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Day 3: talk about movies this year

I did not get out to see many movies this year, in part because I'm trying to spend as little money as possible and in part because the local theater is a four screen theater that doesn't even have stadium seating. It is old and terrible. There is a much nicer theater that opened in a nearby town (it has my beloved red leather recliners and a 21-and-up section with a bar); I introduced J to the nicer theater concept, and he loves it, but it's a pretty good drive (probably an hour and a half round trip) on top of the time spent watching the movie itself, so we often can't go because of his schedule.

I did manage to watch some of the movies released this year, though. Not always in the bar section of the theater, much to J's chagrin.

Jupiter Ascending: I loved the hell out of this movie, had an absolute blast watching it, and can't wait for some sort of group viewing here at the house with alcohol and all the laughter. J wishes he'd had alcohol for this one.

Furious 7: The only movie in the franchise I don't like is 2 Fast 2 Furious, and they just keep getting better. Bigger and more ridiculous, too. The stunts are absolutely unbelievable, the storyline has hit the part of things I hate (Haaaaaaaaaaan, and poor Giselle), but it remains the story of family at its heart, with all the flashy cars and hot people on top of it. It's even more a story of family now than it was back when Fast and the Furious first came out, and I never thought that would be possible. This franchise goes straight to my heart and my love of chosen family, and I'll be along for the ride until the end.

J wishes he'd had alcohol for this one, too.

Unfriended: Ridiculous horror that wasn't terrible, but also wasn't scary or atmospheric and did little for me beyond light entertainment. J hated it, and Nephew thought it was absolutely stupid. (BFF's husband recommended it to us, even though he's not a big horror fan, so I think J had higher expectations than he should have. It was basically a live action Point Horror.)

Avengers: Age of Ultron: Not my favorite in the series, but no worse than I expected, really. It was a big let down after the joy of Captain America: Winter Soldier, but I kept reminding myself it was a follow-up to Avengers, not to any of the individual movies, because Whedon's being Whedon. There are moments I absolutely loved.

Mad Max: Fury Road: Ridiculous road trip adventures with fire and stupid weapons and amazing, over the top everything. I loved it. J had alcohol for this one, and says it wasn't enough.

Jurassic World: Simultaneously wonderful and the biggest disappointment. Amazingly, the most nostalgic thing I watched this year, despite it being a year with a new Fast and the Furious movie. Raptors. Every time the score calls back to Jurassic Park, I tear up. Jurassic Park has meant so much to me for so long, and Jurassic World could have been the greatest thing ever. Unfortunately, nope. Still, I love it even as I rage at it.

J had alcohol for this one, too. He also bought a giant bucket of popcorn, even though neither of us like popcorn, so I could have a dinosaur bucket. A+ job of upselling that, woman at the counter. She saw me and my "clever girl" shirt coming.

Inside Out: We only recently watched this, so I missed a lot of the meta (if there was any, but I bet it exists) about the emotions. I'd like to find some, because I have thoughts about what it says (or doesn't say) about mental illness, but it was super heartbreaking at times, and absolutely delightful. J loved it, and has already watched it multiple times.

Magic Mike XXL: GREATEST CINEMA EXPERIENCE OF THE YEAR. I went with J and my grad school bffs during one of our many reunions this year, and it was the best. time. ever. Mostly because of the people, but I did like some of the things the movie said about a specific type of women's sexuality and desires.

Amazingly, I have not yet seen the Last Witch Hunter (the second Vin Diesel movie of the year), but that will happen soon. (J's movie agreement this year was that he would watch anything except superhero movies with me. Little did he know it was a double Vin Diesel kind of year.) We'll also see the last Hunger Games, the Good Dinosaur, and, if I have my way, Krampus. I'm not sure if I want to see the new Star Wars right away or not. Certainly not the first few weekends, when the theater will be packed.

"Furious 7 - Official Trailer (HD)" (Watch on YouTube)

Well hello, trailer that jumps up and down on my chosen family button, how you doin'? CANNOT FUCKING WAIT.

Good things about today:

A) I just got to seriously use the line KISSING AND PUNCHING ARE VERY SIMILAR THINGS, OKAY? This is kinda one of my life philosophies. So you know.

B) New poster for Fast 5. JESUS CHRIST VIN DIESEL HOW ARE YOU SO HOT? I would like to hit you and then kiss you. A LOT.

C) KISSING AND PUNCHING ARE VERY SIMILAR THINGS, OKAY?

The first set of the Five Things meme. (You can still leave me lists and I'll answer them.

From oddmonster

Top Five Favorite Femmeslash Stories By You

This list changes, because some days I like my writing and some days I don't, but here's today's Top Five, in no real order:

1. Bite to Break Skin (The Girl is a Vampire), The Lost Boys, Star/Maria
2. the bears slumber and hunt at the rise, Twilight, Alice/Rosalie/Emmett/Jasper (The fact that a Twilight story makes this list kind of makes me twitch, but I adore this story so much.)
3. Hold Your Breath (Breathe Out Now), Blue Crush, Anne Marie/Eden/Kala
4. We Live It, We Breathe It, Fast and the Furious/Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Faith/Letty, Letty/Mia, Letty/Dom
5. We are the Naked Ones, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy/Buffybot/Angel

Obviously I am a fan of threesomes, foursomes, and moresomes, which will come as no shock if you ever read my tags.

Top Five Favorite Femmeslash Stories Not By You

I have a number I love, so here are five.

1. Her Attention, by nikitangel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Fast and the Furious, Letty, Mia, and Faith
2. Like a Cheesy Pop Song, by jengrrrl, Imagine Me & You, Luce/Rachel
3. An Exercise in Forgiveness, by _beetle_, Lilo & Stitch, Lilo/Myrtle
4. Yum Cha, by Circadienne, Saving Face, Will/Vivian
5. Breathing Underwater, by pene, Blue Crush, Eden/Anne Marie

From catalinay

Top Five celeb crushes

I'm not sure about actual crushes, but these five are hot hot hot.

1. Vin Diesel
2. Michelle Rodriguez
3. Victoria Pratt
4. Eliza Dushku
5. Seth Green

Top Five books to be made into movies

This is hard! These are some of the books I would love to see made into movies.

1. Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey
2. Still Life with Crows by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
3. the Protect of the Small quartet by Tammy Pierce (I am in love with Kel)
4. Into the Woods by Sarah Canfield (This actually isn't currently available, but oh my god, it scares the shit out of me each time I read it)
5. Feed by Mira Grant

Top Five women in your fandoms

1. Letty from Fast and the Furious
2. Eden from Blue Crush
3. Faith from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4. Lilo from Lilo & Stitch
5. Velma from Scooby Doo

From wisdomeagle

Top Five Things You Are Looking Forward to About Kansas City

1. Getting to hang out with you more! Especially your birthday.
2. Having a job, I need money and the stability of work.
3. Books!
4. The fountains. I love the fountains.
5. NO MORE MICHIGAN.

Top Five Women Who Should Be Vampire Slayers Who Aren't Already

This one kind of made me babble wordlessly, I so very much love this concept. Obviously. So here are the current ones I'd like to write about that I haven't written about before.

1. Stacey McGill from The Baby-Sitters Club
2. Payson from Make It or Break It
3. Missouri from Supernatural
4. Donna from That 70s Show
5. Roseanne from Roseanne

From st_aurafina

Top five supernatural creatures?

1. WEREWOLVES (Always the top of my list.)
2. Vampires
3. Corporeal demons
4. Ghosts
5. Incorporeal entities of evil

(Crossposted from LJ.)

So there are ads for Fast & Furious, Wheelman, and Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena which air during most of the things I watch and you know what? Vin Diesel's voice just does not get any less goddamn distracting.

Especially this new CoR game, where this, from the website, just about made me completely melt: They say hope begins in the dark but most just flail around in the blackness, searching for their destiny. The darkness, for me, is where I shine.

I wish CoR was a game I could play (I'm assuming it's a first-person shooter); I'll just have to ask raz0rgirl about it, because it's supposed to add quite a bit to the overall story.

(Speaking of F&F, raz0rgirl and I went to see it Thursday night [my second viewing] and it was still a lot of fun. I can't wait for it to be available on dvd so I can have marathons of it and the first movie. I might even buy the third one, too, because it grew on me. The second one takes itself too seriously, but the third one is entertaining at times.)

(I totally have three F&F fics in progress right now, too. Must finish something!)

Vin Diesel is one of my favorite fandoms. Guh.

AWESOME Christmas Eve bonus.

I'm wrapping presents for my parents (I mean, I'm wrapping the presents they have for people) and decide to take a break. I come in to check my email, and not only is Dad watching The Pacifier but it's at the part where Vin Diesel is taking a shower and then running around in a towel.

I have great joy on this Christmas Eve!

Yay Vin Diesel and my awesome parents.

I have the window open next to me, and I'm hearing things I don't remember hearing in my neighborhood. Awesome things. Things I love.

What things?

+ Engines revving like there is motorcycle drag racing down the street.
+ Snare drums, like there is a drumline practicing nearby.
+ Vin Diesel's voice.

Well, okay, that last one is because they are obsessively showing the trailer for Babylon A.D. on television, but I am perfectly fine with that. I don't remember his previous movies getting this kind of television coverage. I am pleased.

In more Vin Diesel awesomeness, Here is the first trailer for the new Fast and the Furious movie. Between Vin and Michelle Rodriguez, I haven't left my happy place. YUM. And also pretty cars and explosions. Double plus good.

So they've started writing the script for The Hobbit. You know how many Tolkien fans feel about LotR? That is how I feel about TH. Growing up, it was the Tolkien story I loved best, even though LotR had my girl in it being awesome. I am a tiny bit nervous about the new movies. Excited, though.

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The Mac/Windows commercial where Windows is a king and he tries to banish Mac? Too precious for words. I seriously ship those two anymore.

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Vin Diesel to direct and star in a 20 minute prequel to Fast and the Furious 4. Michelle Rodriguez is going to be in it too. I just died a little. Out of happiness.

Vin Diesel beats up everyone in science fiction. "I'm Vin Diesel. Don't fuck with me."

God, I love it when he has a new movie out. The entertainment just keeps coming.

So this post is not all random Vin Diesel squee (thoughtfully put behind the cut so you aren't forced to see what a silly thing I am when it comes to him), I have a question. I don't even know if any of you live in the area, though I think at least one of you does, but if you were going to be in Salt Lake City the last week of May/first week of June (that crossover week, I like to call it), what would you do? I've been to SLC a couple of times, mostly driving through it to other places, and I know the lake is beautiful and I'd like to see the zoo, but other than that, I have no idea. I'm there for five days, more or less, right after Wiscon, visiting J. and his family.

I am really behind on livejournal, plus I have been in a mood where I have to force myself to either not take things personally or not come across like a total bitch. The way I deal with that mood is to go off the radar for awhile, but I think I just about have it under control.

I'm watching An American Werewolf In London. Not only do I love this movie, but I love this song. It makes me want to write. Werewolf stuff, of course, but just write in general, too. It also makes me want to lift heavy weights. Which I did today (okay, not heavy, but I lifted, yay!), and now feel wonderful.

( Vin Diesel squee )

What have I been doing? Working a lot, preparing for my holiday with thestalkycop, and watching Victoria Pratt hit things. I purchased Cleopatra 2525 and have almost finished the series (Victoria Pratt and Gina Tores!) and keep catching Mutant X on television. Pratt's characters certainly do hit things a lot. A whole lot. She looks so good doing it I of course won't complain.

Cleopatra 2525 is cheesy, silly, at times poorly written, did not have a big enough special effects budget--but I adore it. The more I watch, the more I love, and I am both so sad I'm almost done and already looking forward to rewatching it. The dialogue is often poorly written, but the characters are amazing, and I think the overall plot had a lot of potential. I wish they could have taken it farther.

I must find fiction about this show. Cleo, Hal, and Sarge were certainly having threesomes, and I really think Hal was more than a little in love with Cleo (and Sarge with both of them). I've not seen much so far, but how can there not be slash about this show? Three powerful women spending all their time together, often comforting each other physically, and the main male characters are either bad guys or their robotic helper who has no sex drive.

Come on, where is the slash?!

I think I might have to write some, myself.

Mutant X is also cheesy, silly, often poorly written, and the poor man's X-Men, but unlike Cleopatra 2525, the overall plot isn't nearly as interesting, nor are the characters well developed. I'm rather fond of Shalimar, but much of the feeling is because she's Victoria Pratt's character, and I am a big fan of the energy she brings to her characters, the quirky smiles, the physical strength, and the sexuality.

Also, she is beautiful, which I enjoy.

What have I not been doing? Writing fanfiction. I should, I have so many story ideas and the Butterfly Effect ficathon is due next month, but I haven't been. I've been working on original writing, both fiction and non-fiction, but I miss fandom writing, too, especially the stories I'm writing with shisaiyan.

I did get part of the next chapter of "Queertet Revisited" written and sent to thestalkycop. We have quite a bit of the next ten chapters or so written, we just need to add in specific scenes we skipped, but it's slow going these days, we're both so busy. However, two weeks from yesterday we'll be on holiday together for two weeks and will maybe do some work. I'm taking my laptop, anyway.

When I bought Cleopatra 2525, I also picked up Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (very cute, better than Stitch The Movie but not as good as Lilo & Stitch) and The Pacifier, which is still silly and Disney, but Vin Diesel remains the most sensual man on earth. Shower scene, shower scene, oooh la la.