I keep finding out that more members of my non-Buffista friends and members of my family are secret Buffistas! How is it possible that I never knew before?
I just recommended Cabin in the Woods to a friend and he invoked Buffy in his appreciation.
Mal: You are very much lacking in imagination. Zoe: I imagine that's so, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
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quester - Apr 19, 2012 5:16:23 pm PDT #19526 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Beverly - Apr 19, 2012 10:11:57 pm PDT #19527 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm late to the party, as usual, I only saw Hunger Games for the first time this week.
I had no problems with any of the casting with the possible exception that Katniss was exceptionally healthy-looking for someone as deeply poverty-stricken as she was supposed to be. I easily handwaved it on the basis of her being well-fed from hunting, or selling her kills.
Two things struck me, and they're related. The movie was filmed in Mohicans country (Asheville, French Broad River, Lake Lure and Hickory Nut Gorge), which I recognized as been-there-often familiar, and it made me a little homesick. The second was that I grew up with people who lived as District 12 lived, some of them were relatives and friends. What's more, people still live like that--just like that--today. It's actually a couple of steps down from Justified country.
smonster - Apr 20, 2012 1:41:01 pm PDT #19528 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
it made me a little homesick
Me, too. Didn't expect that.
What's more, people still live like that--just like that--today.
True, though none of my friends or relatives. Although I did just hear a story about my grandfather at 8 YO trying to cook a pigeon in a can.
smonster - Apr 20, 2012 1:45:42 pm PDT #19529 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I hope she doesn't want to write the script. Because I LOVED that book when I was a kid.
OH GOD NO. I loved it, too.
Amy - Apr 20, 2012 1:49:47 pm PDT #19530 of 30000
Because books.
I have the hardcover version of that book ... somewhere.
What's more, people still live like that--just like that--today.
My West Virginia relatives are mostly a bit better off than that now, but I know my great-grandmother's house had no indoor toilet up through the 1960s.
JZ - Apr 20, 2012 1:54:47 pm PDT #19531 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Bev, I'm later than you. I still haven't seen Hunger Games, or Cabin in the Woods. I haven't even seen *Bridesmaids*.
Aw, hell, I haven't even seen Sherlock. The first one.
Someday when we have money again, I'm going on a Netflix rampage.
(Please, nobody offer to lend me anything. I'm horrible at returning things, and then the guilt crushes me and I'm retroactively sad at ever having seen the thing. It's better if I do it on my own dime, even if it takes years.)
smonster - Apr 20, 2012 2:00:13 pm PDT #19532 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I have the hardcover version of that book ... somewhere.
I got rid of my paperback at some point, woes.
(Please, nobody offer to lend me anything. I'm horrible at returning things, and then the guilt crushes me and I'm retroactively sad at ever having seen the thing. It's better if I do it on my own dime, even if it takes years.)
JZ made me laugh, because I have done the same thing.
Polter-Cow - Apr 20, 2012 2:08:28 pm PDT #19533 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm horrible at returning things
Don't you have my 30 Rock ? (This is not a guilt thing. Return at your leisure. Sometimes I just need to remind myself where things are.)
It's better if I do it on my own dime, even if it takes years.
I think Seanan had my Wonderfalls DVDs for a couple years. Also, one of my friends borrowed my VCR in...2008? 2009?
smonster - Apr 20, 2012 2:13:51 pm PDT #19534 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I kept The Long Way Round for three years, I think, from my friends J & J. They went from being childless to having a toddler. And my friend Bob has had my Kitchen Confidential DVDs for I don't even know how long.
Amy - Apr 20, 2012 2:14:55 pm PDT #19535 of 30000
Because books.
This reminds me I have a book of Teppy's she lent me ... four years ago? Yikes.