chickens and things

[the_reverand]

Someone on LJ reviewd Sauna not too long ago. I can't remember who, but at that recommendation I put it on my queue and watched it last night and man was it creepy. It earned several really good jumps and squeals from me, and was just in general a creepy flick. I can't say I understood everything about it, but I don't feel like that matters somehow

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[nutmeg3]

Chicken pictures, please? Even of poor emasculated Chitchen. And yay for pie!

PS - I've never heard of that movie. I'll have to watch the trailer and check into it.

[the_reverand]

I will try to remember to get pics tomorrow.

I'd never heard of it before handful_of dust mentioned it, but I really enjoyed it.

[handful_ofdust]

It was me! I was the Sauna-reviewer!

Yeah...I'm sort of with the person on imdb who said: "I think I'd understand this film a lot better if I was Finnish...but maybe not." And maybe it doesn't matter. I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't've been as obsessed with Eirik's glasses as I was, for example. Still, it has some of the hands-down creepiest moments of the last year, for me.;)

[the_reverand]

I'd thought it was you and wandered back over to your journal after watching it to re-read what you'd said, but then couldn't find it so I figured I'd hallucinated the whole thing. :)

The bit with the glasses and loss of vision in general, was nice, I thought, though I was a bit disturbed by the horse with no eyes, or a missing eye, whichever the case. But in this case, disturbing was good. It felt a bit like McCarthy does Finnish Horror. :)

And yeah, some of the creepiest bits of the year. Way more effective than Paranormal Activity, which several people told me had them unable to sleep alone but didn't bother me and made my roommate giggle quite a lot.

[handful_ofdust]

Yeah, that's true! Medieval/Renaissance Cormac McCarthy, Finnish-stylee. I hadn't quite thought of it like that, but...particularly with people's weird side-obsessions, like the Russian count who wants to discover something that can be named after him (and Eirik taking great pleasure in popping his bubble about the "sauna flower": "Very common."), or the other Russian who turned out to have informed on his own mother and gotten her burned as a witch.

[the_reverand]

Oh! And I've been keeping up with your boobblog. Hope things continue to be itching healing!

[larkworth]

Sauna looks very interesting, if very, very creepy. I'm not sure if I want to see it or not. :S

Congratulations on your pies! And I love the idea of sweet potato cookies, very unusual. I'm having a hard time accepting that they were boring. I think you're right about the icing... icing makes everything better. :)

Also, OMG HEN!!! Susan sounds lovely... I second the request for pictures. (I live in the city where hen keeping is not an option... so I think this is really, really cool.)

[the_reverand]

As it turned out my second pie was, in fact!, even better. Nom.

The cookies were boring but the icing did help! They are actually pretty tasty now.

I'll try for pics tomorrow. We considered naming them Howard and Vince, Vince being the hen :) but then the Captain said "Susan" and nothing else seemed right!

[larkworth]

My roommates once used lots of icing to hide the fact that our cookies were really very burnt. It worked wonders there too. I love icing. :)

Hehe... Howard is the perfect name for an emasculated rooster, but I know what you mean about Susan being right. I remember feeling that way about the fish I had when I was seven. His name was Eliot.

By the way, here's a chicken I saw in Cuba. :)

[the_reverand]

Wow, look at the beak on that sucker!

I failed at chicken pictures. I will try this evening!

How was Cuba, btw!?

[the_reverand]

It is pretty good, pretty creepy! And generally pretty, actually.