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JOSS WHEDON YOU UNUTTERABLE BASTARD.

Unarguably one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. (Can unarguably and inarguably be used interchangably?) Just amazing. I laughed, I cried (I sobbed for thirty minutes solid), I cheered wildly. And I don’t think anyone would consider it a spoiler if I praised Joss for keeping his promise and having no sound in space. I went in expecting a ramshackle musical score and a barrage of unfinished special effects shots, but the movie seemed polished to me. There were some timing (timering? Where you adjust color and light levels and stuff for printing the film.) issues in some shots, but aside from that, nothing jumped out at me as something that needed to be fixed. Though I bemoan having to wait until late September to see the movie again, I’m so glad that Joss got the extra time to perfect the film.

I won the costume contest for my Zoe outfit. It turned out that it was just the four of us and some random guy that came as Mal that dressed up at all. Well, there were a handful of Blue Sun shirts and the like, but no one else serious. My prize was an autographed copy of Finding Serenity, signed by Jane Espenson. I won another copy of the book in the trivia contest, but traded with Rachel, who had won the Joss Whedon biography, as I had purchased a copy of Finding Serenity when it first came out.

The trivia itself was embarassingly easy; Rachel won her prize for completing the phrase “two by two, ___”, and I got mine for naming Mal’s home planet. And here, when we found out about the trivia contest, Rachel and I were quizzing each other on stuff like “Where is Badger from?”, “Name as many hat-trick actors (and their roles) as you can” and my all-time favourite, “Which two characters are seen using sugar tongs during the course of the series?”

Anyway, I’ll post pictures tomorrow. I’m off to cry myself to sleep now.

ETA: Um, if anyone thinks I’m saying too much, let me know and I’ll edit this entry.

I am seeing Serenity in less than five hours. It does not compute. I’m already in my Zoe costume (did I mention I switched? I couldn’t find a proper jumpsuit for Kaylee), even though I won’t leave to pick up Marcelina for another hour.

Don’t worry, Cult of Lincoln will remain completely Serenity spoiler-free. I will squee and gush, certainly, but I will disclose no details, plot- or character-wise.

You know, more and more I keep thinking I should just switch to LiveJournal. The LJ-cuts alone would be worth it.

And hey, my half birthday was three days ago! Usually I’m more aware of stuff like that. My sister and I used to do all sorts of silly things for each other’s fractional birthdays, when we were ikkle. I remember her giving me three quarters on a particular three-quarter birthday.

Link grab bag!

From LifeHacker, via Friede. Murdered blogger’s post leads to killer.

From a Joss Whedon interview: “Shaun of The Dead. That’s the kind of movie that makes me want to make movies.” Shabooyeah.

OH MY GOD. Michelle Trachtenberg and Sean Maher starring in Lifetime’s “The Dive From Clausen’s Pier”. Dawn/Simon, EW EW EW IT HURTS MY BRAIN.

Umm, quick topic change. Tycho of Penny Arcade is among the golden few seeing Serenity tomorrow. Hopefully this should quell rumors of River being made out of chocolate.

Google Maps Apparently Show UFOs!

What do you mean, I forgot about Towel Day? Gah, I suck. I got all caught up in the rememberance of the People’s Republic of Treacle Mine Road and it slipped my mind.

Sooo, Lost season finale. First of all, EEEEEEEE, CHARLIE/CLAIRE OMG OTP LIEK WOAH. *coughs* Secondly, WHY IS EVERYONE A MORON?

Charlie: Stupid! Stupid stupid stupid!
Sayid: Jerk!
Kate: Darwin Awards candidate¹. Why was she running around and jumping when she was under the impression she was wearing a backpack full of exceedingly tempermental dynamite?
Jack: Chauvanist! Why couldn’t you have given Kate the dynamite and saved us all a lot of irritation?
Professor Redshirt: Haw haw! That was the funniest example of spontaneous human combustion since Monty Python.
Sawyer: Looked like a dork with his hair pulled back. But boys that sing are awesome, so yay.
Hurley: Awww, I could never be upset at you! SO MUCH HURLEYLOVE.
Locke: Also great. BZZZT! *loves* But every so often, you did this creepy smile that made you look like you were going to molest someone. Stop doing that.
Claire: Not stupid, but please, get your priorities in order! You give him a peck on the cheek for making you a Dutch baby carrier, but only a hug when he saves your infant son from a psychopathic French woman intent on trading said son to a bunch of murdering savages? The boy deserves mad smoochies. Make him forget all about the Smackfarthing!

And I was exceptionally cross at Sayid, as he made me–for the briefest of instants–think that Sayid/Shannon was sweet. But then the camera went back to her and I was like “oh.” You don’t just forgive stuff like that. Also: maiming Charlie and taking him unnecessarily through the den of Smackfarthing. But a bit of my grudge against Shannon was lifted when she didn’t resort to feminine wiles to get help with all the stuff she had to carry, and she instead told Sayid that she had everything under control when he offered to help her, so my intense loathing of Shannon has slightly diminished. And then, Sayid has his awesome moments where I can’t help but love him and all is forgiven. “Do not hit me again” and similar. Yeah, Sayid is awesome. MASSIVE Sayid love.

As for Charlie, I have to quote lots42: “Burning his last bit of drugs got him his guitar. Maybe he’s hoping if he burns the new batch, he’ll get a shiny new bicycle and a hot bikini for Claire.” Humorous observations like this are the only thing preventing me from smacking the boy upside the head. And in the end, Danielle did the right thing and gave up Turniphead without a fight. Charlie really didn’t need to tear into her like that.

Also, “They were coming for the boy.” Man, I watch 13 episodes of Wonderfalls and I didn’t notice that it could just as easily be referring to Walt as Turniphead. I fail at life television.

So how many Jossed Charlie/Claire fanfiction writers will suddenly decide that Aaron is Charlie’s middle name? XD

When did Sawyer call Michael and Jin “Han” and “Chewie”? How did I miss something like that?

What was in Sawyer’s shirt that freaked Michael out? The gun, presumably?

¹And speaking of the Darwin Awards, I probably shouldn’t be laughing about this, but you have to admit, it’s hilarious.

Just checked my email, and it turns out I was wrong. Peer advisees have not been assigned yet. Those listed on the website were from last year.

50 HOURS UNTIL SERENITY!

*snorks* You know how I spent most of yesterday on my Animation homework? It turns out I misread the assignment and accidentally did three weeks’ worth of work. And to think, at Penn, I would have considered this a “light” assignment. (Of course, that might be because my professor was crazy).

I’m really going to have to work on my communication skills.

Oh. So that’s why I haven’t heard anything regarding the assignment of my Peer Advisees over in a month. They’ve already been assigned, and somehow my name as an advisor was lost in the shuffle. That’s obnoxious. I hope it’s not too late for them to fix their mistake.

FOUR DAYS. 105 HOURS. EEEEEEEE!!!!!

Re: The Spike and Wes “Percy” thing, upon a repeat viewing of “A Hole in the World”.

If Spike has seen The Nightmare Before Christmas, I’m willing to bet he’s read Harry Potter. The sentimental sap in me wants to imagine that he and Dawn read it together in the summer after Buffy died.

And I need to stop reading fluff.

FIVE DAYS, TEN HOURS.

Got together with Chungy, Eunice, and Mein Schlienen last night. Originally we were all going to Chungy’s for dinner, as her mom had offered to make us authentic Korean cuisine, but she’d had a long day, so we didn’t want to impose. Instead, we had dinner at Chili’s for old times’ sake, got gelato at Paciugo, then returned to my house to watch an anime called Appleseed and some Firefly. Appleseed was gorgeous — I think I missed half the dialogue just admiring the blend of CG and traditional 2D animation.

Firefly was interesting, as Chungy had somehow gotten it into her head that there was a lot of teen angst-type drama on the show. I wanted to make her rewatch the episodes she’d seen (“Serenity”, “The Train Job”, “Our Mrs Reynolds”, and “Jaynestown”), because I don’t have the foggiest clue how she could misremembered so severely, but as Marcelina had been with us when we watched those four episodes, I didn’t want to make her rewatch an episode for Chungy’s sake when she was already so excited about the show. Instead, we watched “Ariel”, which I felt had a good representation of the Firefly dynamic, without necessarily requiring a lot of backstory for Eunice’s sake (who hadn’t seen any).

After that, everyone went home, and I vowed to fix Chungy’s bizarre misconception through excessive consumption of Whedon-y goodness. I only wish that we’d been able to convert her earlier, so that she could have seen Serenity with us. Oh well, I sincerely doubt that the May 26th screenings will be the last ones, so it’s probably not too late.

(Oh, and Rachel — Marcelina agrees with me that Cherise would make a much better Zoe, if only for the hair. Hah!)