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[liptonrm_backup]

Dangit, I like Kelly Clarkson. I can't help it, she has a good voice and her songs are just too much fun. Plus her new album is much better then her first one (I hated that single from it, Miss Independent or whatever it was called, because it was a poppy song that pretty much said you can't be independent and fall in love at the same time which seems like the stupidest idea evar *corrals rabid inner feminist*). I love that my playlist has the Kyrie from Beethoven's Missa Solemnis directly preceding Kelly Clarkson's WalkAway. I am nothing if not eclectic.

I watched Empire last night. So, it wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen, far from it. The dialogue wasn't always that great and the music frequently made me want to bang my head on the coffee table but the actors were uniformly good and the direction was great so that's all good. Plus the story was much better handled then that sprawling unfocused mess that is Into the West which is a nice bonus.

Sure, there's a lot of historical stuff that I'm not quite sure about. For instance, I highly doubt that Julius Caesar main goal was to give Rome back to the masses but since I haven't focused much study on Julius Caesar I don't hold any definitive opinions. There's all sorts of other things that didn't quite add up but, hey, Gladiator made a mess out of actual Roman history and I still adore that movie so it pays not to be too picky about these things.

I had an entertaining moment at the very beginning when they had a woman doing a bit of an expository voiceover. My thought was, "This seems an awful lot like that Dune miniseries. Wouldn't it be a hoot if some of the same people were involved?" and, come to find out, Empire was directed by Greg Yaitanes, the same man who directed Children of Dune. That had me giggling for a bit. Okay, more like the whole thing, I'm easily amused.

Final verdict, I'll keep on watching. It's a fun way to spend a Tuesday evening.

Ugh, this week could not go more slowly if it tried. Come on people you're supposed to be entertaining me! *pouts* *laughs at self*

ETA: Watched some of 28 Days last night, you know the rehab movie with Viggo and Sandra Bullock. Why did no one tell me that Alan Tudyk played the crazy German guy?! It's a bleh movie and a campy role but, dang, I didn't think I could love him any more then I already did. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

Apologies. I am too tedious and cranky today to be of any entertainment value.

Submitted for your entertainment

[baylorsr.livejournal.com]

Last night I dreamed that Jim from 28 Days Later was my boyfriend. We were in my childhood home and everyone there was infected, so we went next door. Then Jim called a realtor on his cell phone because he wanted to buy the neighbors' house. I told him we weren't buying the neighbors' house, this was the apocalypse! He said to be quiet, that's why we'd get a really good price.

Then I realized that I'd left my purse back at my house. I told Jim to go get it. He said I didn't need my purse. I told him that I did, it had my inhaler in it. He said all right, all right, he'd go get it. Then he suggested that I take a nap because I seemed cranky.

So I went upstairs, where there was just one room and the only thing in it was a matresses. Tab from Easy Company was sleeping on it. I was disappointed that there wasn't another bed, because I was feeling tired and cranky, but then Tab woke up and said we could share and scooted over to make room for me. So I flopped down beside Tab and went to sleep.

Amused yet?

Re: Submitted for your entertainment

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

*giggles helplessly*

You have all the best dreams. I get psychologically programmed by the government and you hang out with Jim and get to curl up next to Tab.

*is most heartily amused*

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Poor Cyn!

Well, maybe I can entertain you. I have the beginning of my sekrit pretend world all plotted out. See, I'm a mid-level diplomat at the State Department when I find out that my youngest brother was killed on some sooper sekrit mission in Russia (he's in an elite Army unit, like the Rangers or something). I'm heartbroken and I start to look into it and am given the runaround by everyone. I find out that there's a whole cover-up going on and my brother's unit was actually killed because of the Alien Invasion.

Unfortunately I dig too far and the Consortium catches on and threatens the rest of my family. So, in despair I run away. I spend time wandering around the country working crap-ass jobs. There is also a part where I end up in LA and hang out with Gunn and Anne and find out about vampires. The whole scenario lends itself to wacky, dangerous, sexy adventures.

I eventually get involved with the RHAR and split my time between gathering intelligence and getting drunk with Nix because we're both in love with people we can't have. Good Times.

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was very nice, thank you. I must work up my own RHAR backstory...

I will start on that while I go get my lunch. And during the stupid surprise party I have to go to at some point. Yes, that will be a good distraction.

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[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm Tab. I'm sure after your nap you'll feel much better about sharing the mattress.

*drifts away into bare-room-with-mattress-and-Tab tableau*
*curses self for lack of Tab icon*

[writerj.livejournal.com]

Greg Yaitanes --> Children of Dune --> Leto II Atreides, God Emperor --> James McAvoy --> Pvt. Miller --> Band of Brothers.

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[baylorsr.livejournal.com]

Jim didn't seem to be a very good boyfriend, though. We were quite bickery with each other.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Distractions make the world a better, more beautiful place. Especially when they're of the Red Hot variety.

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

Re your ETA: CRAP. I do not like Sandra Bullock, but may have to watch this movie to get an Alan Tudyk fix. He is more wonderful than can be expressed.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Also in Empire was Amanda Root who was Soames Forsyte's (Damian Lewis) sister in The Forsyte Saga.

And then there was Colm Feore who was in Chronicles of Riddick with Karl Urban.

*sigh* I love this game.

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

GAH your XF icons are probing killing me!

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

I swear, someone needs to start manufacturing dvds that have The Good Bits of movies. That way we could only watch the Alan Tudyk parts of 28 Days or only the Ron Livingston bits of Little Black Book or what have you. I imagine that this would save fangirls from much brain rot.

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[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

No, I imagine not. Thankfully you had Jim to "debate" with and Tab to snuggle with.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Another reason to love the internets, there are always talented people to make pretty, pretty things for me to use.

One day I will acquire and master Photoshop and then I will be ready to take over the world.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Viggo and Alan in the same movie? I may have to put that one on my list, even if it is bleh.

[shirebound]

Watched some of 28 Days last night

A strangely compelling and interesting movie! I was hoping Viggo and Sandra would get together at the end, but that was probably too predictable and "happily ever after".

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

28 days is such a cool movie. We own it, but I've lost it somewhere. Alan Tudyk's character is the coolest. :)

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

You should put it on the list. It's not a bad flick and Viggo and Alan certainly do a great job in it.

[lil-banik-slave.livejournal.com]

Alan Tudyck is Teh best :-)

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was kind of an anti-happily ever after sort of movie. But that's okay, it told the story it was trying to tell and it did it well. =D

[lil-banik-slave.livejournal.com]

Especially when you spell his name right *bangs head on table*

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Funny story, I actually saw it in the theater because it came out right after it had been announced that Viggo would be playing Aragorn and I had to see what sort of an actor he was. If I remember correctly I left the theater feeling fairly confident, so that was a good thing. ;-)

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

He rilly, rilly is. *adores him*

[writerj.livejournal.com]

I remember him best as Wart from Knight's Tale. Adorable. Feisty redheads. Mm-hmm. Then whaddya know, he's Matt Settle's big brother in Into the West. The one who disapppeared into Tejas so another part of the Wheeler clan could get involved with Sam Houston and Santa Anna and all that.

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

Dang. Does this mean that he's going to be back? (Surely not, the timeline has moved beyond Santa Ana, and Jacob's already all old and gray and not played by Settle anymore.) I really don't want to have to watch the rest of of it :-)

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

I don't think he's going to be back. Which is sadly a good thing.

You know, Into the West would've been better if they had focused on Nathan instead of Jacob. That way the story would've only been about one singular family and what was going on in one area of the country, rather then skipping all over the place and making me all metaphorically dizzy.

That wouldn't've fulfilled their desire to make it the Grand Story of the West, though.