MEMORIAL WEEKEND APPROACHETH! You all know what that means.
So. This year, the annual Memorial Day Game Weekend and Paratrooper Toss is going to be at my place, starting on Saturday and lasting until Monday-ish. I don't have class that weekend, so we can get started whenever on Saturday-although Rockville is having a library sale on Saturday morning, so I'd like to go to that first. That lasts until three,
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And (unrelated) now I deeply, deeply want the GIF where Fury says, "Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking Avengers on this motherfucking Helicarrier!" INDULGE ME, UNIVERSE. GIVE ME THIS AS AN ICON BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS MY FEEEEEEEEELINGS.
Maybe we should just watch the BAD ones? IDEK, THIS IS WAY TOO MUCH PRESSURE. Also, there should be, like, sleep. At some point. Possibly. Or not, whatever. It's the weekend before Reading, so my work week after it is, like, two days long.
BATTLESHIP IS NON-NEGOTIABLE. SORRY, ANY ARGUMENTS AGAINST IT ARE INVALID. I need to know whether it's about aliens, warships, or beach makeouts. Surely it can't be all three, and the previews have been lying to us for six months.
BUT PANCAKES MAY BE A MUST. Possibly while watching NYC22.
YOUR IDEAS ARE GOOD IDEAS. Also, how hard is it to make shawarma? I should look into that. Alternatively, we could see if Lebanese Taverna serves it. HMM.
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OK, YOU KNOW WHAT. YOUR HUSBAND AND I ARE GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE A THROW-DOWN, BECAUSE SAMUEL L. JACKSON IS HIS OWN SUPERPOWER, I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE ELSE SAYS. (... I can bring Snakes On A Plane along, if anyone wants to do a Samuel L. Jackson fest. :D?)
Maybe we should just watch the BAD ones?
IF WE DO THAT, BOTH OF THE FANTASTIC FOUR MOVIES ON ARE THE LIST, RIGHT? *_________*
BATTLESHIP IS NON-NEGOTIABLE. SORRY, ANY ARGUMENTS AGAINST IT ARE INVALID.
UM DUH. Seriously, if you backed out of seeing it with me, I would come to your house in the dead of night, knock you out with a brick, and carry you to the movie theater myself. :-P (I saw Avengers again with Maria and Laura on Thursday, and there was AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT BATTLESHIP TRAILER BEFORE IT. tbf, they were still going with the action movie angle, but I SWEAR I haven't seen half of those shots before. Man, this is going to be SO AWESOMELY BAD.)
And the internet tells me that shawarma isn't THAT hard to make, but it ALSO tells me that the Lebanese Taverna in Bethesda has it on the menu, so if we did Battleship somewhere near there, I THINK WE COULD MAKE THIS HAPPEN. I am still the only person I know who has seen Avengers who hasn't managed to get shawarma yet.
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It could be a Samuel L. Jackson/Chris Evans fest? Er. Only not like THAT, except now I'm thinking about it and maybe I do mean like THAT?
My brain, seriously. (STILL. Tony walks in on them having REALLY REALLY INTENSE STARING, and is all, "Hey, guys, Stark sandwich? I bring my own restraints! Also, I have no gag reflex!" To which Steve tilts his head and says, "Oh, then we have something in common," and Tony does a little hand-twirly gesture that means, is that a super-serum thing but he's grinning like a maniac so the bored genius act isn't working at ALL, and Steve rolls his eyes because no, it's a Steve thing, but then he says, "and I can hold my breath for four minutes." And then Fury goes, "Both of you, knees on the deck, NOW."
Oh god, this is SO ILL-ADVISED.)
(At this point, I think we've seen, like, 20 minutes of the movie? Just based on the RIDICULOUS PREVIEWS OF INDECISION. And I'm beginning to feel sorry preemptively for anyone willing to see it with us, because ALL THE FEELINGS AND ALSO BONUS ALCOHOL.)
I am still the only person I know who has seen Avengers who hasn't managed to get shawarma yet.
That is just Not Right. There's also an LT in Rockville, although I don't know if they're showing BATTLESHIP at the theater there. We have two weeks; I'm sure it'll all work itself out?
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OK THEN. I think that we can settle this without the need for a showdown. \0/ (Which is GOOD, because he could kick my ass physically, AND he holds his liquor better than me, which means that all he'd need to do to win a verbal showdown is make me a drink. /0\)
It could be a Samuel L. Jackson/Chris Evans fest?
I APPROVE OF THIS AND I APPROVE OF YOUR ACCIDENTAL 100 WORDS OF FURY/TONY/STEVE. (I don't know that I'd read any MORE than 100 words of that pairing at a time, but the 100 words you just gave me made me lol hard enough that the neighbors heard me, so well done that. :D)
I think that they are showing BATTLESHIP everywhere, or at least that is what the ad campaign would have me believe. (I couldn't tell from the website that there was one in RV, because it called it the "Town Center" location. THANKS FOR THE LACK OF HELPFUL INFO LEBANESE TAVERNA.) So YESSSSSSSSSSS. We can have BATTLESHIP AND SHAWARMA, which may be the best combination IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. \0/
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\o/
And then we can talk about how the aliens in BATTLESHIP are clearly no match for the ones in Avengers, but Tony gets this call from Fick (WHOM HE KNOWS FOR REASONS OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THIS COMMENT PROBABLY RELATING TO PEPPER'S TRIP TO DC BECAUSE I BET SHE GETS PISSED AT HIS INABILITY TO COMPREHEND THE FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN SECURITY, TOO) and drags Steve and Thor off to rescue Nate's boyfriend from whatever-the-fuck he's gotten himself into THIS TIME. (IDK, they're on maneuvers with the Navy or something. Brad's out in a tiny rubber boat surrounded by aircraft carriers, AGAIN, and he could have just LEFT like a NORMAL PERSON, but come on, that would never happen, who are we kidding? Instead he gets himself onto the bridge by scaling the bulkheads or something, and then shit starts exploding and any one of FIVE POSSIBLE UNRELATED MOVIES occurs.)
And Pepper is all, "okay, fine, go and save the world again, but you're both to come RIGHT HOME after, because I have taken the whole weekend off and I am SICK of getting calls for bail money and bills for INSANE AMOUNTS of tabbouleh. No arguments, you bring Steve and Thor and their FRANKLY RIDICULOUS high-metabolic appetites back to the tower, because Jane is in town for a conference and also I haven't gotten laid in six days, which is unacceptable."
*handwaves* Well, I've gone from everything pissing me off to wishing that my brain had an off switch. Does this count as progress?
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And SECONDLY, after rewatching Ghost Protocol, I am bringing it with me for Memorial Day for Clint backstory feeeeeeeeeels. I mean, I'm not saying that we HAVE to watch it, but I AM saying that it is an amazingly acceptable alternative to his comics backstory of being born in the circus and having an evil twin.
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Also, when you get a chance next week, please listen to Worth Fighting For and validate my Steve/(Bucky)/(Peggy)/(Tony) feelings.
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Also, if the invite is still open, I think I will come over to your place tomorrow night so that we can hit the used book sale on Saturday. (Sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner - my boss wasn't sure if she was taking tomorrow off or not.) What time do you want me over there?
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Tomorrow works fine (the house won't be clean, but come on. That was probably not going to happen, even if today hadn't exploded all over me) and S will be home anytime after four, but I don't get home until 8:30 or so.
So let's say, anytime after eight? Or earlier, if you don't mind hanging out and surfing the internet while you wait for me to ride home from work.
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Was there anything else that I'm bringing other than my bit of the food stuff for this weekend, some booze and MI4? Because I feel like I'm packing oddly light this time and I can't figure out WHY.
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I don't think there's anything other than food and booze and MI4 needed? I think we've got movies and games covered, and as soon as I figure out where the hell I put the paratroopers, we'll have that as well. They're in a box. Somewhere.
Oh, hey. Clothes would probably be good. I don't think they let people into the Rockville library without clothing on. It's a rule or something.
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Clothes would probably be good. I don't think they let people into the Rockville library without clothing on. It's a rule or something.
GOD. WHY DO THEY GOTTA CRAMP MY STYLE LIKE THAT? :(
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