The Girl is a DIVA!

This is for all the gays on my flist. I know there are many. XD

I was talking to a friend last night and we were discussing that "OH!" moment where you look back in your memory and realize that there was a point in time when you really just should have known. So I wanna know yours! I'll start off:

I was five and I was watching Ghostbusters. My great aunt had assured my parents it was okay for kids. Let's just say I didn't get to watch it again until I was like ten. But the part I remembered the most was Dana floating over the bed. I wanted her shirt to be lower cut. In fact, my memory until I was ten believed it WAS lower cut. In actuality, it's not that bad (see icon). But yeah...Sigourney Weaver was my first lady love at the ripe old age of five!

Now if someone can find Meryl's reaction to this, I will love you forever and ever. XD

Maternal she may be, but Winslet is also brimming with mischief. In person she gives off a kind of twinkle, a vague, flittery promise that around the next corner lurks the unexpected. When the waiter approaches and advises against the fish salad, she teases him: “You are really doing your job well today.” And last year at the Golden Globes, she recalls, when she met Meryl Streep, one of her role models, “I went up to her and said, ‘Omigod, I love you so much I would happily tongue-kiss you right now!’” Winslet later says, “Doing things on a whim, taking risks–oh, I definately have that side. It drives Sam mad sometimes.

WIN!

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This section is quite spoilery. So if you intend on watching the mini-series, I'm thinking looking at this post would be a bad idea.





( Alice: Part 1.5 )

Went to my parents' house.

I love my pain in the ass kitty.

I will probably most definitely be seeing this at the end of January with one of my best, best friends. CANNOT CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT.
I'm not reading reviews until I see it.

HOW COME I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT SIDE BY SIDE BY SUSAN BLACKWELL 'TIL JUST NOW?????? (Yay for Sondheim reference!) She'll be interviewing 3 Broadway people every ep and Monday's premiere includes Sutton Foster, Laura Benanti, and Jonathan Groff.


Below is "The [title of show] show Susan-Tastic Clip Reel". I just now watched this and it was like heaven with monkeys and playbills surrounding me everywhere! With mentions of zombies and ninjas, HOW DOES ONE RESIST? You don't, so WATCH IT. Please?



Oh, Susan Blackwell. <3333

Things your parents should tell you before you agree to spending two days at their house:

1) They haven't gone grocery shopping in ages so there is next to nothing to eat.
2) Your childhood bedroom is being used as a storage facility so there's nowhere to sleep.
3) The heat randomly likes to decide not to work.

In other news: I found a Girls Gone Wild video in my brother's room. Good times. I wonder if my parents know about it. It's sitting on top of his bookshelf, just in amongst the other DVDs like there is nothing wrong with it. XD

Title: This Inelegant Dance
Fandom: Devil Wears Prada
Pairing: Miranda/Andy
Rating: PG
Summary: You knew she’d follow you. Once people are under your spell, they are under it for life. It pleases and terrifies you that even she is, she who walked away from it all, from you.
Disclaimer: Don't own them
A/N: I've been experimenting with second person fics lately. It was only a matter of time before Mirandy fell victim XD In this case, Miranda is 'you'

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I posted this last night, but since I had the post saved as private initially, LJ apparently has a kink in its system where even when I changed it to public, it didn't go through. I just assumed people had lives unlike myself - thus, no comments. But I went on a friend page or 2 of yours and my post wasn't anywhere to be found. SO LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN! :)




( Alice: Part 1 )

Let me know if you'd like to see anything in particular regarding the other posts. And if anyone wants any moments made into gifs - leave a request. I enjoy making them!

Part 2 should be up Sunday night. Got a hang of things now, main characters are introduced - shouldn't take as long or BE as long. I promise. :)

I find it interesting that so many movies feel the need to ‘respond’ to High Noon. Well, maybe interesting is the wrong word- more like baffling. I read about the attacks when it came out, calling the hero unmanly for showing fear and appearing to almost cry, and my reaction is a stunned cry of "But it’s High Noon! How can anyone hate High Noon?"

Apparently, some people did- or even if they liked it, felt the need to make a movie showing what should have happened. Rio Bravo and High Plains Drifter are both in some ways responses to the movie, though the responses are not quite the same. Rio Bravo is the response of a swaggering father saying "Son, you should be ashamed of yourself- you don’t need to rely on the townsfolk! And don’t show no fear, neither!" High Plains Drifter is the response of a troubled younger brother going "No man, what you oughtta do is go back there and kill every last one of those ungrateful sons of bitches!"

Funnily enough, I love all three of these movies. Rio Bravo is a delightful ensemble adventure, and the romance between John Wayne and Angie Dickinson is appealing (even if it is cribbed almost line for line from the director’s earlier movie To Have and Have Not.) High Plains Drifter is a banquet of the bizarre, an epic, nihilistic horror movie masquerading as a western. I don’t even mind the rape scene- it certainly isn’t the most evil thing Clint Eastwood does over the course of the movie, which acknowledges that all those mysterious men with no names are scary for a damn good reason.

In the middle sits little old High Noon, an allegory for the Red Scare or Korea or urbanization or whatever us modern viewers like to attribute to it. It would be irritated by Rio Bravo’s response and horrified by High Plains Drifter, and would generally try to stay out of the conversation.

Why is it this movie provokes such strong reactions? There are many controversial movies and many ideas to be rebelled against, but why does the simple story of a man abandoned who sticks to his principles simply because it’s something he has to do (while being broken up inside that no one else seems to see it that way) upset people?

I don’t know. All I know is, while John Wayne looks on disgusted and Clint Eastwood paints the town red, tired and scared old Gary Cooper must stand by himself.

For High Noon, it’s a rather fitting position.

Haha whoot retweet:

smartyshortie Ok Meryl Streep makes the best facial expressions. But Julie Andrews is a close second. And I think Anne gets third. XD 2:15 AM Dec 11th from web Retweeted by MariaVonPoppins

Miranda Priestly. If she ever actually thought me worthy enough to get her advice, I think most of my problems would solve themselves.

However, I think I can gather from her what to do: Lift your head high, look the world in the eye, walk with a purpose, and never ever forget, you can be better than the lot of them XD

SHIT IS GOING DOWN IN THE DOLLHOUSE!!!! Enjoyed both hours, but obviously the second hour was superior. DAMN. And of course, I loved the reference to Sondheim's A Little Night Music. Which was great timing considering the revival just premiered. :)

Which brings me to this preview of the show that Broadway World put up today. It's so sad to watch Angela Lansbury having to speak-sing 3/4 of that song. But she still fucking PWNED it. Can't embed that full video - that's why the link's there - but I recommend you watch it as it includes 2 songs not in the videos below. If you enjoy Sweeney Todd's "A Little Priest", the song that starts the video linked above is typical Sondheim wit/humor. One of my favorites. Just forgive Catherine Zeta-Jones' delivery... it's a bit odd at times.


It cracks me up that Zeta-Jones lacks an accent until the little girl says her line. lol

And here's the song referenced in tonight's Dollhouse.



This is not an easy song to perform contrary to one might believe from hearing it. There's so much to it. Dame Judi Dench still holds a special place in my heart for her performance. I don't think that song could get any more raw than that. I cry every time. (Just watched it for what was probably 20th time. Cried again.)

Anyway. Catherine's approach is different but I like it just fine. :) Brava, Catherine.


p.s. Almost done with part 1 of the Alice post!!

This is fake. But it's still fucking hilarious. Reminds me of Miranda Sings, sans the ridiculous faces. XD




So. I ended up re-doing half of my captures for this Alice picspam. See what ha' happened was, I accidentally put the same layer affect on an already edited capture and, well, it looked even better. I tried this out on a few other captures because I was curious. Needless to say, the caps look great when the effect is applied twice. Like, REALLY GREAT. I already edited them all, didn't take too long, but on that note...

With Dollhouse on tonight, not too sure I'll get this first post up tonight like I was intending on doing. We'll see! The post is coming along nicely, though I found it's still lengthy just because of the captures alone. But getting rid of my explaining scenes in detail did help.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

"My fine is....$235.60"

Just read the "offenses" and if you've done it, you owe that fine. Keep going until you've read each "offense" and added up your total fine.

When you are done post this as "My fine is $........"

You don't have to confess your answers, just the amount of your fine.

Offenses:
Smoked pot -- $10
Did acid -- $5
Ever had sex at church -- $25
Woke up in the morning and did not know the person who was next to you -- $40
Had sex with someone on MySpace -- $25
Had sex for money -- $100
Ever had sex with a Puerto Rican -- $20
Vandalized something -- $20
Had sex on your parents' bed -- $10
Beat up someone -- $20
Been jumped -- $10
Cross dressed -- $10
Given money to stripper -- $25
Been in love with a stripper -- $20
Kissed someone who's name you didn't know -- $0.10
Hit on some one of the same sex while at work -- $15
Ever drive and drank -- $20
Ever got drunk at work, or went to work while still drunk -- $50
Used toys while having sex -- $30
Got drunk, passed out and don't remember the night before -- $20
Went skinny dipping -- $5
Had sex in a pool -- $20
Kissed someone of the same sex -- $10
Had sex with someone of the same sex -- $20
Cheated on your significant other -- $10
Masturbated -- $10
Cheated on your significant other with their relative or close friend -- $20
Done oral -- $5
Got oral -- $5
Done / got oral in a car while it was moving -- $25
Stole something -- $10
Had sex with someone in jail -- $25
Made a nasty home video -- $15
Had a threesome -- $50
Had sex in the wild -- $20
Been in the same room while someone was having sex --$25
Stole something worth over more than a hundred dollars-- $20
Had sex with someone 10 years older -- $20
Had sex with someone under 21 and you are over 27 --$25
Been in love with two people or more at the same time-- $50
Said you love someone but didn't mean it -- $25
Went streaking -- $5
Went streaking in broad daylight -- $15
Been arrested -- $5
Spent time in jail -- $15
Peed in the pool -- $0.50
Played spin the bottle -- $5
Done something you regret -- $20
Had sex with your best friend -- $20
Had sex with someone you work with at work -- $25
Had anal sex -- $80
Lied to your mate -- $5
Lied to your mate about the sex being good -- $25

Tally it up and Title it..."My Fine Is..." copy and paste, then repost it in your journal too.

-_- I'm a loser

I hate Latin. I hate it so much. I wish it would just freakin' DIE.

Wait...

Alice picspam is coming together nicely. But I've decided that I'm going to change it up a bit. Instead of explaining what is going on, I'm simply going to comment on everything in a fangirl-y fashion. :) It's definitely gonna make it more fun for you all and for myself - and it'll be a lot easier for me, too, I think. But of course, I apologize ahead of time for sounding like an idiot. Of that I'm sure.



Collected a lot of music earlier today. Building up my Jeff Buckley collection which I never really got started on before I had lost all my music. Snagged some Lennon, too, which I never had. Same goes for The Jesus & Mary Chain. I came across a huge post of great music, but it only covered a bit of the alphabet, so I will most likely go looking for the other posts. Really looking forward to it - I'm practically salivating. But I'll hold off on that because I really want to finish up this first Alice post.

I just got this email from Amazon:

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Thank you, Amazon. *wanders off to find something to purchase with my penny*

The attempted suicides of Edward Cullen:

"Edward, get down from there! We need the sheets to make the bed!"

"Edward why do you have my hair dryer in the bathtub? With the toaster? And the....microwave?"
(Later that day, Carlisle walked in on Emmett and Jasper in the bathtub as the took turns touching the microwave. In the end, they'd also made 50 s'mores.)

"Edward...that's a butter knife..."

"Edward, turn the car off. You're wasting gas."

"Edward, turn the oven off...and get your head out of there."

He sat outside for four days, hoping that if he was in the sun long enough, the glitter would switch to bursting into flames. He lay in the bathtub for three until he was kindly reminded that vampires did not need to breathe in the first place.

Edward later realizes that he does not actually want to be married to Bella. As they cannot sleep, there is also no chance to just lie in bed and be angry at each other. He has to deal with her all day...every day.