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ellixian

"all is calm / all is bright"

Mar 14, 2009 04:13

1. Why so spammy, me? I apologise for posting so often in the past day or so. Blame it on my fandoms constantly providing me with awesome over which I feel I MUST flail. Surely you guys don't blame me for it? ;)

2. To wit: ( here's some awesome )

alice in wonderland, lj - noldoparma, n2n, emil chau, om nom nom nom, meryl streep, pics!!

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irnbruise March 13 2009, 20:57:07 UTC

I don't know what you call it for real, but "facialist" sounds thirty kinds of WRONG.

ellixian March 13 2009, 20:59:10 UTC

SEE THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. Strange I never thought to look it up online. Urgh, maybe later. I'm going to bed now - just bought a ticket for Watchmen and eek, I have to be up for that in six hours or something!!!

irnbruise March 13 2009, 21:01:44 UTC

I just googled and apparently you DO call them facialist. O_o I would not want to have to put up with the jokes accompanying that occupation..

Semi relatedly, who the hell serves sausage that is a meter long? Jesus.

Good night! Though don't worry, you can always sleep during the movie and you won't miss anything.

ps. What did your boyfriend write there?

ellixian March 13 2009, 21:08:22 UTC

Clearly they need a business card announcing them as such. Geez. 'Facialist' really does sound WRONG though, doesn't it? Weirdness. Over here they just cheat and call them beauticians. I've lived here so long I don't even know if that's a real or made-up word anymore.

The sausage was LONG <--- ahahahahaha dodgiest sentence I have typed ALL DAY. But legit it was one metre of spicy chicken sausage. Quite yummy, but too much.

Ruh-roh, I'm guessing you were bored by the movie? It does seem unnecessarily long though, 162 minutes, oof.

ps My boyfriend was on a talk show with his band members and they were answering questions about each other on clipboards, as far as I can tell. I think they were asked to describe what everyone else in the band does for fun or something, because he's writing about how one band member sleeps, and another one goes out to chat up girls etc. O_o

irnbruise March 13 2009, 21:16:59 UTC

Beautician!! is the word I was looking for in my head but could not find it. I think that's a much better word to use (and seems to imply more versatility) than.. facialist. Haha ( ... )

ellixian March 14 2009, 17:43:23 UTC

Oh good, so beautician IS a word and not one that Singaporeans made up! The immigrant Vietnamese women would probably take what they can get, y'know.

I DID actually really like Watchmen - but only as a deconstruction of the superhero myth and a character study. I LOVED the flashbacks, and seriously do find the idea of being in love with the sociopath who breaks people's fingers with abandon KIND OF DISTURBING. Jackie Earle Haley is unbelievable. Albeit skeevy, I only know of him in skeevy roles. *weeps* But the plot was awful.

irnbruise March 14 2009, 20:24:21 UTC

My aunt told me this whole thing about why there are so many Vietnamese nail salons - it's because it's one of the few employment certifications that are in Vietnamese so it's what they get stuck with for lack of other options. Rather depressing. :(

I'm glad you liked the movie! I agree it was an excellent deconstruction of the myth, and character study, but I still thought the plot was stupid and it meandered too much. (The sex scene and the whole thing on Mars were like, lol.) Jackie Earle Haley was AMAZING. All I had seen him in before was Little Children where he properly creeped the shit out of me, so I was happy to get to cheer for him. Even if he was a sociopath. We all have an id. ;)

Last weekend my Twitter friends feed was full of BIG BLUE PENIS jokes.

ellixian March 15 2009, 07:32:24 UTC

Maybe that's why Azns in America are either beauticians (or aestheticians) or making Singapore fried noodles. ;) Sure explains a lot.

OMG, I've only seen Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children too - yay again for shared cinematic references XD - and he was astoundingly creepy in that. In a film with Kate Winslet, I was all like, OMG HOW ARE YOU THE MOST AMAZING THING. But not as much as now; I thought he - and his character - were absolutely the best things about Watchmen.

Urgh, penis jokes. I had very little patience for the whole Dr Manhattan thing, everyone ELSE had a more compelling story than him, in a way. Aside from Patrick Wilson. And what was with Matthew Goode, I kind of think he was miscast a bit as Ozymandias. Sigh.

irnbruise March 15 2009, 07:39:49 UTC

Or completely useless like me!! XD ( ... )

ellixian March 15 2009, 17:45:55 UTC

There is no such thing as Singaporean noodles. Don't even get me started on that. ;)

I probably WILL read Watchmen at some point, just because I'm intrigued by how the graphic novel must read compared to the movie. I much preferred the V For Vendetta comic to the movie, for one thing, so expect to like the novel more in this instance as well.

To Patrick Wilson's credit, I did not at ANY point in the movie go PHWOAR YOU ARE SO HOT as I did once in a while in Phantom (what a miserable misfire of an adaptation THAT was, btw). Philip Seymour Hoffman as Nite Owl II would've ruled the UNIVERSE, however. Also do not need more blue-dick-backstory on the DVD, thanks very much.

EEK, Rorschach for Halloween would be EPIC. XD though possibly as prevalent as the Joker was last pumpkin season?

My spazzy Lisa Edelstein icon thanks you for appreciating its spazziness. :D

irnbruise March 15 2009, 20:19:08 UTC

I know, it must be why they're faily even for bad Chinese takeout. It's like how there is no such thing as Hawaiian pizza. That shit drives me crazy. PINEAPPLES DON'T MAKE IT HAWAIIAN ( ... )

irnbruise March 15 2009, 07:47:07 UTC

ps. That icon is oddly mesmerizing.

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