Oedipus on the mountain

Cate Blanchett at the end of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Every cheap horror movie ever made apparently

Why doesn't the New Yorker post my sappy live journal entries that can't decide on a tense and make awkward comparisons, like newborn puppies to kidney beans?DEAR MEDIA: STOP INDULGING LENA DUNHAM'S EGOCENTRICISM. FOR ( Read more... )

OKAY SO I'M GOING TO KEEP UP WITH UPDATING MY LIVEJOURNAL. I'M GOING TO DO IT!

( Newbery Medal 2013!! )

I've been toying over the idea of this entry for a while, and now that I have two other things I should be working on, and I'm making a sort of half-assed attempt in the New Year to write more even if no one gives a shit about what I have to say, I thought it would be a good time to write it.

( A Love Affair with Les Miserables )

I'm sure this will be a longer entry later but I just wanted to make sure everyone who has not yet absconded for greener pastures knows this about the latest Twilight movie.

The internet is a scary place. And I don't just mean that in the moral-outrage, media-panic way that the news cashes in on. I mean that in a more subtle way. I mean, sure, the internet fosters pedophiles, scammers, hackers, other people who aim to exploit the naive. But even to the weathered, battle-hardened internet denizens like me, the internet ( Read more... )

So I just had a thought and it's too long for a tweet so I thought I'd put it here ( Read more... )

I'm sorry I've been posting so much. ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW WHAT, NO I'M NOT. I need to fucking force myself to write more even if it's just shitty stream-of-consciousness livejournal entries. I've been creatively constipated for months now and IT'S AFFECTING MY SELF-ESTEEM.

And the new Spider-Man movie came out.

( Spoilers, long rants about nerd things, references to younger, more innocent days. My livejournal isn't getting like, formulaic is it? )

Okay, I haven't just talked about things in a while. It's always, "wah, my internship fired me" or "wah, my cat died." SO LET'S GO BACK TO THE BASICS, THE THINGS I LIKE DOING THAT I HAVEN'T DONE IN A LONG TIME.

( THERE ARE THREE THINGS I WANT TO TALK ABOUT AND I WILL TALK ABOUT THEM IN THE ORDER I SAW THEM. )

You guys I am still coming down. Like, holy shit. Me and Layla saw it and were basically just babbling incoherent messes stumbling out of the theater. We were like the kids in Jesus Camp, except speaking in even MORE tongues. WORSHIP AT THE ALTAR OF MARVEL FOR IT WILL NOT ABANDON YOU.

( LITERALLY A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE )

You know, I'd forgotten that I've been looking forward to this movie for months. I'd forgotten that I cared when they cast it, I'd forgotten that each newly released publicity photo sent a pleasant little chill down my spine.

( This isn't a review but I don't know what else to call it )