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Okay, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) killingjoe's boyfriend/soulmate/partner/awesomeperson/whatever often links me to amazing videos, but this is like... maybe officially the best thing ever. I can seriously not fucking stop laughing.
SHUT UP IT DOES NOT MATTER THAT LIGHTSABER WOUNDS DON'T BLEED.
Also it does not matter that this video is maybe a year and a half old and there seem to be similar things out there. I DON'T CARE, THIS IS THE BEST.
All further commentary amounts to:
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepa—"
"No, Inigo. I am your father."
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Jan. 5th, 2010 @ 01:41 am
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My deep thoughts of New Year's Day are: have Jack Black and Jack White ever done a song together?
IT WOULD BE COOL.
Because of their names.
Yep.
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Dec. 29th, 2009 @ 02:58 pm
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I met up with my cousins for lunch today but otherwise am not having the greatest day here at work (totally unrelated to work itself), so. Distract me.
Give me a character and I will tell you:
+ OTP for them.
+ Runner-up pairing.
+ Honorable mention(s).
+ Crack pairing(s).
+ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't.
Why yes, I'm hugely inactive in fandom as a self-styled entity, even if I'm a fan of many things. Nothing that says I can't still kill time this way. XD
Stolen shamelessly from wille_zur_muzik.
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Dec. 28th, 2009 @ 12:10 am
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Its been a hard time in LJ land. People seem to update less (including yours truly), communities fall apart, etc. A lot of the appeal of posting to the internet i think has been usurped by instantly gratifying (and less effort-needing) status updates of Twitter and Facebook. But surely they aren't better. I think there's something we're losing by allowing status updates to become the norm in the wake of personal blogs dying all over. Meanwhile, it seems that out of the ashes of the personal blog is rising the professional blog, the industry blog, the company blog, the news blog...
But lets try to stop that!
Here's something I could have posted as a status update:
"I love hot sauce on my buttered toast."
Instead, I'll elaborate here.
First I should mention that tonight I am enjoying some whole wheat toast with my newly purchased Earth Balance buttery spread. I got hungry and went out and did some grocery shopping. Its 11ish so there really is no point in cooking. I've had Earth Balance a couple of times and have really liked it, but this is the first time I have bought it. It really is great. I find that there is no real trade-off in using this instead of butter. not taste-wise anyway. To some degree I might say it tastes better than butter. Sure its processed, but it is delicious and non dairy. I'm sure there must be some sort of nutritional trade-off that isn't immediately obvious, but I'll leave that for another day.
So anyway, hot sauce on your buttered Earth Balance'd toast. It didn't taste any bit different. It might have tasted better. Anyway, this is symptomatic of a condition in my life that some of you are probably familiar with. I love hot sauce. I love it. I am an addict, a proud addict. I'm sure that hot sauce doesn't go well on EVERYTHING, but I've yet to put it on something that I didn't end up liking. In particular it seems that the Louisiana Style hot sauces are the most versatile. And when you are an addict you might end up having it in/on your breakfast, lunch, and dinner without realizing it. Like your fried rice? maybe it'll taste good with some hot sauce. Like your scrambled eggs? squirt on some hot sauce. I haven't tried it, but I'd be willing to squirt some hot sauce on some vanilla ice cream at least once (I wouldn't expect it to be great though, but you never know until you try).Current Music: Georges Delerue - Camille (Le Mepris Soundtrack) |
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Ah! It's been over 24 hours and thus I can think about Sherlock Holmes and have less of an "omgfanboysquee" reaction. Hopefully this little review will be measured, articulate, and... okay, still biased from a couple factors, but helpful for anyone who's been thinking of seeing it and hasn't yet. Spoilers are not included, because usually I spoiler all over the place but in this case I really loved the ending as a surprise in and of itself so I will not ruin it for others.
Components of the movie, in a sort of rough but not totally precise order of how much they matter to me...
( Beneath this pillow is the key to my release. )
If you didn't feel like reading all of that, the long and short of it is that you should watch the movie. It's not an Oscar winner but it's also not just a popcorn flick. It's pure entertainment but it's pure entertainment that deserves real credit and respect for what it tries to accomplish. I have no interest in seeing any of Ritchie's other films (Snatch was sort of fun, but I can't be bothered to watch half a dozen others just like it); this feels like it's going to stay in a category of its own, however. It is not earth-shattering, but it is the kind of thing I will hopefully see in theatres again, and will buy on DVD.
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I have decided that my official non-denomonational, publicly-celebrated holiday this year is "Winter Break! WOO!" because I have been looking forward to this time off since September, and Christmas and Hanukkah are really just nice little accents to my time off. I have until January 3rd, and am looking forward to some pretty hardcore relaxation, awesome times with friends at New Year's, and hopefully some cool presents (not that I should much care about that, but given how mendicant our financial habits have been for the last while, it will be a wonderful treat). We're puttering around the house before heading over to Ryan's folks, where we have the makings for a truly extraordinary cheese platter (Spanish raw sheep's milk aged Manchego, locally sourced goat's milk triple cream chevre, a five-year aged cow's milk Gouda, a smoked gouda round, pepper-crusted dried salami, fig spread, fresh blackberries, and a baked brie with blackberry compote in a loaf of crusty bread) and a relatively extravagant lamb roast planned for later in the afternoon. I hate that I have been so tired as to be unable to be as "festive" as I would like; the whole school was practically on a mission to be jolly and cheerful this week, and all I have wanted to do is nap. Last night, I felt like a huge bump on a log for literally just smiling and sitting around rather than being all perky and holiday-tastic. I feel pretty entitled to be lazy, what with all that "educating and influencing young minds" that I've been doing. I feel like I pretty much phoned in the last week of school, but whatever; the kids were completely mentally checked-out after Thanksgiving anyhow, and we had fun talking about music and gender roles and relationships. I swear, everything (even the two episodes of "Family Guy" we watched on the last day before break - seriously!) has been relevant in some way. Teaching incredibly modern fiction kicks ass; I feel like the connections we can make are so relevant! In any case, I'm off to eat fancy cheeses and open presents! Happy whatever you're celebrating! |
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Like Every Newborn
"The Lord is King, and hath put on glorious
apparel; the Lord hath put on his apparel,
and girded himself with strength:"
Like every newborn, he has come from very far.
His eyes are closed against the brilliance of the star.
So glorious is he, he goes to this immoderate length
To show his love for us, discarding power and strength.
Girded for war, humility his mighty dress,
He moves into the battle wholly weaponless.
Tree at Christmas
The children say the tree must reach the ceiling
And so it does, angel on topmost branch,
Candy canes and golden globes and silver chains,
Trumpets that toot, and birds with feathered tails.
Each year we say, each year we fully mean:
"This is the loveliest tree of all." This tree
Bedecked with love and tinsel reaches heaven.
A pagan throwback may have brought it here
Into our room, and yet these decked-out boughs
Can represent those other trees, the one
Through which we fell in pride, when Eve forgot
That freedom is man's freedom to obey
And to adore, not to replace the light
With disobedient darkness and self-will.
On Twelfth Night when we strip the tree
And see its branches bare and winter cold
Outside the comfortable room, the tree
Is then the tree on which all darkness hanged,
Completing the betrayal that began
With that first stolen fruit. And then, O God,
This is the tree that Simon bore uphill,
This is the tree that held all love and life.
Forgive us, Lord, forgive us for that tree.
But now, still decked, adorned, in joy arrayed
For these great days of Christmas thanks and song,
This is the tree that lights our faltering way,
For when man's first and proud rebellious act
Had reached its nadir on that hill of skulls
These shining, glimmering boughs remind us that
The knowledge that we stole was freely given
And we were sent the Spirit's radiant strength
That we might know all things. We grasp for truth
And lose it till it comes to us by love.
The glory of Lebanon shines on this Christmas tree,
The tree of life that opens wide the gates.
The children say the tree must reach the ceiling,
And so it does: for me the tree has grown so high
It pierces through the vast and star-filled sky.
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YOU GUYS:
I AM BUYING ALL MY CLOTHING EVER HERE.
EVER.
You heard me.
(This is what happens when I go looking for men's vests. I find several awesome not-so-shiny-material ones and then about a fuckton of other things I want. Hats. HATS. The shirts. The jackets. Pocketwatches. All the other accessories. I can wear all these things and work at a foreign bookstore, right? I can say it's in keeping with the period of the store's founding, 1856. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh.)
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This is an amusing link. I don't read much on Cracked, but still, stumbling across it caused me to be greatly entertained.
And somewhat to smack my forehead at the same time. Seven popular chick flicks that secretly hate women?
Dude.
The entire fucking point of a chick flick is to hate on women. It's why I watch very, very, very few of them, or at least of whatever clearly advertises itself as fitting the chick flick mold.
I mean, Christ, the name of the goddamn genre communicates this very fact. The potentially belittling (even if not universally offensive) use of "chick" and the diminutive behavior of turning a "film" into just a "flick" says right there that this, this is a movie that concerns women and is therefore Not As Serious as a movie that concerns men. It's cheap entertainment, indeed, and women, well, we all know they don't need to watch a movie that's Serious. Besides, watching a Serious movie kills the mood for their boyfriends copping a feel midway through.
On behalf of the bare handful of mainstream movies that ever present women in a generally completely positive sense, I get offended when they're called chick flicks for having a reasonable focus on women, and I also get rather miffed when movies with romantic plotlines but other redeeming value get called chick flicks because they might make you choke up. But I have pretty much unabashed hatred for the true chick flick. I still feel scarred for life by the couple that I've seen.
There's really no reason for me to deconstruct the plots of several prominent chick flicks because the writer in that link does a pretty decent job with classic examples, so I'll stop this from becoming a truly lengthy post. I guess I'll say, though: do not tempt me to deconstruct others.
Given that it's now the Eve of Jesus-day and stuff, merry goddamn Christmas, you people.
Edit: Aaaand, looking at the number one movie in the link a little better, I have to say, boo to you, poster of that list, for using the phrase "dressed like a cracked out tranny." Just goes to show, cats and kittens, that too often, not everyone's going to be thinking sensitively of all marginalized groups at once. Meh. :|
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