evilegg got me thinking about sleep. As most of you know, I work full-time on the graveyard shift. A lot of people are curious about when and how I sleep, and the answer is pretty much, "In the afternoon, and very well, actually." Part of being able to sleep well is being blessed as a naturally decent sleeper, but I *also* make an effort to maintain ( Read more... )

I saw Snowpiercer this weekend. All I knew was that it is about a dystopian future where a global ice age has confined all of humanity to a single train, by the guy who made The Host (the Korean one), and that it has a 93% Fresh Rating on RottenTomatoes ( Read more... )

Welp, I'm cross-posting a comment I made over on cleolinda's recap of Hannibal.

Hey, any excuse to update LJ, no?

I'm actually way more scared of Frank Underwood than I am of Hannibal Lecter. But that's about plausibility.

Because while I really love it, I consider Hannibal to be every bit as much a fantasy as Game of Thrones. Maybe moreso ( Read more... )

Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel reminds me of being carsick ( Read more... )

Oh! I almost forgot to write about my stalker ( Read more... )

Well, Sunday morning I contemplated lighting a candle and pouring some locally-made artisan blackberry wine over my Princess Celestia figurine, as an offering that the horsey team win the thingy and thereby subdue and depress the populace of Seattle so I could have a quiet night at work ( Read more... )

"Her" is one of the finest science fiction movies I've ever seen ( Read more... )

So Sherlock's third season premiere ( Read more... )

So those forces of darkness I thought were thwarting my efforts to see Gravity?

Turns out it was divine intervention, guiding me to Bellevue's Lincoln Square Cinemark theater. They just replaced all of their projectors last week and are - and this is astonishing, people - now capable of properly projecting 3D. AND they run a very stern and ( Read more... )

Most of y'all know I'm a skeptic and an atheist, but I'm almost convinced some malevolent supernatural power is determined to prevent me from seeing Gravity ( Read more... )