1. I've been getting a lot of Russian-language construction spam on my old City Hunter posts. I am not sure what the connection is between a fictional Korean vigilante and building materials in Kostroma, so I have no idea how the spammers are coming across these posts. At least I can read that spam! I've been getting spam in German and I have no ( Read more... )

Thank you all for the awesome 1980s recs.

I shall start my 1980s nostalgic wallow (it really is the decade of my childhood - either in the Soviet Union, with Soviet movies and imported foreign ones, or when we moved to the USA in 1991 and watched 1980s movies on TV and that is, in part, how I learned English).

My first two start movies are Coming ( Read more... )

All of a sudden, I have a mad desire to fish out and watch 16 Candles. Preferably while eating a smoked salmon sandwich and drinking tea.

I have my plans for the evening!

Maybe I could do a mini-marathon with The breakfast Club and The Sure Thing. And ooooh, Pretty in Pink!

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Here is a confession: I don't care how regressive or unfeminist it makes me, I adore the 1980s movie Pretty Woman, with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere (in case you don't know the plot by some odd chance, she is a hooker hired by icy tycoon whose heart she melts and love occurs ( Read more... )

I think I feel like pulling out Ladyhawke, one of the movies I adore. It's romantic, and fairy-tale like. It reminds me of a story in one of the Lays of Marie de France. Plus, Rutger Hauer as Navarre actually looks like he could be a medieval knight and is built to inflict some major damage with the sword ( Read more... )

Yes, I am that bizarre scifi junkie who has never seen Blade RunnerUntil tonight. They have rereleased the director's cut in the most awesome cinema in town, the one with the huge huge screen and red curtains and so myself and Mr. Mousie went ( Read more... )