time and relative dimension in space

Goodreads sent out the link to their Year in Review today and, man, looking at that image grid is just a reminder that I read a lot of trash this year. Not to get judgmental at myself. But that's a lot of trash. Fun trash! Trash I enjoyed! (Mostly.) But trash reading. It's like. Comic book, Doctor Who book, Scholastic book aimed at ten-year-olds from the 90s, repeat. With the rare bit of nonfiction or actual literature thrown in to mix it up.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I also wanted to post to promote two new media releases that I am currently obsessing over: Taylor Swift's album Evermore and the Cartoon Saloon movie Wolfwalkers.

Evermore probably doesn't actually need me to promote it as it's getting plenty of promotion and buzz, but I'm wildly in love with it; it's like a short story anthology in music form. Particular song highlights for me are champagne problems (she would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head), tis the damn season, tolerate it, no body no crime, cowboy like me, and closure.

Wolfwalkers, on the other hand, is the newest film from the same little indie Irish studio that produced some of my other favorite animated films The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and The Breadwinner; I've been looking forward to it since the concept trailer was released back in 2015, and it does not disappoint. It's about a young English girl who moves to Ireland with her father in 1650 to hunt wolves and discovers the truth about the local myths of 'wolfwalkers' - shapeshifters who are humans by day and wolves by night - when she befriends a local girl. It's utterly gorgeous (like all of their projects) with a fantastic story and incredible characters. It's available through Apple TV and select theatres.

How's everybody doing??

While I'm waiting for BBCA to air the Doctor Who finale (don't leave me Peter)...

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Individual thoughts:

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Slightly late to the group but I FINALLY SAW THE NEW STAR WARS TODAY.

Warning: spoilers for The Force Awakens under the cut.

( NEW STAR WARS )

I NEED TO SEE IT AGAIN.

(Has anyone been making LJ icons for TFA?)

And then today I went out and saw Into The Woods.

( spoiler-laden rambling )

Well, we finally made it back to North Carolina. YAY. (In the list of things Chica never thought she'd say ... ;) )

And then I (finally) watched The Doctor, The Widow, And The Wardrobe! ( Doctor Who spoilery thoughts )

...and then I showed my mom The Secret Of Kells and her reaction was "meh" and my reaction was "HOW ARE WE RELATED" :|

Currently watching A Muppets Christmas: Letters To Santa on TV. I'd forgotten how wrong Scooter sounds in this one. THAT'S NOT WHAT SCOOTER SOUNDS LIKE :/ *takes her Muppets seriously* Also, Janice. Janice also sounds wrong wrong wrong in this one.

... this really is, if not the weakest Muppets offering, one of the weakest ones. And definitely the weakest Muppets Christmas offering. But it's still the Muppets, so, whatever.

Hey, tomorrow starts December, so I am TOTALLY ALLOWED to watch Christmas movies. Sometime in the near future I'm putting on Muppets' Christmas Carol which is my favorite Christmas movie ever and then you're all going to have to put up with my MCC spam.

This is one of the prettiest movies I've seen in a while. So obviously I had to picspam it. Obviously.

Below the cut: not remotely dial-up friendly evidence of my cinematic crushes on Ondine's director, lighting designer, costumer, and location scout.

( it depends on me, you can stay forever. happily ever after. once upon a time. )

We went out and saw Despicable Me at the cheapo illegal theater today, and omg it was adorable. ♥ I want a Minion of my very own.

Someone get on that for me, pls.

Possibly I am currently trying to get good screencaps of Malice In Wonderland so I can make decent graphics.

Possibly this is being made very difficult by all the ~moody lighting~ in this movie. Moody lighting is great for setting a mood, yes, but it's awful for graphic-making. Why do you not keep icon makers in mind when you're lighting movies, cinematographers? You fail.

Stupid moody lighting.



We've lost power twice so far today. Bets on how many more times?



...Happy Father's Day.

Today I watched 'Pirate Radio' (proper title: 'The Boat That Rocked', but 'Pirate Radio' is what it's called here okay?) for the first time. (LOOK, I don't see movies when they first come out. It just doesn't happen.) Anyway, I enjoyed it. It was a good watch.

In unrelated news, what's the RENT fandom's opinion on David Driver as Roger? Is it that he's terrible? Tell me that everyone agrees he's terrible!


Day 29 ♥ Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days

- Get a job. (I know I whine about this a lot, but it is seriously fairly important.)
- Spend more time in Boston. (This is always one of my goals.)
- WRITE. Finish something of length. 2010 NaNo is included in this.
- Be a better person.
- - Subgoal: Be a better friend.


...annnnd, that's the end of that meme, I guess.

...I might do the TV 30-day meme next. I haven't decided. Don't hold me to that.