Is this thing on? Really? How about now?
I don't understand why this keeps happening and why LJ can't seem to do anything to prevent it, but I'm very glad everything seems to be in working order again, for the most part. I've started a few posts but been unable to actually post them for the past few days, so it's time to play catch-up.
* Saw Captain America last weekend, which was really, really good. It reminds me quite a bit of The Rocketeer, which was made by the same director (*gulp*) twenty years ago. There's an Avengers button after the credits (though some people apparently still haven't learned to stick around for these) that elicited indecent amounts of fanboy glee when I went to see it. Was sad to see DH2 dethroned (at least domestically) in only its second weekend, but Captain America is a worthy box office draw. A genuinely good flick. Stanley Tucci is my favorite, but then he usually is. :-)
* Speaking of movies, I'm gearing up for a BIG weekend of movies, if I can get to them all (probably not, but I'll give it a shot) - Cowboys and Aliens, Attack the Block (which I've heard nothing but raves about since March), The Future (the latest from Miranda July, who made the wonderful Me and You and Everyone We Know), Crazy Stupid Love (which looks like a better-than-average romcom), AND The Devil's Double.
* Finished Season 3 of The Wire and it just keeps getting more and more outstanding. David Simon mentioned in the commentary that a couple of cities have actually tried (or at least suggested) the "free zone" idea. It's sad to think that this is something that might actually make a difference in the drug war but that will never, EVER be implemented because it's so controversial and so at odds with everything we've ever done in relation to drugs (which, not for nothing, has made less than zero impact).
* (*heavy sigh*) There seem to be people - among the unread, movie-only HP audience (which I still could not care less about) - who are under the impression that Snape is Harry's father. No, seriously. Based, as I understand, purely on the "curious" King's Cross exchange between Harry and Dumbles about Patronuses. No, by the way, this is not the movies' fault.
* And finally, for wahlee_98, and courtesy of cleolinda ... David "Sexypants" Tennant IS Peter Vincent IN Fright Night. Also, LOL! "And I seriously am so angry you think I read Twilight." I'm kind of pumped for this movie. Loved the original, and this at least looks like it's in the same spirit.
* Saw Captain America last weekend, which was really, really good. It reminds me quite a bit of The Rocketeer, which was made by the same director (*gulp*) twenty years ago. There's an Avengers button after the credits (though some people apparently still haven't learned to stick around for these) that elicited indecent amounts of fanboy glee when I went to see it. Was sad to see DH2 dethroned (at least domestically) in only its second weekend, but Captain America is a worthy box office draw. A genuinely good flick. Stanley Tucci is my favorite, but then he usually is. :-)
* Speaking of movies, I'm gearing up for a BIG weekend of movies, if I can get to them all (probably not, but I'll give it a shot) - Cowboys and Aliens, Attack the Block (which I've heard nothing but raves about since March), The Future (the latest from Miranda July, who made the wonderful Me and You and Everyone We Know), Crazy Stupid Love (which looks like a better-than-average romcom), AND The Devil's Double.
* Finished Season 3 of The Wire and it just keeps getting more and more outstanding. David Simon mentioned in the commentary that a couple of cities have actually tried (or at least suggested) the "free zone" idea. It's sad to think that this is something that might actually make a difference in the drug war but that will never, EVER be implemented because it's so controversial and so at odds with everything we've ever done in relation to drugs (which, not for nothing, has made less than zero impact).
* (*heavy sigh*) There seem to be people - among the unread, movie-only HP audience (which I still could not care less about) - who are under the impression that Snape is Harry's father. No, seriously. Based, as I understand, purely on the "curious" King's Cross exchange between Harry and Dumbles about Patronuses. No, by the way, this is not the movies' fault.
* And finally, for wahlee_98, and courtesy of cleolinda ... David "Sexypants" Tennant IS Peter Vincent IN Fright Night. Also, LOL! "And I seriously am so angry you think I read Twilight." I'm kind of pumped for this movie. Loved the original, and this at least looks like it's in the same spirit.