| Robert's hand on Jeremy's wrist gives me very bad thoughts; Tom's onlooking grin gives me even more. |
[May. 16th, 2012|06:22 am] |
You know how when you're in love with something, all songs are about your love? Yyyyyyyeah, so, I need vidding skills, and I need an Avengers DVD. ALL THE VIDS ARE IN MY HEAD. So all I can do is play the songs on repeat two dozen times and watch the vids in my head and THAT'S NOT ENOUGH DAMMIT.
This could be the film that makes me learn to vid at last. I thought about it when I fell into anime fandom, but the daunting thing about that is that all the anime series are, like, twenty hours long minimum, and who's got the time to pick the perfect clips from all that? But two-and-a-half hours of movie to choose from? You can work with that, the obsessed voice in my head keeps whispering. GIMME A FEW MINUTES TO BREATHE, VOICE.
Lacking the DVD in the first place (whenwhenwhengimmegimmegimmeNOW), I should settle for making myself some more icons, 'cos I know how to do that. Text icons. Funny text icons. The only kind worth having.
Meanwhile, this is my current favorite promo pic of my favorite boys:
You're welcome. |
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| Second Avengers go |
[May. 10th, 2012|09:21 pm] |
Saw Avengers again. My first time through a film in which I'm deeply invested (examples: beloved book-to-movie, anticipated sequel, am I going to see Jeremy Renner's arms as much as I'm hoping, etc.) is often a hands-clasped-beneath-chin, breathless terror-filled trance of "Did they do it right? Did they did they?" Which means the second go-through of such a film (if they did do it right) is a delight 'cos I get to relax and enjoy it. And look for details. This time around, I got to pay attention to the plot.
Like:
( Spoilers, natch )
And now, a poll:
Poll: The whisper
The thing Natasha whispers to...( More spoilers. Sexy ones, too. Bwah ha ha. ) |
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| Flailgasms, fansquees, and ALL THE FEELS. Avengers review. |
[May. 6th, 2012|07:51 pm] |
Avengers, The Avengers, Avengers Assemble...whatever they called it in your damn country, it's my duty to tell you they titled it wrong. The actual title of this film is, Would You All Just F**k Already.
Oh my GOD. I have never seen such a wealth of eyesex in two-and-a-half hours.
I understand ever so well why ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.6) eeyore9990 said she couldn't make a proper response post to this film because her reaction was pretty much just one long squee sound. This film...I want to do this film. I could throw one leg over that boxed reel of celluloid and make moaning noises. There is little point in me trying to do a moment-by-moment breakdown of what I loved and what worked because every shot and every line and every plotpoint and every characterization and every calculated "See what we did there?" was beautiful. Some near-and-dear stuff will get specified under the cut, but, oh my god. The film gave every major character their own spotlight in the dance and I love how it did that and I loved absolutely everybody.
Which means my true fandom contribution should be to LIST ALL THE MOMENTS WHERE THE CHARACTERS WERE HAVING BETWEEN-SCENE SEX. AND THEN WE WILL ALL WRITE THEM. AND I'LL WRITE THE ONES THAT GET NEGLECTED. C'mon, what else do you hang around my journal for, anyway?
( SPOILERS, oh yes, behind here. More than just the eyesex discussion. But a whole lotta that anyway. ) |
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| I say the sports announcer is the son of the cabbage merchant. Bets? |
[May. 5th, 2012|09:41 pm] |
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While I sit here gnawing my arm waiting for The Avengers, I gotta say, the most recent episode of The Legend of Korra, "The Spirit of Competition," is one of the most perfect pieces of storytelling I've encountered in a less-than-half-hour episode. That? Coulda been a freaking season on another show. An agonizing, why-are-you-stretching-it-out-this-way season.
I think one of the things that delights me so about the Avatar TLA universe is that it refuses to get caught in the "If Only Those Characters Had Talked About What They'd Seen For Just Fifteen Seconds We'd Have Got Past That Misunderstanding And Could Have Avoided That Whole Plot" cliché. (I'm sure there's a shorter TV Trope name for it.) ATLA refuses to do that. People see something, they misunderstand, but are shortly talking about it and working it out so that we can get on with better story.
( Spoilery breakdown and squees ) |
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| Oh, look, little half-moons of blood on my palms. |
[May. 5th, 2012|07:11 am] |
*folds self into semi-lotus position, mantras:*
I am a mature, RATIONAL human being who does NOT regret her acceptance to wait until Sunday to see The Avengers when my friends have a free schedule.
*grinds teeth*
*digs nails into palms*
...crud.
*goes to watch Hawkeye scene in Thor again, hyperventilating uselessly* |
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| Pearle Vision commercial (Ought to be sequel fanfic of this. ^_^ ) |
[Apr. 5th, 2012|05:54 am] |
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Anyone seen this commercial? Many reasons to love it:
Not just the implication that "naughty librarian" is something she finds an entertaining, sexually empowering concept, but that the commercial let both a man and a woman confirm the "Get 'em" in turned-on breathlessness. Beautiful. (And it's funny!) |
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| Seriously, don't expect anything from the songs. But otherwise I loved it! |
[Mar. 20th, 2012|05:44 pm] |
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Dreamt Sunday night that I had to give an impromptu stage performance of the mayor's wife in The Music Man and I did it channeling Sian Phillips as Livia in I, Claudius. Seemed to go over well.
I think I had ancient civilizations on my mind last night because I got my hands on a DVD of the animated Joseph, King of Dreams and watched it Sunday. This was the direct-to-DVD Dreamworks follow-up to the success of Prince of Egypt. Now, I never hear a single word about this film, and I have lots of animation fans in my net circles, so I figured it was a critical flop. But I found it cheap and was curious.
I went into it with low expectations. I was astounded at how delightful it was! If you can overlook the utter forgettability of the songs (I can), I can hardly think of a thing to criticize. I never realized how hard it must be to make everyone in that story sympathetic. Joseph could come off as arrogant, his brothers could come off as brutes, Potiphar could be a foolish cuckold. But everybody lived. Flaws and gifts, hopes and despairs, there were so many full-fledged characters in that thing. I was amazed. They kept it a children-friendly story yet no one was reduced to one-dimensional motives. Even tricky adult-issue elements chose to practice very nice subtlety, such as Potiphar's wife trying to seduce Joseph; there was all this careful unspoken communication that just poured out of that important scene: Joseph knowing he can't accuse his accuser right back because he knows it'll be an unforgivable offense, Potiphar understanding what's really going on and hating it, and Potiphar's wife showing an ounce of compassion even while she protects her own interests first.
There's so much of that. They were so very careful, trying not to give the viewer facepalm moments. Joseph doesn't simply blurt out his dreams about lording it over his brothers, for example; it's carefully set up and he's not so naive to miss that they won't like hearing that.
I really, really liked this film. I'm sorry it seems to have been so overlooked. (It's on Netflix streaming; check it out if you feel like it!) |
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| A round of "Guess the book"! Except I don't the answer either, so I hope someone knows. |
[Feb. 28th, 2012|03:40 pm] |
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Okay, who's gonna help me identify this fantasy book?
Bit in it that I'm remembering--guy goes to solicit help from a wise-woman, witch-woman type. There's break-up history implied between them. He wants to take a warning of what's coming back to his people, but...he's dying, or maybe he's not but the price of carrying back the info will cost his life, or maybe it's hers. And she gives him a fistful of sand--maybe she smashes an hourglass?--and tells him, he's got until the fistful is gone to get the message back to his people. So he has to make the journey back with this leaking fistful of sand, trying ever so hard to keep at least a few grains in his fist so he can make it back. It's just one part of the story but now it's in my head and I have no idea what that book was. It feels like I read it twenty years ago. Who else read it and knows what book this is? |
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| *pokes blue dragonses in bellies* |
[Feb. 25th, 2012|01:02 pm] |
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DRAGONSES! Oh, they are blue and chubby (maybe they're expecting? You know what that means--MORE DRAGONSES!) and utterly adorable and I love them. Thank you guys so much! &hearts |
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| Post-valentine's thanks! |
[Feb. 16th, 2012|06:37 am] |
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Oh, I love my pretty glass hearts! Thanks so much to ![[info]](http://l-files.livejournal.net/userhead/422?v=1318258971) melusinahp, incapricious, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/user_ontd.gif?v=91.6) titti, ella_bane, and ![[info]](http://l-files.livejournal.net/userhead/146?v=1320917197) emmagrant01!
In Strange Events of the Universe, I was on a long plane ride recently where they showed two films and NEITHER ONE was a romantic comedy. GASP! ^_^
(Pre-posting ETA: Oh, LJ, you've done it now, you've done away with the preview ability on posts altogether. You keep picking at my limits.) (Post-posting ETA as I edit: Wait, now it's back! I AM SO CONFUSED.) |
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| 2CELLOS appeared on Glee! |
[Feb. 4th, 2012|01:41 pm] |
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This has been thrown around on my flist, but in celebration/revelation of its performance on this week's Glee, I gotta display it again in case anyone missed it: the sublime cello performance (and, let's face it, the slashiest you'll ever see) by Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser (a/k/a 2CELLOS) performing "Smooth Criminal":
Glee had a Michael Jackson-themed episode, and I found myself wondering if they'd do Smooth Criminal, thinking, "But nothing can ever top the cello version." Guys, they GOT SULIC AND HAUSER THEMSELVES TO PERFORM THE CELLO VERSION IN THE SHOW. I died of joy. |
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| Pretty, well-dressed men |
[Jan. 31st, 2012|08:51 pm] |
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Now, how on earth has no one on my flist yet posted a picspam of the Tom Hiddleston Esquire Magazine fashion spread? Seems to me some of you rabid fans should have. Goodness, I'm glad I subscribe. |
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| Book rec: Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean |
[Jan. 28th, 2012|05:40 am] |
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While I am still in a stew over Megaupload (hell, I'm still stewing over the livejournal comment page changes--don't think I'm not refreshing ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=91.6) lj_releases, waiting for you to fill all those damn tickets, lj!), writing a coherent defense of the New Model of Media is going to take a solid day out of my life, and I don't have that day right now. So I've sensibly sat on my notes and tucked my dismay into the corner for now and will carry on with business as usual on the lj. For the moment that means more YA/Juvenile fiction recommendations.
Had anyone heard of Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean? Its book jacket proclaims it "The first-ever authorized sequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan"; in 2004 the copyright holders of Peter Pan searched for an author to write an official sequel, and McCaughrean got the honor. This is not like the Dave Barry or Ridley Pearson pastiches, nor is it one of those sideways twists on the Peter Pan story; the language is meant to reflect J.M. Barrie's original work, and so is the feel of the fantasy, with sly jokes and nostalgia touches adults will get. (If you haven't read the original Peter Pan and Wendy I recommend you drop what you're doing and have a look now; you won't believe how much of it's aimed at adults.)
I thought this sequel was enchanting. As a sequel it retcons nothing of the original work and yet still manages to slip Wendy and the Lost Boys back into the work neatly. There are 1930s England sensibilities crossed with Neverland familiarities. There's clever child-logic-magic. And there's darkness and heartbreak poking at the edges, too. Very much recommended. |
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| US Prosecutors shut down Megaupload, indict several workers |
[Jan. 19th, 2012|05:57 pm] |
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AH, CRIPES.
APNewsBreak: US prosecutors shut down one of world’s largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload
Not happy about this. Freaking miserable about it, actually. It still hasn't sunk in how many things this is going to affect in my daily activities. So many content sites that I frequent depended on it. So many.
Right when I was feeling damned proud of the internet for yesterday's activist SOPA/PIPA protest. I can't imagine it's a coincidence that this happened one day later.
What now? To whom do I write, and how do I do it without sounding like I advocate pirating? Megaupload might have been used in that way by many, but it's also a storage site for many of us, useful for sharing content which we owned or had permission to share. Can this be saved? |
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| Sex Meme and Kids' Lit. No wait, come back! |
[Jan. 15th, 2012|08:04 pm] |
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The "First sentence on page 45 of nearest book describes your sex life in the next year" meme:
From A Drowned Maiden's Hair by Laura Amy Schlitz:
The woman continued to limp toward the table.
Ooh, if that means there will be table bondage and beatings, yay!
I have an ulterior motive in doing the meme, because I want to recommend the book (which is why it's the book sitting next to me). A Drowned Maiden's Hair is subtitled "A Melodrama," and it does fit well into that category, featuring orphanages and mysterious benefactors and crumbling old houses and lies. It's actually quite fun and optimistic, for all that. And I couldn't put it down. The heroine is plucky but earnest, in a way I enjoy. Eva Ibbotson has an endorsement on the book's back cover and the author actually includes her in the dedication for pushing her to write the book.
And speaking of Ibbotson, a few days later I read another "orphans and mysterious benefactors and crumbling old houses and lies" book by Eva Ibbotson, which nevertheless couldn't have been a more different story from the previous book. But still completely delightful and with that same upbeat direction. This heroine is more sweet than plucky, and quite lovable. It's called The Star of Kazan, and while I think Eva Ibbotson hardly needs the endorsement, this really was one of my favorites of hers I've read. (Though nothing can top Which Witch?.)
Both are available as ebooks on Amazon and I found them in the juvenile section of my public library. |
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| Erotica rec: Playing with Prudence by Rachel Randall |
[Jan. 15th, 2012|12:32 pm] |
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I finally made time to read circe_tigana's delightful original erotica, Playing With Prudence.
It's wonderful smut! The language is lush but never too much--plenty of dialogue to keep the whole thing moving, and every scene is ripe with sex. It's full of bondage games and people who love each other very much and enjoy pushing boundaries. Go here and read excerpts and be linked to Total E-Bound's site where you can read more reviews and buy it if you'd prefer to get it from the original publisher rather than Amazon. |
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| Book rec: The Lost Conspiracy (a/k/a Gullstruck Island) by Frances Hardinge |
[Jan. 11th, 2012|06:23 am] |
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Who was it who told me Gullstruck Island by Frances Hardinge was the most amazing book? In the U.S. the title is The Lost Conspiracy and you were right, this book was incredible. I'm bubbling over to share it with everyone.
 
First paragraph: It was a burnished, cloudless day with a tug-of-war wind, a fine day for flying. And so Raglan Skein left his body neatly laid out on his bed, its breath as slow as sea swell, and took to the sky.
The concept of the extrasensory gifted characters is only the littlest tip of the iceberg; the worldbuilding in this book is gasp-inducing. From the mythology of the volcano gods to the way the island, the people, and the local pidgin get their names, everything is so clever I squirmed in delight with each new element. The revenge tattoos. Blissing beetles. The Ashwalkers, omigod, so original and so scary. And the way these concepts figure into the plot: How do you teach one of these gifted infants to tether its mind to its body? How do you make a promise to a god who cannot remember the past, only the present and future?
I can't believe this book was filed in the Juvenile section of my library. Not even Young Adult, but Juvenile. What on earth earns a book its categories? The story is so sophisticated I was having moments where I couldn't follow the twists and turns, the language is rich and demands you pay attention. It's way more advanced than a lot of "Adult Fiction" texts I've had shoved in front of my face. I dunno, would they have called it adult fiction if there had been a few "fuck"s in the text? Or a sex scene? Is that all that separates adult fiction? How is it done? |
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| Television of 2011 meme |
[Jan. 3rd, 2012|06:50 am] |
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Gacked from the_con_cept: Television of 2011 meme
Which TV shows did you start watching in 2011?
U.S./Great Britain: Downton Abbey, Camelot, Game of Thrones, The Borgias, Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Homeland, Grimm. Japan: Usagi Drop, Tiger and Bunny, Ao no Exorcist, Bleach, Nodame Cantabile, Princess Tutu, Chibi Devil, Hell Girl, Trigun, Ouran High School live-action. (Tried and quickly abandoned: D-Gray Man, Darker Than Black, Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru, Nabari no Oh, Petite Cossette, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. Tried and put on hold: Durarara, Seka-Ichi no Hatsukoi, Break Blade, Deadman Wonderland, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei)
Which TV shows did you let go of in 2011?
Grimm was fine but I'm not so much into the horror aspect. I couldn't get into The Borgias, so, that one went. (I looked at My Little Pony. I really did. I wanted to fall in love with it. Didn't happen. Oh, well.) And there were a host of anime series I gave at least one episode but they didn't click (see above). I'm on hiatus from Bleach, somewhere around episode 70. I would like to resume it but am not sure when.
Which TV shows did you mean to get into but didn't in 2011? Why?
I would like to try more comedies but it rarely happens. I keep meaning to start The Big Bang Theory.
Which TV shows do you intend on checking out in 2012?
I'll keep on with the current ones, but I don't really know of any new ones showing up.
Which TV show impressed you least in 2011?
Any reality show I happen to wander past. Don't like reality shows as a whole. I need plot. (Okay, I confess to an irrepressible fetish for Say Yes to the Dress and the "which of the three houses will we buy" shows.)
Which TV show do you think you might let go of in 2012 unless things significantly improve?
I hung on with Homeland for a little longer and I think it's kept me, but I might not go past one season with it. And I read something in Entertainment Weekly that criticized The Office, saying watching it is "starting to feel like work," and I realized I agree. The new uberboss is just so depressingly overwhelming.
Which TV show impressed you the most in 2011? Why?
I'm really enjoying Once Upon a Time but what surprises me most is that mainstream audiences are too! And Revenge surprised me in making its premise work for me even without a direct character-to-character translation in its modernization.
I loved Game of Thrones and Camelot like mad. I'm sad about Camelot. They say couldn't secure the leads for more, darnit.
Which TV shows do you think you'll never let go of no matter how crappy they get? Why?
I can't wait for the next Game of Thrones season. I'm sure I'll stick with that one all the way through. I can't imagine I'll ever drop Doctor Who, either. I don't feel the backlash disappointment that everyone else seems to feel for Glee; I really love the show and can look past its flaws. |
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| YULETIDE FIC: Les Liaisons Dangereuses-verse, Valmont/Danceny, ~7000 words |
[Jan. 1st, 2012|10:06 am] |
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Yuletide reveals!
I discovered who created my Yuletide gifts! fyrie wrote my Mulan-Aladdin crossover, twistedchick wrote my 1776 Adams/Franklin, and _hannelore wrote my Rapunzel/Little Mermaid! You guys are wonderful. Thank you all again for a fabulous Yuletide!
So imma gonna reveal my own Yuletide fic and meta on it for a minute.
Title: Deuxième Appendice (Second Appendix)
Fandom: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) by Choderlos de Laclos
Pairing: The Vicomte de Valmont/The Chevalier Danceny (with background canon pairings)
Summary: An additional collection of letters reveals that the conquests of the Vicomte de Valmont were not confined to the ladies of the controversy.
Words: ~7,000
I wrote for Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) by de Laclos, which you probably know has been done in multiple movie versions (and put John Malkovich on the hot badboys actor map). But if you've read the original material, you'll know the book is epistolary. The recipient, v_v_lala, was asking for Valmont/Danceny slash, which made me think the obvious response was to write all the letters that revealed that particular relationship. And the entire thing was written in my head at that moment, really; it was just a matter of getting it down on paper. Which is what all the cackling was about.
I knew that the story was going to appeal to a limited audience because that sort of lofty, 18th-century-fake-letter-writing-style-in-translation would not be everybody's cup of tea, but the opportunity to imitate that style was like a dam bursting. Not just delight but relief. The sick thing is, I nearly write like this every day, in work emails. No, really. I have to rein myself in when I begin to type, "What is wanted by the parties requesting these concessions is our receptive ear," and then I sob and backspace the whole thing and instead type, "The people who say they want these things really just want to know we're listening to them." Which, yeah, may be better writing but it makes me sad that the English language is as rich as it is and I don't get to play with it in the way it deserves.
So, anyway, I got to play with it for this story. You'll either like that sort of thing or not. If you do happen to like the style in the book of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, check out my fic. |
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| Wait, more Yuletide gifts! |
[Dec. 26th, 2011|01:37 pm] |
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Oh! Look what just rolled down the chimney on the 26th!
I'm so glad I posted about my Yuletide gifts; someone must have seen the post and realized I didn't get email notification, for some reason, about a third gift fic: Devotin' Full Time to Floatin', ~2000 words, Rapunzel/Ariel crossover, and the girls get up to such naughty things in the water (like you do). Smutty and sweet! |
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| Yuletide gifts! |
[Dec. 26th, 2011|09:25 am] |
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I got two full-length fics for my requests this Yuletide!
I got Disney Princess crossover fic, A Sense of Freedom, ~10K words, featuring two of my favorite Disney heroines (and their hunky, humorous guys), and the characterization and the plot and the way this story brings together two canons so seamlessly are so darn wonderful that it matters not at all that it isn't femmeslash; it wouldn't have worked for this story and I wouldn't have this story be any different from what it is, it's that delightful.
And I got 1776 fic, A Passion For Polite Intercourse, ~4K words, featuring John Adams/Benjamin Franklin in a scene one unmistakable step beyond innuendo, yet so wonderfully steeped in euphemism I sputtered myself silly. (It's the only AO3 story with a tag for "roast duck," too.) You will hear DaSilva and Daniels's voices when you read this, I swear.
I'm so happy to have been the instigator for these! I know the story I wrote for Yuletide is going to appeal to a narrow audience because of the style, but the comments I have got on it have been lovely. Will share after the reveal, of course!
I had wanted to provide some Yuletide Madness gifts but was stymied by the layout of the requests. The amount of work that elynross and astolat et al put into Yuletide is staggering, so it seems unfair of me to want to burden them further, but I hope that next year the archive is designed so that when Madness comes around, the requests will be organized by fandom. (In all other respects I find myself loving AO3 more and more. I didn't know you could download the stories in mobi format! How fab is that?) |
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| C'mon, Yuletide Madness, open open! |
[Dec. 22nd, 2011|05:59 pm] |
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Even though I still can't navigate the icon selector and I want comment preview back, I've been trying not to just stare at LJ news waiting for changes or responses, but rather I'm going on with fandom and all the things that make me happy about it. Fandom's supposed to be the happy part of life. It's almost Yuletide, yay!
Also, I've never changed my LJ layout; I still use the watermelon-pink-and-green-and-white Generator theme I first chose, and I cling to the old Xcolibur design of the default comment pages. This might be a reasonable moment for me to take a look at other themes and see if any of their styles and their versions of comment pages, with the old features preserved, are pleasing. I'm imagining that if my living room with its lovely antique wallpaper were ruined by a leaky roof, and if I have no choice but to go to Sherwin-Williams and pick out new wallpaper, I might as well allow myself to enjoy the redecorating aesthetic. |
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| Why bother with a subject line? LJ apparently thinks they're worthless. O U C WAT I DID THERE. |
[Dec. 21st, 2011|05:57 am] |
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Dear LJ:
Yup, I hate it, just like everyone else, big time. The loss of the drop-down icon menu and the loss of Comment Preview are my personal outrages, but I know why the loss of subject lines is tearing up a lot of people and communities.
I have this fantasy that when they posted about the new comment pages coming, they planned to reveal the changes beforehand as they claimed, but when the changes leaked right away and the response was a pretty uniform OH HELL NO they realized they weren't going to make things better talking about them before rolling them out, so they decided to go with, "Let's roll them out and give them a few days and see if everyone gets used to them quick and settles down." I mean, I think that's an understandable action to the huge negative response they were getting; maybe it did happen like that.
I don't think we're going to be settling down. The icon changes are as unwieldy as I can imagine. No more money for extra userpics from me, LJ.
So I'm hoping my part two of my fantasy--that LJ says in a few days, "Okay, they hate it, and we're going to lose revenue. Put it back until we get a better solution,"--takes place.
The other version of the fantasy, less desirable, is that they enable a reversion to the old look but (like they do) only for paid users.
I guess we'll see. |
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| One the one that's all alone and ever more shall be so |
[Dec. 16th, 2011|04:04 pm] |
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| |  musing | ] |
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| | "Come and I Will Sing You," Great Big Sea | ] |
Yuletide fic is finished! I should be banned from writing in that style; it's criminally easy for me to slip into that kind of voice. The format, though, is one I don't think I've tried before, so that was enough to give me gleeful cackles.
Writing for these small Yuletide fandoms gives me the sense of That's it; there is no other story I can ever write for this fandom; that was the behind-the-scenes tale I wanted to see told, and that's all I have for it, even if I didn't really have any idea what behind-the-scenes tale I wanted to write for that fandom until the recipient requested it. Somehow just one story solidifies, and I feel as if know that's the only one I can write for that fandom ever; the wad is shot. Does that happen to anyone else? |
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| It's Always sunny, period. |
[Nov. 29th, 2011|07:47 am] |
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| | October Project | ] |
Had my own mini-fandom reunion Sunday! I cannot make this stuff up; vacationing in Walt Disney World, I ran into emmagrant01 and Baby Grant. There were hugs and squees! Not only that, I swear to god I saw the two of them this time the previous year in Disney World (she says they were indeed here at that time). CANNOT MAKE IT UP.
In other Disney World cannot-make-it-up anecdotes, I owe a great evening meal to a package of... well, wait for it. Mom and I decided to hit the Magic Kingdom last night to grab dinner and watch parade and fireworks, despite a run of rain. Not to worry; rainy days are a great time to go to the parks: shorter lines. I always travel with those little packet dollar store rain ponchos; before we leave the room, I reach in the drawer where I'd stowed the travel umbrellas and the puffy ponchos in their little plastic baggies and grab them and stuff them into a bigger plastic bag for toting. All set, right?
Bus pulls up to the Magic Kingdom. It's drizzling. I reach into the big bag, grab a puffy little poncho packet...
...which turns out to be the plastic travel baggie in which I stow a maxipad, four minipads and two tampons. I have left the hotel carrying one poncho and one baggie of feminine hygiene products. THEY FELT EXACTLY THE SAME. CANNOT MAKE THIS STUFF UP, GUYS.
Hilarity ensues; it's way too funny to be upset over it. What also ensues, though, is the "You wear the poncho," "Don't be silly, YOU wear the poncho," looking-out-for-each-other argument which does not resolve; I try to amend it with, "Oh, I'll just buy an extra poncho in the park, " but of course Mom is in full Mom-mode, turning on the, "Don't be ridiculous; I don't even want a poncho, you wear this one, I absolutely refuse to wear one, IF YOU TRY TO BUY ME ONE I WILL NOT WEAR IT I WILL STOMP ON IT AND THROW IT AWAY AND CALL YOU NAMES YAH BOO."
One way or t'other, we have to get off the bus, and it's a genuinely chilly drizzle. Realizing I have lost the poncho fight and unhappy about it, I say, "Look, instead of going into the park and seeking dinner in this drizzle and waiting two hours for the parade, would you like to go the Polynesian Hotel from here and see if we can get a table at Kona Café or something? We'll certainly have a wait but we'll be warm and dry and we can go down to the counter service place if the wait's unbearable and then we can come back here and still hit the parade and fireworks if we feel like it." This is pronounced sensible; we board the resort monorail and go to the Poly.
Kona Café has a 45 minute wait; this does not surprise us in this rain; we rarely try to eat at a table service restaurant in WDW without reservations because the waits are mad. But the helpful cast member gestures and says, "If you want to eat at the sushi bar, they not only serve sushi but our full menu." I did not know this and this is ideal! I love sushi but it's not my mom's favorite, and I wouldn't have pushed it on her but we sit and order a small host of dishes and within minutes are served:
1. the yummiest volcano roll I've ever had
2. an awesome salad
3. butternut-lemongrass bisque
3. a mountain of teriyaki-hot mustard-glazed chicken wings so vast we have leftovers for days.
Replete, warm, and carrying a doggy bag whose garlicky aroma fortifies us all through the rest of the night, we return to the Magic Kingdom just in time to catch the parade and fireworks and then go back to the hotel and not get too wet or too cold in the duration. Great night.
(The package of feminine hygiene products survived the trip handily, you'll be happy to know.) |
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| "Guess the 'ship" meme, ganked from ariadneelda and a few others |
[Nov. 24th, 2011|09:45 pm] |
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| | "I can't decide whether you should live or die..." | ] |
I love this meme. But I've turned out to be a terrible guesser on everyone else's, so I'm going at it from this angle.
I haven't written all of these pairings; maybe half of them? But I love them all.
"Guess the 'ship"
1. The young cripple/The scarred loner
2. The terrorist prince/The patricide
3. The guy with the red sportscar/The geezer
4. The plucky reporter/The devil
5. The black-haired chosen one/The mouthy blond
6. The altar sacrifice/The perfect servant
7. You were trying to impress him/You assumed he was their chief
8. The infinitely rich alien/The one who is not his son
9. "Don Jose"/"Carmen (understudy)"
10. The Englishman/The Russian
12. The would-be god/The one who knew it was him all along
13. His socks are so disgusting that.../...they cause this person to inadvertently fire employees
14. The time-traveling medical person/The redhead with great legs
15. Hates being called "little princess"/The one who's starting to root for him
16. The L.A. cop/The shopkeeper
17. The one named after the inquisitor/The one named after the Marlowe character
18. The vampire/The Italian
19. The watchdog/The spider
20. The one who's not left-handed/The not-so-master of disguise
21. She knew he would save her when she jumped/His heart dried up long ago
22. Always number two, but at least you have chocolate/Always number three, but at least you have number two
23. The bleached blond/The pageboy
24. You couldn't leave him to burn/You couldn't give him up to your parents
25. Rather had than a heap of gold/Rather had than any ship in the navy
Some are meant to be a little misleading and some are from more obscure fandoms. To me they feel so obvious it makes me blush. ^_^
ETA: The answers! Below the cut.
( Answers! ) |
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| New fall tv: Once Upon a Time and Grimm |
[Nov. 23rd, 2011|06:09 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | grimm, once upon a time, tv | ] |
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| | have just found out starz' Camelot didn't get a second season. Boo. | ] |
So I've watched all the episodes of Once Upon a Time, and two episodes of Grimm.
I love Once Upon a Time. I love fairy tales and fantasy settings and True Love's Kiss and happy endings and a touch of bittersweet is just fine too, and the balance between the fairy tale setting and the mundane world in this show is done ever so precisely. If there were any less of the fairy tale setting I'd be chafing for more, but I would dare to say the balance is just right, like Goldilocks's porridge. Did you like The 10th Kingdom? If so definitely check this out; it has quite a similar feel. And I just read an article in Entertainment Weekly that says it's "TV's highest-rated new drama among adults." Lot of qualifiers there but I hope that means the ratings will keep it going. Yay!
Grimm, on the other hand, is well-done but I don't love it. I'll watch it a little more of it but it's, well, grim, so you can't complain it misrepresents itself. It's clever and manages to go places I didn't expect but it's horror, not so much fantasy. (It gives me the same vibes I used to have when the Datlow/Windling anthology of The Year's Best Fantasy was first published and half the stories were horror and I was jumping out of my skin every other story, yelling, "This is Fantasy?" at the thing. Some years later it renamed itself The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and I said, "Thank you, cripes!") Y'got your police procedural, y'got your serial killers...nothing wrong with that if you like that kind of thing, but I could go for a little more True Love's Kiss sweetness. Those of you who like Supernatural should give this a look. (And the horror element is exactly why I bailed on Supernatural, too.) |
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| Yuletide assignment! |
[Nov. 22nd, 2011|05:53 am] |
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| | Hint: It's not the Matthew Looney series but someday I'll actually nominate that | ] |
So, like, when you guys got your Yuletide assignment, did you scroll down through the email, looking at the first request, thinking, "No. That's not the match. I didn't offer that. Did I? I WAS IN A STATE OF MADNESS WHEN I SUBMITTED MY OFFERS; MAYBE I DID. No, calm down. Keep looking." And did that happen for each of the requests, cruelly and slowly (like a fairy tale narrative where all the older siblings go out first on the quest but they all blow it until the youngest kid goes off and tries) until you got to the very last one in the list, and you said OH MY GOD WHAT and then saw the details and then said "...Oh. OH. Yeah, I can do that. Yeah. Oh, YEAH. MWAH HA HA HA HA HA."
...or was that just me? |
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| I don't like that this is so accurate, but it is. |
[Nov. 21st, 2011|08:17 pm] |
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| | "Grimm", pilot ep | ] |
Oh, god, today's XKCD is my life.
Part of the problem is I refuse to update my software because it's working JUST FINE, thank you. Except when it's not. |
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| Dear Yuletide Author 2011! |
[Nov. 20th, 2011|02:33 pm] |
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| | Once Upon a Time ep 4 | ] |
Dear Yuletide Author:
I'm sorry you're stuck with my oddball requests! Not to mention how one-track they are; to have a requester who keeps coming back to slash, femmeslash, and more slash might give you the eye-rolls, rightly so. But I'm a romantic (or at least an erotic), and my favorite part of fanfiction is coupling folk together in the most delicious and unpredictable of intimacies. I ask forgiveness, but I don't really apologize for wanting. I'm only sorry that you might be unfairly burdened.
But, here you are and here I am, so, on with the requests. You've read the email, so, all that's left to add is the general stuff. I've asked for serious stories; not that I don't like lunatic crack but these three fandoms are new ground for me and I feel if they aren't taken seriously it will mean they're not to be taken seriously, and I'll be embarrassed for even wanting them. Does that make sense?
This doesn't mean I wouldn't want humor. Humor is so often what allows pairings like these to come into existence, isn't it? Wit and banter feel like they'd be necessary to drive the relationships in two out of my three requested fandoms, actually.
( 1776 )
( Disney Princesses )
( The Avengers (2012) )
My LJ is open to anonymous comments; you can ask me any questions here if you have 'em.
Most importantly, THANK YOU. I hope the whole thing seems a delightful challenge! |
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| Yuletide biz. Wow, déjà vu. |
[Nov. 14th, 2011|08:00 pm] |
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| | "Ignition," TobyMac | ] |
Played about with Yuletide Nominations, and, as usual, was confused by the rules new to this year. Found a fandom I'd nominated was rejected, and because it was apparently requested by someone before me (and they were rejected), I can't edit it and choose something else. *throws up hands* I think I shall just sit over here and yell at all the whippersnappers to get off my lawn. |
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| Suddenly uncertain... |
[Nov. 13th, 2011|09:33 pm] |
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| |  decepticon/human noncon, mmm | ] |
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| | Dracula: L'amour plus fort que la mort | ] |
I wonder if it's wise to be running the Roomba at the same time I watch Transformers: Dark of the Moon? |
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| Trying out new season television... |
[Nov. 8th, 2011|06:28 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | jason isaacs, tv | ] |
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| | Revenge pilot | ] |
Started watching Case Histories, started watching Homeland...I don't think I will stay with either. I have to conclude that I like my Jason Isaacs and my Damian Lewis suave. Sorry, guys, you're wonderful actors in any role. It's just me. |
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| Pumpkin again! |
[Oct. 31st, 2011|06:29 am] |
I had one more pumpkin and an itch to do something cute and simple, so, this one took me only about two hours (it has large faces instead of little ones this time, whew). And not spoilery this time, so, I can put it above the cut.
A little lightness/contrast adjustment on this one in photoshop, but otherwise no retouching.
Nekozawa and his demon kitty puppet Beelzenef from Ouran High School Host Club. Some Black Magic Club representation for Halloween.
( Original and template beneath the cut... )
Happy Halloween again! |
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| Pumpkins! (Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler SPOILERS) |
[Oct. 30th, 2011|01:29 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | kuroshitsuji, pumpkins | ] |
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| |  accomplished | ] |
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| | pandora "white christmas" station (DON'T JUDGE ME IT'S COLD HERE) | ] |
Most years I know what I'm going to do for a halloween pumpkin pattern weeks before; this year the exact pattern eluded me. I wanted something that would top the difficulty level of last year's and also spoke to me, but that never quite happened. So I picked two that appealed and left it at that, not worrying about topping previous efforts.
Both images are Kuroshitsuji/ Black Butler; one image is a promo poster and the other a screencap from Kuroshitsuji II, and combined they look pretty damn spoilery (though they still don't give away as much as you'd think), so, if anyone wants to go unspoiled for Kuroshitsuji II (I'm looking at you, son_of_darkness) DUN CLICK.
Pumpkin pictures are unretouched!
Preview #1:
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Preview #2:
 
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What I learned: Faces are a lot easier to do when they're LARGE. It was hard getting the little faces on these two even as accurate as this, and I never did arrive at "perfectly happy with it." But it was fun all the same!
Happy Halloween, everybody! |
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| And they're blue spiders, how cute is that! |
[Oct. 30th, 2011|10:58 am] |
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Lookit the adorable spiders on my infopage, awwwwww! No arachnophobe I, I shall wrap myself in my red spiderweb gauze drape and enjoy. Thanks to melusinahp, __hibiscus, samena, and an anonymouse. You're all sweethearts! |
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| Took the photo with my iPhone, of course. |
[Oct. 6th, 2011|11:44 pm] |
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| | sad | ] |
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| | Dean Evenson, "Healing Waters" | ] |
I found myself unexpectedly in front of the Apple Store on Michigan Avenue today. Flowers, balloons, cards, candles, apples (each with a single bite taken out of it, of course), post-it notes all over the front window, and a lot of sad people gathering in front. It was as solemn as any church. |
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| Book rec: The End of the Line by Angela Cerrito |
[Sep. 17th, 2011|07:43 pm] |
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| | The Last Airbender Rifftrax (the only possible way) | ] |
I picked up another YA book a couple of weeks ago; The End of the Line, by Angela Cerrito. This was supposed to be one of those "I'll read a few chapters of this and then go do other things" books; then the sonuvabitch locked me in its sights and had me in two pages, and I couldn't put it down until it was done. What was going on? Was it a reform school? A dystopian future? A dreamstate? The psychology of it is so thick that I found myself gasping after every chapter, setting the book down and having a heart-thudding few moments of what would I do, what would I have done if I this were happening to me. It's like an unintentional Choose Your Own Adventure, every chapter. Highly, highly recommended. |
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| Meta, distilled. |
[Sep. 17th, 2011|10:44 am] |
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| | Dracula: L'amour plus fort que la mort (I had to order this album!) | ] |
Meta-revelation:
A couple of weeks ago I picked up Red Glove by Holly Black, and all through the book I was delighted at how little exposition the book throws at the reader. The book treats the reader like an intelligent creature who can infer from context, as it drops hints at events past and assumes the reader has plenty of imagination to invent the conversations these characters might have had, the details of the lives they've lived before they arrived at these stages in their conflicts. It uses unfamiliar jargon and doesn't stop the action to explain it, since context is plenty. It was one of the first books in a long time that hasn't pinged my annoyance button with tedious blocks of exposition, and I was delighted.
Of course, once I finished it, I discovered it was the second book in a series. *facepalm*
Except, as I lifted my face outta my palm, it made me realize: this is how I like my fiction. How I like to read it and how I like to write it. Where the worldbuilding comes as it comes. Free of dense exposition blocks. Showing the unfamiliar in its context. Assuming the reader can use her brain.
No one style is going to please everyone, but here's my new personal writing maxim: write like it's the second book. |
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| DVD reviews: Red Riding Hood, Beastly |
[Aug. 14th, 2011|01:12 pm] |
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| |  geeky | ] |
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| | gilmore girls season 4 | ] |
Caught up with a couple of takes-on-fairy-tales films this weekend, courtesy of DVD. Despite their not getting good reviews, I love fairy tale retellings and so wanted to give them a shot.
Red Riding Hood should have worked. The concept is clever; if I were to sit down and tell you the story as a narrative, you'd say, "That's killer. Why wasn't that a good film?" Pretty, plucky Amanda Seyfried to play the lead role, Gary Oldman as a posturing fire-and-brimstone werewolf hunter, why wouldn't that work? And yet I just couldn't shake the mood of how fake it all seemed. Something in the dialogue, something about the way the actors spoke and reacted and moved looked disconnected and the whole thing ended up feeling dull. I couldn't buy it. I liked the ending; I really liked the whole story of it. I'm sad it didn't work. I think it needed British accents or something.
Beastly wasn't bad, but one element messed with me: I never believed our hot beastly badboy really fell in love with his girl or really changed. Alex Pettyfer just played the rich fathead f*cktwat boy too well in the beginning of the film. Some things in the film did please me: I am pretty sick and tired of the romance trope where twenty minutes from the end of the film our protagonist reveals the false pretenses under which s/he started wooing his/her love interest, and love interest goes off hurt and we have seventeen minutes of downer movie before they're allowed to reconcile at the end. Beastly didn't have that, thanks so much. It also contains what may be Neil Patrick Harris's best role to date. Yes, I've seen Dr. Horrible. Still thought this was an even better performance. Also, eight words which I never believed I would say: I may be crushing on Mary-Kate Olsen right now. |
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| Lighting matches and singing! Great tradition. |
[Jul. 31st, 2011|05:25 pm] |
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| | S-M TOTD: "Boy Falls From the Sky" | ] |
Didn't forget Harry's birthday! The cake is a bakery slice involving yellow cake, mascarpone filling, blueberries and other fruit. Now, where'd I put the candles? |
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| George Bernard Shaw wrote "Man and Superman"; today's post is titled "Dan and Spider-Man." |
[Jul. 30th, 2011|08:41 am] |
Was in NYC last week and saw some shows, including Dan Radcliffe in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
Conversation several weeks ago between me and m'best friend:
BFF: Do you work on your birthday?
Me: Hm? Yeah, usually. I mean I don't take off work specially on that day.
BFF: Do you think others do?
Me: ...are we talking about our trip? As in, certain people we would like to see doing their job while we're there?
BFF: Yes.
Me: When's Dan Radcliffe's birthday, then?
BFF: Saturday the 23rd.
Me: Aha. Well, the man is supposed to be a conscientious entertainer. I read that he didn't do the "let the understudy do one of my shows in the last week" thing during Equus because he knew audiences were coming to see him and he felt his duty was to the audience, so the story goes.
BFF: So should we go on Saturday anyway?
Me: Let me make this observation: I don't think Radcliffe is the sort to say, "Hey, I think I'll skip out on the Broadway eight o' clock Saturday night audience because it's my birthday that day." I think that's a safer bet than the matinee show, anyway.
BFF: Good point. Get tickets.
So of course he was there! And I have great news: the man can act, can sing, can dance, and has great comic timing. I mean, I never expected him to perform La Traviata or be premier danseur in The Nutcracker, but he has a strong singing voice with a pleasant vibrato that sounds great in solo on a stage (do you know how hard that is? envy, I has it!), and he can handle fancy choreography in a complex number just fine, and he can flash a manic grin that has the house roaring. His physical comedy was just as hilarious.
The audience was his, too, that night. The sellout crowd was one collective entity of fangirl all through, eating up the show and eating up his performance. His role in HTSIBWRT is a minor departure from his expected "earnest young man," in that he isn't earnest at all but is still trying to look like an earnest young man. His character has to turn on the charm while staying just this side of smarm. He has to be likeable, and Radcliffe pulls it off. It was absolutely delightful; my warm fuzzy feeling for the guy just tripled.
Having seen the show I feel he's part of the reason John Laroquette got his Tony award. Not that Laroquette isn't a wonderful actor all by himself, but it's as if it's a side commemoration of Radcliffe's very pleasing star turn: Radcliffe's not experienced enough to earn himself a Tony but he was good enough to make the show and the consummate actor alongside him seem all the more deserving.
And the orchestra pit did play a lick of "Happy Birthday" when he came out for his bow, in case you were wondering.
We also saw Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, hoping it would be fun and knowing that even if it wasn't it would be an experience about which we would be able to say, "Oh yes, I saw that debacle." It wasn't a debacle at all; I loved it! There are some genuinely good things in it beyond just the spectacle of it all. Bono did a great job on the music; I bought the OCR and have been playing it nonstop. The actors were top-notch. Spectacle has to be given its due here, because the sets and effects and costumes are terrific and the flying effects thrill. Really, all that's lacking is the awkwardness of the narrative pieces, which is why it's going to continue to be sneered at by critics. There are too many moods trying to fit into this show. It really doesn't succeed at blending Nerdy High School Woes/Campy Mad Scientist Schtick/Greek Mythology/Supervillain Stand-Up Comedy/Young Romance Angst into one show, but that's a tall order for anyone. Ashman and Mencken managed to make one mood conquer with Little Shop of Horrors but they didn't try to wedge in Greek Mythology.
But yeah, the musical numbers gave me chills up my back at times, the Green Goblin's schtick is hilarious (the grand piano bit had me effin' crying), and the finale sets are gasp-worthy. Plus, "Bullying By Numbers" is so homoerotic, you'll moan.
Go see one. Go see the other. Go see both and have really weird dreams the next night. |
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embarrassed
entertained
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