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Finally got a chance to see Sherlock Holmes today. ( and (no plot spoilers, only tone ones) )

I ship it like burning omg



flas;dfjsdfj the things this movie did to my libido. The one saving grace I had was that I don't want to bang Selena Gomez. Not that she isn't both gorgeous and adorable, but I'm pretty sure she's way too jailbait for me. Gah, the things I want to do to Katie Cassidy and Leighton Meester, though, and the things I want to see them do to each other.

/total perv (as if)



basically this movie (which I had never heard of until today, but miss_begonia wanted to see it and it was playing and she said Leighton Meester in cute dresses and I am really easy) is totally amazing. Every single premise in it is utterly insane, but it's also adorable, and really femslashy, and just SO SO CUTE and I mentioned that Leighton and Katie are hotlikeburning, right? They are hotlikeburning. And Selena Gomez is much more awesome than her reputation had led me to believe.

lokte and I had adventures in San Francisco today. We started off going to see a free Britney Spears show. It was... interesting from a sociological standpoint, and it was being filmed for morning TV, so there were some cool camera rigs, but it had the worst sound I have ever heard, like we could not hear a single word anyone said or sang. She also looked like she has had some kind of whole-body injury, the way she was moving. We had fun, though, possibly because I had my iPod filled with pictures of Adam Lambert and Tommy Joe to look at while we waited between songs.

After that we went and had lunch at the fancy-schmancy food court at the Westfield, and then went and saw Sucker Punch. NOT A SPOILER: the women in that movie are INSANELY HOT.

( minorly spoilery bits under here )

I still haven't watched this week's SPN because Friday night I was out grinning inanely at bluesoaring (because it's rude to continue to tackleglomp someone while they're trying to eat dinner) and then yesterday I was working and then the electricity in half my apartment went out, including my kitchen, and the plug for my TV runs from the kitchen outlet, and then I was at the movies with miss_begonia and overnighter, and then when I got home and tried to watch it, I realized that I have been recording the HD channel and I am not paying for HD. SO I HAD SOUND BUT NO PICTURE. :| Soon I shall have a watchable copy, though, and in the mean time I will ramble about The Social Network.

( not a spoiler: Justin Timberlake is still a great actor )

So yeah. I thought it was great. And I always like hanging out with miss b and overnighter. And I had electricity again when I got home, and now I have today off and I can write and watch SPN and finish unpacking my car. yay!

I think you should go see Howl if you have any affection for one of the following:
Allen Ginsberg
Art
Poetry
Literature
Jon Hamm
David Strathairn
James Franco

If you have any affection for two or more of the above, I think you must see Howl.

There are also lots of other amazing things about the movie, but any one of those alone was worth the price of admission.

I always have a great time with miss_begonia, for she is awesome, but she also picks particularly good movies to go see. I like this in a person :D

Oh my god. dreamlittleyo and I went and saw Inception today and we were LITERALLY the only two people in the WHOLE THEATER so we could talk and gasp and do little clappy hands all we wanted without bothering anyone. In non-spoilery news, this movie is GORGEOUS. Probably the most visibly stunning film I've ever seen except for Where the Wild Things Are.

( only spoilery for cast and my opinions )

So tonight we went and saw The A-Team. Non-spoilery review. IF YOU WATCHED THE SHOW AS A CHILD, GO SEE THIS MOVIE.

If you go see this movie, stay to the very end of the credits.

( very slightly spoilery )

First:

If you can get yourself to any of these cities, you really really must go and see La Mission. It's currently playing in the SF area, the LA area, and NYC, and it will be playing in Dallas and San Antonio, and San Diego at the end of the month. It's absolutely in my top five of best movies I've ever seen, and it needs to get wider distribution.

It's a stunningly beautiful love letter to the city of San Francisco, and to the Mission District--La Mission--and even my mother, who never notices such things, was gushing about the cinematography as we were leaving the theater. But more than that it is a movie about people who are proud to be who they are. Proud to be a strong woman who owns her decisions, has agency and opinions, and who shares them. It's about pride in culture, in history, in family. Queer pride. Pride that goes before a fall. Pride that picks you up again. Pride that gets you killed. Pride that makes you strong. It's a Latino movie; it's a queer movie; it's a men's movie; it's a women's movie. It's a movie about how important family is, and how important community is. It's a movie about low riders and a love of cars. It's breathtaking.

I saw it in a packed 700-person theater and it was the most diverse crowd I've ever seen. Mostly you get your "date-movie" crowd, or your "action-movie" crowd or your "queer-cinema" crowd or your hipster-indie crowd. But everyone was here. All ages (late teen and up; they didn't hold back on the swearing and it's definitely R rated), all races, all points on the sexuality and gender spectrum, and a broad class spectrum. And listening to the conversations going on as people exited the theater, and looking at the people asking questions and making comments when a couple of the actors and the director spoke afterward, everyone in the theater found something that spoke to them, that they could look at and say, "This is my life."

Second:

This post by weesta is a wonderful look at Devil's Trap and the latest SPN episode (so spoilers for that), and how the people making this show do such a great job visually and thematically. And how even when they seem to be circling around the same issues, there are levels. It filled me with EVEN MORE love of Show. You should check it out. :D :D

Third:

Today's Sunday Sweets post at cakewrecks. Adorable animal cakes that made me grin and grin.

Yesterday was so much fun that my cheeks still hurt from grinning. Just getting to hang out with coiledsoul (Jenn) and glendaglamazon (Glenda) would have been brilliant and super fun, but add onto that getting to see the US premiere of Doctor Who with a huge crowd of geeks like me at Wondercon, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAND getting to go see Clash of the Titans with other people instead of on my own (which is how I figured I was going to be seeing it), and a fantastic day becomes pretty much perfection.

One thing I love about what fandom has brought into my life is the variety of ages and locations and life experiences of my friends. It's enriching and exciting and educational (and lots of other e-words like excellent, too). But it's also fun sometimes to get together with people who grew up with the same toys and shows on TV and horrifying 80s fashions and set of cultural references. So there was that :D

And Wondercon itself was fascinating and great for people watching, and not nearly as crowded as I was worried about (with the exception of the Capcom booth, so we walked away from that), and there were girls in corsets. Which is never a bad thing. Some fantastic cosplay, including a boy of about 8 dressed as Link who was delightful, and some steampunk girls who were ridiculously gorgeous. I kept poking Jenn to give more Wincon cards to girls in corsets, but she was awesome and handed them out to girls and women of all clothing choices (except full twilight paraphernalia *g*), shapes, stripes and walks of life.

We queued up for the first screening of Dr. Who, but were told after not too long that there was no way we'd get in, so we went away and had some food and came back for the second screening. There was a little scary moment where we thought they were cutting the line off, but they were just checking space, so it was all good.

( no spoilers for plot, but some people don't even like to know reactions )

While we were leaving the parking garage after parking I had casually mentioned that I was really excited about Clash of the Titans but hadn't had a chance to see it. Jenn mentioned that she was really wanting to see it too. And we managed to convince Glenda that it was a good idea. So while we were waiting for Who to start, out came the iPhone, and we booked tickets to the 9:30 (NOT 3D) show at the theater around the corner from the convention center. That left us just enough time to shoot over to Chevy's for a beer before the movie.

OH. MY. GOD. THE. MOVIE. I. FREAKING LOVED IT. That's not a spoiler. It was always gonna be a given. But I did. I really really did. ( some more under here )

Then we went to Mel's Diner (*waves to my Azkatraz dinner-mates*) and had food and serious business fangirl discussions. Then we came back to my parent's house and talked more until finally I couldn't keep my eyes open and I fell into bed at 2:45.

Then this morning we laughed at ourselves because we waited until they were standing by the door bags in hand before we started talking about this week's SPN.

Fangirl funtimes are the best. MOAR PLZ.

Went to see A Single Man tonight with the awesome miss_begonia. I totally loved it. I was both looking forward to it and totally hesitant about it, because there is a lot in the book that doesn't really feel like it will translate well to film. I was right in the first instance and utterly wrong in the second, I feel. One of the features I didn't think would work in cinema is how well Isherwood managed to convey a tremendous amount of movement through utter stillness. But that same feeling came through perfectly. Colin Firth was every inch George, and Julianne Moore is absolutely stunning, even when she is a wreck. And Nicholas Hoult. My god. When miss_begonia pointed out that he was the boy in About a Boy, you could have knocked me over with a feather. He... wow. Does not look even REMOTELY the same. I have just done a google image search, and I can vaguely see the evolution, but still. Wow.

If you are a fan at all of Isherwood, of Cinema, of Firth, or Moore, or Hoult, of gay movies, of the 60s, of costumes, of the variety of storytelling, or of gorgeous houses, there is something for you in this film. I wish it had gotten a much wider release, because it really was stunning.