There’s not been a lot to update about life-wise. It’s been work, sleep, eat, hang with Dee, gchat with
viennawaits, repeat. I can’t wait for Thanksgiving. Even my evenings off don’t feel like evenings off, so it’ll be nice to have an entire day (mostly) to myself.
Someone inspire me to write! I will bake you cookies (or just write you something as close to awesome as I can manage).
Matthew Bomer’s face should be inspiration enough, and it almost is. Also, Gallant from ER is on White Collar, and that kind of makes me smile every time I see his face. (
viennawaits I don’t like the new FBI girl, either).
I’ve been listening to a lot of music that makes me happy (literally invokes smiling): MIKA, Jonas Brothers, Christmas music (it’s all those bells).
On an unrelated note, I saw Inglorious Basterds this weekend
I really don’t understand why this movie inspired such a fandom. The fangirls seem to be a little crazy for the slash, and honestly? I just didn’t see the chemistry. I enjoyed the movie, it was less violent than I was expecting, and I think the majority of the cast did a good job. I feel like Aldo should have been played by someone less well-known; I could never quite get pass Brad Pitt.
I really don’t understand why Eli Roth has developed such a following, such devotees. He was fine, nothing exceptional. The movie was less about the bastards than Shoshanna anyway (I’ll get to her in a minute).
B.J. Novak. Now, I don’t watch The Office but I have a little crush on him (and his face), but I was seriously annoyed with the 2/3s of that movie where he did absolutely nothing. It was like they threw him in there because they knew people would recognize him and realized near the end that maybe he should have a few lines (which he delivered well, no doubt.)
There were only two characters and two actors I actually cared about. The characters of Shoshanna and Frederick, and Michael Fassbender and Christoph Waltz.
Shoshanna and Frederick are the only two I felt had any real, romantic chemistry/tension. I thought their dynamic and their story was very interesting. There was that air of possibility - if she wasn’t Jewish and he wasn’t a Nazi, but still without a positive outcome. He’s too arrogant and she’s so independent; she wouldn’t defer to him and he would very much want her to. I really enjoyed Melanie Laurent and Daniel Bruhl. If not for Fassbender and Waltz, I would definitely name them as the best actors in the bunch.
I won’t really talk about Waltz, seeing as how every review of the film praised his performance (and rightly so) but I did get a sense, and this doesn’t happen often, of missing out because I’ve only now discovered him.
Fassbender.
The only segment I had any emotional attachment to was his. He showed up (completely surprising me, even though I knew he was in the movie, did his thing, was amazing and impressive (as in, left an impression) and then he died. I was actually kind of upset when Diane Kruger was the one who popped up alive. That man knows how to make an impact.
That’s about it for now. I need to get started on yuletide. My letter will be coming in a few days, if my wonderful amazing writer is out there wondering.