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Just released - Gray Matters, a movie with an interesting queer plotline
March 2 - Wild Tigers I Have Known, another movie with an interesting queer plotline
March 9 - Exterminating Angels, a movie about female sexuality
March 23 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Last Mimzy
March 30 - Meet the Robinsons(scifi disney cartoon), Skinwalkers (a werewolf film)
April 6 - Penelope, the story of a modern day princess (and a criticism of modern day obsession with beauty)
May 3 - Spider Man 3
May 18 - Shrek the 3
May 25 - Pirates 3: At World's End
June - Kushiel's Justice
June 15 - Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Nancy Drew, Fido (a zombie/horror comedy made in Canada)
June 29 - The Martian Child
July 6 - Transformers
July 13 - HP5 the movie
July 20 - Hairspray
July 21 - HP7 the book
July 27 - Stardust (fantasy love story)
September 21 - Resident Evil Extinction
September 28 - The Dark Is Rising (immortals fighting the forces of darkness)
October 19 - 30 Days of Night (vampire movie)
November 16 - Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (movie about a magic shop willed to the assistant shopkeeper), Beowulf
November 23 - Enchanted (animated movie about a peasant girl who is exiled from the magic world to the 'real' world aka NYC)
December - A Lick of Frost (the next Merry Gentry book)
December 7 - His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (screen adaptation of a fantasy trilogy)
December 14 - Alvin and the Chipmunks

I'm sure there are others. But there's some for now.

Current Mood: sick

Wow, Buffy Season 3 rocks. In particular: you were all right. Vampire Willow is teh hawtness.

I just finished reading a book called Blood Price by Tanya Huff. I liked it, but I was also unimpressed by large swathes of the writing style. I'm wondering if anyone has read it AND her other work, and can comment on how it compares with her other works.

I guess I'm having a Vampire-y week.

Work on the laptop continues apace.

Current Mood: amused

Today I am lusting after Velvet Goldmine's Brian Slade, played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

It's a fantastical movie about glam rock, aliens, and bisexuality, loosely based on the life of David Bowie. The IMDB page.

You've heard me say that I seem to have a thing about gender roles, that I want my men to be masculine, and my women to be feminine. The character Brian Slade breaks that for me. I want him, intensely.

In particular, the scenes from the song "Hot One" get me all riled up. Check these pictures out, and tell me you don't want some of that!
http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/3225/Velvet/brianhotone.html

In particular, the pictures towards the bottom... the umbrella, the top hat, the pin striped suit, the glam outfit with the pink powdered wig. So hot!

I wish I understood why this is hot to me, but your average flame-y boy is not. I think there IS a difference. But what is it?

Current Mood: horny

yoinked from

journalists:
You all probably get your share of e-mailed press releases. This morning I found this message in my inbox from a PR flack:

Dear Editor,

If you do not cover on the Internet, please feel free to ignore this email. However, if your beat includes the Web, you may find the below link to Chevy's site worth your time. Chevy is running a contest to create the best online commercial for their Tahoe SUV and apparently, they haven't gotten around to screening all of their entries yet.

http://www.chevyapprentice.com/view.php?country=us&uniqueid=b3df6dec-0caa-1029-98eb-0013724ff5a7

No, it's not dirty. But it is nice to see a large, environmentally irresponsible corporation get knocked down a peg from the inside.

All I can say is: Click on that link before it vanishes, and have a morning chuckle on GM.

Current Mood: amused

George Lucas in Love

Really, go visit it. It's great. Hilarious, and very very well done.

Current Mood: amused

Today I was in an excellent mood, albeit somewhat slow-witted. I worked pretty much all day, but didn't get much done because I was banging my head against a stubborn article.

However, circumstances did conspire to bring me and

pyat and

velvetpage to the theatre to see Harry Potter -- given the lack of response to my posts to LJ, I'd begun to think I would have to go see it on my own!

( This way lay spoilers )

I have good fun to look forward to this weekend AND the next. And as always, the poly social on Monday. Life is good!

Current Mood: pleased

I recently finished reading:
-The New Glucose Revolution Guide to Living Well with PCOS; I definitely recommend it to anyone who has this syndrome
-A Wizard Alone, the sixth fabulous installment in the wizardly world of Diane Duane

I am in the middle of reading:
-The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense
-Story of O
-The Courtesans

I am about to reread, in preparation for the November 8 release of A Feast for Crows (the new book in the series):
-A Game of Thrones
-A Clash of Kings
-A Storm of Swords

Arguably, this series is where I subconsciously got the idea for my name from, as there is a character named Danaerys in it. I strongly recommend this series, btw, to all afficionados of epic fantasy. It is widely acclaimed, and for good reason.

I also have a few books lying around which I will get around to eventually: Napoleon Bonaparte (a biography), Market Forces by Richard Morgan, Blood Price by Tanya Huff, and another Guy Gavriel Kay which I have yet to read.

And books I intend to purchase in the not so distant future:
Diane Duane's Wizards Holiday, and possibly Wizards at War, though I may wait to get that until it comes out in paperback. I LOVE THIS SERIES, and have since I was young. It's aimed at Young Adults, so if you have kids in that age range who would like urban fantasy, consider it strongly.

Also, in the movie category:
Nov 11 - Rent, the movie
Nov 18 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Dec 9 - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

An excited YES! to all three.

Current Mood: busy

For those of you who are Firefly fans, planning on doing a marathon of some sort in the month leading up to Serenity's release on September 30th, I present to you a link to some "Firefly drinking games"

http://www.southeastusa.net/firefly/Firefly_Drinking_Game.html

Of course, this was designed before the series ended, for watching one episode at a time. Clearly, a revised version would be better for a twelve hour marathon. Clearly.

In all seriousness, I'm a lightweight; I couldn't pull off any but the simplest, wussiest drinking games without things getting ugly. These games amuse me more for the silly factor than for the actual drinking/drunk factor. And they help to make it more participatory, kinda like Rocky Horror.

Current Mood: silly

If you are ultra-sensitive to spoilers, do not read behind the cut. However, if you don't mind information about a character which doesn't give away any of the plots, click away!

( What I was delighted, as the kinky slutty naughty girl I am, to see on Dr. Who )

Current Mood: amused

This list is out of date -- I have more cool movies! But here's most of what I've got. Plus, I also currently have my brother's collection.

About a Boy
Adaptation
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
A Knight's Tale (off TV)
Anna and the King
Army of Darkness (off TV)
Bend it Like Beckham
Better Than Chocolate
Boys Don't Cry (off TV)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (off TV)
Brazil (off TV)
Bring it On (off TV)
The Brothers Grimm
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie)
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2 (most of it, off TV)
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 3 (most of it, off TV)
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 4
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 5
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 7 (most of it, off TV)
But I'm a Cheerleader
*Ceres Celestial Legend Disc 1 and 2
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chasing Amy (off TV)
Chicago
Chocolat (off TV)
*2 Clerks, the cartoon
Clueless
Constantine
Count of Monte Cristo
The Craft (off TV)
Crash (off TV, with James Spader)(same DVD as Boys Don't Cry)
Dangerous Beauty
Dangerous Liaison
Dark City (off TV)
*2 Die Another Day
*Doctor Who (the new version), Season 1
*2 Dogma
Don Juan Demarco (not the one with Johnny Depp, off TV)(same DVD as Chocolat)
Drop Dead Gorgeous (off TV)(same DVD as The Craft)
Dungeons and Dragons (off TV)(on the same DVD as Bring It On)
Edward Scissorhands (off TV)
Ella Enchanted
Emma (off TV)
Empire Records, special fan edition
*Escaflowne, the movie
*Evangelion (the whole series)
Ever After
The Fifth Element (off TV)
Fight Club
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (off TV)
*Firefly (the whole series, off TV)
First Knight
Four Weddings and a Funeral (off TV)
*2 Frida
Gattaca (off TV)
Ghostbuster (off TV)
Gia
Gladiator
Grease (off TV)
Grosse Pointe Blank
Hamlet
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (off TV)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hook (off TV)
In & Out (off TV)
Interview with a Vampire (off TV)
Jane Eyre (off TV)(same DVD as Four Weddings and a Funeral)
Johnny Mnemonic (off TV)
* Josie and the Pussycats (on loan to someone)
Kate & Leopold (off TV)
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Kinky Boots
Kinsey
Ladyhawke (off TV)(same DVD as Gattaca)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (off TV)
Legally Blonde (off TV)(same DVD as The Craft)
Maid in Manhattan (off TV)
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Mask of Zorro
Matilda (off TV)
Mean Girls
Meet the Feebles
Merlin
Minority Report (off TV)
Mirrormask
Miss Congeniality
Men in Black II (off TV)
Mission Impossible: 2 (off TV)
Moulin Rouge
The Musketeer
O Brother, Where Art Thou (off TV)
*2 Orgazmo
Original Sin (off TV)
Paycheck
Peter Pan
Pirates of the Carribean
Pleasantville (off TV)(same DVD as Hook)
Preaching to the Perverted
The Prince and Me
The Princess Bride
Rent
*Revolutionary Girl Utena, including the movie
Romeo and Juliet
Rush Hour (off TV)
Save the Last Dance
Secretary
Shakespeare in Love (off TV)
Shrek
Shrek 2
Sin City
SLC Punk
Sleepy Hollow
*Smallville (off TV, missing portions of season 4 and 5)
Spaceballs (off TV)(same DVD as Shakespeare in Love)
Spiderman
*Stargate Atlantis Season 1 (a few episodes, off TV)
*Stargate: SG1 (off TV, missing portions of season 8 and 9)
Starship Troopers
Star Wars Episode 1 (off TV)(same DVD as Rush Hour)
Star Wars Holiday Special
Strange Days
Strictly Ballroom
Sugar & Spice (off TV)(same DVD as Shakespeare in Love)
The Three Musketeers (off TV)
Titan A.E.
Trans America
True Lies
Vanity Fair
Velvet Goldmine
V for Vendetta
XXX
X-Men 1
X-Men 2
The 10th Kingdom
2001: A Space Odyssey

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Current Mood: happy

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