An exciting adventure in sitting awaits!

[lotus0kid]

Oh jeez, I may be getting sucked into Vlogbrothers. No... no.... noooo... XDDD

From HANKLERFISH!:
Stupid gallbladder,
not performing properly-
I WILL KILL YOU NOW.
- John Green, 8/15/11

Otherwise, I briefly had a rough morning when I woke up convinced it was Wednesday and I was super late. I was actually up and out of bed with my phone in my hand half a second from calling work before I remembered what day it really was. Annoying.

So, my plans for this actual day today, I'm going to try this thing. It seems like all the movies I want to see lately are the weirdo indie flicks no one plays anywhere. I mean, clearly the industry views us rabble outside of New York and L.A. as unfit to touch the hem of the garment of Coriolanus :(. However, I've found a theater not too far away that's miraculously playing Albert Nobbs at 2:30 and The Artist at 4:30, so I'm going to go there. And see them both. Today. I've never done that before, seen two movies in one day. I'm a little tempted to see if I can get away with only paying for one, but nah.

I really have been watching a lot of movies lately. I finally re-watched Star Trek (2009) last night- wow, what a ride. What a franchise. I get the warmfuzzies just thinking about it. And even though ultimately I can't say it's one of my favorites, I keep coming back to True Grit. Probably because a little while ago I discovered a lovely WIP fic by lindentree called With No Lodestar In Sight and I keep wanting to refresh my experience of the film as new chapters come out. Also Netflix sent me Midnight in Paris, which is painfully adorable. Boy there were a lot of medium geniuses hanging out in Paris in the 1920s, huh? Dang.

Anyway, a shower needs to be had, a Grimm episode needs to be watched, I really can't get away from the passive voice today... Busy, busy, busy.

ETA: Grr, no Grimm episode. Fine, whatever.

Comments

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Best part about Midnight in Paris. The rest I was kind of let down by.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

That's too bad. I loved it when they went back in time even further.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Heh, the poor private detective running around in King Louis the whatever's court at the end was pretty funny. But I don't know, Woody Allen, if you're going to cast yourself a nebbishy self-insert, you're going to have to do better than Owen Wilson. And Inez came off as such a shrew.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Heh, that poor guy- hope he didn't get executed. I liked Owen Wilson, but yeah, Inez could've been a lot more subtly done.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Hee, maybe some other random time traveler picked him up and deposited him in the right time. I just don't get Allen's need to have his little avatars in some films; Match Point is solid, and he didn't bother with one. Inez's parents were even worse.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

I will believe this is so. Me neither, but Owen Wilson was cute. I think Inez' parents did what they had to do as secondary characters, but with Inez herself it was just like... wow, she couldn't respect Gil any less as an actual human being, could she? Whatever, I prefer to focus on Hemingway's monologues and the Fitzgeralds hanging around Cole Porter's piano.

P.S. Are you having an issue with your f-list? I keep having to refresh mine to see any posts made after Jan. 22nd at 7pm.

[fadeintodawn.livejournal.com]

Did you enjoy the movies? Or get to see sunlight? =P

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

I saw plenty of sunlight, on the drive over.

Anywho, The Artist was pretty great, cute and fun and so bizarrely meta pretty much throughout. Albert Nobbs was sad and uncomfortable in a good way, as expected.

[fadeintodawn.livejournal.com]

That doesn't count! =P

Yeah, I thought The Artist was just fun and refreshing. Glad to know that Albert Nobbs was also good!

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well.

Hey, when you were in the theater watching The Artist, did you feel really self-conscious whenever you had to, like, scratch an itch or adjust your sitting position or something? I sure did.