amazing. The dialogue was so fast and so ( Read more... )

Awwwwwww .... I just finished watching The Shop Around The Corner on YouTube and awwwwwwwwwwwwww!!

It's so much much more awesome than You've Got Mail and I'm actually rather fond of that film. But this is just ah light years better. And since it's Ernest Lubitsch, I should have known it would be. The tightly located cosmos of bubbling tension ( Read more... )

About a month ago, I was browsing the classic shelves in my video store and kinda doubletook at a certain cover. The thought in my head: "Woah, wait, Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis were in a movie together?! Holy mother!" As it was, I read the back of it and wasn't quite in the mood for such possibly heavyhitting fare so made a mental note, put it ( Read more... )

Oh man, I just watched Fun With Dick And Jane, the original version with George Segal and the divine (Lady) Jane (Seymour) Fonda. Cos I've been wanting to watch the remake with Jim Carrey and the equally divine Tea Leoni for a while but, as usual, felt I needed to see the original first. And a couple of days ago I spotted this on the shelf in my ( Read more... )

Omg, I never realised! That Julius Kelp is also in The Family Jewels!

( ... I think they had another book in mind. )

You know what annoys me the most about lingerie? How some of it will look all delicate and fine and silky from afar but then you put the damned thing on and it's all itchy and unpleasant against your skin. Argh, talk about defeating the point! *scratches*

The next novel keeps writing itself in my head. ( ... fine line between mediocrity and madness, yo. )