(via ironed_orchidAnyone who feels like it should post their ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAL CRUCIAL-ASS movies, like the movies that explain everything about yourself in your current incarnation (not necessarily your ten favorite movies but the ten movies that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you) (they can change later on ( Read more... )

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I had this notion - which felt, in my tangled-up writer brain, like a notion that was very obvious and also mildly clever, for me - that after going to see The Hunger Games on opening night, I would write here (shock! awe!) about it, thus getting down some initial thoughts that I could then cherry-pick and revise for my actual review - and perhaps ( Read more... )

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1. Job hunting is depressing. There are, maybe, two or three jobs a week that it makes sense for me to apply for. I feel like I need to be doing something else on this front, and I don't know what it is. But today was lost to sleeping in and laundry and whatnot, and tomorrow is going to be send-resumes-so-I-feel-good-about-my-weekend day ( Read more... )

It's been the kind of day where it's morning, and you're sleeping in and dreaming strange dreams, and then the day is over, and you don't know how you fit it all in ( Read more... )

I really disliked Crazy Heart for more reasons than I have fingers on which to list them. Not least, of course, for its absurd presentation of music journalism, and the way Bad Blake's alcoholism is played up or down depending on how it suits the story ( Read more... )

Hey, college pals: Is there a reason a second name among the cast of Rachel Getting Married sounds really, really, really familiar, in some way vaguely related to the Program Board? Or am I just mixing up stories and names?

When you see this, post in your own journal with your favorite quote from The Princess Bride. Preferably not "As you wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech.

"Hello, lady."

And if that's too short, there's always "Your friend here is only mostly dead."

Holy shit. I want to believe I didn't just spend two hours watching such an offensively atrocious movie. Alas, I will never see the X-Files the same way again.