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A much longer post than I'd anticipated. Now if only I'd said something meaningful...
Belated Thanksgiving sentiment: I'm thankful for my little sister, she who fixes computers. Hail, Little Sister! It works! It works right! I don't know what she did differently than I did, but whatever, things are behaving like they should again. Huzzah! Ooh, I wonder if IM will work again. Something to check, definitely. Anyway, sacrifices shall be made to the glory that is my computer-savvy sister, and I will cross my fingers and hope I don't do whatever I did that I didn't know I did in the first place. Again. Right.
And I see by my flist that LJ is eating comments again? Huh. Well, grr of course, but at least it's them and not me this time. Yay!
Watched the Greatest Canadian. Tommy Douglas! Yay! Show that Trudeau who's boss! *g* I was rooting for David Suzuki with Tommy Douglas as my second choice, because I'm a dirty pinko tree-hugger, so I was not displeased with the results. The whole thing was a wacky idea from the start, but a fun wacky idea, and the documentaries were mostly quite good (Bret Hart on Don Cherry, though? Aiyah...). Besides, it's always nice to see CBC documentaries that say more after their "Yay, Canada!" than "Good job for not being the US!" Yay Canada on your own merits, you know? So yay Canada, yay Tommy Douglas, yay David Suzuki, yay everybody else, and yay strange idea for a network show. I still miss Mats Sundin, though. Stupid lockout.
I think I want a Sir John A. action figure. Heh. I bet that's on all the kids' wishlists this year.
So I saw the preview thingie for the extended RotK, and I just have to say, oooooooooh. Shiny. Naturally, throw one of the Rohirrim in the scene and I’m happy, so lots of Rohirrim bits in preview = happy Joan. But the Mouth of Sauron could have used some of the Dentistry of Sauron, no? Yikes. And poor Christopher Lee. He's far too modest and self-deprecating for his own good. Don't be so shy, Mr. Lee. Point out Saruman's paramount importance. Again and again and again...
Nah, I kid. The theatrical cut was unsatisfying on the Saruman score, and I'm glad we finally get some resolution to his plotline. And I'm totally not saying that because I'm afraid Christopher Lee will know and will find me and get me if I don't. Not at all. Ahem.
"Gerard 101" update: As I doubt you remember, I've been on a quest to see as many Gerard Butler movies as possible, what with him to be playing My Guy in Beowulf and Grendel and all. But I've hit the end of local resources, alas (well, until Phantom opens, I suppose). Even more regrettable, my "Gerard 101" final exam was Dracula 2000. Um. Well. Every actor has one of these, right?
Gerry could not save this movie. Nathan Fillion could not save this movie. The Hand of God reaching down from On High to rewrite the script, reset the cameras, and shove the actors around could not have saved this movie. This was... not a good movie. And you know what my taste is like. But Dracula 2000 was just... I mean, it sure as heck wasn't good, and it wasn't bad enough to be fun, and the few good ideas that were there were smothered under gallons of "look, we're so stylish, we're so cutting-edge (as of five years ago), and we have girls with breasts! Lots of breasts!" gruel, and... sigh. So very dull. And Gerry didn't even look pretty. How is that possible? Gerry plus Dracula should have equaled guh!, but no. Nathan looked very pretty as a (non-evil) priest, but he had, like, two minutes of screentime. And wasn't there some CBC miniseries about, oh, caribou or airplanes or L.M. Montgomery, that Christopher Plummer could have done instead and maintained his dignity? Very sad. Still, I won't say, "I want those two hours of my life back!" No, I remain convinced that some movies exist to remind us that we do not live in a just universe. So thank you, evil boring movie. I won't forget again.
But! It looks like all may not be lost in the realm of cheesy fun. I should probably feel guilty for always wishing I had cable for this sort of thing rather than, say, The Sopranos or The Wire, but really, I don't. Heh. And this sounds like just my sort of popcorn: The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, starring Noah Wyle (aw, puppy) as the geek what done the world-saving. Dude! No, seriously, dude! How could anyone resist a plot description that begins, "As The Librarian: Quest for the Spear opens, brilliant 30-year-old student Flynn Carsen (Wyle) is kicked out of school by his professor because he believes Carsen, after earning 22 degrees, lacks life experience..." Hee heeeee. Well, personally I don't see why having racked up twenty-two degrees would preclude him having gained life experience. I mean, I have thirty degrees and I've still managed to publish three collections of poetry, qualify for the Olympic archery team, master the perfect soufflé, climb Annapurna and learn to tango. He's obviously just a slacker. Then again, no one ever called upon me to head off to Shangri-La to rescue the Spear of Destiny from the Serpent Brotherhood (heeeeee!), so young master Carsen must be onto something. So yes, he takes his overstuffed brain and becomes a librarian at the Library of the Myssssssteries- no, not really, but heck, his library's budget has been stretched to cover the Ark of the Covenant, Excalibur, Pandora's Box and the Mona Lisa (the one in the Louvre? Fake, of course), as well as the Spear of Destiny (heeeeee!), while most libraries I know are lucky to afford Wite-Out, and that's pretty mysterious, if you ask me- and he presumably has lots of Indiana Jones/Lara Croft/Rick and Evie O'Connell/Sydney Fox action scenes, and saves the world. Yay! Oh, and Kyle MacLachlan is in it too! Sadly, he doesn't play Noah's older, grumpy brother, though he totally could. And the baddies are Kelly Hu from The Scorpion King and some guy from National Treasure (which I still haven't seen), so they're obviously really qualified for this sort of thing. I think it sounds fabulous. Though I admit, it really makes me miss Relic Hunter. Why oh why didn't they release season sets instead of a Best Of? Their Best is not my Best, and as a result, I have no headless nun, no mysterious weapons disguised as diamonds, no bikers or drag queens flirting with Nigel, no Crispin Bonham Carter as Nigel's brother, no Adrian Paul as a vampire wannabe, and entirely too much "Cross of Voodoo" (fie!). Life is cruel.
So, yeah, if anyone wanted to tape The Librarian for me, that would be most excellent. I'd reimburse you or bake you cookies or what you will. And if you're not quite ready to admit a taste for the cheesier things in life but just can't resist indulging, it'll give you the perfect excuse to watch it. "Watching this? Oh no, certainly not. I'm simply taping it for a friend while I... reread Swann's Way. Yeah, that's the ticket."
Speaking of favors, I have to say, I find the wishlist meme fascinating. People want such neat things! Of course, half the time I'm thinking "me too!" as I read. I wish I had anything in the way of fiction-writing, graphic-making or source-providing skills. Alas. Still, maybe something within my talents will turn up, right? All of my own wishes fall under the category of either "me too!" or icons (I have a computer full of pretty pictures and no skills), so I'm not going to bother making a list, I think. Still a fun meme, though.
And I know every one's sick of it, but baaaa. My next attempts got me "Nick Stokes," "Emma Peel," and "bees," none of which I'd deny, but my first try netted:
Heh. Indeed. Love and angst and PAIN! and really bad communication skills and apocalypses and (presumably, hopefully, eventually) very hot sex. Oh, ouch, struck by a terrible Miracles craving! Well, hm. It's a been a while since I've watched it, and I do have twelve more episodes to talk about, which I really, really want to do. But I just got S7 of Stargate, which I've never seen, plus there are still seasons 4-6 to rewatch (or just plain watch, in the case of 98% of S6), plus I know I'm getting S5 of Xena for Chanukah (yaaaaay! Even though it's my least fave season, yaaaay!), plus the SEs of Mulan and The Iron Giant... aiiiee, drowned in DVD backlog! Do I squoosh Miracles in there or leave it until January or so? Hmmm... Methinks I'll not be deciding tonight.
And I see by my flist that LJ is eating comments again? Huh. Well, grr of course, but at least it's them and not me this time. Yay!
Watched the Greatest Canadian. Tommy Douglas! Yay! Show that Trudeau who's boss! *g* I was rooting for David Suzuki with Tommy Douglas as my second choice, because I'm a dirty pinko tree-hugger, so I was not displeased with the results. The whole thing was a wacky idea from the start, but a fun wacky idea, and the documentaries were mostly quite good (Bret Hart on Don Cherry, though? Aiyah...). Besides, it's always nice to see CBC documentaries that say more after their "Yay, Canada!" than "Good job for not being the US!" Yay Canada on your own merits, you know? So yay Canada, yay Tommy Douglas, yay David Suzuki, yay everybody else, and yay strange idea for a network show. I still miss Mats Sundin, though. Stupid lockout.
I think I want a Sir John A. action figure. Heh. I bet that's on all the kids' wishlists this year.
So I saw the preview thingie for the extended RotK, and I just have to say, oooooooooh. Shiny. Naturally, throw one of the Rohirrim in the scene and I’m happy, so lots of Rohirrim bits in preview = happy Joan. But the Mouth of Sauron could have used some of the Dentistry of Sauron, no? Yikes. And poor Christopher Lee. He's far too modest and self-deprecating for his own good. Don't be so shy, Mr. Lee. Point out Saruman's paramount importance. Again and again and again...
Nah, I kid. The theatrical cut was unsatisfying on the Saruman score, and I'm glad we finally get some resolution to his plotline. And I'm totally not saying that because I'm afraid Christopher Lee will know and will find me and get me if I don't. Not at all. Ahem.
"Gerard 101" update: As I doubt you remember, I've been on a quest to see as many Gerard Butler movies as possible, what with him to be playing My Guy in Beowulf and Grendel and all. But I've hit the end of local resources, alas (well, until Phantom opens, I suppose). Even more regrettable, my "Gerard 101" final exam was Dracula 2000. Um. Well. Every actor has one of these, right?
Gerry could not save this movie. Nathan Fillion could not save this movie. The Hand of God reaching down from On High to rewrite the script, reset the cameras, and shove the actors around could not have saved this movie. This was... not a good movie. And you know what my taste is like. But Dracula 2000 was just... I mean, it sure as heck wasn't good, and it wasn't bad enough to be fun, and the few good ideas that were there were smothered under gallons of "look, we're so stylish, we're so cutting-edge (as of five years ago), and we have girls with breasts! Lots of breasts!" gruel, and... sigh. So very dull. And Gerry didn't even look pretty. How is that possible? Gerry plus Dracula should have equaled guh!, but no. Nathan looked very pretty as a (non-evil) priest, but he had, like, two minutes of screentime. And wasn't there some CBC miniseries about, oh, caribou or airplanes or L.M. Montgomery, that Christopher Plummer could have done instead and maintained his dignity? Very sad. Still, I won't say, "I want those two hours of my life back!" No, I remain convinced that some movies exist to remind us that we do not live in a just universe. So thank you, evil boring movie. I won't forget again.
But! It looks like all may not be lost in the realm of cheesy fun. I should probably feel guilty for always wishing I had cable for this sort of thing rather than, say, The Sopranos or The Wire, but really, I don't. Heh. And this sounds like just my sort of popcorn: The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, starring Noah Wyle (aw, puppy) as the geek what done the world-saving. Dude! No, seriously, dude! How could anyone resist a plot description that begins, "As The Librarian: Quest for the Spear opens, brilliant 30-year-old student Flynn Carsen (Wyle) is kicked out of school by his professor because he believes Carsen, after earning 22 degrees, lacks life experience..." Hee heeeee. Well, personally I don't see why having racked up twenty-two degrees would preclude him having gained life experience. I mean, I have thirty degrees and I've still managed to publish three collections of poetry, qualify for the Olympic archery team, master the perfect soufflé, climb Annapurna and learn to tango. He's obviously just a slacker. Then again, no one ever called upon me to head off to Shangri-La to rescue the Spear of Destiny from the Serpent Brotherhood (heeeeee!), so young master Carsen must be onto something. So yes, he takes his overstuffed brain and becomes a librarian at the Library of the Myssssssteries- no, not really, but heck, his library's budget has been stretched to cover the Ark of the Covenant, Excalibur, Pandora's Box and the Mona Lisa (the one in the Louvre? Fake, of course), as well as the Spear of Destiny (heeeeee!), while most libraries I know are lucky to afford Wite-Out, and that's pretty mysterious, if you ask me- and he presumably has lots of Indiana Jones/Lara Croft/Rick and Evie O'Connell/Sydney Fox action scenes, and saves the world. Yay! Oh, and Kyle MacLachlan is in it too! Sadly, he doesn't play Noah's older, grumpy brother, though he totally could. And the baddies are Kelly Hu from The Scorpion King and some guy from National Treasure (which I still haven't seen), so they're obviously really qualified for this sort of thing. I think it sounds fabulous. Though I admit, it really makes me miss Relic Hunter. Why oh why didn't they release season sets instead of a Best Of? Their Best is not my Best, and as a result, I have no headless nun, no mysterious weapons disguised as diamonds, no bikers or drag queens flirting with Nigel, no Crispin Bonham Carter as Nigel's brother, no Adrian Paul as a vampire wannabe, and entirely too much "Cross of Voodoo" (fie!). Life is cruel.
So, yeah, if anyone wanted to tape The Librarian for me, that would be most excellent. I'd reimburse you or bake you cookies or what you will. And if you're not quite ready to admit a taste for the cheesier things in life but just can't resist indulging, it'll give you the perfect excuse to watch it. "Watching this? Oh no, certainly not. I'm simply taping it for a friend while I... reread Swann's Way. Yeah, that's the ticket."
Speaking of favors, I have to say, I find the wishlist meme fascinating. People want such neat things! Of course, half the time I'm thinking "me too!" as I read. I wish I had anything in the way of fiction-writing, graphic-making or source-providing skills. Alas. Still, maybe something within my talents will turn up, right? All of my own wishes fall under the category of either "me too!" or icons (I have a computer full of pretty pictures and no skills), so I'm not going to bother making a list, I think. Still a fun meme, though.
And I know every one's sick of it, but baaaa. My next attempts got me "Nick Stokes," "Emma Peel," and "bees," none of which I'd deny, but my first try netted:
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Heh. Indeed. Love and angst and PAIN! and really bad communication skills and apocalypses and (presumably, hopefully, eventually) very hot sex. Oh, ouch, struck by a terrible Miracles craving! Well, hm. It's a been a while since I've watched it, and I do have twelve more episodes to talk about, which I really, really want to do. But I just got S7 of Stargate, which I've never seen, plus there are still seasons 4-6 to rewatch (or just plain watch, in the case of 98% of S6), plus I know I'm getting S5 of Xena for Chanukah (yaaaaay! Even though it's my least fave season, yaaaay!), plus the SEs of Mulan and The Iron Giant... aiiiee, drowned in DVD backlog! Do I squoosh Miracles in there or leave it until January or so? Hmmm... Methinks I'll not be deciding tonight.
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I think we should have our own little Miracles yuletide exchange. At least then we'd be guaranteed to get some Miracles fic. ;)
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