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lesbiassparrowI have a long post I want to write on Kabhi Alvida naa Kehna (aka KANK) but my mind is refusing to cooperate. But I am really bored and thought instead I would bring you egomaniacal randomness about me:
1. I have silly dislikes. I have not forgiven anyone involved in A Knight's Tale. Except for Rufus Sewell, but I pretend he isn't in it. Like I pretend he wasn't in Tristan and Isolde (another film I haven't forgiven most of the actors and writers for). This is the reason I cannot watch Brokeback Mountain, because it would involve me forgetting Heath Ledger's awfulness and the general horror of A Knight's Tale.
2. I quite frequently like over the top angst and agony in my entertainment. This is why I like Bollywood, because it gives you this plus dancing and singing. I never understand when people critique this. Yes, subtlety has its place, but so do 100s of people dancing around and singing at pivotal moments in a film.
3. I have only read extracts of Margaret Drabble's Seven Sisters but it sounds like the most tedious middle-class navel gazing piece of rubbish ever in the history of ever.
4. I don't care what historians say, I think the French revolution was all round a good idea, even if it devolved into the Reign of Terror. More countries should have followed their lead. And no, I won't be going to see Marie Antoinette as I think she was a moronic idiot who does not merit an apologia. She wasn't that bleeding young and naive.
Er, I think that's enough egomania.
ETA: D'oh! I forgot the most important point. Please share some random stuff about yourself with me! I don't care if it's that you fear cabbages or spend your evening turning Charles Dickens' prose into rhyming couplets.
ETA 2: I also forgot that I greeted yet another (but totally unexpected) delivery man in my dressing gown. I am really going to have to buy something that is a bit more sophisticated than the one I own if I plan on doing this more.
1. I have silly dislikes. I have not forgiven anyone involved in A Knight's Tale. Except for Rufus Sewell, but I pretend he isn't in it. Like I pretend he wasn't in Tristan and Isolde (another film I haven't forgiven most of the actors and writers for). This is the reason I cannot watch Brokeback Mountain, because it would involve me forgetting Heath Ledger's awfulness and the general horror of A Knight's Tale.
2. I quite frequently like over the top angst and agony in my entertainment. This is why I like Bollywood, because it gives you this plus dancing and singing. I never understand when people critique this. Yes, subtlety has its place, but so do 100s of people dancing around and singing at pivotal moments in a film.
3. I have only read extracts of Margaret Drabble's Seven Sisters but it sounds like the most tedious middle-class navel gazing piece of rubbish ever in the history of ever.
4. I don't care what historians say, I think the French revolution was all round a good idea, even if it devolved into the Reign of Terror. More countries should have followed their lead. And no, I won't be going to see Marie Antoinette as I think she was a moronic idiot who does not merit an apologia. She wasn't that bleeding young and naive.
Er, I think that's enough egomania.
ETA: D'oh! I forgot the most important point. Please share some random stuff about yourself with me! I don't care if it's that you fear cabbages or spend your evening turning Charles Dickens' prose into rhyming couplets.
ETA 2: I also forgot that I greeted yet another (but totally unexpected) delivery man in my dressing gown. I am really going to have to buy something that is a bit more sophisticated than the one I own if I plan on doing this more.
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Date: 2006-08-25 07:32 pm (UTC)Share? Ok.
I can't swim, I'm phobic of being in water yet the ocean has a siren call to me. I dream of dramaticly flinging myself off a cliff into the thudering waves on a dark stormy night in a pretty dress.
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Date: 2006-08-25 08:31 pm (UTC)This is a very gothic dream to be having... :)
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Date: 2006-08-25 07:32 pm (UTC)*I thought Titanic was the most overrated film ever!! I sat there waiting to cry my eyes out..never happened.That film won 11 Oscars??? the horror!!
*I love Broccoli :D
*I dispise the republicans,and the Dems are no better..they are spineless.
*if I like something or a topic I have to know everything about it, that's why I can answer anything about SRK, the Red Sox, LOTR, the French revolution, WWII. I know the hight of the Patronus towers in Malaysia for crying out loud!!:/
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Date: 2006-08-25 08:33 pm (UTC)And why do you know the height of the Patronus towers?
Re: Randomness
Date: 2006-08-25 08:52 pm (UTC)heeee :D
because I saw it in the DON promo, and just wanted to know how tall the damn thing was!!
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Date: 2006-08-26 05:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-25 07:50 pm (UTC)* I love A Knight's Tale with an unholy and ridiculous passion. The more negative opinions I hear about it the more I'm convinced that I like it mostly because everybody else hates it. Always for the underdog, that's me.
* I love cooking strange and exciting things, but only for myself. If someone else is going to be eating it -- hell, going to be around to watch me destroy the kitchen -- I stick with one of four things I know how to cook really well. This may become a problem when my roommate moves in next week.
* I have watched more Star Trek in the past eight weeks than ever before in my life. I think I may be becoming a Trekkie. O.O
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Date: 2006-08-25 08:34 pm (UTC)Hee! I do feel my own dislike for it is quite irrational and I've met people who think it's a great deal of fun. So you are not alone!
And why all the Star Trek?
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Date: 2006-08-25 10:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-26 02:59 am (UTC)But you should be watching Ros na Run!
So I can talk about it with someone. Because it's quality Irish language soap opera!no subject
Date: 2006-08-26 03:13 am (UTC)That's right! I have it bookmarked, I just keep forgetting. I promise to start addicting myself tomorrow. :D
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Date: 2006-08-26 04:09 am (UTC)And do watch Ros na Run; it's not terribly good or anything, but it is 500 times better than any other thing RTE produces. And it has a lot of machinations and nasty people and a conflicted priest. Though I haven't seen the bit where the priest is conflicted yet.
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Date: 2006-08-25 07:55 pm (UTC)I shall be going to Marie Antoinette for the costumes, because oh, yes, I am shallow like that.
Mmm. I hate eggplant. I went to a men's (actually boys', but I didn't know that) college because I was a '70s feminist with a chip on my shoulder.
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Date: 2006-08-25 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-25 08:37 pm (UTC)And they're making a sequel...
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Date: 2006-08-25 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-25 08:50 pm (UTC)Elizabeth had Eccleston as Norfolk *and* a brill performance by wossname as Walsingham. Pity about the decision to play Elizabeth as a braindead idiot who would have wound up beheaded even younger than Lady Jane Grey.
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Date: 2006-08-26 06:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-25 08:54 pm (UTC)The other day I saw Bride and Prejudice for the first time, and while Jane Austen might flip out over it, I thought it captured the spirit of the book so well (better than the 2005 film IMO), and was so much fun that I adored it. They sang! They danced! It was so colorful!
Random fact: I have OCD *issues* - not too bad, but they're there. To pick one: I eat foods that come in discreet pieces - like pretzels or grapes or french fries - on alternating sides of my mouth (one piece to the left, one to the right, and so on), so it's always important that I have an even number of them. If there is an odd number, I have to cut the last one in half. I never worry about this with other foods - like pizza or pasta or such.
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Date: 2006-08-25 10:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-25 10:08 pm (UTC)But but but Alan Tudyk! All for the expiation of Rufus - for better or worse I think I can forgive him just about anything. Like, murder.
I said for better or worse.
Random Stuff: I can do the splits, pull my front leg over my shoulder and do push-ups.
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Date: 2006-08-25 10:19 pm (UTC)Hee! Obviously my Alan Tudyk is Rufus Sewell... Actually most of my hate in that film centers on Heath Ledger. And the director and writer.
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Date: 2006-08-25 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-26 05:54 am (UTC)I have a feeling your delivery speed will go up. No more waitning around for packages. :)
I was a very literal child and thought there were herds of naugas and colonies of minces somewhere, and that's where naugahide furniture and mince meant pie came from.
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Date: 2006-08-26 05:59 am (UTC)