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In Tokyo, they wouldn't let us deplane before a group of people in nuclear fallout suits heat-sensor us and confirm our swine flu status. Like, the entire plane's status. Like they count the health forms we had to fill in ("Have you sat next to someone who sneezed constantly?"), and if the number of forms don't match the number of people on the plane, no one is allowed to disembark. These guys get extra points for using pieces of packaging tape to seal the backs of their nuclear fallout suits, though. Keep it classy, airport health officials. Plus, we get free face masks!
Few things rock harder than being upgraded to business class on your 24-hour plane trip of doom across the world. Thanks, Northwest-cum-Delta! On a day I had expected to be heavy with goodbye and claustrophobic with economy seating, I got champagne platters for dinner and more on-demand movies than I knew what to do with. Yay! So, my thoughts on:
1. Inkheart. Mostly I got questions about this silvertongue ability. Maybe it's 'cos I didn't read the books. But what if these silvertongues read nonfiction aloud? Does it still come to life if it's already... there, being nonfiction? Or what if we just think it's nonfiction, and reading it aloud reveals it to be pretty fictiony? What if he read something in the second-person e.g. Fight Club? Does it then happen to YOU, like for real YOU? What if he's reading the biography of someone still living, do they get teleported to where you are? Can he kill you just by reading out loud a medical synopsis of how a heart attack happens?
I have two lines of Inkheart fic: Farid cupped his hands as if scooping water from a stream, and blew across his palms.
"Very good," said Dustfinger, after stamping out the flames on his coat. "But remember that a little goes a long way."
Because Farid's mancrush on Dustfinger is the adorablest ever! Halfway through the movie, I was already thinking, "omg, they should just travel this world and have adventures together and maybe develop codependency issues!," which I thought was what was going to happen for a bit, but then no. Oh well.
Paul Bettany is so smoking hot in this movie, I cannot even.
2. Defiance. Lovely, but FUCKING DEPRESSING. After the first fifteen minutes, I didn't even know know how much more I could take of it. (I took it all.) It's just that spending forever on a plane makes you a little loopy, and I was already feeling kind of down from goodbyes and a slight hangover, and, in general, I was quite bleargh. So when this movie was like, "WHAT IF YOUR LOVED ONES DIE", I was all D-:
That said, the rabbi and the intellectual were awesome together. Huddling together under one blanket in some shitty-ass hut in the middle of winter and STILL PLAYING CHESS. Bless them!
Also amazing was the eulogy the rabbi gave. Choose another people. Take our holiness away from us. <3 wow.
3. Benjamin Button. Um, also sad. I really should have gone for lighter fare this time around, all things considered, but I really wanted to see this (and Defiance).
-- OMG TILDA (jaaaadis!) holy shit her character rings so true. I want an icon of her wearing that large hat in the elevator. AND THEN SHE SWAM THE CHANNEL. So great. Not really relatedly: I want some Edmund/Jadis now?
-- The twins who got along on water but hate each other's guts on land! Kind of reminds me of the guy in Pullman's HDM whose daemon was a porpoise, and so they were always at sea.
-- features a couple of the same songs from O Brother Where Art Thou and maybe Cold Mountain, covered by different artists
-- Is it possible for Brad Pitt to look a day over 30 ever? I mean without the prosthetics and make-up. How is he still so hot??
4. Gran Torino. When I hang out with people who have Walter Kowalski's casually racist attitude, sometimes I just don't know what the hell to do about it. I like to think of it as picking my battles, but when was the last time I picked such a battle anyway? Is it just complacency and excuses? People try to be genuine and edgy, but then they do it wrong and end up assholes.
I did like the movie. I adore how mean old Clint Eastwood is reluctantly drawn into genuinely caring for these two kids and becoming protective of them. Getting Thao a job and telling him to nut up and ask that girl out, and teaching him to talk like a man lololol oh Clint Eastwood, you old codger.
And Clint Eastwood's srs bsns angry face is HILARIOUS.
"My ass sure is sore from the guys at my construction work." omg Thao! <3
There's overtones of the "lost white man redeemed by a people foreign to him" thing going on. Not to say that I've never been guilty of thinking "ooh, this will surely give me back my sense of self", but like, this people and their culture don't exist solely for your personal therapy, Mr. Kowalski.
5. Milk. Because I needed something uplifting. Not that a hate assassination is all sparkles and unicorns, but Milk had the most vitality and energy out of all these movies. And Emile Hirsch was adorbz. Jesus Christ, this movie (and Benjamin Button) makes me want to do fucking SOMETHING with my life. And that "malinka malinka maya" song was the song in Skins that Michelle and Jal sang in that Russian bar with the soldiers!
How delightful have the last couple of Office episodes been? Answer: very! There is nothing more delightful than Cafe Disco (NOT DISCO CAFE). I loved that everyone got into it. I loved that even Dwight thought it was a good song, and that even Angela was moving her foot in time! And that Bob cut in to dance with Phyllis, 'cos let's face it, everything about Dwight massaging Phyllis was the best ever, but especially touching was her surprise confession. (Like that scene from Six Feet Under where whatsherface goes in for a massage with Brenda!) Everything in the Cafe Disco episode was just made of pure joy. AND THEN Kelly and Andy had a dance-off and augh, why can't they see that they are totally MFEO, Kelly/Andy 4eva! I also <3 that Erin is a sweetheart who appears to be down for anything.
HOLLY IS TOTALLY CRYSTALCOOL oh Holly never leave again. I was so proud of Michael when he decided not to pour his awkward heart out to her after all. It's fine as it is, Michael, don't you worry, you two will be together again someday. Just have faith!
Other <3:
-- "Eating lunch alone. It might as well be dinner."
-- SLUMDUNDER MIFFLINAIRE and just the inappropriateness of the skit in general
Has anyone already written The Office/Parks & Recreation crossover fic? If not, then WHY?? On an FNL note, what the hell happened to Santiago, he of the Trail of Dead tackle music?
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Narnia Exchange is just around the riverbend! I'm not co-modding this time, but I am totally participating. What should I even request?!
[Poll #1403587]
ETA: Still one more DW invite code up for grabs. Anyone? Bueller?
Few things rock harder than being upgraded to business class on your 24-hour plane trip of doom across the world. Thanks, Northwest-cum-Delta! On a day I had expected to be heavy with goodbye and claustrophobic with economy seating, I got champagne platters for dinner and more on-demand movies than I knew what to do with. Yay! So, my thoughts on:
1. Inkheart. Mostly I got questions about this silvertongue ability. Maybe it's 'cos I didn't read the books. But what if these silvertongues read nonfiction aloud? Does it still come to life if it's already... there, being nonfiction? Or what if we just think it's nonfiction, and reading it aloud reveals it to be pretty fictiony? What if he read something in the second-person e.g. Fight Club? Does it then happen to YOU, like for real YOU? What if he's reading the biography of someone still living, do they get teleported to where you are? Can he kill you just by reading out loud a medical synopsis of how a heart attack happens?
I have two lines of Inkheart fic: Farid cupped his hands as if scooping water from a stream, and blew across his palms.
"Very good," said Dustfinger, after stamping out the flames on his coat. "But remember that a little goes a long way."
Because Farid's mancrush on Dustfinger is the adorablest ever! Halfway through the movie, I was already thinking, "omg, they should just travel this world and have adventures together and maybe develop codependency issues!," which I thought was what was going to happen for a bit, but then no. Oh well.
Paul Bettany is so smoking hot in this movie, I cannot even.
2. Defiance. Lovely, but FUCKING DEPRESSING. After the first fifteen minutes, I didn't even know know how much more I could take of it. (I took it all.) It's just that spending forever on a plane makes you a little loopy, and I was already feeling kind of down from goodbyes and a slight hangover, and, in general, I was quite bleargh. So when this movie was like, "WHAT IF YOUR LOVED ONES DIE", I was all D-:
That said, the rabbi and the intellectual were awesome together. Huddling together under one blanket in some shitty-ass hut in the middle of winter and STILL PLAYING CHESS. Bless them!
Also amazing was the eulogy the rabbi gave. Choose another people. Take our holiness away from us. <3 wow.
3. Benjamin Button. Um, also sad. I really should have gone for lighter fare this time around, all things considered, but I really wanted to see this (and Defiance).
-- OMG TILDA (jaaaadis!) holy shit her character rings so true. I want an icon of her wearing that large hat in the elevator. AND THEN SHE SWAM THE CHANNEL. So great. Not really relatedly: I want some Edmund/Jadis now?
-- The twins who got along on water but hate each other's guts on land! Kind of reminds me of the guy in Pullman's HDM whose daemon was a porpoise, and so they were always at sea.
-- features a couple of the same songs from O Brother Where Art Thou and maybe Cold Mountain, covered by different artists
-- Is it possible for Brad Pitt to look a day over 30 ever? I mean without the prosthetics and make-up. How is he still so hot??
4. Gran Torino. When I hang out with people who have Walter Kowalski's casually racist attitude, sometimes I just don't know what the hell to do about it. I like to think of it as picking my battles, but when was the last time I picked such a battle anyway? Is it just complacency and excuses? People try to be genuine and edgy, but then they do it wrong and end up assholes.
I did like the movie. I adore how mean old Clint Eastwood is reluctantly drawn into genuinely caring for these two kids and becoming protective of them. Getting Thao a job and telling him to nut up and ask that girl out, and teaching him to talk like a man lololol oh Clint Eastwood, you old codger.
And Clint Eastwood's srs bsns angry face is HILARIOUS.
"My ass sure is sore from the guys at my construction work." omg Thao! <3
There's overtones of the "lost white man redeemed by a people foreign to him" thing going on. Not to say that I've never been guilty of thinking "ooh, this will surely give me back my sense of self", but like, this people and their culture don't exist solely for your personal therapy, Mr. Kowalski.
5. Milk. Because I needed something uplifting. Not that a hate assassination is all sparkles and unicorns, but Milk had the most vitality and energy out of all these movies. And Emile Hirsch was adorbz. Jesus Christ, this movie (and Benjamin Button) makes me want to do fucking SOMETHING with my life. And that "malinka malinka maya" song was the song in Skins that Michelle and Jal sang in that Russian bar with the soldiers!
How delightful have the last couple of Office episodes been? Answer: very! There is nothing more delightful than Cafe Disco (NOT DISCO CAFE). I loved that everyone got into it. I loved that even Dwight thought it was a good song, and that even Angela was moving her foot in time! And that Bob cut in to dance with Phyllis, 'cos let's face it, everything about Dwight massaging Phyllis was the best ever, but especially touching was her surprise confession. (Like that scene from Six Feet Under where whatsherface goes in for a massage with Brenda!) Everything in the Cafe Disco episode was just made of pure joy. AND THEN Kelly and Andy had a dance-off and augh, why can't they see that they are totally MFEO, Kelly/Andy 4eva! I also <3 that Erin is a sweetheart who appears to be down for anything.
HOLLY IS TOTALLY CRYSTALCOOL oh Holly never leave again. I was so proud of Michael when he decided not to pour his awkward heart out to her after all. It's fine as it is, Michael, don't you worry, you two will be together again someday. Just have faith!
Other <3:
-- "Eating lunch alone. It might as well be dinner."
-- SLUMDUNDER MIFFLINAIRE and just the inappropriateness of the skit in general
Has anyone already written The Office/Parks & Recreation crossover fic? If not, then WHY?? On an FNL note, what the hell happened to Santiago, he of the Trail of Dead tackle music?
+
Narnia Exchange is just around the riverbend! I'm not co-modding this time, but I am totally participating. What should I even request?!
[Poll #1403587]
ETA: Still one more DW invite code up for grabs. Anyone? Bueller?