What I Did During The Blackout

[marycrawford]

Heh. I love that we're calling it a blackout. It sounds like we were all stumbling around in the dark, wearing white nighties and clutching candles. (Apparently my brain lives on cliché's: in real life I wear PJs or nothing, and I would employ a Petzl headlamp, not candles. But anyway.)

- messed around with Prince Hercules, the Real Legendary Journeys episode I'm writing. I should have it ready for beta by tonight.

- messed around with the Live Till I Die vid again to get it in the right form for Escapade (vid guidelines are up!) and I'm going to have to bother flummery until I understand bitrates. It's not going to be pretty, y'all.

- finally watched Ocean's Eleven. I didn't want to watch it for ages because I thought it was a submarine disaster movie (you know, and then it sank, and they built another one and called it Ocean's Twelve. What?) and now I did, and it was great, with excellent dialogue and a fun, exciting plot. The only thing I did not like about it was the bit where George Clooney gets the girl (and they actually called Julia Roberts 'the girl', ergh) by being a manipulative bastard, not to mention a stalker. Eek. Apparently, this is what being romantic means, to some. Also, is it me or did Julia Roberts look really thin and unhappy in that movie? George Clooney, OTOH, is slowly morphing into Cary Grant before my eyes.

Comments

[mythdefied.livejournal.com]

I've never watched it because I really don't like Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt and George Clooney (as hot as they are) aren't enough to make up for having to see her. (I feel the same way about a couple other actors, fortunately they, like her, don't make too many movies.)

Yeah, it's kind of scary, what's passing for romance on TV and in the movies these days.

[dbw.livejournal.com]

May I just say that I love your icon? :-)

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

And may I just ditto that? *g*
'Friend anyone whose name you recognise', bwa!

And you can totally fast-forward all the scenes featuring Julia (there aren't that many to begin with) without losing the plot, just FYI.

[mythdefied.livejournal.com]

nimori has this icon and another one, both hers and up for sharing. I wish I'd been clever enough to think up something like this but my sanity wasn't quite all there when LJ was gone.

Thanks for the tip on the movie. I do like George Clooney so maybe I'll need to go rent that. (Or possibly wait for it to hit cable and just hit mute whenever she's on.)

[mythdefied.livejournal.com]

I grabbed it from nimori. She has a couple really good ones, but this one was the best. I did more than half of those things, although I forgot that I had an LJ clone (JournalFen) because I was too panicked/depressed over losing LJ.