In an unusual but laudable choice of programming, Channel 7 is showing Rasputin tonight, 12.40am.
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May. 29th, 2006 12:12 amSaw X-Men 3.
( What HAVE I DONE??????????????????????? )
For some reason had a quote from the Chapelle Show (that I haven't even seen) v. persistently on the brain, so like whenever something happened on the screen I was like HEY! DOES WOLVERINE HAVE TO CHOKE A BITCH? Actually it made the movie funnier.
( What HAVE I DONE??????????????????????? )
For some reason had a quote from the Chapelle Show (that I haven't even seen) v. persistently on the brain, so like whenever something happened on the screen I was like HEY! DOES WOLVERINE HAVE TO CHOKE A BITCH? Actually it made the movie funnier.
Aussie TV heads up
Sep. 5th, 2005 08:47 pmIan McKellen's utterly fabulous (although not like that) adaptation of Richard III is on this Saturday, Channel 7, 11.40. Even if everything else in this movie was shit, Ian would be reason enough to see it.
Also, there's a former Grand Dragon of the KKK on Denton tonight, which should be interesting.
Read Marathon Man the other day, and wow, William Goldman cannot put a foot wrong. The way he writes in this book, sentences barrelling on like a horse doing steeplechase, it really stuck a chord, it's like how words fall out of my brain except put together with, you know, skill; and then there's that gorgeously tight third person POV that's also omniscient with a distinct narrative persona. How the hell does he do that? I loved the story and I totally did not pick any of the important twists (JANEWAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!). I knew this guy had a magnificent wit (Princess Bride is one of the funniest things ever and Butch Cassidy is way funnier than people give it credit for being. Maverick? Cracks me the hell up and is possibly Gibson's best movie. But anyway.) but I wasn't expecting something so exciting and scary and genuinely horrifying (torture scenes OMG!). I haven't really enjoyed a book on such a gut level for a while. I must see the movie now.
Also, there's a former Grand Dragon of the KKK on Denton tonight, which should be interesting.
Read Marathon Man the other day, and wow, William Goldman cannot put a foot wrong. The way he writes in this book, sentences barrelling on like a horse doing steeplechase, it really stuck a chord, it's like how words fall out of my brain except put together with, you know, skill; and then there's that gorgeously tight third person POV that's also omniscient with a distinct narrative persona. How the hell does he do that? I loved the story and I totally did not pick any of the important twists (JANEWAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!). I knew this guy had a magnificent wit (Princess Bride is one of the funniest things ever and Butch Cassidy is way funnier than people give it credit for being. Maverick? Cracks me the hell up and is possibly Gibson's best movie. But anyway.) but I wasn't expecting something so exciting and scary and genuinely horrifying (torture scenes OMG!). I haven't really enjoyed a book on such a gut level for a while. I must see the movie now.
In which also is said many times
Dec. 8th, 2004 11:40 pmVarious things happened, seen, done. Can't remember most of them *has brain like Jarlsberg cheese*
Watched My Beautiful Laundrette last night. My liking for Daniel Day Lewis has mutated into the kind of emotion that has me writing JE + DDL 4EVA on all my notebooks. The ending was very wtf, like, why were the fifty or so plotlines not resolved AT ALL, but I went searching for answers and Roger Ebert tells me it's just a 'few weeks in the life of' so it really doesn't need to have an ending. I choose to believe him because Stephen Frears really is a good director and it's the only thing that makes sense.
Also watched Gods and Monsters again that I taped from last week. I scribbled out all the DDLs on my notebooks and wrote IANMCKELLENOMG instead. He had me slapping my thighs laughing (literally! I don't think I've ever slapped my thighs in laughter before. This is all very new to me) and crying alternately every ten minutes throughout the whole movie.
Also saw Two Brothers. Go watch if you like animals, the tigers are SO BEAUTIFUL. I was crying at the end and well in several spots because they are just SO BEAUTIFUL. They walk around and roar and play and just generally look BEAUTIFUL. Also Guy Pearce is there who looks almost as BEAUTIFUL, but top billing literally goes to the tigers because they are more BEATUIFUL. The plot and so on is not really BEATUIFUL but the tigers are, are least. I will have to buy the DVD to see all the makings of because I think it will be fascinating.
Got my signed Cerberus from Dave Sim last Monday, I think. I jumped on the bandwagon pretty late, I must say, but it was a great experiment and Dave is a funny and talented and generous guy who does weird things in the name of science.
More importantly I received in the mail DS Season 3 yay! Next to all my McKellen notebook scribblings I have written ALSO CALLUM KEITH RENNIE TEH SEX AND ALSO PAUL GROSS TOO PRETTY. More obviously a different show from the first two seasons than I expected, so much less gritty and more wacky. But still fun and funny and poignant and almost blingingly good-looking. Draco is more what my mental image of Dief looks and acts like than Lincoln and the Pilot dog (who is albeit wonderfully shaggy) and I love him to pieces.
Also buddy-breathing hahahahahaha!
( Fun santa-hat meme stolen from Lydia )
Watched My Beautiful Laundrette last night. My liking for Daniel Day Lewis has mutated into the kind of emotion that has me writing JE + DDL 4EVA on all my notebooks. The ending was very wtf, like, why were the fifty or so plotlines not resolved AT ALL, but I went searching for answers and Roger Ebert tells me it's just a 'few weeks in the life of' so it really doesn't need to have an ending. I choose to believe him because Stephen Frears really is a good director and it's the only thing that makes sense.
Also watched Gods and Monsters again that I taped from last week. I scribbled out all the DDLs on my notebooks and wrote IANMCKELLENOMG instead. He had me slapping my thighs laughing (literally! I don't think I've ever slapped my thighs in laughter before. This is all very new to me) and crying alternately every ten minutes throughout the whole movie.
Also saw Two Brothers. Go watch if you like animals, the tigers are SO BEAUTIFUL. I was crying at the end and well in several spots because they are just SO BEAUTIFUL. They walk around and roar and play and just generally look BEAUTIFUL. Also Guy Pearce is there who looks almost as BEAUTIFUL, but top billing literally goes to the tigers because they are more BEATUIFUL. The plot and so on is not really BEATUIFUL but the tigers are, are least. I will have to buy the DVD to see all the makings of because I think it will be fascinating.
Got my signed Cerberus from Dave Sim last Monday, I think. I jumped on the bandwagon pretty late, I must say, but it was a great experiment and Dave is a funny and talented and generous guy who does weird things in the name of science.
More importantly I received in the mail DS Season 3 yay! Next to all my McKellen notebook scribblings I have written ALSO CALLUM KEITH RENNIE TEH SEX AND ALSO PAUL GROSS TOO PRETTY. More obviously a different show from the first two seasons than I expected, so much less gritty and more wacky. But still fun and funny and poignant and almost blingingly good-looking. Draco is more what my mental image of Dief looks and acts like than Lincoln and the Pilot dog (who is albeit wonderfully shaggy) and I love him to pieces.
Also buddy-breathing hahahahahaha!
( Fun santa-hat meme stolen from Lydia )
