Happy birthday to the awesome despotliz! I wish you hottness galore in the coming year, as well as lots of mocking opportunities, books, chocolatey things, and a good time at Cambridge.... The hottness and chocolate are obviously emphasised. But seriously, Liz, you rule, have a good day.

Thoughts on Pirates of the Caribbean 2.

( Spoilery-ish, with an extra helping of '-ish' )

Happy birthday to majuran! Have a lovely day of it.

In less important news, managed to miss the opening episode of Las Vegas despite leaving a reminder in a recent LJ post. Now I'll have to wait till Thursday night for Lob Rowe and Budgie goodness, silly me ( Read more... )

24 and Grey's Anatomy both have a lot of nods this year.

Full list of nominations here.

( Scattered thoughts on the noms )

The penultimate episode of CSI last night. Quality work. The pacing, the twists and turns, all smoothly done, and omg to what happened in the end, although I had feared that would happen from seeing the dude first enter the room. *remains deliberately vague in case of spoileriness* Go, show. Got one episode of this season left, which'll doubtless ( Read more... )

Poll! Ask for an lj-cut if it bothers you.

Poll Another miscellaneous poll

The below quote is from a cartoon the BBC website's clickable alternative lad mag, a 'what if feminists took over one' look at the like of Zoo, Nuts, etc.[1]:

Man: We've agreed to put the magazines which are degrading to women out of the reach of children.

Woman: I see. And how old do they have to be before degrading women is all right?Quite ( Read more... )

Lord of War - more of a Making A Point movie than I was expecting. Definitely serious and thought-provoking, though it has its satiric moments. Still, everything is laced with Yuri Orlov's bloody hands, metaphorically speaking as he is a successful gunrunner. He manages to sideline his own conscience and moral issues through rationalisation, ( Read more... )

Watched Elizabethtown last night. It was much more entertaining than I was expecting. There were bad accents, odd scenes and stylistic choices that didn't ring true, and there was Kirsten Dunst, but I dunno, I was just captured whilst watching it. It's been a while since I was a fangirl but Bloom acted more than usual, too. It just had a charm to ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to the immortalradicalish[1] Dan. Have a good day filled with wine, women, and song. Or dorking. Whichever you prefer. ;)

[1] I just keep reading that as immortalradish. That's not right.