if it's rainy, I can get back in bed, right?

[stoney321]

Up too early today, to bed too late last night. There may not be enough coffee in the world to wake me up...

1. I posted my Lynnevitational fic yesterday, and I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. Drusilla and Spike from 1953 - NFA bumping into poets and musicians and unwittingly inspiring them, for those interested. Lots of musical references, but you don't have to know them to enjoy, hopefully. [/shameless self pimp - it won't pimp itself, people!]

2. Saw Tropic Thunder yesterday. I will be going back to see it when the kids start school next week. Holy crap, did I laugh my butt off. Oh my GOD the fake trailers at the beginning!!! Now I want Robert Downey Jr. and Tobey Maguire as 16th century priests fic. So damn funny, and... actually hot. Simma down now. Simma! [possibly only I am laughing at this random reference...]

Who dat disco dancer the-ah?
Donna Summer?
Turn it aroun' nah!
Summer.... Donna?
Stretch it out!
Sum...mer...Don..na?
Agin!
Sum...mer...Don...na?
Dat's right! SUMMER DON....NA! SIMMAH DOWN NAH!

...it's possible I need more sleep.

Oh my lands, Tom fucking Cruise! Guys, I won't lie. I never stopped loving him, even though he is mostly crazy. This part of an overly hairy greaseball producer dancing to g-rap with the pelvic thrusts.... it has cemented my love. (Also because I didn't realize it was him until his third scene. AWESOME.)

And RDJr playing Russel Crowe playing a Lousi Gossett Jr. as Kunta Kinte... Good god, give the man an Oscar because that is NOT EASY, people, especially since it could be incredibly offensive. They balanced that just right. And the whole uprising against the "R" word... Puh. It's exactly as I called it, SATIRE. (Which, duh.) But they totally called out Sean Penn, ahahahahaha!

Fuck you, Hollywood, with your mindset of playing a challenged person to GET AHEAD in your career. RDJr hits it right on with the whole "full retard" speech. I won't say anything else in case you've not watched it yet. It's so perfect.

Anyway, the movie is freaking hilarious and very very clever. <-- not often found in comedy lately.

3. I'm almost ready to start Breaking Dawn. Fortunately I have a cabinet full of liquor to numb the pain. Good GOD are these such fluffy wanna be fanfic stories. The way she has them talk! The complete lack of anything attractive about the lead girl!! The shameless borrowing of tropes from the Book of Mormon and Harlequin romance novels!! *tears out hair*

Aw, well, it's rainy, I'll climb back in bed, and mock the stupid. Pretty good for a Monday, all in all. (And I really need some Tropic Thunder icons...)

Comments

[orejen.livejournal.com]

I just saw Tropic Thunder this weekend. I agree, SO funny!

My brother is developmentally disabled and I didn't mind the "R" word at all. I totally got that they were digging at actors who play mentally challenged to advance career, etc, rather than the mentally challenged themselves.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I laughed so hard at it. My sister has severe autism, and I got what they were doing - calling someone retarded isn't a trigger for me, because it's just not usually used in reference to an actual person of mental retardation currently. (Maybe it is in other places...)

Yeah - it was TOTALLY about the ACTORS, not the people. (And it was so funny!!!)

[copykween.livejournal.com]

I've been dying to see "Tropical Thunder," so I'm glad to know it actually IS a good (and hiliarious) flick.

OMG, Simma down now! Laughing right along with ya. I LOVE that SNL skit. I can't remember the character's name, but she was played by Cheri Oteri, right?

[stephanierb.livejournal.com]

"I'm a lead farmer"

Pure brilliance. RDJ rocked as usual, especially in the trailer for "Satan's Alley". OMG, when "Sadeness" started playing, I completely lost it. Those blue contacts freaked me out, though.

And ITA about the use of retard in the movie. They were so clearly mocking those actors who have taken such roles to advance their careers. Honestly, I saw nothing that was worthy of protest. None of those remarks reflected negatively on the mentally handicapped, just the moronic, arrogant and egotistical actors that attempt to portray them for awards.

I'm going to have to see it again, as I was laughing so hard I missed some of the jokes.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, I loved Tobey Maguire's Nawlins accent in that skit. "C'mon and gitcha drank. Simma!"

It's really funny - I'm planning on buying it asap. :D

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

*paws at your icon* Rawr.

The Enigma song!!! Oh, I laughed and hooted at that, and come on: Satan's Alley needs to be a REAL movie!!!

Oh, same here re: laughing so hard I missed jokes.

"I have a son, now!"
...
"I WAS WROOOOOONG!"

I almost slipped out of my seat, I was laughing so hard.

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

I'm totes going to read your story later! *opens tabs*

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Hooray! I hope you enjoy it! *smishes*

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

I'm strangely glad that I'm too busy to read that right now; I've got about 30 hours before Miss Perfect and her father get abandoned to the whims of fate dropped off at King Street Station and in that time I have approximately eighty-gazillion things to do. Because I've had Spike stewing in a claw-foot tub, smoking cigarettes and reading Coleridge, tidying up before he and Dru go meet a blond grunge rocker and his pregnant wife and reading your story might be the thing that finally makes the next chapter work but it might also be the last nail in its coffin.

Julia, writing is a miserable business but not writing is worse, by the way

[anelith.livejournal.com]

I have your story open in a tab to read later! I thought this week was going to be my week to have time to myself (*whiiine*) but today -- not so much. Maybe tomorrow.

I'm glad you're having some laughs! I hope Tropic Thunder makes up for the pain you're suffering from the Twilight books. I saw some more of those on the beach this past week and filled Ron in the story behind them. It made for a bit of fun beach conversation!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

ANNE!!! *snugs* Oh dear sweet baby 8 pound jesus, those books are so laughable! I keep smacking Mr. S on the shoulder at night, laughing and repeating lines from those stories. He can't understand why I'm doing this to myself... Hahahaha.

I am RIGHT THERE WITH YOU on having time to myself and not actually getting it. School starts in ONE WEEK and there will be much rejoicing {yay}. I hope you get some down time - you've had a lot on your plate! *hugs you and Nathan*

[spiralleds.livejournal.com]

I so want to see Tropic Thunder. Last night Ebert and Roeper were reviewing it and they showed a clip where RDJ is quoting the theme to the Jeffersons. That alone had me laughing hard enough to scare the cats.

When I was in Barnes & Noble this weekend I discovered a freaky truth - SMeyers managed to write publish an adult supernatural novel between the third and forth book of Twilight series. In what Universe is that even acceptable?

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Oh my GOD! I completely forgot about that!! It's so funny in context, too. The whole damn movie is funny. Go! Shoo! See it! And then we can have a quote-a-thon, you and I. *G*

oh I forgot that!! I know!! Actually, I think it's two now? or one's coming out? (Maybe not now what with the reception the fourth book received. One can only hope....)

[mere-ubu.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I can't wait to read your fic! I went back to work today and the kid went back to school, and I'm looking forward to kicking back tonight and catching up with the recent Lynnevitational entries.

We're gonna go see Tropic Thunder for our anniversary, and I'm dyyying for it to be Friday already. I haven't had a decent movie comedy fix since Knocked Up, and that's just too darned long. I'm glad to know it's Stoney-Approved.

May your tequila-filled dust moat protect you from ignorance. ;)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

OooooOoooh, I cannot wait for school to start next week...

It is totally approved by me! Knocked Up? Yeah, you need a good laugh. That came out ages ago! (But then, the pickings have been slim this year.) Aww, what a fun anniversary to go laugh your butts off!

Heeeeeeee to my dust moat! Bwah.

*fit of the vapors*

[essene.livejournal.com]

WAIT! STOP RIGHT THERE! I will not simma down!

I. AM. NOT. FRIENDED. BY. YOU. (I know this because I was going through my "manage friends" to trim my list and saw the horror)

Excuse me? Do I offend? Have I done something? Have I NOT done something?

Rectify this situation right the fuck now. Please? Before I have an anxiety attack??

By the way you may have single handedly convinced me that I might want to see Tropic Thunder. Maybe.

Re: *fit of the vapors*

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Wait, WHAT>

*QUELLE HORROR!*

I know what happened! I thought you had left LJ for good and were never coming back, so I added you over on IJ, then I never used THAT. You are my LOVELY LOVELY friend, and all things are ammending AS I TYPE!! *clings*

Re: *fit of the vapors*

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Also, HAHAHAHAHA, only YOU could tell me to fix something right the fuck now and I would actually DO IT. HEEEEE.

Now:

SIMMA DOWN NAH! (Go see this movie. It's fucking hilarious. DO IT.)

[soundingsea.livejournal.com]

I've been skimming through Breaking Dawn, just so I can enjoy your snark more fully. :)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

WHEEEEE! :D

[chrisleeoctaves.livejournal.com]

I have your Lynnevitational story bookmarked.

There is not enough liquor in the world to make me read 'Breaking Dawn'....not after my experience with 'Eclipse' and the third of 'New Moon' I managed to wade through before I threw my hands up in despair and shouted, "no more."

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

RDJ's performance makes me imagine all of the potential crazy Kirk Lazarus fic. Like Andrew writes a "Buffy" move and Kirk is cast as either Angel, or even Buffy...

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA! Kirk would TOTALLY be cast as Spike, and Andrew would cast Connery as Angel, because, to him, he is the inferior Bond. The one that wash all about the pushy, not the shweet, sweet gadgetsh.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

See, if you cast Kirk as Spike, then you have to cast Tugg Speedman as Angel. You can't leave a part like that to the Kevin Sandusky's of the acting world.

Re: *fit of the vapors*

[essene.livejournal.com]

only YOU could tell me to fix something right the fuck now and I would actually DO IT. HEEEEE

As it should be grasshopper. As it should be.

LOVE YOU! *simma-ing*

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a movie I'd love! And hubby to! Will have to check that out! Thanx!