Monday = quietly go insane day
Jun. 28th, 2010 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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So much to fix, clean, update, do, finish, report, bake, etc. Crazy amount of work happened last week, tons of canning was done, scores of children carted hither and yon, auditions, calls backs, movie part (won!) and updates! OH THE UPDATES. I'll just dive in.Saturday was the Blood on the Highway DVD release party, which was fun (minus the fact that my girlfriend got a horrible migraine and spent the night in the bathroom throwing up. GAH. She wouldn't let me bail and take her home, though, because "I'll be sick home or here. Eh." I finally convinced her to go after the screening.) In the interim, fun was had and people were excited about the movie. PLUS: the party was held in the old Texas Theatre, which is where Oswald went to cool his heels after the old "shoot the President, take the cannoli" incident. Awesome historical building, HUUUUGE theatre. And they have the most awesome "Intermission/ Theater Rules" video ever. (It's originally from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie, but it's the best thing EVER.) A handful of pics under the cut!
I totally want to go back and see Dune, now. DUNE! (The guy in the green shirt is my BiL Chris, who co-wrote the movie and plays the Frat douche Roy. He's awesome.)
Nate (Sam), Me (Lynnete), and Deva (Bone.) How lucky am I to be between hotness like that? And they're both the nicest guys, too. And single, girls. ;)
I don't know why I have crazy eyes here. Probably because the guy taking the picture had four cameras and we had to be still while he figured out how to click each one. I'm usually over dressed for these things, so this time I came out in a tee shirt. GOOD CHOICE for the old, hot theater. of course I'm obsessing over my weird bangs - growing out! - and that I cut my hair all off that morning, so it's all flat from the hair dresser REALLY WANTING TO FLAT IRON THE SHIT out of it. I'll stop now.
There was a bonus feature of a "Consumart Training Video" that my BiL made with the help of the star of the Spring Fiesta film, and it's hilarious. Know what else is? Spring Fiesta. And because of all the clicking y'all did a week ago, they landed on the FRONT PAGE of Funny or Die! NICE. Please please PLEASE keep clicking it, click "Funny" and email it to people to do the same. This is how future jobs are made in this biz, guys! And you can say you knew them when. :) And as of 8am tomorrow, you can buy Blood on the Highway at Amazon or Walmart or through Netflix! YAYNESS. You can WATCH THE TRAILER HERE. And be sure to click "Funny" or a little bit of my soul dies. :(
Next! I'm doing a film at the end of July. A movie that will star a certain someone from Arrested Development and Chuck. TONY HALE, HOLY CRAP. Now, I have no scenes with him, which sucks, but hey, I'll hopefully get to meet him. It's going to be REALLY HARD to not want to rub his shoulders and say, "Heeeeeeeeey, Brother." Funtimes.
Took the kids to see Toy Story 3 and aside from a misstep in regards to one of the female characters, I thought it was perfection. (And the little thing that bugged me is minor.) The ending tore me up and I couldn't help but cry. I looked over and saw that my son was, too. <3 He tried to hide it, then gave me a big, sappy grin and shrugged. "It's really sad, Mom." IT IS, MY LOVE. *holds* Loved it. LOVED. Thought it a fitting tribute to the series, and let me tell you, the first one came out on video when my son was 2, and we watched it ENDLESSLY. It got to the point where I thought maybe the toys WERE real when I wasn't looking. I would apologize to them when I put my son to bed. Lol. "I'm sorry he chewed on you, that's his way of saying I Love You." :)
Other movies I've seen and really enjoyed, under a cut for Spoilers.
Orphan Movie Spoilers
This came out, what, two years ago? I finally watched it on DVD, and man, it's great! Creepy as hell, and it's all because of the excellent casting on part of the actual "Orphan." It's very much a psychological thriller, and just when you think it's going somewhere that is REALLY REALLY WRONG, you find out the "secret" about the little girl. And that just makes it wonderfully creepy.
Here's the secret, for those not worried about the spoiler: she's not a little girl at all. She has a rare (and real! I love that stuff) form of dwarfism that makes her look proportional, but she's in her 30s, playing the part of an 11 year old. And she wants a man of her own. Oh, and she's a homicidal maniac. They make the actress (an actual 11 year old) look older, and it's outstanding makeup. It just makes it all so much more sinister.
They build up the relationships in the movie nicely, we buy the parents as who they are, and their youngest daughter - an actual deaf child - is the cutest little bug ever. And of course, they put her in peril. But it's not gratuitous, it fits right into the story. And man, a child in peril = me a basket case. Awesome. Some gore, mostly fearful situations. Good stuff that is an excellent popcorn horror movie - just a bit above others like it.
I've been reading some fun books, too, but they deserve posts of their own. If you wished the Sookie Books were a bit smarter, but like the fact that they were total beach reads, you might check out the series by Gail Carriger, "Soulless." It's supernatural shenanigans set in Victorian England, where Queen Victoria (and everyone else) knows about Vampires and Werewolves. She has a unique twist on the subject that keeps it from feeling like a tired retread. There are two books out with a third due in... the fall? Yep, the fall. There's an element of gayness in them that I can't decide if it's lighthearted or mildly offensive, though. (There's a foppish vampire with dandies for minions. Time appropriate? Or stereotypical? I can't decide.) They are fun, though. Not as graphic as the Sookie books - sexually - but not chaste, either. It's fitting with the time period and the tone of the books.
Okay, I need to stop typing or I won't get a thing done today. :) OH WAIT, LAST THING! This Tumblr account is hilarious. "Catalog Living" where it follows the lives of a couple, Elaine and Gary, that "live" in the catalog images. And of course they have massive issues. Funny stuff, I wish I'd thought of it.
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:01 pm (UTC)Yay for successful movie showing, and BIG YAY for movie with a side of Buster! I'm super excited for you.
Eddie and I bawled through TS3. Jonah slept (we saw it in 3-D -- unnecessary, IMO -- and Jonah was not into the glasses.) Loved it.
I have laundry, plus a suitcase full of toiletries winging its way in from Utah, where it went by mistake (if my suitcase arrives full of Kool-Aid, Wonder Bread and Volvos, to whom can I complain?)
Oh, and I read the first of the Sookie Stackhouse books on the plane and I laughed out loud at the description of Eric's Corvette, because vampires "don't drive Ford Fiestas." Whee!
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:05 pm (UTC)Oh, Toy Story!! 3-D was unnecessary, agreed. But I liked all of the 3D previews. :)
It might come back with a BoM inside, just be warned. And shakers of Mrs Dash. I'm just saying, they love their MSG up there.
Ahahaha, I need to read the books again - the first ones were fun. ESP. 4 WHICH IS THE ALL ERIC NAKED SHOW.
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-28 04:11 pm (UTC)You have scared me away from seeing Orphan. It would probably give me nightmares so I wouldn't have seen it anyway.
They are DRILLING on the floor below me and they are sloooooooooooooooowly approaching. Closer and closer to my feet. I may have to go home early today. Too bad eh?
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:11 pm (UTC)Also, yes, I would LOVE AN ASSISTANT. The list I have for today on my "to do" is RIDICULOUS. Just... I don't know why I'm not totally grey yet.
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:12 pm (UTC)Congratulations on the new role. I hope it's a meaty one and Yay, Buster!
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:13 pm (UTC)Orphan is a wonderfully creepy movie. If you don't like creepy movies, then, no, it's not for you.
WAIT. WHY ARE THEY DRILLING? is this why nothing is happening in the gulf, because BP is drilling in Colorado!??!
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:14 pm (UTC)Isn't that movie intermission trailer hilarious?!
It's a small part, but they're letting me improv all I want, so WHEEE!
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:20 pm (UTC)OH MY GOD RUPERT HOW I LOVE YOUR RED HAIR???
ahem. Excuse me.
Back to the missive.
I am such a wuss - I am rewatching SPN and that is giving me bad dreams. I can't do ubercreepy movies. I have very delicate sensibilities. Except apparently when it comes to DRILLING AND HAMMERING I can tolerate it. Somewhat.
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:22 pm (UTC)Let me guess, Bo-Peep's absence?
And you are so pretty! Your friends are pretty too ;]
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:25 pm (UTC)I love him, too. LOVE HIM. Here, have some goofy Rupert!
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:26 pm (UTC)Aww, thank you! Those guys are SUPER pretty, huh? And sweethearts, to boot!
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-28 04:44 pm (UTC)Nope. Some concert of the same name by a guy called Ken Hensley *sigh, I'll just have to order it from Amazon US. I WILL get to see your awesomeness some day!
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-28 04:51 pm (UTC)ILU! You sound and look so happy and awesome and if you're baking, get your ass over here with the brownies. Stat!
Also, congratulations, and you should SOOOO say, "Hey, brother," to Tony
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-28 05:09 pm (UTC)(This from someone who mainlines things like Criminal Minds and Dexter, so whatev)
anyway, also congrats on the DVD release and for landing a new part!
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Date: 2010-06-28 05:31 pm (UTC)I MAY JUST HAVE TO. I MEAN, COME ON. "I'M A MONSTER!"
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Date: 2010-06-28 05:31 pm (UTC)Thank you very much!
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Date: 2010-06-28 06:10 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-06-28 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-28 06:33 pm (UTC)Of the two hot guys, which one is funnier? Hook me up with that one. *g*
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Date: 2010-06-28 06:51 pm (UTC)Ahahahahahaha! (Um, the funnier one is the shorter one. And I'm in flats. And he's like, 25. Still in? *G*)
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Date: 2010-06-28 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-28 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-28 08:19 pm (UTC)I'd love to see TS3 and definitely will someday but maybe not in the theater. I would be so happy if 3D were reserved for epic movies that really gain something from it. The only one that comes to mind is Avatar. Watching TV these days we are inundated with ads for 3D TV and I would pay money *not* to have 3D TV. Why would I want to wear glasses over my glasses in order to watch TV?
I like the sound of those books -- thanks for the rec! *zooms to library*
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Date: 2010-06-28 08:22 pm (UTC)You know, there was an option for non-3 D here, I don't know if you have that up at your closest theater? It's not necessary, the 3-D, i'll say that much.
I think you'd really like the books, they're a fun, easy read of cuteness. Let me know what you think!
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Date: 2010-06-28 08:36 pm (UTC)Oh, man I HAAAAATE being spoiled for things!! And lol at "secretly a dwarf hooker." It's better than that makes it seem, but yeah, once you know the secret, what's the point?
ROTFLMAO, I lose points for not REALIZING MY OWN PUN. Lol.
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Date: 2010-06-28 09:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-28 09:26 pm (UTC)Also: Amazon(!!), Seeing your movie in lights never gets old, you have a painting in an attic somewhere because you look 14 in that picture (and you're now the size of one of my arms), call backs, MOVIE PARTS!!, I am jealous, but in a proud of you way not in a I'm going to be stuffing you in the boot of a car and burying you in the forest kind of way, and you know that if I ever did that it would be from a place of love any way.
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Date: 2010-06-28 10:09 pm (UTC)