Somebody Kisses Clowns After They Take Off Their Make-Up
This line is from the best book I've read this year, Rupert Holmes' Where the Truth Lies. Felt like using it.
This is going to be a big grab-bag of a post because I am going away for a vacation and won't be back until the beginning of January. Happy (early) Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, New Year or any other holiday of choice to those who celebrate! If you'll allow me to be sappy for a moment, last year, I knew only two people on my friends' list (aliterati and katranna) because I didn't even have an lj. And this year I got to meet all of you really fun, interesting, clever people through lj. Yeah, it's mushy, but reading my friends' list makes me happy way too often to mention. So thank you.
1. You know this period of time when you know that you can't save yourself from falling and the best you can do is try to twist in such a way so your bruise won't be too bad, but you haven't yet hit the ground? Time really does slow down, or more accurately, you become much more aware of each instant. Unfortunately, what you are aware of is frustration and anticipation of pain. Yuck. Yes, for future reference to self, watch out for ice on the sidewalks.
2. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. It's out now. Go see it. Go see it even if you have to rob a bank to do it. It's a film noir homage and parody that I fell madly in love with and which is in my Top 5 of the year. It's post-modern and it's old-fashioned. It's intelligent, twisty, funny, witty as hell and surprisingly tender and romantic. Any absence of marketing on this movie is a crime. And no matter how outrageous or clever it gets, you never really feel the shellacked indifference to violence of a Tarantino movie, primarily because of the look in Harry's eyes (Harry is played by Robert Downey Jr who should stay off drugs, please, because I love him.) Oh, and Val Kilmer is the coolest gay private detective ever. The Flick Filosopher [sic] said it better than I can in her review here. Why are you still reading this? Go buy a ticket!
3. I know in Smallville the smooshed term "Clexana" refers to the Clark/Lex/Lana triangle (barf) but every time I see it, I think it refers to menage-a-trois instead, and it suddenly becomes a heck of a lot more interesting, especially since I have a hilarious picture in my head of Lana horrifiedly realizing that the boys are sort of more interested in each other and abandoned her to fend for herself while they get it on...heeee.
4. I ended up watching a bit of Spiderman 2 last night. This still remains my favorite superhero move ever. Tobey Maguire is totally dorkily adorable and I just want to feed him chicken soup and mother him, which is bizarre. Plus, I am a sucker for a superhero with just one love interest. And I am a sap but I love MJ coming into his apartment at the end. Sigh. Also, it has the coolest opening credits ever (and I noticed that two out of three screenwriters are the people responsible for Smallville. What, they spend all their good ideas at the movies?). Harry Osborne still hot. Too bad about future evilness.
5. While idly browsing the One Tree Hill thread at TWoP I learned that Haley and Nathan (the only couple I liked on that atrocious show) had, so far this season (mind you, we are only into ep 10 or so): had Haley sign the divorce papers with "I love you" and come back to win over her broken-hearted husband, who still loves her but won't trust her. He wants her to work with the guy who lured her away last time to see if he can trust her and Nathan's evil dad Dan pays the guy to seduce her. But it didn't work (direct quote from TWoP: "he kissed her whilst pretending to be Nathan in a batman costume.") Now Dan is being even more evil and abusive (which I thought wasn't possible) so Nathan turned to Haley for support and they ended up having hot sex. The kicker? Nathan and Haley cannot be older than 17! Realism? What's that? Gosh, I simply must watch. So bad and so irresistable.
6. I finally ended up watching all the Bolly movies I bought except for Virrudh. I enjoyed Pyar Main Twist about an older pair of windowers who rediscover love. Fun to see Rishi and Dimple together after 30+ years. Plus, Rishi, after he got over the early 90s phase of sweaters and romancing on screen girls half his age is quite a delight to watch (the only time I've ever found Rishi uber-hot though was in the 1970s Amar Akbar Anthony. When he sang that quawali to Neetu, I felt like going over to him. The rest of his movies in the 70s he was dorkily cute). Kyun Ki unfortunately wasn't so good. There was a good idea buried in there somewhere and Salman was very good but the movie was a horrible mess.
7. Saw Battlestar Galactica promo yesterday while flipping channels. Cannot wait. Being a pathetic fangirl, the K/L hug got me all giddy, though I am sure it won't ever lead to any roses and puppies. Husband's reaction? "Are they putting paddles on Apollo's chest?"
8. I was rewatching bits of Revenge of the Sith and when Anakin pledges himself he is swaying on his knees, from despair, or horror, or trying not to realize what he is doing, and he cannot look anywhere, at Palpatine, at himself, at anything. It's horrifying.
9. Go read lazypadawan's hilarious "Sithmas" write-up right here. Seriously.
This is going to be a big grab-bag of a post because I am going away for a vacation and won't be back until the beginning of January. Happy (early) Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, New Year or any other holiday of choice to those who celebrate! If you'll allow me to be sappy for a moment, last year, I knew only two people on my friends' list (aliterati and katranna) because I didn't even have an lj. And this year I got to meet all of you really fun, interesting, clever people through lj. Yeah, it's mushy, but reading my friends' list makes me happy way too often to mention. So thank you.
1. You know this period of time when you know that you can't save yourself from falling and the best you can do is try to twist in such a way so your bruise won't be too bad, but you haven't yet hit the ground? Time really does slow down, or more accurately, you become much more aware of each instant. Unfortunately, what you are aware of is frustration and anticipation of pain. Yuck. Yes, for future reference to self, watch out for ice on the sidewalks.
2. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. It's out now. Go see it. Go see it even if you have to rob a bank to do it. It's a film noir homage and parody that I fell madly in love with and which is in my Top 5 of the year. It's post-modern and it's old-fashioned. It's intelligent, twisty, funny, witty as hell and surprisingly tender and romantic. Any absence of marketing on this movie is a crime. And no matter how outrageous or clever it gets, you never really feel the shellacked indifference to violence of a Tarantino movie, primarily because of the look in Harry's eyes (Harry is played by Robert Downey Jr who should stay off drugs, please, because I love him.) Oh, and Val Kilmer is the coolest gay private detective ever. The Flick Filosopher [sic] said it better than I can in her review here. Why are you still reading this? Go buy a ticket!
3. I know in Smallville the smooshed term "Clexana" refers to the Clark/Lex/Lana triangle (barf) but every time I see it, I think it refers to menage-a-trois instead, and it suddenly becomes a heck of a lot more interesting, especially since I have a hilarious picture in my head of Lana horrifiedly realizing that the boys are sort of more interested in each other and abandoned her to fend for herself while they get it on...heeee.
4. I ended up watching a bit of Spiderman 2 last night. This still remains my favorite superhero move ever. Tobey Maguire is totally dorkily adorable and I just want to feed him chicken soup and mother him, which is bizarre. Plus, I am a sucker for a superhero with just one love interest. And I am a sap but I love MJ coming into his apartment at the end. Sigh. Also, it has the coolest opening credits ever (and I noticed that two out of three screenwriters are the people responsible for Smallville. What, they spend all their good ideas at the movies?). Harry Osborne still hot. Too bad about future evilness.
5. While idly browsing the One Tree Hill thread at TWoP I learned that Haley and Nathan (the only couple I liked on that atrocious show) had, so far this season (mind you, we are only into ep 10 or so): had Haley sign the divorce papers with "I love you" and come back to win over her broken-hearted husband, who still loves her but won't trust her. He wants her to work with the guy who lured her away last time to see if he can trust her and Nathan's evil dad Dan pays the guy to seduce her. But it didn't work (direct quote from TWoP: "he kissed her whilst pretending to be Nathan in a batman costume.") Now Dan is being even more evil and abusive (which I thought wasn't possible) so Nathan turned to Haley for support and they ended up having hot sex. The kicker? Nathan and Haley cannot be older than 17! Realism? What's that? Gosh, I simply must watch. So bad and so irresistable.
6. I finally ended up watching all the Bolly movies I bought except for Virrudh. I enjoyed Pyar Main Twist about an older pair of windowers who rediscover love. Fun to see Rishi and Dimple together after 30+ years. Plus, Rishi, after he got over the early 90s phase of sweaters and romancing on screen girls half his age is quite a delight to watch (the only time I've ever found Rishi uber-hot though was in the 1970s Amar Akbar Anthony. When he sang that quawali to Neetu, I felt like going over to him. The rest of his movies in the 70s he was dorkily cute). Kyun Ki unfortunately wasn't so good. There was a good idea buried in there somewhere and Salman was very good but the movie was a horrible mess.
7. Saw Battlestar Galactica promo yesterday while flipping channels. Cannot wait. Being a pathetic fangirl, the K/L hug got me all giddy, though I am sure it won't ever lead to any roses and puppies. Husband's reaction? "Are they putting paddles on Apollo's chest?"
8. I was rewatching bits of Revenge of the Sith and when Anakin pledges himself he is swaying on his knees, from despair, or horror, or trying not to realize what he is doing, and he cannot look anywhere, at Palpatine, at himself, at anything. It's horrifying.
9. Go read lazypadawan's hilarious "Sithmas" write-up right here. Seriously.