Remember, Remember, The Fifth of November

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*squeals* V for Vendetta trailer! I am inordinately hopeful that one of my favorite comics has not been screwed over by a movie adaptation. As amazing as the trailer looks, the answer will only come when the film is actually released. Oh, but... I'm pissed that they've apparently decided to give only Natalie Portman above-the-title billing. Hello?

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[larianelensar]

Skunks!!??? Oh. Need any clones to come over and take care of them? *grin*

[circestale]

LOL. That was my first thought, too! Well, aside from jumping back and screaming. You should have seen it: momma skunk and four baby skunks walking in a perfectly straight line down the right side of the center aisle until they crawled under a hole near the tack room door. Egads.

Gilros and Ellas have already volunteered to help my elderly aunt with the problem. Any of yours want to have an adventure? I must admit I'm glad to see Gilros want to do something exercise-like. Ever since watching Velvet Goldmine his mind has been solely on lacquering his nails and trying to perfect his eyeliner application. Ellas has been suitably irritable about the monopolization of bathroom space.

[larianelensar]

btw, http://www.livejournal.com/community/100x100movies/1998029.html

[circestale]

Wow, that was quick! I tried to grab a screencap for this post, but Hugo's character isn't put up for more than a split second at a time.

[andolinn]

Confirmed my belief that California really is another universe unto itself. *chuckles*

Yes, but we're basically friendly and mostly harmless. And we do have the world's 6th largest economy, so you can see how we get a tad frisky sometimes. Now if we could just lose a few red states...

I have yet to see Sideways, but everyone says I must.

We have skunks too. Fortunately, they stay outside. The raccoons, on the other hand, like to forage in our kitchen, leaving little muddy footprints on the floor.

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Well, I suppose what really surprised me about Sideways is exactly how much of a way of life the wine industry is for some people. I suppose I would have to say it's more of a style of life, or the dominant motif of their life. I suppose I've just never given wine that much attention. I'm more like Miles' clueless friend: "Can we drink it now?"

Right before stumbling upon the skunks, we were watching two coyotes cross through my aunt's back pasture. They stopped and eyed us for a few seconds, but then moved on. My aunt had a posse of raccoons removed from her attic a few years ago. I think there were three or four of them. They did so much damage, it was unbelievable. Somewhere around my house there's a 'possum who believes he's a cat. Oh, yes, and an owl who thinks kittens make great food. :/

[andolinn]

Well my husband does have a wine environment in the basement, but it's not quite a lifestyle!

I imagine a posse of raccoons would make an awful mess in your aunt's attic! Fortunately ours just come for dinner. They're probably living in my 91 year old neighbor's basement which he leaves open year round.

A kitten eating owl. Yikes! I was actually contemplating a barn owl box in hopes that they would eat the squirrels that have completely overrun us. They came for the black walnuts, developed a taste for avocados (which they eat at 2" rather than allowing them to mature to 1 pound size when one will feed a squirrel for a month), have devoured my plums (or rather 2 bites of each plum) and are now acquiring a taste for apples. I'm a peaceful soul, but enough is enough.

Speaking of kittens, do you still have your Mother's Day kitten?

[circestale]

Walnuts, avocados, plums, apples... do you live on a farm? It sounds idyllic. I'm not much of a green thumb, although I do give it the old college try. My basic laziness, however, usually means half the things I plant die from neglect.

Unfortunately, the little kitten died a couple of weeks after I made that post. I had tried reuniting him with his mother, which seemed okay, but then she rejected him again. Unfortunately, he developed severe health problems from this (or he had health problems from birth, who knows), and ended up having a small stroke and becoming paralyzed; he died within an hour of the occurrence, but it was very difficult. Poor tyke, he never got a proper chance.

[maggiehoneybite]

Watched "Hero" last night, actually, and ended up doing my nails I was so bored. I admit the visuals are stunning, but I wasn't crazy about the storyline, the characters or even the clever "there are many different ways to interpret this story" premise. I'll take "Roshomon" any day.

"Motorcycle Diaries," on the other hand, I liked. :)

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I had much the same feeling while watching House of Flying Daggers; I was in and out of the room making dinner during the second half of the movie, and I don't feel like a missed anything. Yes, style is wonderful, style is grand, but style doesn't take the place of meaningful content. I think that sense of soul, emotion, and a solid core is what CTHD has over all its followers.

I liked Motorcycle Diaries as well. Of course, the scenery was stunning. I kept wondering, though, if Che really needed to go 10,000 km to a leper colony in Venezuela to find what he was looking for. Buenos Aires may be advanced, but surely there was the same level of social upheaval and general poverty around that area as well? The film did make me wish I could afford a vintage motorcycle, though. I suppose I am simply to much of bourgeois consumer. ;>

[spacebee]

Thanks for recommending Bride and Prejudice! It was a hoot. Even D liked it. Heh.

[circestale]

I simply cannot stop singing "No Life Without Wife." It is far, far too catchy.

And I spent an inordinate amount of time today looking at photos of Aishwarya. *sigh*

[spacebee]

No kidding. I think I'll go do that now, as a matter of fact...

Look, not sing.

[circestale]

Some trivia: She actually put on 20 lbs. for the part of Lalita. Because, in Aish's words, "She wouldn't be concerned about being supermodel thin."

If that's 20 lbs. heavier... well, excuse me while I bury my face in this Wonka cake.