So I just saw Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and it was a fairly cheesy, frequently overwrought, often ham-fisted, pretty, pretty, piratey pretty movie and I will hug it and squeeze it and buy it on DVD as soon as humanly possible.

(You know, if we're going to rag on Johnny Depp still sounding like Jack Sparrow in Sweeney Todd, it's only fair that we ( Read more... )

I'd like to clarify something about asking y'all to boycott The Seeker : I have no problem with changing things from books to movies in general. Y'all know how I championed Stardust this summer; I actually thought that the changes, of which there were many, worked really well in the context of a film, and that everything that needed to be there was ( Read more... )

I really am leaning towards all this activity being part of a hypomanic episode, though, because I had that slightly dizzy, feverish feeling after I'd finished working for the day, like it was time to crash. Or maybe there's guarana in my High! Energy! Multivitamin!!1!, who knows.Yeah... it's guarana. I checked the back of the vitamin bottle after ( Read more... )

So I had another bizarro dream last night, and I know how much y'all like my dreams, or at least the opportunity to describe your own:

( So at some point, there was a vampire )

So I finally went and got myself a (mild) sunburn, after two weeks of being so careful, since I am, after all, a whiter shade of pale. No news on the wall shenanigans front, but I was outside with the dogs this morning, and suddenly Shelby starts growling and barking at a large flowerpot. ( DEATH TO THE INTERLOPER )

You know how you see a movie when you're very young, and you kind of remember key parts but not much else, so when you see it as an adult it's like you've never seen it before? Yeah. One of the Encore channels has been having a Dirty Dancing marathon today. ( I carried a watermelon? )

Because I am The Best Sister Ever contrary to what you may have heard, I have printed up a Things to See and Eat in Savannah packet for my sister, complete with detailed MapQuest directions, based on the suggestions y'all made. Along with suggestions for various tours, I'm recommending River Street Sweets (particulary since she just got an ( Read more... )

ONOZ WHERE DID LJ GO? Via: status.livejournal.org: "LiveJournal is down. There has been a power outage at our data center. We are working as quickly as possible to restore service." Meanwhile, an email from SixApart says that "The Web 2.0 datacenter 365 Main, in the heart of SOMA, just lost power. Sites that are affected include Craigstlist, ( Read more... )

GOD! It's like being seven years old and waiting for Christmas over here. And you know, there's a point where it's not even about Harry Potter anymore. It's exciting knowing that millions of us are all waiting for the book to come out. It's exciting--and a little wrenching--to know that this is going to cap off a seven-book, ten-year series; that ( Read more... )

So I saw OOTP again on Thursday, because I am just that big a loser. My mother wanted to--well, she wanted to see Transformers, but my sister wanted to take a friend of hers to see OOTP, and obviously she can't drive while she's on painkillers, so my mother got shanghai'd into seeing Harry Potter instead. Fortunately she liked it, although she said ( Read more... )