birds and boys and friends and movies
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la_belle_laideI just (a few hours ago) got back from having sex with Edward Norton! I didn't have quite so much sex with him as I had with RDJ last week, but I still totally had sex with him and I'll tell you guys all about it in a minute.
I wanna show you guys something really sweet. Last night I got a call from Lao Shir because she had found a little baby bird and she didn't know wtf to do. So I went a'runnin' like I always do when there's a baby bird and took him. (And in the meantime hung around with her for about an hour too, in her adorable, beautiful little house by the bay, to talk about everything from evil clowns to Kung Fu to hot boys. She's 50'-ish and a lifelong single lady, I'm 35 and a lifelong single lady, so we have a lot of fun talking about these subjects. ^_^ Also, she is fantastic. )
ANYway.
You have never seen something as teeny and fragile as a baby sparrow or finch.
How adorable is that?
I did an unorthodox thing with him, too. I put him in the nest with my hatchling starling. Starlings usually kill small birds, but they're both hatchlings so right now all they're doing is keeping each other warm.
How unlikely a pair do they look?
They eat together too:
I think it's a good idea because the baby sparrow has splay-leg, which is a metabolic bone problem due to diet (the parents probably died right after the storm and the baby had nothing to eat.) Also because he fell about twenty feet, and it's the nest and the other babies that keep their legs from splaying, because they're packed in together really tightly. But one thing you can do for splay-leg is try to re-set the legs, and one way to do that if it's not too bad is to just pack them in a nest really tightly, preferably with other babies. So as long as the big doofy starling doesn't go trampling him and covering him in crap, it works out for both of them.
Neat, huh?
And this is just a really cute caterpillar:
Right, so the Incredible Hulk! Well, as I implied, it was good, but not nearly as good as Iron Man. I like both actors a hell of a lot, but I guess I liked the tone of Iron Man better and, I dunno, it was kinda humorous and light and I felt a lot more sympathy for Tony Stark for whatever reason. ("For whatever reason" probably = he was a snarky bastard with katana-wit, and then he did heroic things while retaining both snarky bastard wit and a sense of vulnerability that RDJ has with him in every role, and that's hot. But I digress.)
Edward Norton did have some naked time in this, but it was like only one scene and I kept going back to the logical problem of his pants. I mean I realize they made a point of saying that he had to buy stretchy pants or whatever, but like, just how come all of his other clothes got shredded off except for anyplace there are naughty bits? I mean did he get to keep his like 18 inch waist when he changed into the Hulk? (OMG, he is so skinny. And I think the skinniness works, you know, a dichotomy, Oh look this scrawny pale guy turns huge and green, imagine!) The pants gave me a big logic problem!
Then there was the problem of Liv Tyler. Why'd she spend the entire movie doing her lines in the voice of a six year old girl, what the hell was that?
Oh my gosh, there's this one scene where it's the obligatory "time to bang" scene, only obviously they can't get it on because of the whole racing pulse/embarrassingly timed morphing problem, which made me A) LOL pretty hard and B) actually put way too much thought into that. I mean, what if they were banging and he Hulked out during that? Oh my god, the potential tragedy and/or internet porn!
I totally like it in movies when Match-stick City gets to be NYC, and I was into all the cars getting thrown around for the first twelve hours of the fight scene, and then in the last, like one hour I was like, Err, okay, enough with the cars. All I could think of was that insurance companies probably don't cover for stuff like that, that goes for the apartments too, 'cause a lot of those got all buss' up.
Tell you one thing, there is a scene where Hulk is running towards uhhh, well Tim Roth's hulk type monster thing for a huge, epic mid-air crash/battle, except they ran towards each other for a really long time and I started to think how funny it would be if at the end of it they leapt into each other's arms and embraced and cried together. When you see the movie, picture that.
The only other thing that induced eye-rolling was towards the end when Tim Roth monster dude is like "Any last words" and Edward Norton Hulk goes, "HULK SMASH." I was like, Seriously, "hulk smash?" WTF is this, the Monster Mash? "MMM, mash good!"
But in all seriousness it was a really good movie with plenty of Edward Norton angst/introspection, if you're into Edward Norton angst/introspection, which I am. The dude is honestly an incredibly fine actor in everything he does. And he is BEAUTIFUL, as I've mentioned. Even the Hulk was strangely appealing, maybe even cute in a green, veiny, huge, "this is why steroids need to stay illegal" kind of way.
Lou Ferrigno had a really adorable cameo (don't even ask me how I remembered what he looked like, as The Incredible Hulk tv show is a vague memory from my childhood; I think I saw it maybe three whole times.) I didn't stay till after the credits but I will say that the last 120 seconds or so were my favorite part of the movie. Seriously, I came.
Anyway it was a really cool pre-summer movie. I am SUPERFLY excited about the trailers I saw, too. I don't think I've been this into the summer movies since I was a kid, seriously. There was a trailer for the new Mummy movie which not only has Brenden Fraser (I could eat him alive, honestly,) but also Jet Li and Michelle Effing Yeoh who is my idol. Then they had the X Files trailer and I literally leapt out of my seat and cheered when I heard the music. I think I cried a little. Then, you know, Scully, my other hero. I thought it was odd because when my friends and I would ask each other "if you had to kiss a girl who would you kiss?" I would answer Michelle Yeoh and Gillian Anderson. How weird is that?
Wow, you guys even get a review of the freaking trailers, how cool am I?
Here's what I'm wondering. Right, so after they make all these superhero movies, they all get together for one big movie, right? This is the Avengers or something? (I'm sorry for my ignorance; I was not a huge Marvel Comics fan.) So are there any girl avengers, or is this just going to be a a formula of "powerful male superhero / intelligent, loyal and sympathetic female in need of eventual rescue" kinda thing? That's what I wanna know.
Well, that's my update for today. Hope you are all chillaxing and having happyfuntimes.
I wanna show you guys something really sweet. Last night I got a call from Lao Shir because she had found a little baby bird and she didn't know wtf to do. So I went a'runnin' like I always do when there's a baby bird and took him. (And in the meantime hung around with her for about an hour too, in her adorable, beautiful little house by the bay, to talk about everything from evil clowns to Kung Fu to hot boys. She's 50'-ish and a lifelong single lady, I'm 35 and a lifelong single lady, so we have a lot of fun talking about these subjects. ^_^ Also, she is fantastic. )
ANYway.
You have never seen something as teeny and fragile as a baby sparrow or finch.
How adorable is that?
I did an unorthodox thing with him, too. I put him in the nest with my hatchling starling. Starlings usually kill small birds, but they're both hatchlings so right now all they're doing is keeping each other warm.
How unlikely a pair do they look?
They eat together too:
I think it's a good idea because the baby sparrow has splay-leg, which is a metabolic bone problem due to diet (the parents probably died right after the storm and the baby had nothing to eat.) Also because he fell about twenty feet, and it's the nest and the other babies that keep their legs from splaying, because they're packed in together really tightly. But one thing you can do for splay-leg is try to re-set the legs, and one way to do that if it's not too bad is to just pack them in a nest really tightly, preferably with other babies. So as long as the big doofy starling doesn't go trampling him and covering him in crap, it works out for both of them.
Neat, huh?
And this is just a really cute caterpillar:
Right, so the Incredible Hulk! Well, as I implied, it was good, but not nearly as good as Iron Man. I like both actors a hell of a lot, but I guess I liked the tone of Iron Man better and, I dunno, it was kinda humorous and light and I felt a lot more sympathy for Tony Stark for whatever reason. ("For whatever reason" probably = he was a snarky bastard with katana-wit, and then he did heroic things while retaining both snarky bastard wit and a sense of vulnerability that RDJ has with him in every role, and that's hot. But I digress.)
Edward Norton did have some naked time in this, but it was like only one scene and I kept going back to the logical problem of his pants. I mean I realize they made a point of saying that he had to buy stretchy pants or whatever, but like, just how come all of his other clothes got shredded off except for anyplace there are naughty bits? I mean did he get to keep his like 18 inch waist when he changed into the Hulk? (OMG, he is so skinny. And I think the skinniness works, you know, a dichotomy, Oh look this scrawny pale guy turns huge and green, imagine!) The pants gave me a big logic problem!
Then there was the problem of Liv Tyler. Why'd she spend the entire movie doing her lines in the voice of a six year old girl, what the hell was that?
Oh my gosh, there's this one scene where it's the obligatory "time to bang" scene, only obviously they can't get it on because of the whole racing pulse/embarrassingly timed morphing problem, which made me A) LOL pretty hard and B) actually put way too much thought into that. I mean, what if they were banging and he Hulked out during that? Oh my god, the potential tragedy and/or internet porn!
I totally like it in movies when Match-stick City gets to be NYC, and I was into all the cars getting thrown around for the first twelve hours of the fight scene, and then in the last, like one hour I was like, Err, okay, enough with the cars. All I could think of was that insurance companies probably don't cover for stuff like that, that goes for the apartments too, 'cause a lot of those got all buss' up.
Tell you one thing, there is a scene where Hulk is running towards uhhh, well Tim Roth's hulk type monster thing for a huge, epic mid-air crash/battle, except they ran towards each other for a really long time and I started to think how funny it would be if at the end of it they leapt into each other's arms and embraced and cried together. When you see the movie, picture that.
The only other thing that induced eye-rolling was towards the end when Tim Roth monster dude is like "Any last words" and Edward Norton Hulk goes, "HULK SMASH." I was like, Seriously, "hulk smash?" WTF is this, the Monster Mash? "MMM, mash good!"
But in all seriousness it was a really good movie with plenty of Edward Norton angst/introspection, if you're into Edward Norton angst/introspection, which I am. The dude is honestly an incredibly fine actor in everything he does. And he is BEAUTIFUL, as I've mentioned. Even the Hulk was strangely appealing, maybe even cute in a green, veiny, huge, "this is why steroids need to stay illegal" kind of way.
Lou Ferrigno had a really adorable cameo (don't even ask me how I remembered what he looked like, as The Incredible Hulk tv show is a vague memory from my childhood; I think I saw it maybe three whole times.) I didn't stay till after the credits but I will say that the last 120 seconds or so were my favorite part of the movie. Seriously, I came.
Anyway it was a really cool pre-summer movie. I am SUPERFLY excited about the trailers I saw, too. I don't think I've been this into the summer movies since I was a kid, seriously. There was a trailer for the new Mummy movie which not only has Brenden Fraser (I could eat him alive, honestly,) but also Jet Li and Michelle Effing Yeoh who is my idol. Then they had the X Files trailer and I literally leapt out of my seat and cheered when I heard the music. I think I cried a little. Then, you know, Scully, my other hero. I thought it was odd because when my friends and I would ask each other "if you had to kiss a girl who would you kiss?" I would answer Michelle Yeoh and Gillian Anderson. How weird is that?
Wow, you guys even get a review of the freaking trailers, how cool am I?
Here's what I'm wondering. Right, so after they make all these superhero movies, they all get together for one big movie, right? This is the Avengers or something? (I'm sorry for my ignorance; I was not a huge Marvel Comics fan.) So are there any girl avengers, or is this just going to be a a formula of "powerful male superhero / intelligent, loyal and sympathetic female in need of eventual rescue" kinda thing? That's what I wanna know.
Well, that's my update for today. Hope you are all chillaxing and having happyfuntimes.
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Date: 2008-06-14 02:03 am (UTC)Haven't you heard of Magic Pants (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicPants)?
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Date: 2008-06-14 08:28 pm (UTC)Starlings are monsters, especially side-by-side to your little sparrow. They're so ugly they're adorable. ;)
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Date: 2008-06-15 12:11 am (UTC)For a second I thought I was going to try to, then I remembered it was just the movies. ^_^
ANd baby starlings almost look like aliens, right?
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Date: 2008-06-15 12:42 am (UTC)just how come all of his other clothes got shredded off except for anyplace there are naughty bits?
See end of X-Men 3, where Wolverine's clothes get blasted off in the presence of Jean Grey (kinky girl!) EXCEPT for his pants, and even then just the "important" parts. Convenient. :)
he did heroic things while retaining both snarky bastard wit and a sense of vulnerability that RDJ has with him in every role, and that's hot.
I love RDJ too. Snarky + sensitive = sexy. :) And there's something about his dark eyes, very expressive.
All I could think of was that insurance companies probably don't cover for stuff like that, that goes for the apartments too
Depends on their policy; Comprehensive Auto coverage would cover that if they carry it. And for Homeowners / Rental Dwelling Policies, even the most basic policies cover these Named Perils: Fire, lightning, windstorm or hail, explosion, riot or civil commotion, aircraft, vehicles, smoke, vandalism and malicious mischief, theft and volcanic eruption. So barring a real jerk of an insurance adjuster, YES, you're covered. You know, that would make a hilarious commercial....
and I started to think how funny it would be if at the end of it they leapt into each other's arms and embraced and cried together
I haven't seen the movie yet, but just the way you described it was hilarious.
maybe even cute in a green, veiny, huge, "this is why steroids need to stay illegal" kind of way.
THAT'S Why I thought he looked just like Jason Giambi. :) "GIAMBI SMASH BALL!"
So are there any girl avengers, or is this just going to be a a formula of "powerful male superhero / intelligent, loyal and sympathetic female in need of eventual rescue" kinda thing?
Gwyneth and Liv should start a "girlfriend of mutant /superhero" support group. "Sisterhood of Mutant Manflesh" or something like that. Post-avengers movie, it would probably make a decent new show on ABC. Come to think of it...forget i mentioned it. *Runs off to write pilot*
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Date: 2008-06-15 01:10 am (UTC)I was kidding about the insurance thing.
Yeah, I was wondering if the "superhero girlfriends" were going to meet up in the later movies, and the idea of it just got my hackles up. There's no way they could handle it without being condescending in a "Let's show them girls can kick ass too, YEAH!" kind of way.
Still, good movies nonetheless.
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Date: 2008-06-15 01:37 am (UTC)OH. Whoops. :)
I was thinking re: the "superhero girlfriends" idea that if they did it as a "life is normal" theme. where they really DON'T get involved much, just chatting over coffee. Just a bunch of ordinary girls who date extraordinary men.
Tough to do well, destined to fail, but fun to think about?
female avengers
Date: 2008-06-15 01:04 am (UTC)Re: female avengers
Date: 2008-06-15 01:08 am (UTC)Re: female avengers
Date: 2008-06-15 08:10 am (UTC)The Avengers are a Marvel owned series
Wonder Woman is a DC owned chacter. Wonder Woman is a member of the Super Friends, and I think JLA (Justice League of America)
Re: female avengers
Date: 2008-06-15 03:06 pm (UTC)