Aug 25 2008

Yo!

Published by Fence under Ramblings, Shiny, TV

Okay, can some one kindly tell me where this last year has gone? Cause look, it is time for this year’s RIP Challenge. Decisions decisions. But I think I’ll go with the first peril, reading any four books from any subgenre of scary-ness. I just got to go find them now. I think that The Host by Stephenie Meyer qualifies, so that’ll be one. And I’ll have to take a gander through the tbr pile to see if any of those fit. And then probably a trip to Chapters and book buying. But its all good, I haven’t been there in at least 2 months, I’ve been very good about not buying books. I think it is time for a splurge.

I haven’t quite managed to keep up with the two proper blogs a week that I mentioned a while back. But you know, intentions are worth just as much as deeds, right?

Yeah, okay, so thats a lie. But you just gotta deal.

Spent most of Sat. watching the telly. Well, I say telly, I mean dvds. And I know that I’ve mentioned this before, but I just love Rocky Balboa. It is just brilliant. Full of cliché and sentimental shots, but it just works. Rocky just works. Still have to watch the commentary, that’ll be fun.

I’ve been doing a fair bit of rewatching stuff lately. Over the past few weeks I’ve been rewatching Firefly. Its been a while. Don’t think I’ve seen any of those episodes since the film[1] came out. And that was years ago[2] It is so great. Every time we’re about to watch a new episode I say “oh this is a great one” or “I love this one”. We just got up to Out of Gas last week. Awww. Watching them all get together and seeing Mal fall in love with the ship.

Oh, and while I’m moaning about time flying, when did it get to be the end of August? For those of you not in Ireland, well, maybe you lot got a summer. Us, we got rain. Followed by more rain. Followed by some more.

So where was our summer? huh? Life is so unfair sometimes…

Linknotes:
  1. in 2005 people. 2005!
  2. which is scary. I mean, years! Where does the time go.
Tags: awww, brilliant, Firefly, rewatching, RIP Challenge, Rocky, Rocky Balboa, Serenity, Stephenie Meyer, telly, The Host

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Nov 06 2007

Stardust

Published by Fence under Moving Pictures

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usDir: Matthew Vaughn
Writ: Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn based on book by Neil Gaiman

  • Charlie Cox … Tristan
  • Ian McKellen … Narrator (voice)
  • David Kelly … Guard
  • Kate Magowan … Slave Girl / Una
  • Sienna Miller … Victoria
  • Peter O’Toole … King
  • Mark Strong … Septimus
  • Jason Flemyng … Primus
  • Rupert Everett … Secundus
  • David Walliams … Sextus
  • Michelle Pfeiffer … Lamia
  • Claire Danes … Yvaine
  • Robert De Niro … Captain Shakespeare

I read this book a while ago and really enjoyed it, so I wasn’t too sure if I’d enjoy the film. You know the way they always change stuff. But I try to pretend that it is a brand new story and not based on any book, course that doesn’t always work, but I do try.

Anyway, I’m happy to report that Stardust is just a lovely film. It is the story of a young man who goes on a quest into the faerie world to bring back a star in order to prove his love. Only across “the wall” he finds that the star is actually a woman, and that there are others looking to find her, and for slightly more nefarious reasons.

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Tags: 8 Stars, awww, based on book, Charlies Cox, charming, Claire Danes, david Kelly, David Williams, enchanting, faerie, ghosts, Ian McKellen, Jane Goldman, Kate magowan, Mark Strong, Matthew Vaughn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Neil Gaiman, Peter O'Toole, pirates, Ricky Gervais, Robert de Niro, romance, Rupert Everett, sff, Sienna Miller, star, Stardust

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