18 posts tagged “movie”
Should a movie ever be made about my life, this is my current soundtrack.
*Whistles and skips away*
5 Things I Am Thankful For Today.
1. I was allowed to sleep in.That was very nice.
2. Found out that our Old English Sheepdog, Maddie, loves to dress up. At the moment, she's sleeping on her bed in one of my t-shirts and a Disney's Princesses kerchief. We have the most adorable dog ever.
3. Rain made a wonderful dinner today and we had more of the dessert she made yesterday. She makes the best frosting. Ever.
4. A friend on a board I frequent put a little message up of appreciation. I was mentioned and it made me feel wonderful.
5. I've found out that I quite like the movie Ella Enchanted which is very good since both Rain and my sis love this movie and are watching it constantly right now.
As a belated birthday present we took my sister to see Enchanted yesterday.
I went in expecting it to be funny. But I didn't expect to enjoy myself so very much. I thought the movie was fantastic. It did a great job respecting the original intent of the musical/fairy tales it parodied, even while correcting where they often fell short. At some points, I was shocked that they would say/do a couple things in a Disney movie, but it was shocked in a good way. It was an excellent movie for older kids and adults alike. I would definitely own it on DVD and I would love listening to its soundtrack while cleaning.
As a belated birthday present we took my sister to see Enchanted yesterday.
I went in expecting it to be funny. But I didn't expect to enjoy myself so very much. I thought the movie was fantastic. It did a great job respecting the original intent of the musical/fairy tales it parodied, even while correcting where they often fell short. At some points, I was shocked that they would say/do a couple things in a Disney movie, but it was shocked in a good way. It was an excellent movie for older kids and adults alike. I would definitely own it on DVD and I would love listening to its soundtrack while cleaning.
to screen I Am Legend for me.
Now, I know many of you know of my mortal phobia of Zombies. If you don't, tell me and I will write a post explaining my Zombie insanity. The short answer is I have a huge phobia of Zombies yet always want to see a new adaptation to Zombie movies.
Mom got me about three weeks ago and told me that we needed to go see I Am Legend. She shares some degree of my Zombie madness so from her body language I could tell it was a Zombie movie. Of course I know technically it isn't. But you know what, if people suddenly come down with some illness, lose their humanity, and start becoming cannibles, they are zombies, IMO! And I shall be tempted to see a movie about them. Well I suppose they could be vampires too like the original story this was based off of but I'm not scared of Vamps.
So Mom and I made plans to go see this movie early in the morning. Because I must come out of the theatre to the brightness of day. Yes, I know Zombies could suddenly start walking the earth during daylight hours. I have of course seen Day of the Dead. In its multiple reincarnations. But at least I could see them from further away and get a good headstart. Thus is my reasoning.
I have resigned myself to seeing this movie. However, I'd really like to talk to someone who has seen it before me just so I can ask one question.
What happens to Will Smith's dog?
Yes, you heard me. I am going to watch a movie where people are torn apart and eaten and all kinds of ghastly things. But I want to know nothing happens to his dog. Going into a movie like that, I have already prepared myself for that type of terribleness but you know what? I really can't have zombies and pets dying in the same movie. It's just too much for my little heart. And should something happen to his dog (Which I know surely will happen), can you at least tell me when to plug my ears and look away?
It might be a weird mission but it is of the highest priority.
This message will self-distruct in 4-3-2-----
To the Tune of Random.
It seems that the long absense form the internet has affected my vox posting skills. Rather sad considering there's so much going on. I suppose that's the problem, there's so much going on all the time, it's hard to keep up nonetheless share.
Rain and I have been in our house for over a month now. I'm very happy with this house. Maybe its because I spent so much time working on it in the weeks going up to our move, but I feel very comfortable here and I have since the beginning. The layout of this house is just fantastic. People before 1960 really seemed to understand that you can make a comfortable house while still using space appropriately for living. The livingroom is just big enough to feel roomy but small enough not to feel overwhelmed. The diningroom is perfect for more formal dinners but no one feels out of place to have pizza in here or to sit down and get some work down on a laptop. The kitchen is a lovely galley style that seems so much bigger because the counters are the narrower size used in the 20s. That breakfast nook is perfect for guests to sit at during a party when the hostess is in the kitchen and you can easily have a conversation going on between the sunroom, kitchen, and breakfast nook. I think we'll be getting a lot more use from the breakfast nook once our kitchen is fully functional. The kitchen sink is supposed to be going in tonight! I am so thrilled. You guys have no idea how much you subconsciously rely on a kitchen sink until it's not there. Blasphemous's dad will be over to hook it up for us. So nice of him.
I love my bedroom. Even with its three doors leading in (not including closet door.) The uniqueness of having so many doors kind of adds to its charm. It's a little funny though to have so many shortcuts going through my bedroom. Sometimes, one can be a little overwhelmed with the options. For example, should someone knock on the front door while I'm in my room, what path should I take? Should I go out the door leading into the dining room and go to the livingroom that way or should I go out the door leading into the hallway and go into the livingroom like that? Or getting to the kitchen. Should I go out the door leading into the diningroom and go into the kitchen like that or go out the door leading into the sunroom and go through the kitchen like that? Seems really silly but the first few days, I had real trouble getting around because there weere so many paths. Maddie really loves that. She likes for me to go through one of the doors and for her to try to guess which door and room I'll use to get out. That can keep her entertained for a good long time.
Maddie is fitting in rather well with the routine around here. She's an absolute doll but not the brightest bulb. I'm used to German Shepherds and so I keep assuming that all dogs can learn a command within five minutes and be able to remember it from thereon out. Not so with Maddie. She needs a strong hand and repetition. It's not that she's stupid. It's just that she's not a German Shepherd. I've done some more research on Old English Sheepdogs and found quite a few useful tidbits of information. For example, OES (Old English Sheepdog) only have their tails docked if they aren't born naturally without a tail. That's why they're called Bobtails in the UK. How interesting since I thought they were like Rottweilers and had their tails docked when puppies. We think Maddie was naturally tailess because it's so close to her bottom that no one could safely dock a tail that short. There are definitely some ups to having a dog without a tail. We don't have to worry about her accidentally knocking things over with it or hitting the kids with it. And she does this little butt wiggle which would've been wagging her tail except she doesn't have one. It's so cute and reminds me of Casey, the rottweiler that my family had when I was a child.
Like I said, Maddie is an absolute sweetheart, even if a little bit more energetic than one would expect from a six year old dog. She regularly demands as much as three walks a day. And often these are not small walks around the block we take her on. She loves taking a walk down to the Tower District which is probably a half mile away and then taking a twisting way back. Not a really long walk but not a short one either. She likes to have a little run on her walks and loves to say hi to any children on the way. Maddie loves children which is fantastic since we have so many children in the family. On walks, she's very good at ignoring any aggressive guard dogs on the way and does a very good job of walking with her head at my thigh. She's so good on a lead, sometimes I can forget that she's on a leash at all.
Rain and I have been doing a lot of hoe-ing in the backyard to get the bad weeds up. And we've been removing any glass we find. It's to the point now that Maddie can run around back there and she loves the size of the yard. We need to find her some of the tennis balls we have around here because she loves to fetch.
We still haven't gotten to moving over the plants from my parent's yard to this one. We definitely want them here and planted somewhere before the first frost but its only recently that we've even been at the point that we could start thinking about it. I think the house will look so much better once it has some semblance of a yard. I think a lot of the reason that the house's bad paint job sticks out is because of the lack of proper landscaping. And, of course, the paint job just sucks.
We're having family Thanksgiving here so that will be interesting. Hopefully once the sink is put in and the fridges exchanged, we'll be able to finally get our kitchen in runnning order. I'm really hoping the our vintage 54 stove works. It worked when we got it but since then, it's been moved several times and things could fall out of place. This stove is gorgeous, you guys. I'll take a pic and upload it later but this is what it looks like. Good thing is we'll have a functional kitchen and be able to make our own meals. Bad news is, I'll be having to learn how to make our own meals. I know my mother had to have been at my point in the beginning and maybe even my grandma but it's hard for me to think they weren't born with an ovenmit on. I don't think I'll be bad at it once I learn to relax but until then it'll stress me. Especially things dealing with the burners. I'm good enough at things going into the oven. It's the damn burners that get me every time. And they know it. I think they giggle about it at night when I'm sleeping. The oven's more of a Hufflepuff, all "Come on, let's give her a chance." Those burners are Slytherin, all boastful of their mad potion skills. Show offs.
I still need to sew our blinds. Yes, you read that right. I need to sew them. My grandma has volunteered to help but I still have to sew blinds for the windows in this entire house. This house has a f*ck-load of windows. Give me a moment to count . . .1-2-3...22-23-24...I think I'm going to have to sew 24 panels. Luckily, it's not going to be all that complicated. At least in theory. We're making Tie-Up shades. You might be asking why we're making this instead of buying it. Simple. Our windows are HUGE! Normal window treatments are made for windows about 84 inches long. And then if you want the superbig ones (that are pretty damn expensive) it's 110 inches long. Our longest window is 120 or more inches long. Damn! So we're breaking it into these managable panels that will help keep the house insulated. Because there are several places in this house that if you stand next to a certain wall or window, you can feel a draft. So far my mad skills to find the warmest room in the winter has come through again. Which sucks because I'm the only person in this house that likes to sleep cold! Though our house has enough wholes to put the Titanic to shame, I'm throwing down my covers every night. How rude! Full House tone and all.
We've finally got most of the shelves installed in the bathroom and the medicine cabinet up in there. Finally, we have an accessible mirror. We aren't really mirror people but at least it's there if we need it.
It's great being close to so many useful things. We're a three minute walk from my sister's school and a ten minute walk from my favorite area of town, Tower District. We can walk down and get the best Chicken Pot Pies EVER! At the Chicken Pot Pie Shop. And we can rent movies and get Starbucks and all the best live theatre is here. And the dollar store. It's amazing what that store has and why we'd ever pay more than a buck for it.
I suppose that's a long enough post for now. I could probably go on for another five or ten pages, there's so much going on. Ten thousand important things at once. Some of the most important but also the most depressing of those I've purposefully not posted about. Maybe in the future, when it's over I'll be able. But right now it's too raw.
Hopefully, now that we have internet, I'll be making more posts. I think it's a good thing for me to have this vox. I've never been a diary person. But I think it's good for me to document what's going on in my life. At some point, I'll probably need to come read them and have a good laugh over what I wrote or good cry over what was left out. . .
There's lots of things happening today. Sink, Performance, Novel, Project Runway. And I bet you this song is going to stay in my head all day.
Who would you trust with your life?
If I am a friend of someone, I would trust them with my life in some fashion. And I'd hope they'd trust me with theirs. Now, of course, there is one situation which I judge all situations by.
Anyone who knows me, expects this one to be the first and foremost in my mind:
ZOMBIE ATTACKS!
OK, Zombies are walking down the street. Oh shit. My deepest nightmare has come true. They made fun of my phobia for years. But who do I trust?
mrsmyers -as my first best friend, I know I can trust her. as a big horror movie buff, I know I can trust her not to freak out. I'm handing her a machete and patting her on the back.
Tabby -not only did she give me life, but we have a pact that should one of us get bitten, we will not hesitate to pull the trigger. That's love.
Rain On Your Skin -there's no situation where I wouldn't trust her implicitly
Blasphemous - if you haven't seen K angry, you have no idea of her powers. I'd want her covering my back in a zombie attack
oracleofdoom - just like myself, she's read up on this eventuality and doesn't blink an eye at having a Zombie outbreak kit. In fact, she shall have one too. That's my girl.
Tea and Crumpets - yes, she laughed and didn't take the threat seriously. But then she saw the walking undead. She's got a clear head, steady hand, dark sense of humor, and good landspeed. She's on my Zombie team.
Snape's Girl - Yes, there will be trouble when the Zombie start having have decayed eyeballs falling out of their faces. But I'm sure we can train her to focus on the nose and aim. There, problem solved.
Flavia - She's a survivor. I would never underestimate her. Especially with a machete.
There you have it. My Zombie Squad. We are ready in case of an outbreak of the walking dead and I am more than willing to put my hands in those women's hands. Should my worst nightmare come to be, these women will be there right beside me. They may have to deal with my gloating but I'm sure they'll take it with grace. Hey, Christy, did you notice that when I'm added up with them our Zombie Squad adds up to Nine people. Damn straight. No, you can't add Siobhan to make it ten. No. No, we're not abandoning the kids. Everyone else is taken care of. Stop rolling your eyes at me. However way you twist it, I'm not letting you add it up to an even number. So there.
Did you see the Harry Potter movie this weekend? Are you going to read the new book?
I actually saw the movie opening night. 11:59 showing. With Rain On Your Skin and Snape's Girl. We called Blasphemous while waiting in the theatre for the show to start. It was pretty good! My favorite was Lucius who looked like he walked out of a Slashgirl's Fanart . . .
And of course, the Remus/Sirius love. I still haven't been able to find a screencap of the first time they're shown where it looks like Sirius is sitting in Remus' lap. However, enjoy this screencap. This was hard as hell to find on the web.
I thought Luna Lovegood and Umbridge were fantastic!
I've been planning to make a vox post about the movie for a while. But I just haven't gotten around to it. I hope to do so when I get back from the beach trip. And I'm definitely looking forward to seventh book. Just to see how she ends it! All of us have a book on reserve at Barnes and Noble. And we plan to go to one of the midnight parties. After all, I've never been to one and it's going to be the last of its kind.
I think we all need to start a new retro fad. Long hair. Because, damn it, there needs to be more people with long hair, good for braiding. When I was a child, I always had to have very short hair. I was always so jealous when other girls had even a simple french braid. Because I had no idea how it was done. You know how things get a magical edge when you're a child and you have no idea how it works. That was long hair and braids for me. So, now that I have long hair and can braid it, I get such a satisfaction out of it. It's a good way to keep my hands busy while reading or watching a movie (at home). But, the really cool braids I need to do on someone else before learning to do it on myself. At least once on someone else. But there's really very few people with long hair. Growing out hair needs to come back into style.
Here's some of the braiding techniques I know now.
Five Strand Braid (odd number of strands method)
This person is fabulous. Her site is fabulous.
You know, having long hair is so much more fun when you can do things with it.
One of the great thing about Babylon 5 is the ability for the show to capture the concept of war: the desperation, unexpected nobility, the ugly, and the beautiful . . . The first big war in the storyline is the Earth-Minbari war.
Babylon 5 itself, as the station, was created in response to the horror of that war. In the hope that such would never befall Humanity again. Because of that, the Earth-Minbari war was referenced quite a bit on the show and even had some flashbacks. However, it was the TV movie, In the Beginning that covered the Earth-Minbari war alone. Here is the promo:
This TV movie had two of the most moving speeches I've found on TV. Here is the first, made by the brilliant character, Londo Mollari while he's retelling the tale many decades later:
The second is the final call to arms given by the president of earth at the time:
And here is a very moving music video covering the entirity of the movie:
My most recent fanfiction was written with its focus being on the repercussions of the Earth-Minbari War. The fanfiction is called: What Is Not Forgotten.
