Retro post: Do You C, What I C

This was first posted on 12/16/07
As I have been thinking a lot on reviews and grading (again) I figured you guys should be too ;). If you commented before (click the date it was first posted) do you still think the same? If you missed the post the first time what are your thoughts? And yes sorry about the lack of posts yesterday work is a mad house and we are planing BIG things for the month of June

Question I would love for anyone and everyone to answer....

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Tags: making the grade, random thoughts, reviews on reviews, Sybil

gweeeeeeeennnnnnnn

I have been good. Can I have one?I don't think I have caused truble in like MONTHS! uh weeks... err days?

::pouts::

I R Abused!

Tags: poor sybils, random thoughts

Is that a Powerful Sword in Your Pocket?

Friday night, I was channel surfing, looking for something to have on in the background while I worked on a post. Suddenly, I came across a movie that I was starting to think existed only in the murky recesses of my fevered brain. A movie so ridiculous, so strange, I must've dreamed it up. It was "Legend." Anyone seen it? An extremely young and miscast Tom Cruise, dressed like Peter Pan, frolicking in a merry woode? Unicorns, elves, goblins that look just like the Leprechaun, Ferris Bueller's girlfriend? Constant, disturbing yelping in the background? Classic fantasy cheese.

Though we're at no loss for 80'snostalgia, the subgenre of campy, medieval, swords-and-sorcery fantasy flicks often gets overlooked, IMHO. I mean really, how often can we talk about Heathers and John Hughes movies? [Well, pretty often, actually. I never pass up a re-airing of Sixteen Candles.] But fantasy films had just as much influence on the reader, and adult, I was to become.

There were the great ones, like Labyrinth. David Bowie, incredibly sexy despite huge hair, set my tween heart aflutter. I couldn't understand why Jennifer Connelly didn't stay to be his Goblin queen. And freaky muppets! Or Lady Hawke, which managed to be awesome despite the weird power rock soundtrack and odd casting of Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Broderick. Was it just me, or was Rutger Hauer both incredibly creepy and incredibly hot?

I watched Willow about a thousand times for Val Kilmer as roguish warrior Madmartigan. Ah Val, what happened to you? I was an Iceman girl. I've even watched The Saint. More than once. Willow was a great flick, with adventure, romance, and a cute little baby. I saw The Princess Bride three times in the movie theatre, back when I was in the sixth grade. A slightly different animal of course, definitely tongue in cheek, but "As You Wish?" Sigh.

There were others, of course, perhaps not as memorable, but deserving of a mention. Dragonslayer had Peter MacNicol (yuck) saving virgins from a fate worse than death, that is, being eaten by a dragon or something. All I remember from Excalibur (Arthur, of course) is that I think it was the first time I saw a man's butt onscreen. Lancelot and Guinevere were doing it in the woods. I may be wrong about that, though, I might have to double check for research purposes.

I never watched The Dark Crystal, looked too scary. Even at seven, perhaps I knew that it was just no good without man-candy. And let's not get started on the Conan movies. Or Beastmaster. Good times, good times.

When vampires, werewolves, demons and ghosts were still way too scary, mechanical dragons, beautiful princesses, little people in costume and Celtic music were more than enough to feed my imagination. I figure that's where I learned the value of a sweaty, well built man with long hair, brandishing a big sword. Epic struggles of good and evil, passionate romance, noble quests-it all fed my future reading tastes.

I also blame these movies for igniting an obsession with the Middle Ages, leading to FIVE years of Latin lessons, and a particularly useless Liberal Arts education. These days fantasy movies seem to be relegated to the kids. I think Peter Jackson and LOTR set the bar too high. But how I long for simpler days, when cute actors vaguely attempted British accents, wore tunics, and made out in magickal forests.

How about you? Love fantasy movies? Hate ‘em? Will the Willow fans please stand up?

(While trying to think up a title for this post, my husband suggested "Movies that make you want to kill yourself." Agree? Disagree?)

Tags: 2008, Devon, Fantasy, March 2008, Ponderings, random thoughts

doing as I say…

links links links

mix and match:

way back machine
the internet remembers everything, well almost everything - you have a link that is now dead, wayback it. You might find fun and laughs you have long forgotten. Or you may find that thing you did, that you forgot about, is still on the net.

rxlist
Drug Information site. What can we say I am american

The Smoking Gun
They are watching you. Court case files and other interesting and scary things.

George Carlin
He amuses me, I am sure that surprise no one.

Women in Greek Myths
Something else that amuses me.

You are Old Father William
poem out of Carroll's Alice and Wonderland...

Home page for everyone who loves the Marquis De Sade
hmmm I am thinking this is something I looked up after seeing the movie Quills. I have about two or three DeSade sites marked. Oddly enough I have never read anything by him.

rubbaducks!
I own a few of these as does the lil sister. Go sing with the intro, send a duck-o-gram or just wonder about what the fuck goes through my mind

More fun with DUCKS
puzzles, calendars, screen savers oh my

Good Vibrations Magazine
sex sex and more sex in a very positive way.... when did Violet Blue stop working with GV?
oooooohhhhhhhh I think my blog rating just went NC-17

X-Files Transcripts
read it while you watch... ahhhh or just pick an ep and remember when

The X-Files In-Jokes List
You want to know how many times scully says: "Mulder, it's me" in an ep - they know

The X-Files Timeline
Conspiracy Timeline (although it prolly still won't make sense)
X-Files Time... breaking it all down man

DuchovnyNET
got a question on david duchovny or if you just want to look at the pretty - gertie has it. As well as a wide arrangement of other sites on other celebs.

LOOK more X-Files
quotes quotes quotes

Road Runners
general x-files fan site - WHAT jo told me too

Gillian Anderson's Official Website
uh the title says it all

USA Weekend Mag transcript of GA interviewing DD
by this time in the post, the fact that I have this bookmarked should shock no one...

Gossamer Project
The place to find X-Files fic... old, new, good, bad, long, short - it is here

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
again - title says it all

Are you pondering what I'm pondering
narf!

Tomato Nation
tre funny

The Onion
America's Finest News Source (tm)
A farcical newspaper featuring world, national and community news.

DEADWOOD Stage
deadwood message board, with spoilers
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ok I have wasted enough time, it is sad how many broken links I have in my favorties

Tags: links, missing maili, random thoughts