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sound: Nautilus Pompilius - Титаник

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I dreamt I lived in a country where it snowed 10 weeks a year. maybe more. for the rest of the year the snow just lay there '-) and it was so fine. so good. I not only survived, I actually enjoyed living there #-) suppose it was so incredibly cold you stopped noticig after a while. also, don't know wth is with gender switch in dreams, but this time I was definitely male. walking topless in winter... yes, sure.
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have met a third cousin of mine. he's a really cute and all around nice guy. he trains a junior tennis team, sings opera, speaks half a dozen languages, loves swimming and dancing. he resides in Sweden but will stay here till 26.07.09. and he looks more like an Israeli than most of us '-) aw, exotic family.
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I still am a terrible snob when it comes to writing/reading, and a grammar Nazi. somebody shoot me already #-(
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and last night, dear diary, we went to see Public Enemies.
deary me. )
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I really, really should be writing me bingo. instead I grumble about text formatting and contemplate not-quite-natural things to do to Tony. bad fan, no... nothing, really.
*headdesk*

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sound: Unheilig - Herz aus Eis

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making the best of me current unemployment, I went & saw 2 new movies in 2 days. and they delivered.

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Thick as Thieves | The Code | WhatEVER )

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Star Trek )

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sound: Steve Jablonsky - Optimus

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well, not exactly, not quite, but damn close #-) am obviously not complaining here.
oh, there was the spur of the moment adventure when I up & went to Jerusalem, on a cold winter night, to see Good [and the title is damn right] with me soulmate. (there is nothing like running through a city you do not know, like, at all, with the clock ticking and icy wind beating the crap out of you, aye #-)
there was a lovely silver & amber pendant, and a vast & intimidating contraption of a bouquet... it was beautiful, it was fantastic, but my hand seriously ached from carrying it around till I found a taxi, and then it didn't fit into the car #-)
[yes, you'd think it was Christmas Eve, but in fact it was my birthday, and yes, I fail at being feminine & graceful, epically so.]
all that & a stash of my favourite Bacardi Breezer, but as presents go...
...yes. yes, please '-)
funny thing you should say that... )

so that's where I've been out to '-)

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...DVD quality does it. the trick is to keep breathing, and God is in those little details... so instead of packing like hell I'm... trying to find my head all over again.
damn. daaaaamn... the colours alone..!
[1.57 GB in 2.5 hours, eh?]
[and he does smile. quite a lot, actually.]
(and somewhere out there an actor, a Minister of Finance & a prince are having a ball on the ruins of my would-be-proper life #-)

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sound: Serj Tankian - Lie Lie Lie

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я сейчас от этого фильма все-таки помру. свежеиспеченный капитан дворцовой стражи: негодяй: черный человек...
...
...аммэ, это либо архетип, либо тяжелый рок #-)
гниииида... персииииидская... [привознАя, на самом деле, но какая же классная!]

а от высоких семейных отношений мну тащится, как удав по стекловате, pardon my Russian. царь, который вполне царь, но которому так нужна сильная супруга, чтобы рядом была верная, умная и трезвая голова. а то его иногда ветром... колеблет #-) это может быть ни разу НЕ мегилат Эстер, но я их люблю. (тогда он для нее горы будет... что там делают с горами #-) горы, реки и звезды небесные.

а Мордехай, которому-таки не по размеру вышло одеяние с царского плеча? а царь, смотрящий на холокост такими разными глазами? а сцены в библиотеке, а... [а рука, останавливающая занесенный уже меч - и так крепко, так нежно берущая за горло..!]

РИ, РИ, РИ, но потрясающая. мое внутреннее блондинко громко мурлычет от удовольствия. мое внешнее шатенко очень хочет оригинальную версию на послушать царя с голосом осенних листьев #-)

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словом, все. у меня через 9[!] дней конвент. еще ничего не собрано, много чего не найдено, страховка не оформлена, на работе бардак... а я свунюсь по Глюку.
без комментариев '-)

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умру, похоронят, как не жил на свете...
...аммэ. эта еврейская история мну-таки зацепила. пока - чисто визуально, но... аргх! нельзя же так..! ржа и песок, песок и золото, золото на алом [опять и всегда], бирюзаааааа [слава Богу, хоть глаза другого оттенка, не то что у некоторых]... и совершенно глючный, волшебный, нереальный лунный [?] свет, эти королевские одеяния, как полупрозрачные лепестки... ну, разве что до звезд в волосах дело не дошло! предупреждать же надо...оооо...
у меня проект стоит, и саму меня слегка потряхивает.
"Здравствуйте, царь! Очень приятно, царь!" (с)
ыть..!
весь ужос в том, что картинку можно так легко вынуть из контекста. быть может, в контексте оно все не так... словом, не так. но контекста пока нет, а образ есть, и ассоциативная веревочка по нему уже вьется.

кстати да, об ассоциациях: что сталось с *королевой* эльфов в [печально] известном фильме? [видится мне удивительно *живая* леди с волосами, сплетенными в золотую корону... глюки, сэр!]

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in no good at all news, my desktop computer is apparently dead like a very dead thing, thanks to the latest blackout & the unwise lack of UPS. I think I pulled most necessary things off of it in time, but - crap. also, no Russian until I buy keyboard stickers.
life, thou sucketh. *headdesk*

in better news, the elusive featurette - when the Net feels like it - can be found, for example, here. look at them..!
[if my eyes do not deceive me, there be the prince with one eye already golden and the other one still sparkling blue. meep.]
[and yet - how, pray, can one download the precious thing? for there is, e.g., a BPRD featurette in the same style/format but much, much less elusive... then again, stealthy elves?]

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they did it. somehow they DID IT AGAIN. they made TRU XF, bless 'em. and we lived to see it tonight #-)
Z brought the tickets, I brought the cider, and...
!!! )

...and on me way to the theatre I accidentally bought this.
fck yeah #-)

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это таки было похоже на премьеру. почти полный зал людей в теме, пришедших именно посмотреть на Бэтмана. правильный зритель, честно аплодировавший в финале! (не стоя, правда, но и смотрели не Эпизод Третий...)
честные фильммахеры, ничего не засунувшие за финальные титры '-)
ужасный звук (то ли так и надо было, то ли системный дефект, но на грани слышимости гнусное электронное(?) завывание = головная боль, блин) и ужасный кинотеатр Глобус: пришлось найти и облаять работников уже после начала фильма, чтобы в зале полностью открыли занавес. и х...орошо с ними.
а теперь сказко. )
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sweet dreams now '-)

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на волне милостью наших кинопрокатчикофф депры был прокачан и отсмотрен Hellboy 2.
вотъ. )

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got PotC-3 in the mail, like, finally. gods, I sort of forgot [!] how wonderful and trippy and awesome it is. organic, sneaky and so thick with L it's leaking...
am, of course, incoherent, so here's a[nother] picture from last summer in NYC, taken after the movie, featuring me all bliss'd out:

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и где же была найдена и моментально скачана музыка из "Тысячелетия"? правильно, в русском сообществе по "Секретным материалам", ибо.
горжусь.
затем, конечно, мну занесло в украинское сообщество по "Секретным материалам"...
(Якщо ви бачили смерть Малдера, то це був не Малдер.
Якщо це був Малдер, то це була не смерть.
)
...потому что.
#-)
(ну вот... стоило возгордиться, и ляп - мой родной народ снова пишет мягкий знак в третьем лице & настоящем времени возвратных глаголов.)


я существо неприхотливое, но голодное. что делать, если фанфег гораздо проще найти, чем эссе на тему? от то ж... параллели, блин, между Feet of Clay и S.R. 819. косвенное доказательство бытия Л-пространства #-)


а еще я наконец-то посмотрела "Черную кошку, белого кота". это не передаваемый словами восторгъ! это - самое оно... спойлеръ )


...но саунд. крышу уносит нежно.

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sound: MILLENNIUM MAIN THEME

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ah, what the hell )
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pls tell me I am not making an animated icon out of that... or something... VirtualDub has crashed anyway...
...but damn. and a writer's block, and soundtrack to turn the soul inside out to.
daaaamn '-)

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sound: Catatonia - Mulder & Scully

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go here. scroll down to The X-Files section and download the Rook vid. because it is one of the finest things ever done.
[a cappella + Fox Mulder = ♥]

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Jo-o-o-o-o-nes!!! )
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and now I am spammed by someone named Skinner, offering me unbreakable doors of steel. should I begin to panic, mildly?
#-)

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there's nothing like emergency coding at night to revive oneself. this stimulating state of quiet panic, not entirely dispersed by the fact that the code works... ah. argh.
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uncle is making progress, dammit! two days ago he was awake and almost certainly recognized Mom and cousin and reacted to their words, like, to the message. today he looked like he wanted to ask [for] something. knock on wood, he just might make it compos mentis...
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speaking of. his ex-wife called [married long ago, divorced long ago, 2 daughters older than me, not particularly eager to maintain any contact with their father]. she asked for Mom, who stepped out, and all but wept at me, and told me that now she had a reason to thank Mother for her condolences a year ago when her [the ex's] mother died. I... know I am not the most socially adequate person, but, like... didn't she have a perfectly good reason for such gratitude a year ago? did somebody else in the family had to nearly die to somehow make it even? WTF, pardon my French???
...compos mentis, aha.
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being obsessive, I have downloaded a copy of Golden Eye my computer can stomach. well, squee. diluted by a strong and persistent want to hit Mr Bond, repeatedly, with something designed for maximal damage, but a squee nevertheless. mean, Sean Bean looks so very serious about shooting 'em up you want to dip his character in some cold water & drag him away from politics. kicking and screaming. mmm.
there are now zombie plot bunnies TM, munching happily on "stubborn son of a bitch, who has to be most thoroughly killed to stop, and then not entirely for certain" thingy. "free fall," "breathing fire" and "golden eyes" are also on menu. gimme a shovel, pretty please?
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and, like a good girl, I've worked through seasons 1 and 2 of The X-Files. the first thought I had, sad though it is, was, "Dear God, we were so young..!" *facepalm* but though the game is sad & long and I've grown snobby & cynical, it's still awesome. on the new levels '-)
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oh, and! though still in Ithilien, I've parted with its rangers. it was - as well as for Frodo & Sam, I guess, - a strange experience, uneasy, thrilling, dream-like. to be written up as soon as I get my wits together...

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трэш вовремя )

...позднее зажигание: тапком в меня, конечно, кинут, но это - то самое классическое "связался черт с младенцем". и "Призрак оперы" тоже, с определенной точки зрения. а детей нынче сами знаете, как воспитывают. бедные черти.

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I know. I know. it's [1] a remake, [2] not a good one, as remakes go, [3] a wtf of epic proportions. but fuck, tell me about guilty pleasure...
for The Hitcher [2007] has just hit too many buttons. with a sledgehammer.
like this. )
I am such a sucker #-)
...and IMDb users, as always, deliver #-)
then there are deleted scenes. do let's watch them...
~
also, I can has make a daisy cube.
:D

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there's this film, with which I cannot help but disagree, you know, morally... being a weirdo from another planet & time and all... but morality, once dealt with, may go & stand in the corner. because Better Than Sex, well, is.
unbelievable and so full of life..!
and
yes
cold shower, alas, is not an option. what to do '-)

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sound: Greg Brown - When I Go

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or something along those lines. for tonight seems the time to unwind and write certain thoughts out of my sore head.
so, Dust )
ah, L-space.

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sound: Smashing Pumpkins - Ava Adore

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"Пыль": Откровенно Глючный Фильм.
как всегда, смотреть его я собралась по неправильным причинам... ну, и получила. по полной.
черное, белое, красное, золотое... рыжий Люк, подбрасывающий монетку так высоко - из обоих стволов, - что она, по-моему, падает совсем в другом "здесь и сейчас". страна, где века не сменяют друг друга, а так и живут - и умирают - вместе. золото, путешествующее по фильму, как стрелозубый палтус из "Аризонской мечты"... рыжий Люк с просквоженными небом глазами, и я вспоминаю Т.Э. Лоуренса и арабское замечание о ненормальном для живого человека цвете глаз. и опять - "Над небом голубым," хотя вера здесь почти ни при чем. [пардон. а ружие по имени Евангелие от Луки?!]
...и Дэвид, в интервью о руки держащий сцеплеными надежно и крепко.
...

...дышать, блин, больно, однако.
#-)

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am feeling lousy, BUT.
Equilibrium, gentlefolk, with a happy purrfectly balanced ending? kicked so much backside it must come out front #-)
aw, aw, aw. and I know how it's done, and it does not change anything.

but Sean's "Tread softly..." will now haunt me.
dreamers.
damn.

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we interrupt our obscure cinematographical binge to say:
Hot Fuzz: it's ALL THAT.
and hot.
honestly. seriously.
and funny as hell.
aw ♥



I wish I were more coherent or informative [though who hasn't seen that one yet, eh?], but the overload of awesome has rendered me speechless. that and laughing so hard I had to lie down.
[and then there were the outtakes...]

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like hell it is 5 minutes. on the whole it well could be crap, but... I somehow ended up with a dozen of caps, trying to catch that secret smile. the scene lasts 5 minutes at most, but there is a not-quite-expected infinity, amazing & subtle, gentle shades of emotion, a silent monologue if you will, somehow not trite despite the film's best efforts '-)
wow.
small things, idle hands living their own absent-minded life, and I wonders whether the mannerism is a character thing or vice versa, something personal that just fit in...
...dreamy.
and then there are plot holes temporal twists and turns, bringing parts of the arc together in a weird way.
wow.
I should not be allowed near movies past midnight #-)

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how come the words "I don't need / can't afford another obsession!" are always uttered when it's too late?
any-fckin'-way... blast. blast. Dead Man, which is awesome by default, has just gained more points on the "who isn't in that movie?" scale.
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and um. speaking of unaffordable: there's another film that either costs over $35 or exists in VHS format and is unavailable for direct shipping to my corner of the world anyway. er. would some kind soul in the States mail the thing to me, all expences covered?
*headdesk*, told you!
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... ... ...
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and grrr. while I agree that the double pupil contact lenses were way freaky even for Aliens, them guys still could've saved some shots for a DVD gallery at least. as a reference, dammit.

why, yes, I am in a strange place...

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sound: George Strait - The Cowboy Rides Away

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!@#$$$%^ Americans and their !@##$$%^ habit to stick more footage after ending credits! in special features, no less. *headdesk*
so there Near Dark people spoke of The Things Not to Be, Which Are Damn Cool Anyways, and got me hungry #-(
mean, Lance and his storytelling..! of forever twilight, which is indeed near dark..! it's perfectly evil, sowing the seeds of L in succeptible minds.
[and Jesse's ivory-handled gun, and the memorable visit to Tombstone, and. couldn't get tangled any worse if I wanted to.]
damn.
~
...and Ab-normal Beauty is everything it promised to be.

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Near Dark is love.
's a kind of movie that's pretty damn awesome to begin with, and then it catches up with you.
it feels like a walk in long summer twilight, when the wind's just right... and creatures weird dance on that wind.
it never says many words, but it kicks your brain & heart into getting the entire message anyway. it unfurls, again like a summer night.
wow.
...
...and then there is a featurette in which, among other wonderful things, Lance Henriksen & Bill Paxton share fond memories of some wicked fun, making one wonder how they got away with it all #-)

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the man who may sing Cohen '-)

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oh squee.
there's a film starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif, and it's made of awesome, and it's not Lawrence of Arabia #-)
I am watching The Night of the Generals and loving it to pieces.
and of course General Tanz's remark on Major Grau's cologne has caused my brain to quietly implode.
awwwwwwww.
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well.
and in the end I do not love it any less. one thing is, it never stops being funny, going through various kinds, stages & shades of fun, of course. quite like Death, who's always grinning...
...and it is open, in a way a haiku is open, through clean-cut and precise 'what' inviting a perceptive/associative infinity. life, death, love, justice, duty, big and small, and to each - of us, too - their own. marvellously executed!

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after much angst and trouble I have finally seen that film...
they were all in love with dying, they were drinking from a fountain )

I have also seen Strayed, but am too sad to talk about it.

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sound: Danny Elfman - V. "I Forget"

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HR: take 2, yes please )

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sound: Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful (I'll Put a Spell on You)

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been to the cemetery for Grandfather's upcoming anniversary. it appears I come to the cemetery to feel acutely alien to this particular country... and to watch lizards. there are different lizards each time we come, from great black ones to small striped grey ones, and the creatures seem to prosper on eroded stone linings. so there is a funeral procession coming in on the upper, for want of a better word, lane, and there we are on the lower lane, heading out, excited and lingering to see the reptiles... hope we didn't offend anyone. but then again, quite a few people in said procession are offended by the presence of our likes in Israel, so there you go. reptiles vs. primates: 1:0.

~

and now for real,
Hannibal Rising. )

~

oh, wow.

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nothing's happening here. la...
there were weird dreams, which I cannot remember properly, alas. one had Norse Myth and Voodoo mixed up in my head, resulting in a group of children dedicated to various deities hiking to a big house in a snowy forest, and spirits having red hair & pale skin. IIRC, we had a terrific time up in the woods. kid!me had some inklings of impending doom, but even if something nasty was going to happen to us, it was apparently scheduled past the time I woke up. so there's just a memory of good happening against reason '-)
the other one, memories of which are way too vague, included at least this one element Z is going to love: circa Episode I Anakin Skywalker sailing into the river Anduin. he was arguing with someone mentor-like, and the next second - bang! colors fade to sepia-golden-brown, and the two suddenly are in a boat, and Ani looks outright scared. methinks he was afraid to drown, and, by the looks of his mentor, he's got all reasons to be.
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I was going to watch River's Edge, but while I was looking for it on the shelves, I picked up the DVD of The Stunt Man, and... yeah. got very much distracted. because besides the awesome movie there's The Sinister Saga of Making of..., which is priceless. and then there's the want to see it all over again with Saga in mind... I did not even touch the commentary. yet.
[OMFG, apples & blue eyes & mindfuck & genius insane... and Peter's perfect storyteller's voice with tiny eerie accents... *ah*. he didn't read anything, like audio books or poems or anything for the record, right? *sigh* now, where's my copy of Loitering with Intent...]
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HR is being downloaded. at least I'm pretty sure it's HR. I hope to see the end of that download, too #-( it's... incredibly frustrating. slower than a sedated snail & illegal, but a must-see is a must-see. soon, dammit.
~
so much for thinking positive #-)

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good heavens, man. Batman Forever. above & beyond everything else, the music in that one..!
*swoons to the sound of Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me*
*and then there's Kiss From a Rose. how's that?!!*
*wait, there's more. Smash It Up and The Passenger WTF!*
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then there's one. hell. of a cast acting as though on some heavy drugs. seriously, look at them. they are in some other world we can but glimpse when the camera man gets lucky, and it's not the one the script would suggest. if there's something left of the stuff the cast and crew were on, I want it. the trip looks smashing.
[everyone and Rene Auberjonois. if that is not a flashback, I dunno what is!]
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oh, man. it sucks so much it turns sucking into an art form.
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"Master Dick" alone deserves an award. self-contained, so to speak...
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there's kill-me-now-pls dialogue, like
"You trying to get under my cape, doctor?"
"A girl can't live by psychoses alone."
it's fuckin' inspiring!!! with a right kind of warped imagination fantasy soars, be the source astoundingly good... or astoundingly bad. somehow there are just enough moments of brilliance to encourage gap filling & other kinds of creative thinking. repressed memories, split personalities, mindfuck!
~
acid colors do confirm the trippy theory. my eyes hurt!
~
oh, and that was the gayest thing I've seen lately, or maybe ever. it... it jumps out at the unsuspecting you.
like whoa.
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there's only one thing left to do: an orgy a picspam.
we're all batshit crazy here... )
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when all's said and done, Tombstone has got quite a lot to answer for... #-)

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sound: Seal - Kiss From a Rose

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I went and saw The Illusionist... no, I hunted it down, then ran and saw it '-) ah, well...
who in the audience said 'mindfuck'?! )
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other than that, I've just finished reading a book that mentions albinos, redheads and Luke Skywalker #-)
and while my relationship with Advil does not approach House's Vicodin addiction, I DO understand the man.

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sound: Chris Rea - Nothing To Fear

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so... it was another 'confound it all' night. Casino Royale this time...
let me reiterate, FUCKIN' A )
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plus, I have learned more HTML while at it #-)

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sound: Chris Cornell - You Know My Name

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there's another perfect fan video.
oh, there are quite a few great House vids, but this one is just guhhh plain awesome. runs smoothly & fucks with your head just like the source, and it's cut like a diamond, and the song is it...
aw, just go & watch Bukowski by [info]astolat, do.
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some of the best songs ever I first heard in fanvids... vidders be blessed!
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coming next, provided I don't pass out from work and/or sickness, Perfume, DDS and a painted movie #-)

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sound: System of a Down - Kill Rock 'N Roll

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hell-o, it's a weekend, Mom's birthday party is tomorrow, and I'm sick & about as sociable as a dead fish. perfect timing, reality. [sick mind kicks in, saying that a dead fish can, so to speak, get around... fck]
anyways. quit the job stint for the day when semidry heaves began taking more time than job itself. got home by taxi, half-dead, and had been miraculously revived in minutes! more proof that I'm a vampire: home, if only nominal, fixes me right up #-)
and then, of course, there's moooovies, the Midnight... one that assaults all senses somehow, but gently, gently... can you speak honey & cream? there. it... lubricates the viewers before having its way with them. [for the record, I'm sober saying that. I know...]
[also for the record, that is what L is, the great art and culture of story telling, the human factor screwing with the immediate world to the point of recoil & kick, to the brilliant singular point of creation surprising the hell out of the maker. thing being, the legends last, evolving & mutating sometimes but still, and each coming generation of humans rediscovers them anew... wicked! like Möbius band!]
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then there's movie trash. will have to pick it up tomorrow, body willing. that, and drinks for the party, and maybe cowboy-ish boots '-)

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on the one hand, if you consider quality, legality and such, the idea sucks. on the other hand, you still get 10 films on one DVD, and all 10 are NOT total crap. not the 10 I would have chosen, but hell, 5 of them are [classic] gems. not the worst deal '-)
and they are in Russian, so the family can get the idea of what is driving me up the wall these days '-) [dear Mother's reactions included "He is still alive?!"]
some of them are also dubbed so that you can hear the original, enough to fall in love with certain voices... damn it '-)
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anyway, I have seen Heat a few hours ago and am still trying to come around. oh fck )
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...and then there is music. terrible movies with terrific soundtracks! how do they do it? when I start seriously suspecting myself of projecting & seeing things where there are none, something like Sting's A Thousand Years happens and seems to say that yes, among the rubbish thrown together there ARE bits of pure gold. damn? very much so.
shall go now, before Solaris, Red Planet and Event Horizon do serious damage to the remains of my brain...

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sound: Sting - A Thousand Years

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so, PotC2: DMC [and the abbreviation-loving part of me has warm, warm feelings for DMC].

we want to know what the movie makers were smoking. shooting. whatever. because certain scenes could not have been made - nay, conceived - by sober humans. it's crazy! and fucking awesome.
[also, the film at times gives off Star Wars vibes so strong they knock me out. hellp.]
flawless? gods forbid. fucking awesome? hell yeah. compared to the first part? why bother, it's something else. still...
which is love )
that is not *it*, that is what struck me the hardest about the movie. rawr.
[and very little of it is actually human, well, ha]

I only wish I saw it in proper company, one that would NOT find all the right things repulsive. people, meh. they have no taste in... well #-)

and then there is this, to illustrate how great minds sink alike. [Dana? we spoke of Nemo, right? you must read this one]

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sound: Aquagen ft Rozalla - Everybody's Free