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Adventure brewing
Jan. 13th, 2011 08:11 amGuess who's going to Utah next week. Guess why she's going to Utah.
( Three guesses, and your first two guesses don't count. )
( Three guesses, and your first two guesses don't count. )
The Christmas Cottage - now a tradition
Dec. 15th, 2010 07:02 pmLast night Geo and I watched The Christmas Cottage. I gotta say, that movie is becoming a holiday favorite. Just a nice, quiet, heartwarming movie. Not overwrought or sappy, but a warm, fuzzy feeling that leaves me saying, "Ah, that's a nice little movie."
The characters are likable and real, and their problems are real.
And there is always a scene that makes me cry. Sometimes more than one scene. But it's not always the same scene. (Well, one scene always does, but the others vary.)
Jared is just delightful in the movie, and I love hearing him narrate as well. Geo made the comment that it's very strange to connect the young man in the movie with the young man who beheads vampires on SPN. Jared's Tom Kinkade made me realize that I really rather miss Sammy, while at the same time impressing upon me how well Jared has been playing Soulless Sam as a shallow, singleminded, empathy-less character.
Also, Jared has beautiful eyes and a beautiful smile. It was nice to see them again in this movie.
In short, if you haven't seen this movie yet, I highly recommend a rental of it before the season is over. Pop some popcorn, put a fire in the fireplace, turn on your tree lights, take the phone off the hook, and just enjoy. And keep a tissue or two handy, just in case.
The characters are likable and real, and their problems are real.
And there is always a scene that makes me cry. Sometimes more than one scene. But it's not always the same scene. (Well, one scene always does, but the others vary.)
Jared is just delightful in the movie, and I love hearing him narrate as well. Geo made the comment that it's very strange to connect the young man in the movie with the young man who beheads vampires on SPN. Jared's Tom Kinkade made me realize that I really rather miss Sammy, while at the same time impressing upon me how well Jared has been playing Soulless Sam as a shallow, singleminded, empathy-less character.
Also, Jared has beautiful eyes and a beautiful smile. It was nice to see them again in this movie.
In short, if you haven't seen this movie yet, I highly recommend a rental of it before the season is over. Pop some popcorn, put a fire in the fireplace, turn on your tree lights, take the phone off the hook, and just enjoy. And keep a tissue or two handy, just in case.
The day after, and still stuffed . . .
Nov. 26th, 2010 07:13 pmThanksgiving was both relaxing and hectic yesterday.
My first sweet potato pie (photo taken with my new camera):
( Parades, food, family, movie )
( Black Friday )
( Adding an additional bright to the day )
( Plus bonus landscape photo )
My first sweet potato pie (photo taken with my new camera):
( Parades, food, family, movie )
( Black Friday )
( Adding an additional bright to the day )
( Plus bonus landscape photo )
Disappearing for a short while
Oct. 22nd, 2010 02:35 pmI'm working tonight. We're showing The Goonies as an outdoor movie in our parking lot. As a result, I probably won't even get home until 10:00pm, which means no SPN live for me tonight. Which means no surfing the f-list until I've seen the ep. Not that you'll miss me, but just so ya know. :-)
But I do come bearing gifts. Specifically, a vid documentary thingy about the Tron video game.
( Behind the cut )
But I do come bearing gifts. Specifically, a vid documentary thingy about the Tron video game.
( Behind the cut )
The weekend in review
Oct. 18th, 2010 11:17 amOctober seems to be getting away from me. I haven't yet gotten out my harvest spice candle that I always burn this time of year. We haven't bought our pumpkins yet. I've only made two pies, and one batch of pumpkin bread (and that was from a mix), and no Halloween cookies yet. It's been uncommonly warm (to this Mid-Westerner) for this time of year. And I have no idea what I'm going to wear to the Halloween party next week.
( Friday, Skyline Drive )
( The Frighteners )
( Sunday, donor reception )
( Friday, Skyline Drive )
( The Frighteners )
( Sunday, donor reception )
Alas and alack
Oct. 16th, 2010 05:40 pmI've often thought that perhaps I should read at least the first Twilight book, if for no other reason that to be able to tell my young relatives with authority not to buy into that depiction of vampires because it's just wrong. (I have already made it clear that vampires do not, never have, and never will sparkle.) But I've never found the inclination to actually follow through.
Well, the other day I read that Lee Pace (of Pushing Daisies and The Fall) will be joining the Twilight film saga. Thank goodness it's not Jensen. Then I'd actually have to watch it. As it is, the fact that Lee Pace will be joining the cast gives it a little bit more legitimacy than I credit it with.
All this to say that next week's SPN . . . EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, the other day I read that Lee Pace (of Pushing Daisies and The Fall) will be joining the Twilight film saga. Thank goodness it's not Jensen. Then I'd actually have to watch it. As it is, the fact that Lee Pace will be joining the cast gives it a little bit more legitimacy than I credit it with.
All this to say that next week's SPN . . . EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I need to pull out our disc of The Lost Boys. For those of you who haven't seen it, and are SPN fans, you totally should. It's almost eerie how much they have in common.
( SPN circa 1987 )
( SPN circa 1987 )
Despicable Me
Aug. 10th, 2010 10:52 am"It's so fluffy I'm going to die!"
Also? I want minions.*
*Of course, this is nothing new. I've wanted minions for a long time. Even had someone volunteer to be a minion once. But that was long ago. Alas.
Also? I want minions.*
*Of course, this is nothing new. I've wanted minions for a long time. Even had someone volunteer to be a minion once. But that was long ago. Alas.
. . . to download something before its official release.
Which is silly, because if Jensen were not involved in the project, it wouldn't even be on my radar.
As it is? All the great reviews that Batman: Under the Red Hood is getting is making me very anxious to see this movie. Seriously. Cannot wait.
( A brief, self-indulgent retrospective )
Which is silly, because if Jensen were not involved in the project, it wouldn't even be on my radar.
As it is? All the great reviews that Batman: Under the Red Hood is getting is making me very anxious to see this movie. Seriously. Cannot wait.
( A brief, self-indulgent retrospective )
Good movies make for a good weekend
Jul. 11th, 2010 07:47 pmFinally saw The Blind Side this weekend. Excellent movie. I highly recommend. A great movie about family and love extending beyond blood and beyond expectations. If anyone has seen it and wants to chat, let me know.
( The Blind Side )
( The Sea Hawk )
( Toy Story 3 )
( The Blind Side )
( The Sea Hawk )
( Toy Story 3 )
A couple of reviews
May. 31st, 2010 12:52 pmTaking a few minutes while the potatoes are cooking for the potato salad to write a couple of reviews. Warning: Spoilers aplenty.
( SPN tie-in novel, 'The Unholy Cause' )
( The Hurt Locker. MAJOR spoilers herein )
Guests have started arriving. Will be back later with a report on the homemade ice cream. Yummy!
( SPN tie-in novel, 'The Unholy Cause' )
( The Hurt Locker. MAJOR spoilers herein )
Guests have started arriving. Will be back later with a report on the homemade ice cream. Yummy!
Evil Dead and meds will knock you out
May. 19th, 2010 07:05 pmNo, not together.
( Watched the original Evil Dead for the first time last night. )
( I had every intention of going to zumba tonight )
And finally, for those who haven't seen it yet, via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
spn_glee:
Jensen and Danneel at large in the Big Apple.
Alternate link from YouTube
( Watched the original Evil Dead for the first time last night. )
( I had every intention of going to zumba tonight )
And finally, for those who haven't seen it yet, via
spn_glee:Jensen and Danneel at large in the Big Apple.
Alternate link from YouTube
Review: Identity
Mar. 7th, 2010 05:24 pmAs I was going up the stairs,
I saw a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd go away.
So goes the refrain in Identity, a nifty little horror/thriller that kind of flew under the radar in our household. It was released in 2003, and though I thought it sounded interesting at the time, Geo had no interest in seeing it. Then we saw the trailer on Geo's new DVD of Let the Right One In (I think) and he thought it looked really interesting and with a really good cast.
A group of strangers, connected by the most coincidental and tenuous threads, find themselves stranded together in a remote motel (definitely inspired by the Bates Motel) during a torrential downpour. One such pair of people is a cop (Ray Liotta) transporting a serial murderer (Jake Busey) to trial. When the cop and convict arrive, people start dying, and their bodies disappear. John Cusak is the level-headed hired driver (driving a prima donna actress, Rebecca DeMornay, to . . . somewhere . . .) who tries to keep everyone calm and solve the killings.
Other faces you might recognize are Clea DuVall (from Ten Inch Hero), Leila Kenzle (Fran from Mad About You), and Alfred Molina (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Maverick, and a bunch of other stuff).
All in all, if you're looking for something creepy and atmospheric, but that keeps gore and language to a minimum, and has the best use of creepy shudder-inducing poetry* I've heard in a long time, pop yourself a bowl of popcorn and curl up with Identity.
*Seriously. It's the creepiest poem I've heard in a long time. I told Geo it reminded me of a really creepy, dark version of Shel Silverstein.
The actual text by Hughes Mearns, from what I can find without going to the library, goes like this:
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away...
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door... (slam!)
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away
Seriously. Is that not the creepiest thing you've read in ages?
I saw a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd go away.
So goes the refrain in Identity, a nifty little horror/thriller that kind of flew under the radar in our household. It was released in 2003, and though I thought it sounded interesting at the time, Geo had no interest in seeing it. Then we saw the trailer on Geo's new DVD of Let the Right One In (I think) and he thought it looked really interesting and with a really good cast.
A group of strangers, connected by the most coincidental and tenuous threads, find themselves stranded together in a remote motel (definitely inspired by the Bates Motel) during a torrential downpour. One such pair of people is a cop (Ray Liotta) transporting a serial murderer (Jake Busey) to trial. When the cop and convict arrive, people start dying, and their bodies disappear. John Cusak is the level-headed hired driver (driving a prima donna actress, Rebecca DeMornay, to . . . somewhere . . .) who tries to keep everyone calm and solve the killings.
Other faces you might recognize are Clea DuVall (from Ten Inch Hero), Leila Kenzle (Fran from Mad About You), and Alfred Molina (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Maverick, and a bunch of other stuff).
All in all, if you're looking for something creepy and atmospheric, but that keeps gore and language to a minimum, and has the best use of creepy shudder-inducing poetry* I've heard in a long time, pop yourself a bowl of popcorn and curl up with Identity.
*Seriously. It's the creepiest poem I've heard in a long time. I told Geo it reminded me of a really creepy, dark version of Shel Silverstein.
The actual text by Hughes Mearns, from what I can find without going to the library, goes like this:
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away...
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door... (slam!)
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away
Seriously. Is that not the creepiest thing you've read in ages?
What I'm reading . . .
Jan. 21st, 2010 02:21 pmI'm in the process of reading Logan's Run. How very, very different from the movie. It's the same basic premise, some of the same characters and scenes, but so very, very different. And I can't say that I like one over the other.
( Beware the Spoilers beyond this point. )
( Beware the Spoilers beyond this point. )
Logan's Run
Dec. 30th, 2009 11:07 pmOne of the movies Geo requested for Christmas was Logan's Run. And since it's been kinda on my brain for a few months (I won't get into why), I obliged. We watched it tonight.
( Crystals, Carousel, and renewal )
( Crystals, Carousel, and renewal )
Twinkle, twinkle
Dec. 12th, 2009 08:59 pmWell, the tree is up and the lights are on. The star is burnt out, so tomorrow after church we'll stop and get new bulbs, and we'll finish decorating tomorrow afternoon.
Right now, Geo is making butter cake for Lamingtons for his office party on Wednesday. I've got the ingredients lined up to make buckeyes, but I won't get to them until tomorrow at the earliest, which means I probably won't have a batch done until Tuesday or Wednesday.
Geo and I watched The Christmas Cottage last night. I still really like it. It made me cry in several places this year. I've had bouts of melancholy this season, but I can't really talk to anyone about it.
Time to go change the laundry.
Right now, Geo is making butter cake for Lamingtons for his office party on Wednesday. I've got the ingredients lined up to make buckeyes, but I won't get to them until tomorrow at the earliest, which means I probably won't have a batch done until Tuesday or Wednesday.
Geo and I watched The Christmas Cottage last night. I still really like it. It made me cry in several places this year. I've had bouts of melancholy this season, but I can't really talk to anyone about it.
Time to go change the laundry.
