it's the mosh

cutting class right now - so I can skip off to Black Hole records and flirt outrageously with the clerk who doesn't Really Look like Joe Strummer from the Clash but maybe if you squint your eyes and stand fifty yards away -

oh, and also so I can call the guy who hit me and arrange the meeting to have my car's bumper fixed.

Oh, responsibility.

I did email my tao professor with a copy of the assignment - along with a back up copy on webspace!

There. I'm not really headed for the basket of academic hell...

I love everyone today.

Even the people who say cinnamon rolls are bad for your health. (Warning: if you are on a diet of any kind, do not read Robin Mckinley's Sunshine. She mentions baking and pastries incessantly (or so it seems) and if you don't go crazy wanting some cinnamon rolls, you are a far stronger person than I.)

Hidalgo is out today! Go Support Viggo Mortenson's horse habit!

and so is Starsky & Hutch! Go Support Ben Stiller's Wig habit!

Wait, is that his real hair? Go Support Owen Wilson's Nose, then! He needs the love, after the Big Bounce, or whatever the hell that movie was called.

ETA: Why registering for fanrun forums and paying attention to band websites are important - thanks to a tip from the official Nada Surf webforum, I found the fansite which has the MOST PERFECT SONG EVER FROM THE PERFECT SCENE (tm muzakgurrl), aka, "If You Leave" from the Goodbye Girl.

The website is here, and you have to register to activate the links. But check out the sound files - it's AMAZING. And Nada Surf have covered some really great songs (pretenders, the smiths) and performed with a lot of cool people (shivaree!).

"is there no one else?"

MAY 14 - THE SKIRTS WILL ATTACK TROY check out the new trailer link

I had something deep and profound to say - how stripping Troy of its mythic qualities (the goddesses making Paris, who, let's face it, is a useless pretty boy choose between them and having Helen awarded to him because she was the "Most Beautiful Woman" in the mortal world) and putting it into historical context and more epic qualities - "We're fighting for our honor! For Love!" when...again, Useless Pretty Boy couldn't contain himself...is an interesting concept and I'll be very keen on seeing how they make Paris' villainy and cowardice dimensional and empathetic. And of course, if Orlando can pull off a less than 'good' character on screen.

And in a lesser note, is that EYELINER?


"verily, this movie will inspire slash, be it of the brawny and skirted type, and the gods did spoke thus - for Brad shall gird hams and Eric don a fighting beard, and verily, Orlando will wear eyeliner and a bedsheet, and so much Greek love will abound. And the valiant femmeslash brigade will throw up their hands and say, "are any of the women real characters and not mere bedsheets running around bosoms heaving and curls flipping?" and many young girls will adopt Andromache and Helen as their online handles, and go OMG@!5G90DIDUSEE THE EYELINER?!!0 and "I'll gird those hams for him!" and all the Sean Bean fans will verily go, "Ach, speak to us of Real Men!" and countless fanboards will spawn flame wars over why Diane Kruger was cast as the most Beautiful Woman in the World and not......(insert name here) and Saffron Burrows and Rose Byrne will shake their heads bemusedly and go, "We were in this movie?"

And so did the gods speak.