For a few days this week, the bottom half of our fridge was not working. This resulted in spoiled milk and a horrendous stink (the unicorn butt/rainbow fart smell, if you remember), since we didn't realize it in time to move the milk to the garage or something. Anyway, after a bit of searching online, I took everything out of the freezer, unscrewed ( Read more... )

Someone was listening to that song from the end of Juno - the one where they sit and sing to each other - and I began to remember more about the film and my initial impressions. (I would recommend this movie because the entire thing is very laid back and unpretentious. I love that the people and characters do not try and assume a grand significance ( Read more... )

On Casting
---I've heard a ton of people being gossipy old biddies and saying that Burton cast Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett because they're involved and whatever. Burton was aware of the controversy that casting her would create - but he didn't even have the final say as far as the characters. Stephen Sondheim (the creator of the Broadway ( Read more... )

I am very happy with the people at the mac store. They are so helpful and awesome :3 They showed me how to fix the start up snaffu - which would probably clear up any junk in the future. woo!  And that store is way too tempting.... (but I just walked out with a laptop case, not the huge desktop imac with Final Cut Studio 2 and Logic Studio that I ( Read more... )

Well done. Very good. :) :) :) :)

(Don't worry - no spoilers)
Walking into the theatre, I was afraid that the singing would get in the way of the acting, but no, it was nicely incorporated and made sense. Brilliant. Lots of blood, but Burton's choice of making the blood theatrically red made it so it wasn't just a gore-flick - and also recalled the ( Read more... )