snow on the sahara

This censored cut of Kill Bill vol. 1 on TNT is fascinating. They cut out all of the blood sprays and a lot of the moments of impact for particularly brutal blows. What is the point of even airing it?! Then again, here I am with it running in the background.

I ate way too much candy/junk crap today. Ugh. I hope the weather cooperates tomorrow; I really feel like running this off.

Been kind of anxious/bummed out this weekend. But on the plus side, I've never been trapped near the summit of Mt. Everest during a violent storm like the people in the Frontline documentary I've been watching. That puts things in perspective, just a little bit.

Scott Pilgrim was awesome. Seriously, when was the last time you saw a non-opening week theater crowd applaud at the end? It was great, loads of fun and helped take my mind off things. It's too bad that it kind of bombed, but I can easily see it having a long life as a DVD cult classic.

Also I want to look like Ramona Flowers.

Now I'm going to go to bed and stare at the ceiling, because I drank aaaaaall of my very large small-size Coke Zero, because gosh darn it, I paid for it.

-Jesus Christ, self, DO NOT read the comments on news posts about Judge Sotomayor's confirmations hearings. I don't even mean blogs, I mean mainstream non-slanted articles. They are a cesspool of hideous racism. There's probably at least one person out there saying "hey, I have a problem with this nominee based on these facts over here" but they are apparently not hanging out in the comments section! I wanted to vomit, hit something, and cry. In that order.

-I'm going to Otakon starting Friday evening and crashing with the lovely Ms. roserevolution. So glad we ran into her at Anime Next like three years ago and demanded her friendship. If anyone's going, PM me your cell # or something. I'll admit it, I'm antsy; I'm going because there are people I want to see, and I have a ton of (irrational?) fondness for the con itself. This'll be #7 for me, the most times I've been to a con. But yeah, I do worry that it'll make me kinda BAWWWWW I MISS MY OLD JOB I WANT TO BE IN THE INDUSTRY AGAIN BAAAAWWW. Like I was saying to loosewiring, it does feel kind of stupid to feel worried about the emotional impact of an anime convention. But for better or for worse, that sort of thing was a big part of my professional life for years, and thus a big part of how I defined myself. So...it'll be interesting. I think it'll be a good time overall, but I can't guarantee I won't have to breathe deep to forestall a couple of teary moments.

-I finally saw Up. It was awesome. I cried THREE TIMES and I am not a huge movie crier. Yeah, just give it the Oscar now, cuz there's nothing that has or will beat it this year.

Aren't special movie preview screenings usually weeks before a movie hits all theaters, not a few hours before? Whatever. Summer's fiance got tickets to a showing earlier this evening, and omg. I am not even a big Star Trek fan, but this flick hit it out of the park on ALL levels. Actors were great, story was great. One plot point that could've seemed really contrived and stupid was actually pretty cool. Not sure if that's because of the writing or the quality of the actors, but it doesn't really matter.

It's awesome. Go see it.

Armageddon is a ridiculous movie, but kind of adorable all the same.

(Not sure if I'm gonna liveblog the whole thing. We'll see!)

8:26 - I gotta say, the red carpet gushing is kind of nauseating.

8:30 - Some kind of CGI intro thing that looks way cheaper than it should. LOL, I sense someone didn't have enough time to do something cool after the writer's strike ended!

8:33 - Aaaand Jon Stewart gets in his first SNAP of the evening. I hope to see many more.

8:41 - I don't know whether it was out of respect for the somber time in the industry, the lack of time to prepare or something else, but the opening monologue...not very funny. A few good jokes though.

( Cut for winner spoilers )

Cloverfield: FUCKING AWESOME.

Scary/suspenseful, too. lovediamond and I had to hold hands at certain points.

More tomorrow, maybe. I have to get up in a few hours.

Snakes on a Plane > PotC 2

In fact, Snakes on a Plane > everything ever

Seriously, y'all. Go see it. It will not disappoint.

...anyone else find themselves desperately wanting to have Bryan Singer's babies?

Can't. WAIT.