Still >:(
So things are going a bit shit! (Hands up who is surprised that moving house + country + leaving a job involving over a hundred adorable children, many of whom are telling me they love me and giving me nauseatingly adorable handwritten cards festooned with awful, confusing, tear-inducing drawings + dramatically saying 'GOODBYE FOREVER (or for several years, whatever, same diff)' to several very dear friends has turned out to be a somewhat stressful process! Because I will tell you, not me, but it still sucks now that I'm in the final death throes of it all. And that's leaving aside all of the extra nasty things that have happened or are happening, because people are just consistently terribad sometimes.) Anyway! It'll all be over soon, and meanwhile I am consoling myself with:
1. I finally, finally, finally saw the second Sherlock Holmes film. (Dear Japan: get Western films earlier please.) I found the plot even sillier than the last one, and I am really not keen on films which don't treat the impact of death realistically. Specifically, four Romani men went with Simza + Holmes + Watson to Germany, and only one went back, and I would have really liked some acknowledgement of the grief that must have caused Simza and the surviving man - it didn't need to wallow, I know the film's the story of Watson and Holmes: No Seriously We Are Playing This Pretty Gay, but just some throwaway mention of it or something would have satisfied me that the rest was happening off-screen. On the other hand: right, so, that was seriously Holmes in unrequited love, happening right there on the screen. Seriously. There is basically no other interpretation. (No, fine, there are others. I JUST ENJOY HYPERBOLE.) That was kind of fun. Although sad. ;___; Poor Holmes. (Movieverse fic recs which fix the unrequited pining problem?) On the other, other hand: how am I supposed to reconcile Moran's accent and class markers with his military rank? I mean, the answer, in my head, is: FASCINATINGLY. But the answer in RL, I sort of suspect, is: LOOK, HERE'S SOME SHINY THINGS. Although I'm not in any way knowledgeable about that period of history, so maybe the answer is actually: LOOK, HERE'S SOME FACTS. (I suspect it's not. I suspect it's: LOOK, HERE IS GUY RITCHIE'S LOVE OF LONDON HARDMEN.)
2.
a) good music. b) more pretentiously, different ways of performing femininity in conversation with each other, with no men in sight. *____* c) I have such a crush on A.Dot (the second rapper). Although, actually... yeah, everyone in this video is pretty fucking hot. It's the most girl-next-door I've seen RoxXxan (the third rapper) looking and I kind of have a thing for her now.
3. I was talking about this in my last post (which was locked for work frustration issues), but still Dad's Army: ♥♥♥♥
4. My favourite Monty Python clip:
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1. I finally, finally, finally saw the second Sherlock Holmes film. (Dear Japan: get Western films earlier please.) I found the plot even sillier than the last one, and I am really not keen on films which don't treat the impact of death realistically. Specifically, four Romani men went with Simza + Holmes + Watson to Germany, and only one went back, and I would have really liked some acknowledgement of the grief that must have caused Simza and the surviving man - it didn't need to wallow, I know the film's the story of Watson and Holmes: No Seriously We Are Playing This Pretty Gay, but just some throwaway mention of it or something would have satisfied me that the rest was happening off-screen. On the other hand: right, so, that was seriously Holmes in unrequited love, happening right there on the screen. Seriously. There is basically no other interpretation. (No, fine, there are others. I JUST ENJOY HYPERBOLE.) That was kind of fun. Although sad. ;___; Poor Holmes. (Movieverse fic recs which fix the unrequited pining problem?) On the other, other hand: how am I supposed to reconcile Moran's accent and class markers with his military rank? I mean, the answer, in my head, is: FASCINATINGLY. But the answer in RL, I sort of suspect, is: LOOK, HERE'S SOME SHINY THINGS. Although I'm not in any way knowledgeable about that period of history, so maybe the answer is actually: LOOK, HERE'S SOME FACTS. (I suspect it's not. I suspect it's: LOOK, HERE IS GUY RITCHIE'S LOVE OF LONDON HARDMEN.)
2.
Click to viewa) good music. b) more pretentiously, different ways of performing femininity in conversation with each other, with no men in sight. *____* c) I have such a crush on A.Dot (the second rapper). Although, actually... yeah, everyone in this video is pretty fucking hot. It's the most girl-next-door I've seen RoxXxan (the third rapper) looking and I kind of have a thing for her now.
3. I was talking about this in my last post (which was locked for work frustration issues), but still Dad's Army: ♥♥♥♥
4. My favourite Monty Python clip:
Also posted on Dreamwidth at http://surexit.dreamwidth.org/50168.html with
comments. Comment wherever you like.