We saw him a few times at the Pirates of the Caribbean premiere last week (which I tried to write up but couldn't get together) and he looks so much like an old LA rich hippie lady from Laurel Canyon that it was kind of jarring. Like, he looked like he has lunch with Meg Ryan and talks about anti-aging regimens. It made me super uncomfortable.
The fault is mine. When I joined Twitter, I was too stupid to foresee that I would also join Videogum, and that my screen names would need to match. it makes tracking me more challenging, which is cool, because I'm an international woman of intrigue and like to fly below the radar.
Oh man, TESTIFY. A comedian on Twitter spoiled it moments after it aired. It made watching the episode totally anti-climactic, and what would've been a surprise, totally obvious, because I'd been looking for the signs. Still bitter about it. Bloggin'! Story-tellin'! WHAT CAN'T SHE DO?
I know, Zac. I have a ridiculously short attention span when it comes to Youtube videos, too, and almost always only make it through about 30 seconds. But this one really had the goods. It delivered the goods. It was good? BLOGGIN'!
no, like this!
http://watermarked.cutcaster.com/cutcaster-photo-100775387-Woman-running-in-to-the-waves.jpg
carefree and wearing white, with our hair trailing behind us in the wind!
so so so so sooooo impressed by how great a job you did with so little time, godsauce. i hope that, with all my time to freak out and stress and prepare, i am able to do at least HALF as well as you.
tyler, i am so proud of the job you did today that i want to punch you in the face a bunch of times. i have a hard time expressing emotions appropriately.
also, p.s. why are kyle chandler's eyes so smoldery? kyle, you need to settle down with that. i'm not made of stone.
oh, also, i watched GOT, so here's the recap. (consider it a BONUS day of me!)
-viserys is a total shit head, but danaerys is getting her groove back
-cersei and catelyn's wigs remain FIERCE
-ned's not great at the game of thrones because he's not good at scheming
-mayor littlefinger is slicker than snot on a doorknob
-sansa is pretty and a superficial asshole
-jaime is all like "bristle bristle CANNOT BE CIVIL TO ANYONE EVER smug blonde handsome spotty accent"
-king robert is a fat drunk guy who likes to have sex with a bunch of prostitutes at once.
-jon snow is a being a nice dude to the new fat kid, sam
-hodor was cast a little too old and it's a bummer
-tyrion is all like, "guess what? i'm awesome. DEAL WITH IT."
that basically covers everything, i think.
why not just Destination. then they could be Another Destination, Yet Another Destination, Knock Knock! Who's there? DESTINATION!, etc. they should've saved Final Destination until they were really SURE they were done.
i wonder if he is okay. sometimes shock can set in after an accident, right? maybe even a few days after, probably. maybe i should go to his house and check on him to see if he needs anything, like mouth to mouth or mouth to other places or whatever? victoria is so busy and so skinny, i don't know if she can take care of him the way he needs, you know? yeah. okay. decided. brb, getting map of stars home and gonna pop by with lip balm and a dental dam.
WE CAN DO THIS, GUEST BLOGGER BUDDIES! wootwootwoot!!!
(was this comment funny enough? fuck, it wasn't. not everyone is judging me and wondering why i was asked to fill in. FUCK. talking about it is only making it worse! I CAN'T DO THIS!!!!)
omgomgomgOMGGGGGGG i haven't watched last night's episode yet but he is such good casting for the role of littlefinger!!! it's entirely possible that i'm typing this after having straight up squealed in delight and clapping a bunch! can't confirm or deny but NNNNnnnnnNnnnnnnNNnnnnn!!
(while the rest of the nation chanted "U! S! A!", i continued to chant "GAME! OF! THRONES!" instead.
well, i was going to try to get some laundry done today and maybe work up a meal plan for the week, but after this very smooth jazz i'm just going to end up masturbating all day. SOMETHING has to be done to deal with all the sensual sexy vibes that this churned up.
i agree they could've made it a little clearer that cersei and jaime are twins. i don't even want to voice any criticisms because i loved it so much, but i am not 100% on board with the portrayals of the lannister twins yet. both of them LOOK great, but so far i'm feeling like they're a little flat.
also, they're making cersei WAY more sympathetic, right off the bat, than i felt like the books did. they're driving home the point of how boorish robert is, but not what a big old See-You-Next-Tuesday she is, which i think will make the her character development over time less satisfying. when all you know about her is that she sucks and is gross, finally getting glimpses inside her head means a lot more. this way we're already feeling slightly sympathetic towards her. look at what a barf bag her husband is! no WONDER she's banging her sexy twin!
the new sound, i was kind of bummed by how brutal drogo and dany's sex was, too. i just reread the books and i remembered it being a, yes, not entirely pleasurable, but not her just being terrified and raped. he wasn't as icky in the books, and was genuinely kind of upset that dany was crying. this way makes it seems even more icky that necessary. also, we kind of have to see their initial sex as more tender than expected in order for the evolution of dany's feelings to make sense.
it's possible that my racism-meter is miscalibrated towards being overly generous but i didn't feel like the horse lords were especially dark-skinned. there were some black people in the group shots, but a lot of them were light skinned, and drogo looked like dave navarro.
hahahaha, i almost made a point of specifying that the wedding humping was supposed to be "horse-style" but i didn't because i felt like i might've gone too far with my nerdlery already! i'm glad you took the plunge. i was sort of confused why they set the wedding sex on a craggy beach area. that seemed like a needlessly uncomfortable setting for the sex. isn't there somewhere flatter and less....craggy?
i think the doggy style i was surprised by was cersei and jaime. that doesn't seem like a position she'd enjoy. she seems like a cowgirl-style gal to me.
i seriously have so much nerding in me, waiting to be let out. I AM FULL OF ENTHUSIASTIC THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS SHOOOOOOOW!!!
no, purplemonk, the book series is VERY tits and rape heavy. i agree that the books are misogynistic, but i also don't feel like you could reasonably set a book series like this in a world with modern ideas of, say, sanctity of life or equal opportunity for all. the entire point of the time and place is that the strongest survive by chewing up the weak. hence the catchphrase about how in the game of thrones you either win or you die. kick ass or get raped a bunch. while this obviously isn't supposed to be a historically accurate portrait of any time or place, it's not hard to imagine that everyday life in feudal periods of any culture were heavy on rape, child-fucking and serious injustice.
one of my favorite things about the book series is that it's totally unflinching. yes, it makes you wonder what's going on with george r. r. martin that he's thinking of incest and rape so much, and it's not a world that is enjoyable to spend mental time in sometimes, but it certainly raises the stakes a lot higher than a series that's all spells and magical escapes.
well, as a HUGE game of thrones-head and fantasy nerd and general nerd, this show basically sizzled my brain with happiness, melting my mind into a puddle of goo. like, i died from how much i loved it, and then was revived by the second showing of the premier, immediately after the first, which i absolutely watched because GAME OF THROOOOOONES!!! (gabe, it wasn't two separate eps, it was just repeated showings of the same ep. so, you can finally relax because you're totally set. WHEW.)
for people who haven't read the series, my expert opinion is that they're doing a great job so far hitting all the important points and slowly developing the characters and the world in which the story is set. any loathesomeness in the show can be fully laid at george r. r. martin's (grand-high dragon poobah, author) door, and not on choices made by the writers. except for all the doggy/dragon-style sex, which really actually isn't specified in the books. that was a weird choice, but so specific that it makes me feel like they did it on purpose. the casting is GREAT. also, the show bumps the ages of all the youngest characters up, it seems. this makes sense and, while not totally faithful to the books, isn't an upsetting change so far. no one wants to see a 12 year old girl get raped by a dude with a long braid. or maybe they do, but that's pushing the envelope for a show that's already pretty envelope pushy, with the incest and boobs and stuff.
did anyone on here read the books? i'm curious about what super fans thought. i've already discussed it some with the super fans on twittergum, but all y'all seem like n00bs. hope some of you n00bs like it. i'm not religious but i'm going to be religious for a bit a pray every night for this show to be a HUGE hit so they'll make every book into shows.
also, sorry, fellas, i'm happily married. (or, i was until last night, when i totally spazzed out about the show and possibly disgusted my husband so much that he's secretly filing for divorce as we speak.)
i like val kilmer's irreverent take on the look.
http://www.impawards.com/1985/posters/real_genius.jpg
his khaki shorts and hawaiian shirt say, "this is how boring rich adults dress on vacation - GET IT?!" and his bunny slippers, ironic tee and glittery doodlebug headband say, "eff those boring rich adults! LET'S HAVE A SEXY FUN SCIENCE PARTY!"
Duuuuude. Nip/Tuck. Speaking of shitty shitshows.
At first I was able to enjoy it, because it's very silly, but when the kid (who is playing a 17 yr old but def had the hairline of a genetically-unfortunate man in his late 20s) was having sexuality confusion after he found out Famke Janssen was a man, so he went to a tranny bar and took a tranny home, but got very mad and beat up the tranny, then the tranny and her friends followed the kid to high school and chased him and beat HIM up and peed on him.
After that I was like, "Nope. No. Done."
I don't watch this show because I hate Anna Paquin so much and deeply resent her sudden success, but I can tell my gag reflex is just too sensitive for this pile of vampire barf.
RIGHT?! He doesn't look sad so much as exhausted from all the super satisfying, athletic, sexual healing I've been giving him as part of his Cheer Up Therapy. He barely cries at all anymore when we're necking! (Mr. Kira wasn't thrilled about it but when I explained the situation he said that it was okay because it was charity.)
OMG OMG OMG! freaking OUT! i had no idea this was happening and now i do have an idea and this is gonna be so YAAAAAAAAAY!!!! holy ballz i'm nearly dead from excitement! oops, i died.
srsly. i was thinking to myself, "wow, gabe's description of the awkwardness of seeing those actors is basically word for word my description of going to 'big terrific' and seeing gabe and max." SO awkward. needlessly so because they were both really nice and they didn't point and laugh at me at all. also, i have no history of thinking of them as hardened street thugs who wield shotguns, so that cut the tension a weensy bit, too. BUT STILL. it was scare-barrassing.
my mother in law is visiting from indiana for a week and she strongly recommended that we watch ricky gervais's comedy special on HBO. it was confusing until you pointed out the obvious explanation: she watched this before her visit, to get ready. that's got solving that mystery.
holy ballz, that scene with sam rockwell was SO good. the black tank top and him doing the splits. YOWZA.
i unabashedly love that movie.
i would love for it to be a better movie than it is, because we need more movies with ladies being bad-asses, but it's totally good enough.
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