there was a line in "the hobbit: battle of the five armies" that i recall noting at the time as being a complete...not anachronism, exactly, but it got a laugh because it referred to some other movie. i can't find it in the imdb quotes from the movie--did anyone else notice it enough to recall what i'm talking about?

hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people who caused the stress to begin with.

i haven't tried that solution, but it sounds attractive.

my dad and i were talking about the SCOTUS rulings on DOMA and Prop 8 (he couldn't find who voted which way and i was googling that for him) and he gave this quote to me:

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. - usually attributed to Victor Hugohe's all teary. i'm a little more ( Read more... )

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
A. A. Milne

(you would think i would remember it...hell, you would think i would have embroidered it and framed it on my wall.)

from his review of "the tourist":

The supporting roles are filled by excellent actors, and it’s a sign of the movie’s haplessness that none of them make a mark. You have Paul Bettany and Timothy Dalton as cops, Steven Berkoff as the gangster and Rufus Sewell as "The Englishman," who must be important because he hangs around without any apparent ( Read more... )

"Don't get me wrong, we ballerinas, each and every one of us, is a perfectionist. But to be too much that way can be a handicap and, in its extreme way, Black Swan nails it. There is a freedom that comes with letting go and being on stage. As in life, you can't be serious all the time. In ballet you train, practice, and obsess if only to be able to ( Read more... )

these are answers to questions that arose today during the viewing of richard burton's "hamlet"and al pacino's "looking for richard ( Read more... )

i was looking up a quote to throw at kalmn and i happened upon this gem ( Read more... )

i kind of want to do the 20 movie meme with my *father's* favorite movies so that i can have one quote be "The son of a bitch stole my watch!"

something that i just said, that i liked:

that would make me less productive than a link to a lego site.