we might as well just roll down our windows and wave
gone in 60 seconds was on last night, hence the subject heading. i kept looking at timothy olyphant (who looks so young! altho the movie's twelve years old by now, so he kind of was young) and trying to see raylan and totally failing. it's only the second movie i've ever seen with angelina jolie where i can understand people's physical attraction to her. (the other is, uh, girl, interrupted, in which she plays certifiably crazy, but she's also magnetic and compelling, and when i saw it i went "oh, ok, i get it now". i could see her charisma on screen.) it's full of actors i know, or at least recognize, and i watch it every time it's on because i know half of it by heart by now. and also, there are so many nice cars. "i always was a sucker for a redhead."
i'm in the market for a nice exfoliating body scrub! anyone got any recs?
also! do y'all know any jokes that might be classified as terrible and incomprehensible? bonus points if they originated in non-english-speaking countries and possibly lost something in translation. double bonus points if they originated in russia. :D
the bigbang does not proceed apace, but it is proceeding, but it's still more a random collection of unfinished scenes than it is anything remotely approaching a story. i'll just say i think i'm totally failing it but it's too late to scrap it and start over, and leave it at that.
...there are a lot of "it"s in that sentence. o.O
i'm not generally as stubborn and determined as i should be, in writing or anything else, but i am going to finish this damn fic if it kills me, and what sucks, i can (theoretically) fix in edits. it's the only thing i've written all year and no one has even read it, and i'll be so disappointed in myself if i don't finish it. i already had to give up on my first bigbang, i'm not going to do it twice.
(i am fully aware that if i don't like writing it, it will probably not be that good of a story - i mentioned i thought i was failing it, right? - but hopefully when i'm not concentrating solely on getting it finished i can step away and take a better look at it and actually see something i like in it.)
i'm pretty sure none of you care. i'm also pretty sure i don't care that you don't.
but in other news! i liked grimm last night, especially that juliette seems to be figuring some things out on her own - like, she now knows she's seeing nick's ghost around the house, she thinks it means she's getting her memory of him back, she knows everyone is hiding shit from her - and thank god monroe is actually going to sort of try to help her, and not just continue to hide everything from her. and i'm glad he told nick she remembers the trailer and wants to see it - and that he may or may not have mentioned it in her presence - because i was getting really tired of all the secret-keeping. she knows you're hiding important stuff from her, guys, and it's making her angry and she's already freaked out, so don't you think maybe telling her some of the truth might, i dunno, HELP her?
also monroe continues to be adorable. and i loved that wu is kind of a nerd. he plays video games! and does sudoku!
i figured out who the wesen of the week (wotw? :D ) was just before nick and hank did, altho i wish someone had actually called him rumplestiltskin, or had at least figured out that's what all the names spelled once you took them apart.
i'm not super interested in renard and the royal family and his wheelings and dealings with europe - i have no idea what's going on and don't care enough to find out - but i can totally enjoy the show without it. but i like renard, and i like that he and nick are fully aware of each other and actively working together.
now if we could just get juliette straightened out....
this is right in my wheelhouse - german soldiers found preserved in their ww1 bunker. it was destroyed by a shell in 1918, burying them and their stuff, and a french team uncovered it during a road building project. creepy but also kinda neat.
sort of in my wheelhouse but mostly kinda nifty - writers write writing advice on their hands. i like garth nix's - "obtain magic ring", hee. and karen lord offers a diagram of the iceberg theory, which is my favorite bit of writing, er, writing.
i've posted every single tuesday this week, and not a single monday. weird.
i'm in the market for a nice exfoliating body scrub! anyone got any recs?
also! do y'all know any jokes that might be classified as terrible and incomprehensible? bonus points if they originated in non-english-speaking countries and possibly lost something in translation. double bonus points if they originated in russia. :D
the bigbang does not proceed apace, but it is proceeding, but it's still more a random collection of unfinished scenes than it is anything remotely approaching a story. i'll just say i think i'm totally failing it but it's too late to scrap it and start over, and leave it at that.
...there are a lot of "it"s in that sentence. o.O
i'm not generally as stubborn and determined as i should be, in writing or anything else, but i am going to finish this damn fic if it kills me, and what sucks, i can (theoretically) fix in edits. it's the only thing i've written all year and no one has even read it, and i'll be so disappointed in myself if i don't finish it. i already had to give up on my first bigbang, i'm not going to do it twice.
(i am fully aware that if i don't like writing it, it will probably not be that good of a story - i mentioned i thought i was failing it, right? - but hopefully when i'm not concentrating solely on getting it finished i can step away and take a better look at it and actually see something i like in it.)
i'm pretty sure none of you care. i'm also pretty sure i don't care that you don't.
but in other news! i liked grimm last night, especially that juliette seems to be figuring some things out on her own - like, she now knows she's seeing nick's ghost around the house, she thinks it means she's getting her memory of him back, she knows everyone is hiding shit from her - and thank god monroe is actually going to sort of try to help her, and not just continue to hide everything from her. and i'm glad he told nick she remembers the trailer and wants to see it - and that he may or may not have mentioned it in her presence - because i was getting really tired of all the secret-keeping. she knows you're hiding important stuff from her, guys, and it's making her angry and she's already freaked out, so don't you think maybe telling her some of the truth might, i dunno, HELP her?
also monroe continues to be adorable. and i loved that wu is kind of a nerd. he plays video games! and does sudoku!
i figured out who the wesen of the week (wotw? :D ) was just before nick and hank did, altho i wish someone had actually called him rumplestiltskin, or had at least figured out that's what all the names spelled once you took them apart.
i'm not super interested in renard and the royal family and his wheelings and dealings with europe - i have no idea what's going on and don't care enough to find out - but i can totally enjoy the show without it. but i like renard, and i like that he and nick are fully aware of each other and actively working together.
now if we could just get juliette straightened out....
this is right in my wheelhouse - german soldiers found preserved in their ww1 bunker. it was destroyed by a shell in 1918, burying them and their stuff, and a french team uncovered it during a road building project. creepy but also kinda neat.
sort of in my wheelhouse but mostly kinda nifty - writers write writing advice on their hands. i like garth nix's - "obtain magic ring", hee. and karen lord offers a diagram of the iceberg theory, which is my favorite bit of writing, er, writing.
i've posted every single tuesday this week, and not a single monday. weird.