Try to crawl into my head
You know, Dreamwidth folks. I’d be more interested in looking into getting a Dreamwidth account if Twitter wasn’t full of people gloating about how ~*amazing*~ DW is every time LJ is down. It immediately turns me off the community aspect of it. One day, I may end up there, I may not. But despite the LJ DDoS attacks, you’re not exactly making the place inviting to possible new participants. This is one of the reasons why I’m not exactly eager to jump over there each time LJ is offline for a day. Gasp, oh no! A day I don’t need to waste my life on the computer and actually concentrate on work for once! Whatever will I do?!
My Photobucket bandwidth has exceeded, however, so I'll have to find a new photo storage account. Flickr seems too hardcore and awesomesauce to host my horrendously embarrassing photos. Any other suggestions?
Anyway, onto other stuff. I watched things this week(end)! Short, quick thoughts on all of them.
I had heard mutterings about this show (miniseries?) and it was always stuck in the back of my mind as an “Eventually Watch” movie. Then I noticed it was streaming on Netflix and LO. It jumped to the front. And I’m glad it did, because I enjoyed it lots! Aside from art and the introduction into WWI, the 1910s is not an era I’m all too familiar with.
There was Maggie Smith! And surprise!Harriet Jones being awesomesauce! And many loathsome characters along with many awesome characters, which I like. I may have mentioned this before, but one of the things I have a problem watching shows like The Tudors and Rome is that even with a giant cast, I don’t really find a character that I like, so it’s tough for me to press on.
When I got Netflix, not only did I ask for suggestions for your favorite movies, I went through the AFI Top 100 movies to put a bunch that I had never seen. Yes, I’ve never seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Now, I have to admit right up front that I mixed up One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with A Clockwork Orange, something else that I’ve never seen and is on my list. I don’t know what the latter movie is about, but I gathered pretty much right away that I was thinking of the wrong movie.
So many recognizable faces in there! BB!Brad Dourif! Christopher Lloyd’s first role! Danny Devito! That guy from The Shining!
Anyway, I’m glad I saw it, even though I needed to watch something warm and fuzzy afterwards. So we watched the first half of S1Spaced.
My friend put it best: Avatar + Inception + Groundhog's Day = Source Code
It was an interesting concept for a movie, but it’s one those that I spend time trying to figure it out before the characters. The bomber was very obvious from the get-go, so I began doubting my gut feeling and thought that Jake Gyllenhaal’s “avatar” was actually the bomber. And about of a third of the way in, I guessed that he was gonna stay in the source code world with Christina. What I didn’t guess, and I thought was interesting, was that Jake’s actual character was dead, or mostly dead and that he was projecting all the interactions with the military guys in his head and he was more or less part of a computer hookup.
Anyway, didn’t hate it. Didn’t love it. But pretty all right with seeing it in a theater.
My Photobucket bandwidth has exceeded, however, so I'll have to find a new photo storage account. Flickr seems too hardcore and awesomesauce to host my horrendously embarrassing photos. Any other suggestions?
Anyway, onto other stuff. I watched things this week(end)! Short, quick thoughts on all of them.
I had heard mutterings about this show (miniseries?) and it was always stuck in the back of my mind as an “Eventually Watch” movie. Then I noticed it was streaming on Netflix and LO. It jumped to the front. And I’m glad it did, because I enjoyed it lots! Aside from art and the introduction into WWI, the 1910s is not an era I’m all too familiar with.
There was Maggie Smith! And surprise!Harriet Jones being awesomesauce! And many loathsome characters along with many awesome characters, which I like. I may have mentioned this before, but one of the things I have a problem watching shows like The Tudors and Rome is that even with a giant cast, I don’t really find a character that I like, so it’s tough for me to press on.
When I got Netflix, not only did I ask for suggestions for your favorite movies, I went through the AFI Top 100 movies to put a bunch that I had never seen. Yes, I’ve never seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Now, I have to admit right up front that I mixed up One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with A Clockwork Orange, something else that I’ve never seen and is on my list. I don’t know what the latter movie is about, but I gathered pretty much right away that I was thinking of the wrong movie.
So many recognizable faces in there! BB!Brad Dourif! Christopher Lloyd’s first role! Danny Devito! That guy from The Shining!
Anyway, I’m glad I saw it, even though I needed to watch something warm and fuzzy afterwards. So we watched the first half of S1Spaced.
My friend put it best: Avatar + Inception + Groundhog's Day = Source Code
It was an interesting concept for a movie, but it’s one those that I spend time trying to figure it out before the characters. The bomber was very obvious from the get-go, so I began doubting my gut feeling and thought that Jake Gyllenhaal’s “avatar” was actually the bomber. And about of a third of the way in, I guessed that he was gonna stay in the source code world with Christina. What I didn’t guess, and I thought was interesting, was that Jake’s actual character was dead, or mostly dead and that he was projecting all the interactions with the military guys in his head and he was more or less part of a computer hookup.
Anyway, didn’t hate it. Didn’t love it. But pretty all right with seeing it in a theater.