Lizardbeth's Tale

- I hope things aren't too awful for any of you affected by the storm. :(

- Yuletide signups close tomorrow for anyone still sitting on the fence... I am pretty sure which offer I will end up writing - Yulegoat Karma.

- I am five kudos away from a significant number on Poison Rain and it has stalled. IT IS TAUNTING ME. *whimper* However, despite that, I wrote almost 2K on the sequel. Despite the fact that I still need to do final edits on avengersfest. And get ready for NaNo/Big Bang on THURSDAY. And that everyone who cares knows I'm not working on it until next year. yep. Good plan, poor follow through.

- Holy shit, Star Wars Episode VII in 2015. Is this what it feels like to wake up in an alternate universe? But it does make me laugh, because if you ever had the thought that Star Wars was not going to be with us FOREVER, you are now officially wrong. I gotta say I agree with MrLiz who thinks Disney's getting off light.

- LOL at Jane Espenson's instant tweet hoping that they get to use SW characters in OUAT and then Josh Dallas said something about how he was sure Charming had to be Han. hee. It's especially funny as I was just saying elsewhere that OUAT should be able to use Marvel characters especially after Sunday's ep. Lots of characters have magic in the Marvelverse...

- Tomorrow is Halloween! Some of you know that we often do fun pumpkin carvings, but this year my pumpkin rotted away before I could even carve it! It turned all squishy and gross, and now I don't want to do it anymore. bleh.

It is entirely probable that watching this (part 2 of BBC's The Hollow Crown Shakespeare adaptations) is NOT GOOD for my Loki fixation because JFC, Hiddleston. (and Jeremy Irons and some other people, but really, if I'm being honest, Hiddleston as Hal is the only reason I'm watching it). Cracks me up when they're talking about being anonymous, cuz Prince Hal is a giant and not likely to be anonymous ANYWHERE, lol. But it's really well done - though I wish they'd brighten the color palette a bit - and I'm looking forward to the others. I can't remember what happens in part 2, though I did actually read the Henry plays a few decades ago. Watching it is also really good for working on Understanding the Storm, because his inflections are the same (the first half he's basically Loki), and the language of course is inspiring. (I had great dialogue in mind last night that I stupidly didn't write down. D'oh!)

It's going to be an interesting thing when we get to Henry V though, because the Kenneth Branagh movie is pretty much my most favorite adaptation of all time. I have the Belgian one-sheet framed, the soundtrack is among the greatest ever (Patrick Doyle's first, which is just ASTONISHING), and the best memories of driving a hundred miles with my BFF to go see it in the only theater showing it in all of New Mexico and then nearly dying on the way home in a sudden hailstorm. So, y'know, irregardless of the movie's actual quality, which is good, I have a great nostalgic love for it. I hope both adaptations will live side-by-side in my fannish glee, not conflict.

I will forever love the story that on Chris Hemsworth's first day as Thor, Branagh told him to memorize the band of brothers speech from Henry V to deliver it the next day. And he basically stared in horror. Because no, that's not intimidating AT ALL. <3 <3

THOR 2 will be sadly Branagh-less, though he's listed as a producer, so maybe not uninvolved, and I have hopes for Alan Taylor who directs a lot of HBO shows, including GoT. Whatever, I'm still gonna watch the hell out of it (even though it's gonna joss Understanding the Storm horribly, I'm sure). Iron Man 3 can sit down in the corner and wait.

Warning: watching Avengers Sunday and Thor yesterday may result in Asgardian Family Shenanigans fic.

Or in my case, has resulted in fic. God, I don't even want to know how many people have written the exact same thing already. I think this is one of the things that sorta scares me off from a big, active current fandoms? Or at least why I usually wander off into secondary-character-land? The fandom's already moved into wacky kid AUs and I want to do something fifty people have already done.

oh well. I wrote it. It's not quite finished yet, though.


( Talking about Thor and Avengers and stuff )

and sorry, BSG- "Water" has been delayed until tomorrow so I can watch the relevant bits of "Thor" again before I have to return it to my local Redbox. :D

REACTION POST TO X-Men First Class

( FIRST CLASS )

But don't bother to wait til the end. There's no post credits easter egg. There was much booing in my theater on Friday, and I can't help but think it was a wasted opportunity. They should've had Charles meeting with Tony Stark's dad to get a new Blackbird, or played darts with Nick Fury. Or showed Jean being born. Or something fun anyway, even if it can't connect directly since it's set before the modern marvelverse movies.

THis post was also planned to be my Doctor Who post, but this has already sat in a tab long enough, so... post!

We went and saw Suckerpunch on Friday.

First of all, I keep seeing people commenting in disapproval at the MPAA that they cut out some kind of sex scene/makeout scene btw Jon Hamm and Emily Browning to get the PG-13. Having seen the movie knowing about the cut, I can't say I miss it. He plays the person Babydoll is TERRIFIED of. He is, in fact, the reason everything happens. So I don't think they cut it because it was 'too racy' -- I think they cut it because there's nowhere in the movie it could be consensual. But let's not let facts get in the way of rushing to have an opinion, right?

Anyway. The movie.


( SUCKER-PUNCH. Possible spoilery )

And in other news for this weekend --

we had rain last night, but it cleared up by afternoon. The wind was a little chilly, but there was some sun. Rode the ferris wheel on the pier and kidlet did the bumper cars 4 or 5 times. Enough so some older teenage boy looks at him the last ride and goes "You again?" in a very funny mock-despairing tone (kiddo is a TERROR at bumper cars. very gleeful about bumping.)

I learned how to send photos from my phone to my twitter (oh dear)-- http://twitpic.com/4e4il1 (a view of Santa Monica beach looking north, from the top of the ferris wheel)


Also I have been writing Fairly Legal fic. oops?

Here in LA, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) every year does an exhibit of costumes from the movies of the previous year - this usually includes at least a few of the Costuming oscar nominees as well as a whole bunch of others.

Though disappointed Disney didn't lend them TRON Legacy costumes this year (BOOOOOOO), the others were pretty interesting. King's Speech, Inception (Ellen Page is a WAIF. TINY. seriously the girl from True Grit's costumes were a bigger size), True Grit, Dawn Treader, Shutter Island, Prince of Persia, Clash of the Titans, Alice in Wonderland (my observation? Minus the hat, Depp's costume is almost a duplicate of Jack Sparrow).

Some of the odder, but really fab costumes: Burlesque. wow. And Last Airbender. damn that Fire lord outfit is way too great for that movie. And The Tempest. I need to see that now, because Prospera's black gown? IS DECORATED WITH ZIPPERS. it is awesome.

If you're around (it runs through April) you should check it out.

huh. I didn't know Dido wrote the song for "127 Hours". Good for her. *puts on Life for Rent*

Speaking of that movie, I was uncertain of Franco hosting the Oscars, but now having seen a couple of interviews with him about his nomination, I think he might be kinda awesome, as long as the material's good. (Anne Hathaway is just always awesome, so that was a given. CATWOMAN. I was hoping for Talia to tie back to 'Begins', but Catwoman was almost inevitable and should be fun).

I'm kidding when I think Helena Bonham Carter was nominated just so people can find out what crazy thing she'll wear to the ceremony. Mostly. Good for her for having her own 'style', I guess, but... perhaps not stealing things at random from the Harry Potter costume warehouse?

I'm still a bit teed off that Tron Legacy didn't get a nom for VFX, and Hereafter did. bah.

FYI, I notice that Reznor's score for The Social Network is on sale at Amazon. If you liked the Daft Punk score, you'll probably like this one, too - parts are very similar. Until the NIN guitars kick in, anyway.

We started to make gingerbread today to build a house. We pushed it too late though, so we'll have to finish it tomorrow. It smells very yummy already.

The problem with storing up tv during NaNo is that I now have too much and that makes me want to give up catching up. I have, however, watched three straight hours of "Phineas and Ferb" because it was a marathon today and it's kiddo's favorite show. Why is it even though the formula is written IN STONE, it's still so funny? Seriously, whatever show you may think is predictable is OMG!surprising compared to 'Phineas and Ferb'. And yet, funny. (helps that it has no laugh track, because I HATE those) But entire songs about "Squirrels in my pants!" -- WIN.

Also, by sheer proximity, MrLiz has converted me into being excited for Tron Legacy. I love the story about how the director and writers took up some concept art to Jeff Bridges' house and they were all petrified because they knew they had to sell him on coming back or they had no movie. And yet, of course, he did the original years and years ago, when he was a wee sprog, long before things like an Oscar, so he could easily tell them to GTFO. So they tell him the pitch and ... they don't even finish before he gets up and fetches his ORIGINAL HELMET, all excited. And he's in. Just like that. Because he's a FAN. &hearts &hearts &hearts

yes, that would be the sound of me being sold. kaching!

(also, Bruce Boxleitner on my screen again! My nostalgia is all aflutter.)

ok, how funny is it to get an update from SyFy Forums? *giggles* Guess the name change is official now.

Our 24 bucks we gave to Transformers last Friday apparently was just enough to kick it into the number one slot for the weekend over Ice Age, after all. damn. It's all my fault! *hangs head in shame* The night afterward I had a dream that I was friends with Bumblebee and we were driving around the English countryside. yes, I might think Bumblebee is utterly adorable and I WANT ONE.

Next week, Public Enemies! (which we were supposed to see instead, but we had schedule-reading fail)

Weekend was otherwise busy with finishing fic, two cookouts, visiting family, and watching fireworks all over the city from a high balcony (which was awesome).