prpl_pen, posts by tag: movies - LiveJournal

I have a horrible cold. It's providing me with a low-level--yet constant!--misery. That combined with the wacky cold meds I'm on, might mean I am a little incoherent today! Y-yay?

First! Much love to parsnip_chan, aiffe, and the_firefly, who sent me Skip Beat, various anime (Simoun, Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito, & Death Note) on cd, and Last Exile, respectively. My heart swells with love, srsly. ♥

Yesterday, I had to run a check to the bank (hooray, overdraft fees?!) and then randomly decided I should see Stardust since I was in the neighborhood. Then also figured, hey, might as well see The Simpsons Movie while I'm at it! I meant to do my write-up of Stardust, especially, last night, but this was not to be, as a pretty hardcore thunderstorm started just after I got home, which not only slowed my dial-up connection speed to a crawl, but later completely knocked out all power for several hours! Instead, I read Diana Wynne Jones by candlelight until I fell asleep, which was pleasant, and somewhat nostalgic for reasons I won't get into right now.

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Anyway, if anyone else's seen it, I'd love to get discussy in the comments. *thumbs up*

(Small note on The Simpson's Movie: I stopped watching the show at least five years ago. It started to suck, so I stopped watching; very simple. The movie, however, was good, though it started to drag a bit at the end. It really only makes me much more impatient for the Futurama OVAs to drop, honestly. >.>)

vespurtine, I got your letter! ♥

I saw Order of the Phoenix tonight. ( Collapse )

Honestly, I had a much better time seeing Ratatouille last week, (yes, I finally saw it) which pretty much delighted me at every turn. In case anyone doesn't know this, I am a huge fan of Pixar, so I expected to like it, but this wasn't a case of...ending up liking something a lot because you know you are going to, if you know what I mean. It really surprised me and went in directions I completely wasn't expecting and was basically just a huge breath of fresh air.

Oh man, you guys. I've been having a really bleh couple of days, and then I came online and saw this. Just what I needed. I just spent the past half-hour or so going through and leaving comments (and still am). Something about remembering why I adore so many of you was a real pick-me-up. ♥

Hee, I was actually planning on whining about said bleh couple of days, but I no longer have any desire to do so, so now I'm not sure what else to post about.

Oh, I saw Spiderman 3. Meh. Neither liked it or disliked it. It was just there. I also recently reread Bone, and it randomly made me want to write Rose/Lucius. I'm not letting myself start anything new now until I finish old fic that I owe, though. I mean, it's one thing to try and force creativity and then end up with an inferior result, but now it's kind of bordering on ridiculous. It's not even so much that I can't right now, just that lately I never actually do, and that's horribly unfair for the people I owe stuff to.

Randomly: book recs, anyone? I need something new to read.

Rrarrr... I finally have a chance to catch up a little on LJ comments and I can't. I keep getting some wonky error every time I try to submit one now. And it appears to be sending multiple blank comments through, so apologies if you got any of those from me. Not only that, but every time I try to use my scrapbook, it tells me I can't access it because I'm not logged in (I AM). Figures.

It looks like December again. We got like a foot of snow yesterday, and it's still snowing lightly and blowing. Just when the mud was drying up and it was starting to actually look like spring!

Anyhoo. The Last Unicorn. 25th Anniversary Edition.

I haven't posted in a while again, and I have a few new friends, so I suppose I should make some noise to show I am still alive. Since I really haven't got much exciting to talk about, I'll just do some memes. Yay?

I'm perhaps a little late on this one, since I saw it making the rounds a few days ago, but that was when I was using a computer with such a slow connection speed that I couldn't load images. But I'm at the library today! Yay, DSL!

Meme #1

Reply to this post, and tell me your favorite icon of mine and why. I will reply and tell you my favorite icon of yours and why. Then post this to your own journal using your own favorite icon.

Yeah, I am horrible at picking one favorite, and there were a bunch that I wanted to pick, but I ended up choosing the Isane one. I love the color, and it's Isane. ♥

Then, I thought this was kinda neat...

Meme #2

Go here. The rules are simple. You comment with your username, and people can tell you what they want to see you write. Or draw, or vid, or icon, whatever. Despite the name, they don't have to do it anonymously, though of course they certainly can. You then go through the comments and if you see that person who you've always wanted to write a Green Arrow AU set in the Terror, where Ollie is a Scarlet Pimpernel-esque figure, smuggling people out of Paris, then you tell them that they should write it.

(Here's me.)

And then this I blatantly stole from memlu, because it was a fun idea.

Meme #3

Comment here with a series and I will cop up to a story I would like to write in the event that a) I lose shame, b) no one would read it, and c) I develop the ability to finish anything I start. Like, for example, this meme.

In the event that the series you suggest does not inspire me to contemplate high school AUs, you can ask for something else.

Aaaand, because spreading the love is awesome:

Meme #4

Comment here and I'll reply and tell you something that I like about you!

In non-meme-related news: the_firefly, I got your package! And it is so fabulous; thank you sooooo much! I also saw Pan's Labyrinth last week, which was good and not a little disturbing in places.

I've been reading Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle and quite enjoying it so far (I'm about 3/5th of the way through it, I'd say). All my books are packed up and in storage, which is annoying when I want to read a certain one and know I can't just now. The library helps, though. Anyone have some recommendations for books that I should check out and read?

A. Pick 10 of your favourite movies.
B. Then pick one of your favourite quotes from each movie.
C. Post the quotes in your journal.
D: Have those on your friends list try to guess what the movie is. Using Google is for wimps.
E: Strike out the quote once it has been correctly identified and place the guesser's username after the quote.

1. "Half man, half shark equals one complete gentleman."
2. "Workshed!" Evil Dead II, guessed by taikodragon
3. "That's great. I wrote a hit play and directed it, so I'm not sweating it either." Rushmore, guessed by kokoro_no_yami
4. "I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." Harvey, guessed by kokoro_no_yami
5. "There are no happy endings, because nothing ends." The Last Unicorn, guessed by geofount
6. "Do you want to play questions?" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, guessed by ai_ga_fusei
7. "You're not a girl! You're a guy! Why would a guy wanna marry a guy?!?" "Security!" Some Like it Hot, guessed by autophanous
8. "All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases! It's all frightfully romantic!" Heavenly Creatures, guessed by rhye
9. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." The Princess Bride, guessed by autophanous
10. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb guessed by autophanous