-- Just over 24 hours to use the coupon code SDFF2012 for 20% off your Sihaya Designs order!
-- MACARONS. I have discovered macarons, and I may be just the tiniest bit obsessed. I must taste ALL the flavors!
-- This just in: Joel Stein is a pretentious windbag. Memo to Mr. Stein: I read adult books. I read YA. I read fiction. I read non-fiction. I read literature. I read smut. I read wantonly. I read whatever I feel like reading. Please do fuck off.
-- So, I said I would write up my opinion of The Hunger Games, but then I got busy and that didn't happen. Overall, I liked it a lot! The things that they had to change for the adaptation to screen made total sense to me, and didn't take away from the story very much. Jennifer Lawrence was pretty great at conveying to the audience what was happening in Katniss's mind even though she didn't emote a whole lot, which was, of course, perfect for the character. The other standout to me was Josh Hutcherson as Peeta-- I will be the first to admit that I was a bit nervous about it, partially because he's, like, six inches shorter than J Law. But he was peeerrrrrfect, start to finish. Charismatic, funny, soulful. Woody was perfect. Lenny was perfect. Elizabeth was perfect. Stanley was perfect. Seneca Crane's beard was extra-perfect. It was kind of a perfect-palooza, and the reaping scene? Tears running down my face. The only casting I'm still not sold on is Liam Helmsworth as Gale. My reservations about the Seam's racial casting aside, he seems too jock-ish. Way too muscular. And frankly, way too low-key for a character that tends to have a powderkeg personality. Perhaps we'll see more of that in the movies to follow, but he was the only main character who wasn't quite right, imo.
I had very few criticisms of the film overall, my main one being ( Cut for spoilers.Collapse )
-- I've been watching Once Upon A Time with J. The show is hammy as all get out, but I have to say, I appreciate it for what it is. There are ladies on the show with positions of power, who talk to one another about things other than dudes. There are complicated relationships and friendships and all sorts of things that are woefully under-represented on tv. There's also some subversive stuff happening, which I really like-- I mean, nothing edgy or groundbreaking, but considering this is Disney we're talking about, I'm still pretty impressed. There's room for improvement, though-- there aren't nearly enough non-white people in Storybrooke, and quite frankly, I don't know if Disney's going to have a gay character on the show ever. But for right now? I'm enjoying the ride, and Robert Carlisle chewing all the scenery.
-- Tangentially related: Scottish accents are to women as beer goggles are to men. Discuss.
-- Been siiiiick. Typical spring cold, but the kind that makes it impossible to actually do the kind of work I do. Kind of hard to do detail work when my eyes are misted up and I'm dripping like a faucet. The upshot is that I got to spend most of yesterday on the couch with a book, which is a luxury I don't much get these days. Today I'm starting to feel mostly normal, despite a lingering swollen throat and constant sneezes. It's progress. I am probably going to get back to work after lunch.
-- Last weekend, I went down to DC to do some museum hopping. Saw the Slavery at Monticello exhibit in the American History museum, then hopped over to the Natural History museum for Written In Bone, the forensic special exhibit that uncovered how several early settlers to the Chesapeake region died. It was a really cool exhibit-- the first half was a modern forensics education, showing how we can tell sex, age, etc of skeletons, complete with several kinds of causes of death visible. The second half was several skeletons found in the Chesapeake during early settlement, and detailed how forensic anthropologists identified the skeletons that were often buried without markers. Very cool!
-- BPAL is making Labyrinth scents now! The first set were released last night, along with a Tanuki series. :)
-- MACARONS. I have discovered macarons, and I may be just the tiniest bit obsessed. I must taste ALL the flavors!
-- This just in: Joel Stein is a pretentious windbag. Memo to Mr. Stein: I read adult books. I read YA. I read fiction. I read non-fiction. I read literature. I read smut. I read wantonly. I read whatever I feel like reading. Please do fuck off.
-- So, I said I would write up my opinion of The Hunger Games, but then I got busy and that didn't happen. Overall, I liked it a lot! The things that they had to change for the adaptation to screen made total sense to me, and didn't take away from the story very much. Jennifer Lawrence was pretty great at conveying to the audience what was happening in Katniss's mind even though she didn't emote a whole lot, which was, of course, perfect for the character. The other standout to me was Josh Hutcherson as Peeta-- I will be the first to admit that I was a bit nervous about it, partially because he's, like, six inches shorter than J Law. But he was peeerrrrrfect, start to finish. Charismatic, funny, soulful. Woody was perfect. Lenny was perfect. Elizabeth was perfect. Stanley was perfect. Seneca Crane's beard was extra-perfect. It was kind of a perfect-palooza, and the reaping scene? Tears running down my face. The only casting I'm still not sold on is Liam Helmsworth as Gale. My reservations about the Seam's racial casting aside, he seems too jock-ish. Way too muscular. And frankly, way too low-key for a character that tends to have a powderkeg personality. Perhaps we'll see more of that in the movies to follow, but he was the only main character who wasn't quite right, imo.
I had very few criticisms of the film overall, my main one being ( Cut for spoilers.Collapse )
-- I've been watching Once Upon A Time with J. The show is hammy as all get out, but I have to say, I appreciate it for what it is. There are ladies on the show with positions of power, who talk to one another about things other than dudes. There are complicated relationships and friendships and all sorts of things that are woefully under-represented on tv. There's also some subversive stuff happening, which I really like-- I mean, nothing edgy or groundbreaking, but considering this is Disney we're talking about, I'm still pretty impressed. There's room for improvement, though-- there aren't nearly enough non-white people in Storybrooke, and quite frankly, I don't know if Disney's going to have a gay character on the show ever. But for right now? I'm enjoying the ride, and Robert Carlisle chewing all the scenery.
-- Tangentially related: Scottish accents are to women as beer goggles are to men. Discuss.
-- Been siiiiick. Typical spring cold, but the kind that makes it impossible to actually do the kind of work I do. Kind of hard to do detail work when my eyes are misted up and I'm dripping like a faucet. The upshot is that I got to spend most of yesterday on the couch with a book, which is a luxury I don't much get these days. Today I'm starting to feel mostly normal, despite a lingering swollen throat and constant sneezes. It's progress. I am probably going to get back to work after lunch.
-- Last weekend, I went down to DC to do some museum hopping. Saw the Slavery at Monticello exhibit in the American History museum, then hopped over to the Natural History museum for Written In Bone, the forensic special exhibit that uncovered how several early settlers to the Chesapeake region died. It was a really cool exhibit-- the first half was a modern forensics education, showing how we can tell sex, age, etc of skeletons, complete with several kinds of causes of death visible. The second half was several skeletons found in the Chesapeake during early settlement, and detailed how forensic anthropologists identified the skeletons that were often buried without markers. Very cool!
-- BPAL is making Labyrinth scents now! The first set were released last night, along with a Tanuki series. :)
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