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scriptamanetSo Operation: Acquire Scott Pilgrim was eighty percent successful. Entirely predictably, the missing twenty percent is volume one. I tried three different bookstores, and only one even had two through five. Nevertheless, I shall soldier on! I'll find it eventually. (Although perhaps not too soon, considering I shelled out sixty dollars just for these four.)
I saw Splice last night. My thoughts, in no particular order: a)HOLY SHIT, CREEPY MOVIE. b)I'm disturbed by how easy it was for the writers to make my sympathize with the monster. (And yes, no matter how adorable it looks in the trailers, Dren is definitely a monster, if perhaps justifiably.) c)I would bet my right ear that this movie was heavily influenced by Posession. (If you haven't seen Possession and you intend to, I recommend you don't read the wiki page. This is the kind of movie that's much better if you have no idea what's going on the first time you see it.)
Speaking of links you definitely should not click, the only interesting trailer before the movie was for a film called Buried. (Granted, the Eclipse trailer implied we'd actually get to see wolves and vampires tearing each other to pieces, showing a marked improvement on the book.) Here's the trailer for Buried. My friend, who wasn't stifling shrieks of horror, explained that it's about an Iraqi contractor who falls in with the wrong crowd, and is buried alive. He has a lighter and his cellphone, and apparently the entire film is just footage of him calling people from this coffin, trying to convince them he's been buried alive. You guys. YOU GUYS. D:WHY DO I WANT TO SEE IT.
To try and make up for bringing that trailer into your lives, have A Partial Map of your Tardis (Subject to Change). All the tiny details just make me so happy. The Gulf of Diminishing Returns! Basic fare is good will! Also, my new favorite website is What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner? The very first recipe it gave me was for coffee-braised beef. IT'S LIKE IT KNOWS ME.
I'm going to the Ottawa Cappies Gala tonight. In theory, this is terribly exciting. In practice, I'm paying thirty bucks to sit in a theatre for three hours or so, without food and with a high potential of having to walk home in heels. (My mother is on a "Make Samantha Fend For Herself" crusade.) A couple of my friends are going, though, so I figure we'll sneak in food and fuck around. All in all, not a bad evening.
How have people's weekends been? Any ninjas?
I saw Splice last night. My thoughts, in no particular order: a)HOLY SHIT, CREEPY MOVIE. b)I'm disturbed by how easy it was for the writers to make my sympathize with the monster. (And yes, no matter how adorable it looks in the trailers, Dren is definitely a monster, if perhaps justifiably.) c)I would bet my right ear that this movie was heavily influenced by Posession. (If you haven't seen Possession and you intend to, I recommend you don't read the wiki page. This is the kind of movie that's much better if you have no idea what's going on the first time you see it.)
Speaking of links you definitely should not click, the only interesting trailer before the movie was for a film called Buried. (Granted, the Eclipse trailer implied we'd actually get to see wolves and vampires tearing each other to pieces, showing a marked improvement on the book.) Here's the trailer for Buried. My friend, who wasn't stifling shrieks of horror, explained that it's about an Iraqi contractor who falls in with the wrong crowd, and is buried alive. He has a lighter and his cellphone, and apparently the entire film is just footage of him calling people from this coffin, trying to convince them he's been buried alive. You guys. YOU GUYS. D:
To try and make up for bringing that trailer into your lives, have A Partial Map of your Tardis (Subject to Change). All the tiny details just make me so happy. The Gulf of Diminishing Returns! Basic fare is good will! Also, my new favorite website is What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner? The very first recipe it gave me was for coffee-braised beef. IT'S LIKE IT KNOWS ME.
I'm going to the Ottawa Cappies Gala tonight. In theory, this is terribly exciting. In practice, I'm paying thirty bucks to sit in a theatre for three hours or so, without food and with a high potential of having to walk home in heels. (My mother is on a "Make Samantha Fend For Herself" crusade.) A couple of my friends are going, though, so I figure we'll sneak in food and fuck around. All in all, not a bad evening.
How have people's weekends been? Any ninjas?
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Date: 2010-06-13 08:54 pm (UTC)dear Sam WE HAVE TO HANG OUT AT SOME TIME APPROACHING SOON AND I WAS ACTUALLY JUST GOING TO EMAIL YOU AND ASK YOU WTF YOUR SUMMER PLANS ARE
dear Sam i miss you! ♥
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Date: 2010-06-13 09:17 pm (UTC)Um, anyway. Splice looks really freaking bizarre, from what I've heard of it, which makes sense. The first trailer I saw for it made it seem like it was insanely creepy, and then the second one made it seem sort of funny, so - weird.
Buried looks fucking terrifying. Do not expect me to see that with you, okay?
Uh...the Cappies Gala sounds like fun?
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Date: 2010-06-14 02:57 am (UTC)I AM TOTALLY WORKING DOWNTOWN AT THE EMBASSY, SO IF YOU WANTED TO MEET UP FOR A MEAL, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. (ALSO, I STILL HAVE YOUR OFFICE DVDS FYI.)
I miss you too! <33333
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Date: 2010-06-14 02:59 am (UTC)The phrase I've been using for Splice is "most adorable horror movie ever." Because, for the first half or so, it is! And then Elsa starts turning into her mother(/my mother, which I think is a large part of why this movie freaked me out so much), and all fucking hell breaks loose.
I'm not sure I even want to see it in theatres. It's just so fascinating to me. (I think the fact that it's potentially ninety minutes of Ryan Reynolds is helping with this.)
It was! One of the award-winners came on stage in a tiger outfit, because he's that fucking awesome. (We were sitting next to his parents.)
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Date: 2010-06-14 03:10 am (UTC)THAT IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING I WILL MOST DEFINITELY MAKE PLANS WITH YOU IN A LESS PUBLIC VENUE IN THE NEAR FUTURE! i'm working like 85% of the time for the next few weeks but i have no doubt we could do lunch or the like. have you been thinking about going to Bluesfest?
<3333
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Date: 2010-06-14 07:45 pm (UTC)WHENEVER WORKS IS BADASS. I haven't really decided about Bluesfest. I mean, I know friends of mine are going I just. I haven't really thought about it.
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Date: 2010-06-15 10:51 pm (UTC)JUST PLAIN WEIRD.
It would be interesting to see what they do with it, for sure. (Okay, good point.)
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Date: 2010-06-16 01:47 am (UTC)NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
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Date: 2010-06-19 02:00 am (UTC)I DUNNO, MULTIPLE RAPE SCENES IN ONE MOVIE?
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Date: 2010-06-19 02:09 am (UTC)Well, I'd say only one is rape. The other one's consensual (if probably technically statutory rape). Look, it's a weird movie!
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Date: 2010-06-19 02:11 am (UTC)CLEARLY.
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Date: 2010-06-19 02:56 am (UTC)SHUT UP.