Moving Pictures List 2008

Old Movies (16)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? :)
Rush Hour :)
Bruce Almighty :(
Darby O'Gill and the Little People :)
Luther :(
Thank You for Smoking :)
Soultaker (MST3K version) alone - :/ MST3K - :)
Grindhouse: Planet Terror :)
Grindhouse: Death Proof :(
Eragon :(
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly :)
Teeth :)
Persepolis :)
Much Ado About Nothing :)
Little Children :)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) :)

New Movies (14)
No Country for Old Men :)
Iron Man :)
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian :(
The Incredible Hulk :)
The Dark Night :)
Mamma Mia! :/
Wall-E :)
Brick Lane :)
When Did You Last See Your Father? :)
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson :)
An American Carol :(
Zack and Miri Make a Porno :)
Twilight :)
Slumdog Millionaire :)

RiffTrax (4)
Spider-Man 3 :/
Saw :/
Eragon :)
Jurassic Park :/

TV Shows/Seasons in total (5)
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya :)
Ouran Host Club :)
R.O.D. the TV :/
Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito :(
Hellsing :/

TV Shows/Seasons Finished (4)
Otome wa Boku Ni Koishiteru :)
Gunslinger Girl :/
Kimagure Orange Road :(
Lucky Star :)

Internet on the 16th, I hope. I can go back to being loquacious ...

- Learned that Normie is still alive ... Liz Osborn apparently divorced Harry and took the son with her. What's this world coming to? Anyway, I don't feel like doing the fanfic now. I'm sorry, guys. :-( That was my big driving point, and part of the fun of fanfic is trying to fix things within the "rules" but by now it's kind of like playing that game in A Separate Peace.

Dan Slott looks like he's making lemons into tasty lemonade. Lots of people want to drink but ... eh, I'm still annoyed. I feel like Annie Wilkes being unable to get over Rocketman. (Except I don't have an urge to chop Joe Quesada's foot off. No, really. I don't. I don't lack that much perspective.)

- Also got an idea for LoEG in anime times ... Eva can be demi-Lovecraft Gods wrapped up in armor and that's why Shinji and Asuka are crazy. Lupin III and Cutey Honey can pursue Allan and Mina. Eastasia was Japan lying, saying they won the war and they send the kids on an island to kill each other. The world looks like Tokyo-3 and everyone has a persocom. Also jokes about why the country can't manage to kill a giant lizard.

But then it kind of felt like too much work ... and kind of corny. And I can ape anarchist themes but I don't think I can really turn the medium on its head the way it deserves to be turned. Oh well.

- Why do I want to ape anarchist themes, anyway? I'm not much of an anarchist. I don't really think I have much of a unique worldview. Other than, like, the world has internal rot. But not in this Don DeLillo sense where evil suburban commercialism has sucked the life out of us. Just because your neighbor might attack your kid doesn't mean the fun birthday party you shared with your other neighbor doesn't have any meaning ... if you catch my drift.

- This last weekend was my own personal Shakespeare weekend. I watched my four-hour Ken Branagh Hamlet, and then the commentary, and then the documentaries, and then the previews (Olivier's Othello make-up makes him look puke green or purple ... not very black), and then I read about half of King Lear. It made me a little crazy, I think. But I'm having fun.

- Dad bought the dogs over to visit. It wasn't as disastrous as I expected.

- Dear Romance Novel Community: The Smart Bitches and Nora Roberts' hardball line on plagiarism has made me respect the romance novel community far more than this bleating about being nice does. That Mrs. Giggles is saying this really makes me boggle.

- I HAVE ONLY 40 UNREAD BOOKS! YAY! YAY! YAY! :D :D :D

- Oh, I like ... have a pet now. He's a fish named Reggie and since he's a beta he hates me. But I haven't managed to kill him yet, so that's a good sign. This was all my Dad's idea; since we as humans eat fish (I actually ate fish TODAY) keeping others as pets shows a sign of outright lunacy as a species. But oh well.