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Sickle's Reactions to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2: ( Read more... )

Sickle's Weekend Trips, with Photos!: ( Read more... )

GIF Meme: ( Read more... )

Meme: X Men: First Class ( Read more... )

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* Harry Potter

The snarky review bit below I wrote on Wednesday. I pretty much can't write anything today because I can't write anything now and expecially not about the awesome lunch we had at the Now-Ex-Internship because I am freaking out. ( Beurocracy hell. )

ETA: CANCEL THE FREAKOUT. I repeat, CANCEL THE FREAKOUT. ( Read more... )


Sickle's Running Review of Shark Attack 2: ( Read more... )


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* Berri Clove

Wow. I haven't posted in a week. What that primarily means is that the Links of the Day is going to scare the bejeezus out of you, but it also means there's some catching up to do on events in Sickleland.

This past week I finished Grave Sight and Grave Surprise, the first two books in Charlaine Harris's (she of the Sookie Stackhouse books) series revolving around Harper Connelly, who can sense corpses and see their last living moments. ( Read more... )

I've also gone a lot to the cinema because there's a Spanish film festival going on. ( Read more... )

On Friday mom and I were supposed to go to a concert in a church, and in fact we were sitting in the pews with the concert just minutes away froms tarting, when her heart started acting up. ( Read more... )

I've been madly focused on a fanvid which I never even meant to make. I just couldn't get Iron and Wine's Walking Far From Home out of my head. ( Read more... )

I recently got an email from Person in Organization, following up on his, "your CV is right up my project's alley, let me see if we have place for you to do an internship" promise. I have an interview - "a short discussion" - with him tomorrow, and I'm really keen on this opportunity because it's all about what I studied in my Masters. \o/

I'm also on holiday until Wednesday \o/

I'm past two weeks in Sniffles and Sneezes of Doom :(


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* "Walking Far From Home", Iron and Wine

Sickle's Brief Review of The Crazies:

• I loved this movie. Loved loved loved it. It had heart, it had gore, it had the real sort of horror and the movie horror, it had action, and it flowed. Also, what's not to love about what is basically a zombie movie?


• What I mean about the "real sort of horror" is that there's a lot of scenes - and implied scenes - of people doing absolutely horrific things. ( Spoilers )


• That said, the "movie horror" is very well done too. The scares and traps and jumps are good, and the slight paranoia that starts halfway through is a nice touch, although it never really takes flight. The deaths are good and showy, the gore is bloody (and at one point a bit too gorey for my tastes - ( mild spoiler )
  ). Most characters didn't to ridiculously stupid endangerment things, and I actually cared about them, even if just because they'd managed to not die by the slimmest of margins.


• There's a few snags in the ( backdrop storyline spoilers )

Meme: Good Things:

Day 18: I bought a Kinder Surprise egg and had a nice chat on the trip home from German with Girl Who's Name I Can't Remember and Obviously Can't Ask Now, who is rapidly becoming the nearest thing to a friend my age in this city that I have. It's strange, and been a while, but also nice because we get along and there's banter and mutual encouragement.

Video of the Day: Mil Millington's Christmas 2010 Message ( Read more... )

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* The Crazies

Because I am so very far behind in posting anything of substance, not that there's is much, have some bullet points:

- Triangle (2009) is fantastically awesome and kinda needs to be put on repeat once or twice until your brain makes sense of everything. Win. Trailer, which I only watched once and said, "I need to watch this film" and a year and a half later, I still hadn't seen hide nor hair of the film and barely remembered anything except that it was awesome, so I tracked it down and here I am all a-squee. Although apparently people are saying the trailer spoils you too much and you should go in blind, so, uh, you could do that too.

- Stray cats of win! Bob the Cat (not to be confused with Fake-Bob, a black-with-grey-hairs cat who is less of the "pet me!" variety) is back, sitting up and meowing for caresses. There's also a new cat around, with one eye and missing one lower canine, who is henceforth called Greebo, for obvious reasons, who is also a "pet me!" fiend. Lastly, a long-haired black cat who very much likes to be petted has popped by a few times, and will henceforth be Valhallarama

- I finished listening to How to Train Your Dragon and holy wow, it has nothing to do with the movie apart from there being the same names and dragons and vikings. So. Different. (So awesome.)

- Yesterday was Free Night at the Museum day, and they'd just opened the Palazzo Barberini after fixing up a few galleries. They opened at 7, mom and I were in line a little after 6. One hour later and we were still in line - a line that was ten to twelve people wide so all you could see was the shirt of the person in front of you and couldn't move at all - and not moving at all. Cue Sickle feeling dizzy, her vision going black, and the insistent buzzing in her ears turning into a dull yet deafening roar. Eh, oui, I was moments away from fainting. I scrambled out of the crowd and sat with my head bent low over my knees until I was aware of the world around me, at which point a young, cute and terribly annoying man comes over asking if I'm okay, if I'm pregnant, if I need water, if I want to tell him what's wrong in English, and I'm just, "Gah, *handwave* I'm fine, go away, don't make me think now."

- Ever since I watched Devour I've been meaning to rewatch it and write up all the snark, or at least do so without rewatching it, but I seem to not have the time. I've got some notes for Disney's Anastacia (which sucked and is so not the thing to watch after reading an extensive biography of Tzar Nicholas II and family).

- I've been working a lot of the OPush fanvid and I've gotten through the first of Dean's verses and have the second one all planned out. I'm a bit miffed that I can't seem to not do chronological timelines, but if the images fit, what can I do? *sigh* I'm so, so ready for this project to be done with.

Fear the Meme of Bolding Things That Are True: ( Read more... )

30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 28 – An Episode Idea You Created Yourself ( Read more... )

30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 28 - Your favorite season finale ( Read more... )

40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 28 - what other supernatural creatures you would like to see Dean and Sam to deal with? ( Read more... )


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* Common expression

So I finally watched Avatar (blame chaosvizier, who tipped the scales from, "But I'm not interested!" to "Watch it on the beg screen in 3D before it's taken off!"). It was pretty. The biological and technological bits were pretty neat, even with a few "Is that even evolutionarily plausible?" doubts. (At one point, I wondered why the hell the mind-melting worked across species, and why there weren't horrible diseases, like viruses, swarming all over that process.) The story was a tried and true one told by a new storyteller, so yay on that.

The only annoying thing is that Avatar's left me with the desire for a tail, preferably prehensile. And a mind-melding braid. (And just how does the hair grow into a braid? I mean, the in vitro Avatars had them all set, so it's a born-with-it trait...) Also annoying is the IMVU "Get Your Avatar" advertisement to the right of my post-an-entry space, which is all about busty CGI girls in sparkly blue... *sigh*

I'd say I also want a dragon, but like the Na'avi apparently know - and undoubtably learnt from Lady Sybil's Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons - a dragon is for life, not just for Hogswatchnight.


In similar news, I watched Bad News Bears (Part 1) last night. It's actually pretty good! I'll even handwave the DO NOT WANT of an alcoholic being in charge of kids, drinking himself into unconsciousness when he should be coaching, pushing kids around and tossing beer onto a child, because that shit is so not on. Plus, the soundtrack was brilliant.

I didn't think I'd like it as much because it's about a) baseball and b) children, and we all know that my squeebord does not have buttons for either. But when one of the kids is totally Percival Wemys Madison of Lord of the Flies (6:58-7:04, 10:30-10:56) and another is a smart-mouthed and world-wise girl (0:00-1:45) and I'm sold. Crazy, I know!

Add to that a cigarette-smoking and awesome-lighter-skills-having (1:57-2:16), attitude-totin' loan-shark (5:55-10:36: "Said if I didn't give him a dime by Friday, he'd break my arm!" "Es un bandido!" ; "There's nice ass at the field, that's why I hang around." ; "And if I win?" "Name it." *smirk*), motocrycle-riding (6:50-7:37), budding pimpin' player and I'm just squeeful. I mean, it's an awesome kid! How can I complain about there being kids when one's that awesome?

Also, there's this scene (8:10-8:22) which is just the Most Adorable Fail ever! It's the titchy little badass-in-training trying to chat up a bird** who's probably a decade older than him and on the other side of the hormone rollercoaster, and he's just throwing one line after another trying to impress. It's adorable. I mean, in five years that boy'll either be the skeeziest gangster to ever skeeze or a massive player, but now? Adorable.


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* Kelly, Bad news Bears
** Why suddenly English, Sickle?

I watched Shutter Island today. Well, I also woke up feeling like shite because the universe decided I can has cold, which meant I then lay around in bed feeling spectacularly lousy. I also went and talked to the ski-trip organizers for my university about the lack of info, to which they replied, "We is writing email! You can has info!"

But the real point of the day was Shutter Island. Y'all might remember my prediction after watching the trailer and how I swore to froth at the mouth and break things if I was right. Well, guess what? ( There is frothing and breaking of things as well as spoilers for Shutter Island, The Sixth Sense and Memento. )


Links of the Day:

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* Shutter Island

I watched Nightmare on Elm Street and was distinctly not blown away. Well, Unexpected Johnny Depp was unexpected. But I wasn't afraid of the concept or the dream sequences or even Freddy - only getting tense in one or two spots - so it didn't work as a horror movie for me. I don't know, maybe I need more emotion in my horror, not just Argh, slashing!** Blooooood! Still, it was a good film and yes, I'll be checking out the other ones, using queenanthai's recommendations as a guide. (If I recall correctly - and I have to check the made_of_fail_pc episode - she said that film 3 and 7 were good. There may have been others, and some that should be avoided at all costs...)

I watched the trailer for the remake afterwards, and I have to say, I rather like the look of it. (queenanthai will have my guts for garters for saying that...) I think I will be watching this remake because 1) Jackie Earle Haley and 2) Thomas Decker, with extra points for 3) Katie Cassidy.

I do have one major complaint, though. DO NOT make me feel sympathetic towards the pedophilic kidnapping, torturing, murdering, serial-killing bastard. Just no. I do not want to feel sorry for him or identify with him or even understand that hey, yeah, twisted sons of mothers can still be scared when the mob with pitchforks and gasoline comes after them. You can make me root for the villain when he's all supernatural and dead, but don't pull that crap on me. *feels so dirty and upset* Although I suppose I have to give kudos to Jackie Earle Haley for breaking my heart in two sentences. Damn he's good.

So because I'm on a JEH roll, discovering that holy shit on stilts is he a good actor, I've started watching the show Human Target, where he's a secondary character (they say hired gunman but he was more hired laptop). It sucks. Oh my gods, I could not get behind that pilot. It had like 20 minutes of fight scenes throughout the episode and it actually had me rolling my eyes with a Get on with it feel. Why get on with it? Because I didn't give a rat's about the main character. Why was that? Because the pilot didn't do what pilots are supposed to do, which is introduce the characters first, make me care about them first, before going on with the story of the week. However, I'm going to stick around for the second episode because I did like JEH's character and the other secondary character, played by Chi McBride. JEH's character reminded me of Nikita's Birkoff although I have no idea why (apart from the computer-savy glass-wearing bits). And now I miss Birkoff and the whole Nikita gang. :(

Continuing the JEH trend (as well as the Can't possibly do anything useful at all trend), I've got Little Children (trailer) to watch, because I was watching clips of it last night and lost count of the number of times JEH's acting made my jaw drop. (Also, Patrick Wilson i.e. Night Owl 2 is in it, so more squee!) So emotionally disturbing and/or heart-breaking material, here I come! (It's making me think of The Woodsman (trailer), which was a brilliant film, if a little heart-breaking.)

ETA: Human Target is a Fox show. Want to take bets on how long it lasts? Bastards. Making me wait two weeks for the Dollhouse finale just makes them that much more of a bastard.


Meme - 30 Days - Day 02 - Your Favorite Movie: ( Read more... )


Videos of the Day: Mika's "Blame It On the Girls" and "We Are Golden" ; Tim Minchin's "If I Didn't Have You" and "Angry (Feet)"( Embedded - Yeah, I got a bit carried away... )


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* Little Children
** I'm now imagining a horror film where the characters get paired together in slashy-as-in-sex ways in some sort of meta mess... That doesn't really make sense, does it?

Today: Nothing for breakfast and a quick grocery run for lunch and dinner. Wrote some "It's winter! With holidays you may or may not celebrate!" cards.

lienne and seschat, I'd love to send y'all cards but I have nowhere to send them, which sucketh. So if you want me to send you some lovin', just send me a personal message or email telling me where to send it.

Rewatched Doctor Who "Turn Left" (got teary eyed again during the "Off to the labour camp!" scene) and then...yeah, nothing much.

Yesterday: I went to Amsterdam in the afternoon in search for further Christmas presents inspiration (failure) and non-religious holiday cards (success). I failed at having any sort of lunch, and when I got home there was nothing for dinner but cheese and mandarins (translation: fail). Tried to set up a coffee-date with an acquaintance (French guy Azdine, friend of Gabrielle) but got cancelled on 'cause he didn't study on Saturday and so wanted to study Sunday. I watched the episodes of ER with Misha Collins (which, over three episodes, barely adds up to five minutes) and cried the whole time because damn you, show, leave my heartstrings alone.

Friday: Rebound Nano with new and improved back-cover (with squee). Read and commented on scientific note am co-author on regarding lions. Went to the Hague to wander the shops looking for inspiration on Christmas presents (failure), have dimsum (awesome) and watch Paranormal Activity (trailer).

( About the movie, with spoilers. )


Video of the Day: Barenaked Ladies, "Pollywog in a Bog" ( Embedded )


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* "Cold, Kind and Lemon Eyes", Margot and the Nuclear So and So's

heroes_meta Heroes 4x06 "Strange Attractors" ( Read more... )


Playing By Heart Brief Review ( Read more... )


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* Seneca the Younger