6 posts tagged “buffy”
Today is an inspired entry, 20 things that are good, just to remind myself that not everything sucks. So here I go in no special order.
1. Kitties. They are always good. I think mine are better than yours but kittycat people around the world should gather for the biggest cuddlefest in the known universe.
2. Angel: After the Fall. I like it much better than Season 4 Angel and almost as much as Season 5. It maintains the characterization from the TV show while pushing the limits of the Buffy/Angel-verses. I have to say that it's much better than the Buffy comics which just went places because they no longer had to deal with the limitations of the known budget and believability. 50 ft. Dawn and Lesbian Buffy, my ass.
3. BOOKS. Where do I start. I feel like my time on earth screws with my ability to read as much as I possibly could. There are too many good books. So hard to imagine a world without them. I think they are so much better than food and air. Books are true necessities.
4. Awake is the New Sleep by Ben Lee. I love this CD. I could listen to it on repeat for hours or not listen to it for a month and it always gives me the same warm and tinglies no matter what. I just don't get how Ben Lee can be so amazing and still be a mere mortal.
5. Lentil Loaf or Rice Loaf. The one thing I really miss about not eating meat is meatloaf. Lentil/rice loaf is a pretty good substitute. I wish I had it more often.
6. Diet Snapple. I'm a big fan of the Peach, Lemon and Raspberry and haven't tried the Plumagranite. Is that what it's called. Now I embarrassed myself not knowing the name of it.
7. The Gap. I am a Gap girl. I love it. I wish that the workers weren't such nazis but I can handle my own, sort of. Fall. Into. The. Gap.
8. Tide pools/Sea stars. I could spend all day at the ocean looking for sea life at the tide pools. There are days when I count how many sea stars we can find... the most was 14. I wish I could find the picture Aaron took with me and the giant sea star in Carpinteria.
9. 300. I don't know exactly what I love about this movie but I do, sincerely, love something about it. I know the humor is a bit stick to your ribs but it makes me giggle everytime. Gerard Butler is fantastic and it has Michael Fassbender in it and I think there is something about him. I loved him in Hex too.
11. Raspberries. I like to eat them out of the container, with little to no ceremony. An entire 6 oz plastic tray is barely enough for me. I also get raspberry iced teas from Iso: Fusion Cafe and it is made from syrup of raspberries. Mmmmmm.
13. Spoons. No one could have too many. Spoons are glorious. The only things that compete with them are straws. Spoons rock.
15. Barnes and Noble/Borders/Amazon. This sort of leads us back into number 3, but these are places not things. These three places are akin to Mecca. I just wish that they were more giving with their pricing of things. I guess they try with all the coupons and discounts, but books shouldn't be so expensive. Don't anyone bring up libraries... it's like prostitution for books. I like them being mine and mine alone.
18. Fountains and waterfalls. Maybe it's just water or could be the facade of happy waters. I do like rivers and oceans too. I am constantly taking pictures of water. Just today I took a pair of photos for my assignment from Dr. Moore, of a fountain.< Worst construction of a sentence commited in a long, long, long time.
19. Root beer. I know it is points damning but I love knee high bottles of Route 66, Sioux City, Boylan's, etc... I love Galco and I could spend hundreds of dollars there in no time.
20. Volvo commercial with the terribly adorable chatterbox little girl. I love her to death. If I were guaranteed to to have one just like her, I might explore other options.
Speaking about movies David and I are watching Can't Hardly Wait and it is such a six degrees of separation film. Lauren Ambrose gets licked by Eric Balfour who plays her boyfriend in Six Feet Under. Seth Green hits on Paige Moss who plays Veruca in Buffy. Also Amber Benson is in one of the kitchen scene intrigued by a banana. Of course those two are connected via Willow in Buffy. One of the guys that hits on Amanda after her big confrontation with Mike is Owen from Never Kill a Boy on the First Date from Buffy Season 1. And then there is Ethan Embry, I can't connect him with anyone else but he is in Empire Records which I love. And while I'm mentioning connections and nonconnections, I must mention Mike Dexter, aka Peter Facinelli, the man who plays Carlisle Cullen. This movie is awesome. Oh! and I just noticed Jason Segel too.
Speaking of celebrities, I had a badger moment at Mann Chinese 6 in Hollywood. David saw Robert LaSardo a little over a week ago in Santa Monica and today he was in Hollywood. He's smaller than he looks on TV. His tattoos are really dark and he is just covered all over his torso and arms. He's a bit menacing but so small that it takes away the edge. I was very happy to see someone. I rarely do. Woohoo for a Nip/Tuck spotting though.
Today has been a good day. I plan to read more in Sebastian after the movie. I might try to get some emails done. Just try to keep today mellow.
Chelsea T. and Thayne. I voted the most for Matt and Kourtni and they were the first couple in the bottom three. And I feel bad because they keep telling Matt that he has no personality. I think he's conservative but I don't really think he's boring. I like him more than Chris and Gev. So week one is done and Jamie and Rayven found themselves going home. I wasn't too surprised with Jamie but I thought Jessica should have been cut before Rayven. I just can't stand her face and her dancing bores me, when it's not stunning me with it's badness. Let's hope for next week that she will go home. I want her to go home more than I want Susie to go home and I think Susie is some lame gimmick. So in short... YAY that Kourtni and Matt stayed, Twitch Rules, Jessica is heinous and Katee can dance even if I don't respect her after auditions.
Tomorrow is movie day and I'm going to see a double feature of sorts... The Happening, because M. Night is going down hill but I don't ever learn from my mistakes and The Hulk, for some Edward Norton love. I'm hoping that in going to see The Happening first I will get the bad out of the way and then mend my fences with my sense of movie pride by seeing Ed second. I hope that the CGI effects in The Hulk aren't so ridiculous that it ruins the movie for me. I already am holding a 15' Hulk against them. I don't think he grows a whole other man in height bigger. These superhero comic book movies need to hold a bit more with the comics in my mind. Just because it can be done doesn't mean that it should be done. Both the movies have a good female lead. The Happening has Zooey Deschanel and The Hulk of course has Liv Tyler. I like them both and I hope that they live up to their past performances. It's been a while since I came home from a movie with a girl crush... maybe tomorrow is the day.
I never read any further in Fragile Things. I think I'm really pissed at Neil Gaiman because I would rather read nutritional facts than read another sentence of the short story I was reading, October In the Chair. I keep saying that I will read a bit farther but I keep reading other books. Maybe I will take D's suggestion and read Anansi Boys instead. I'd rather read Sandman comics... but that would be an expensive habit to get into now.
Today was much with me playing on the internet. I signed up for an account at Wicked Lovely, a fan site for Melissa Marr. I also spent some time playing on Facebook. You know I really don't get the hype over MySpace and Facebook. I guess if I were more of a people person it would appeal, but I'm not really interested in strangers and I like my friends when they are low maintanence. Facebook seems like a lot of work to me. MySpace seems like prostitution. I don't know if there is something better but I am not sure that I am really the right kind of person for such sites. Doesn't anyone email each other anymore?
Going back to my Stephenie Meyer obsession, there is an excellent NPR story on her here. I love how much attention she is getting. I really do hope that this gets the fires burning so that when the movie comes out there is a real buzz going and it succeeds. I worried when I read the production budget went from 35 million to 60 million. That made it all that many more seats that have to be filled. And I don't want the movie to just break even, I want the franchise. I worry for it. I need to up my Geodon.
I have so many things I want to write about today that I just don't even know where to start. I finished Rebel Angels this afternoon. What can I say, I really love Kartik. I loved how his character was developed in book two of the trilogy, although I was a bit disappointed about how things end between him and Gemma. The action was great in this book. The twists and turns were diabolical. All those things you sort of thought you were right about you find out you are, but you no longer think you are. It's tricky. I liked Gemma more in this book than in A Great and Terrible Beauty. She was still terribly immature at times but she isn't as blindly naive. I was ambivalent up to a certain point about Simon Middleton and then flat out didn't like him. Not to mention I measured him up to Kartik the entire time and he doesn't compare. I think Bray is doing an excellent job of defining the taboo and the expectation of the society. I just wish that Kartik wasn't taboo. I'll take him if Gemma can't make it work.
I went and bought The Host and A Sweet Far Thing today. I am currently torn because I don't know if I should read either one of those or Stardust. Stardust, I could probable read by tomorrow. Okay I have to study so maybe not. But I could read it quickly. The Host is 600+ pages and A Sweet Far Thing is 800+. Those are real commitments. With how fuzzy my head is at the moment I just don't know which is the better book to start. And I'm reading Twilight again with Jason and I told him I would be ready to discuss chapter 5 by Thursday. So many books and so little time.
While at the bookstore I took note of the display for Twilight. It is so big and always in flux. Sometimes stocked, sometimes not so much. The woman who checked us out gave me a small happy when she noticed that I was buying The Host and asked me if I was waiting for Breaking Dawn to come out. I admitted, shyly, that I was and told her how many days until 2 August. I mentioned the movie coming out in December and she surmised that it was going to be huge. She thinks the sequels won't be a problem. It made me feel good about the whole situation. Random bookstore clerk who sees popularity of the books, thinking that the franchise is a go. *sigh* Happy thoughts.
Speaking of Twilight, today is Twilight Tuesday and MTV released the official movie poster. I'm not that excited about it. I think it could have been better. Edward looks disjointed to me, not like he's looking over her. I think she looks soft and he looks too dead. Maybe he should look dead, but it just makes me not like it. I do like one thing. His eye looks topaz. Score points there. There was a fan poster made by Loleia that I liked, I'll post that too. If I had my choice between this and the cast photo I would pick the cast photo. I think the teaser trumps them both. Although with some time and space I can recognize that the teaser caters too much to those who already know and love the books and were going to see the movie anyway. It could have been catered more toward a more diversified audience.
Tomorrow is my second exam in Art History and I am not, exactly, looking forward to it. I am sort of dreading it. But to save me from real dread, the class is at the Getty. I hope to go in early and be able to look at one statue in particular. I want to do my paper on it. It's called the Venus Genetrix. She's very much in the style of the Winged Victory of Samothrace. I hope to compare them to one another. It will also give me time to study a bit before the exam. Of course I don't think we will have a tour tomorrow. Since we have so much to make up after last weeks class fiasco.
After class it will be a comic book day. Angel: After the Fall, Buffy and Lords of Avalon are all coming out tomorrow. It will be a nice reward after the exam. LOA left off at the place where Seren is stabbed by Kerrigan. It's one of my favorite parts of the book and I loved seeing it done in comic. D told me that after Angel: After the Fall that they are going to do a Spike: After the Fall. I am interested in that. I still can't get into the Buffy comics. I don't like the legions of slayers. It was hard enough for me when there was Faith. I hope that there could be a Twilight Manga. That would make for good adaptation.
