Who is a rockstar? Why moi, of course.

[lunabee34]

I finally decided which story I want to remix yesterday and am about halfway through with the writing. I've got the whole thing plotted out, though. I'm extremely pleased with myself. :)

Josh and I watched The Heat the other night with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. It was fantastic, y'all. One of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. We were literally howling with laughter. I thought it had some wonderful moments of poignancy where you might not expect to find them. And even though it's a comedy and contains ridiculous and over-the-top element, I think there was a subtle message there about police officers being more effective when they police the communities they also live in; they're doubly invested and they're part of the fabric of life there and in tune to the cultural mores that surround them. Now I want to see Spy. I have heard such good things about that movie, and the NPR review makes it sound like the shit, but those trailers are god-awful and don't seem to bear any relationship to the things people are saying make the movie so good.

I just started reading Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy; it starts with Sabriel. Anybody else read these?

What are y'all reading and watching? Rec me some stuff.

Comments

[the_rck]

I liked the Abhorsen trilogy quite a bit. I couldn't, however, get through Clariel which is set centuries before Sabriel. Something, I'm not entirely sure what, put me off.

Sabriel stands well on its own, but Lirael and Abhorsen are actually one book chopped in two. You might want to make sure you have both of them on hand.

I do think that the Old Kingdom would make a great role playing setting.

[lunabee34]

I do have all three of the core trilogy, so I won't have to wait when I finish Lirael. Thanks for the heads up. And telling me about the sequel; I probably will check it out but now I won't feel so bad if I don't like it.

I have never done any role playing of any kind, but I can see how rich a world it is already just from the first third of the first book.

[china_shop]

I really liked Spy, but I was less taken by The Heat (for reasons), so I'll be interested to hear what you think of the former. :-)

[lunabee34]

I don't know if it's still in the theaters around here. It'll probably have to wait for Netflix or Amazon rental, but I do plan to watch it eventually.

Was it the gross out factor that got you in The Heat? I don't really care for that stuff either.

[china_shop]

It's more that I don't like watching LEOs breaking the rules and being assholes. I don't like it when it's men, and I still don't like it when the characters are women. /stick-in-the-mud

(I mean, I get that it's part of the genre, and I have no problem with the movie in principle; women have just as much right to be assholes as men do. It's just not a genre that works for me.)

For all that, I did have a favourite line: "That is not an accurate description of my vagina." :-D

[lunabee34]

I get that. I'm not as bothered when it happens in a comedy, but I hate procedural dramas where the cops or lawyers or whatever are just breaking the law left and right. Come on, NCIS, I mean I love you but y'all are fucking unbelievable.

[executrix]

Everyone seems to be crazy about Daredevil, but it does not seem to depict appropriate conduct for members of the New York Bar, irrespective of their sensory and super-sensory condition.

[lunabee34]

I had no idea that was about lawyers. So it's super heroes who lawyer by day?

LOL

[executrix]

Just going by fandom osmosis, yes, it's Matt Murdock, Esq. and his law school buddy (boyfriend?) Foggy Esq. Also he goes to confession a lot, I don't know why his confessor doesn't point out that there's the opposite of a frequent-flyer discount, you're supposed to STOP DOING WHATEVER IT IS YOU FEEL GUILTY ABOUT.

[lunabee34]

Ahahahahahhahaa. Bless his heart.

[archersangel]

i just started re-watching the batman animated series from the 1990s.
i'm not currently reading anything, but recently got finished with once a grand duchess: xenia, sister of nicholas II by john van der kiste & coryne hall. if you like that era or have an interest in royalty, it's pretty interesting.

[lunabee34]

Aw, man. I used to watch that every day after school. Loved it. Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy were the bestest.

I don't even know what era of history those names come from. LOL I am pretty up on my ancient history and my Victorian England history and that's about it. It's a huge failing.

[archersangel]

sorry, i should not have assumed that everyone would know that. that book is about the sister of the last tsar of russia. a lot of it is taken from her correspondence & diaries.

[lunabee34]

Oh, no, no. I didn't mean it like that. More like I know so little about most of the history of our planet that people should point at me and laugh. LOL

I love, love, love letters from historical figures. They are so revealing.

[havocthecat]

I've read the Abhorsen trilogy, but not anything else by Nix. How far are you?

[lunabee34]

Almost done with the first one. I like it alright; neat world building, interesting plot. But I feel so emotionally distanced from the text. If Sabriel died right now, I would not cry. It's not emotionally gripping me at all.