tarotgal

Well, I woke up early and drove an hour in the rain to see Stay. The ticket-seller looked at me like I was crazy:
Me: *rushing slightly because it is 12:22* One ticket for Stay at 12:20
Her: What movie?
Me: Stay
Her: I'm sorry? What movie?
Me: It's called Stay. It's at 12:20... Stay.
Her: *stares at screen for a good 10 seconds* Oh. Can I see some ID please?
Me: Absolutely. I haven't been asked that in a long time. *passes over driver's license* Makes me feel young.
Her: Just one ticket?
Me: Yes.
Her: Here you go *passes me change, my ID, and a ticket*

Okay, I know it wasn't wildly publicized but I've seen commercials for the movie during all the major shows I watch. *shrug* Anyway, I understood her confusion when I got to the theater. It was halfway through one of the trailers and NO ONE WAS IN THE THEATER! It was dark, so I made a point of picking a seat, standing up, and looking around. But I was alone. Whoa. I don't like going to see scary movies alone! Since I wasn't going with anyone I'd been hoping that there would be a few people there at least so I wouldn't get so freaked out. But, no. Just me, a gigantic room of stadium seats, and a big screen filled, a dozen minutes later, with Ewan's face.

So I warmed up to the idea of having the place all to myself at that point. It was very intimate. Like a showing just for me. I actually squee-ed out loud when Ewan came on because, Hell, I COULD! (I did it softly just in case, though) About 10 minutes in, however, two people came in with drinks and popcorn. They sat way down in front on the side, though. It was a fun experience, though.

And the movie itself? Beautiful. I loved the style and the attention to detail. The Washington Post gave it a not-so-good review in the paper this morning, saying it left you feeling empty even when the weird plot was finally explained. But I don't feel empty. I feel like I just watched something beautiful. I LOVE when Ewan does small, artsy films like this. That's what I love about him as an actor. He's got good taste and can pull this sort of thing off. I loved the mystery, the attention to detail, and I was emotionally involved right from the start. The twist... well, not brilliant or remotely original but not entirely expected either and, MUCH more importantly, still enough to make me really think about the whole movie at its climactic moment. Parts were very clever. Parts were weird. Parts were mysterious. And there was only one brief part where I was terrified. It was NOT a scary movie at all as I'd thought. I LOVED the characters muchly. I loved the story-telling techniques and dialogue. The camera work and sets were brilliant and entertaining. And, of course I must mention it, there were a few LOVELY wet!Ewan scenes. *EG* Sorry, I'm a sucker for wet!Ewan. On a whole, for what it was, it didn't disappoint me in the least. And I thought Ewan was just fantastic in it. Maybe it was the fact that it was practically a private showing just for me, but it felt very sensual. The movie was short (an hour and a half) but it didn't rush anything because of how it was shot. It was slow and vivid and... yeah, sensual.

I really liked it. And I'm very glad I went to see it today.


I stopped by the JC Penny's Outlet on the way home. I have no money but REALLY need bras that fit me and I could do for a few more long-sleeve shirts. But they didn't have anything cheep enough. And there were no bras at all that I fancied.

I wish I hadn't filled up my gas tank earlier in the week. I'd been hoping to go to the other movie theater to do recycling so I filled my car up all the way at $2.79. But in the part of town where this movie theater is gas was down to $2.34 everywhere. I always get gas when I go all the way out there and here I was stuck with a full tank today. DOH! Ah well. Can't do anything about it now.

On the way home I stopped by the craft store and picked up a photo storage box. I want to have a special box for photos of all my recent trips. I think that would be nice instead of putting them in a shoebox to put in scrapbooks later. I also went looking for a nice Christmas ornament. I'm doing the Bookcrossing ornament exchange and wanted something nice. Something specific to DC, maybe. But nothing in the several isles of ornaments jumped out at me. Except for a few little silver stags. I wanted one last year and never bought it, so I went and did so today. *Snuggles Prongs* OMG when I move back out on my own and put up my own tree (which is in storage) I want it to look all fannish. It's not nearly as close to as wonderful as Lady Korana's sounds *is envious* but I'm working on it. heehee

So, yeah. That's my day so far. Excellent movie.

I turned on the TV to go to bed and Access Hollywood was on and as I went to turn on Buffy they said the magic words "Ewan McGregor". Then they showed clips from the new 'Stay' trailer which looks FRIGHTENING! I adore psychological thrillers and Ewan looks just fantastic (sexy doctor/professor... mmmmmm). I'm sure I'll be terrified in theaters but I'm so there on October 14th. Yay! What a lovely thing to see just before bed :-)

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Two days without a major stomach problem and counting! Bloodwork came back normal today (which is good. Apparently no ulcers or infections so yay for that). And the very VERY not good side effects of the medicine have worn off as well. So here's hoping I'll be okay (albeit stuck on the meds for at least a month). *knock on virtual wood*

I'm attempting to do a small website update tonight. Because I'm leaving and want some stuff up there. It won't be complete, but it'll be something. I won't be able to get to the archive before I leave, however. Sorry 'bout that, all.

I'm going to post a few short ficlets tonight, and the part of one onlist. Just to get those out of the way, too. Nothing huge. Just short PWP fluff with bad titles. You know, my normal crap ;-)


Now for the actually important stuff. *WARNING: Lots of ramblings* Since watching 'The Girl in the Cafe' on Saturday (and not only being astounded by the FANTSTIC dialogue and nummy actor from Love Actually and actress from Trainspotting) I've sort of been majorly obsessed with these Millennium Goals and the G8 conference. I mean, I signed the One campaign thing weeks ago and all, but this just floors me. FLOORS me. All it would take to end world hunger is, like, $5 from everyone in a developed nation. And that'd be it. The END of hunger. It's just... it's mind-blowing to me how it's SO bloody achievable and, yet, it's not already done. I mean... what the HELL?! $3.56 from everyone and the HIPC's are all out of debt. Why the fuck haven't we done that? Why don't people act like global citizens? Why is it even a QUESTION of whether we should do it or not? I'm just... astounded. The goals are amazingly huge and, yet, so possible to achieve. And then we'd be a completely different world. I mean, it would change the entire world. Like, completely change it. I just... I just cannot imagine how even bloody Bush could not fight to keep his promise. And this issue is SO incredible. It transcends labels and boundaries. Liberals, conservatives, normal people, celebrities, artists, politians- HUMANS. Ever have one of those moments where you can literally just stop and see things from a completely different viewpoint? Had one of those yesterday. Words fail to decribe it, but it was like seeing a completely different world. And I'm just fascinated and obsessed with the whole thing right now. Completely and utterly.

And yesterday I was curious to see if some of my favorite celebs were involved in the thing. Turns out Jim from BNL went to Tanzania yesterday. DAMN! I wish I'd looked that up on their blog earlier! I could have given him advice since my dad just got back from there! :-) Looks like enough people gave him tips, though. So that's good.
And Ewan. He was chosen to hose the youth version of the G8. OH my gods I love this man. I had NO idea! Somehow I managed to miss that (though I did know about his UNICEF G&D performances). But.. yeah... astounded I am. Just so much good out there. And everything so within reach. Yeah. I'm totally obsessed with this whole thing. How in the WORLD did I manage to NOT know about these goals until just now? I mean, you'd think I would have heard about them in my global soch class at least! That's the sort of thing we would have spent weeks on! LOL But I guess these things are never well known until we realize we're five years in and many years behind. Or until Bono tells us about them. LOL! But, yeah, Ewan. SO my hero. Plus his Make Poverty History ad is just too adorable for words!!

http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/video/?pageVideo=/flv/clickuk512k.flv
( Film Star to Host Youth G8 Summit )

So... yeah... I spent at least a half an hour (closer to an hour, probably) crying after watching the movie. And I keep bursting into tears at random times during the day when things pop into my head about it. Both good and bad tears, of course. I'm just overwhelmed. My father's practically responsible for these statistics getting out in the first place so it hits kind of close to home and... GODS but I cannot BELIEVE the way the world is right now and how possible some of these goals are. Not to say all it will take is money. That's just silly. But it's all so attainable. So close. I just... I'm astounded by it all. I've followed this stuff on and off for half my life and I honestly have NO idea how I could have missed these goals. Then again, these last 7 years have been weird for me, so I must have slipped up (and I went into uber environmental mode for a few years instead, as well). But... yeah. Obsessed. And holding my breath until news this weekend.

I know it's kind of late notice... sorry. But for anyone who doesn't already have Ewan's ER ep on tape (like me) it's on TNT tomorrow morning at 10am EST. I'm going to wake up at 9:50 just to change tapes from Buffy to Ewan then go back to sleep.

It's my day off tomorrow. Whoohooo! Means sleep. And avoiding the hot outside. Gods but I hate the sun. So icky and hot and bleh!! It's like we had 2 days of spring and moved straight into summer. I hate when it's so sunny and light out all the time. I'm totally a night person. Daytime makes me feel busy and stressed and I have to put up with annoying people. At night everything's so calm and peaceful and quiet. I'm probably the only pagan in the world to hate the sun but there it is. Ick. Makes me all hot and sweaty and burnt and skin cancery- not to mention spring allergies making my go mad lately. Totally not happy. But tomorrow I get to stay in and sleeeeeep :-)

Oh, and I just caved and bought 'Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience' (the SW MA fanzine/book I had my eye on a month ago). The "fan stuff" portion of my monthly budget has been shot to H-E-double-L now. I'm not going to open it when I get it in the mail, though. I'm going to give it to myself as a weight loss present. Which means now I actually have to lose considerable amounts of weight! LOL And to think I almost skipped my round of sit-ups this morning. Bad tg! Maybe I'll go do the elliptical while watching The OC now... see if that will wake me up a little now.

Anyway... pics of my stuff are on my photoblog now. *sigh* I miss my stuff.

What was this post about again? Oh. Right. Ewan's on ER tomorrow. Sexy angsty bad boy *EG* I've seen this episode at least 10 times and I never get tired of it.

Went to see Robots. It was, like, 60 degrees today so no snow. And I found the movie theater just fine- which is great! I only made one wrong turn and that was trying to get out of the maze of streets there. Yayness.

Robots was so adorable! I saw it in a theater with about 20 other people- mostly parents and kindergarten age kids (no one older than, since it was during the school day) and it was a lot of fun listening to the kids laugh and giggle at the funny parts (I laughed along as well) and laughing with the grown-ups at the more *cough* adult jokes. The Washington Post gave it a bad review- well, not a great one. Called it a clockwork lemon. But, hey, I like lemons, right? *EG* I thought it was adorable, though. A little light in the plot department (any more, though, and I would have been complaning that it was too complicated), but characters were great, details were FANTSTIC, and the "universe" that was created was breathtaking. And Ewan did a great job as well. So it was yummy! I enjoyed it. Very cute.

Seeing the SW trailer on the big screen- yippie! I was so worried it wouldn't be there, too. They showed 4 movie trailers... and then the lights got dim and I got scared! But then, there it was. YAY!!! Oohhhhh so good on the big screen. Is it May yet?! *whimpers*

And one of the other movie trailers was for the new Chocolate Factory movie. The movie looked... well... like Tim Burton made it. And Willy (Johnny) looked... well... FRIGHTENING! They definitely did an excellent job in not stripping the "Crazy" when they went from book to movie. Not that I was worried, considering it's Tim. But Johnny Depp- MUCH as I adore him- is no Gene. And I still don't think I'm going to like this. I hate this constant need to remake things. The original was spectacular. Why do we need a new version?! But I'll still want to see this. It looks... well... definitely worth watching. And Johnny was so yummy to see. Very pleasant surprise.

I'm glad I took off today and had some good, relaxing time. And I deposited money at the bank ($40 in coins is HEAVY!!! Especially when that's a full $11 just in pennies!) Then I walked around Fairfax Town Center a while- I'd never been and it's got a lot of interesting stores. Not that I'm surprised. That's the "high end" side of town. My side is closer to the ghetto, and then a little bit beyond where my high school was that becomes the "trash" part. Though speaking of which, I've been wanting to go to the sex store over there for a while... I've only ever been to the ones in my tiny college town, so it'll be nice to see a "bigger" one. ANYWAY... then I recycled the huge stacks of magazines I've been driving around with for months. It's a few blocks away from the mall/theater so it was good I had an excuse to go over there.

Apart from a splitting headache, it's been a good day thus far. I'm going to try to finish up "Marty's Story" and then nap before I have to go get the dog/housesit talk at my neighbors'.

Ugh. "Marty's Story" sounds like a sex ed video. Maybe "Marty's Tale" or just "Marty". Gah. I don't know what to call this series or the stories in it. Worse yet, I don't actually have a name for the nightclub! I suppose I could call the series "Nik's Possé" but I'd rather name it after the nightclub. Assuming I can think up a name for the nightclub. I like Stokes though as a city- thank you Silly_Sooze! Ohhhhh my gods. I could call the club Strokes! Er, or maybe not. Don't want people to think about having a stroke. That's not fun. And it's not something Nik can easily pronounce, either. LOL I'll keep thinking.

Wow... talk about rambling. From Robots to magazine recycling to gay nightclubs & porn stores. I shall shut up now :-)

Sleepy all day. Probably was the 4 and a half hours of sleep last night.

Lost my glasses in the car today. That was exciting. Well, more like annoying, really. I found them eventually, but only after I spent 20 minutes searching and driving to the last place I'd been to be sure they hadn't fallen out. Stupid glasses. This is why I never wear you! But I paid more on my car loan and dropped off the check for my storage unit as well, so it all evens out. And I listened to my QAF mix CD in the car so that made me happy.

I watched Brassed Off today. *sigh* EwanEwanEwanEwanEwanEwanEwanEwanEwan! *double sigh* Naturally I cried through lots of it, but there was just as much squeeing, I assure you.

And I watched Harry Potter 3 again. With parents this time. It was their first time seeing it. I like watching movies with first-timers. My mother was apparently Alfonzo's target audience: someone who knows the books well enough not to be confused by lack of explanation and someone who laughed at EVERY SINGLE out of character move made throughout the whole movie. I'm still annoyed at Harry stealing Neville's lollypop while invisible and trying to stay unnoticed. Yeah. Good one, meanie! Bah! I printed out HP POA in 15 minutes for them afterwards and my mother nearly died laughing. It seriously makes the movie much more enjoyable for me. Though I completely covered my eyes at the painful ending again. I just can't do it.

Let's see... I must remember to eat tomorrow. I've not been good at that these last few days and have gone all shakey with hunger when it was way past eating time. *makes mental note to do better today*

Today's Ficcage:

• Worked a little on one of the WK Ayafics. It's going better than I'd hoped. Yohji's face is pretty much in Aya's arse and there's NOTHING sexual going on and I'm actually able to keep it that way. At least for the moment. LOL
  
• Wrote some of the Talafic. I wrote until I got stuck. Bah! Stuckage! Don't like! Bad muses!
  
• Opened up a FAKE fic I started at least a month ago. I have half a page written. It was a brilliant concept. I read through what I had and realized I completely forgot what I wanted to do with it. So I banged my head against the monitor until part of the idea returned and then quickly made as many notes at the end of the document as possible. Hopefully when I get to writing those parts, more will come back to my mind.
  
• Came up with a BRILLIANT title for a fic! If only I had a story to go with it now. DAMN MUSES! *kicks*
  
• Sat and stared for about 10 minutes at my Percy/Oliver fic. I was frowning with lots of unhappiness. It started so well! What the heck happened to the point of the story? It's like it went for a coffee break after the sex and never bothered returning. Anyone know how to get a point-of-story bunny back? Maybe enticing it with another sex scene will help... I must try that...
  

I watched and taped (again) Ewan on Leno tonight when it repeated. This time I got that little bit before the commercial on tape. Something about the way he plays with his wedding ring when he talks... GUH but the man is perfect! LOL
But I taped the interview on a fresh tape so that I can tape all 6 episodes of his show after that and it'll all be in one place. Sooooo excited about it!

Is it Thursday yet?

I'm planning on putting on "Serpant's Kiss" tomorrow after my usual round of shows (Wednesday being Lost, Kevin Hill, and then Wife Swap) to get in the mood further. As though I could ever be OUT of the mood. Ewan! *squee* And Charley! And Ewan! *dies* Am so happy. NOT just because of the whole fangirlyness, but I really am looking forward to seeing the adventures. I have that "get in my car and drive across America" drive going on right now (not to mention friends and family positioned perfectly for me to be able to do so without much difficulty) so going across the WORLD. Guh. I'm envious and want to live vicariously through the sexy men! :-) Wait that sounds... *looks at my slash writing* no, that sounds about right. LOL!

Are you sure it's not Thursday yet? *whimpers*

EDIT: I'm watching Serpant's Kiss AFTER the eclipse, mind! I don't want to miss that! *wishes she had time to write a full moon & lunar eclipse Remus-fic*

Just finished watching Big Fish again.
Am sobbing so hard. Damn. I want to be immortal! I'm happy just being a small fish... but I want to be immortal like that so badly... I really do. Even just a little bit :-) *sobs* I love this movie. I want this movie to be my life. *sigh* I really want to watch the commentary, but I know I'll just start crying at the end again, and there are large tear spots all over my shirt and my cuff's soaked already. So I won't. I'll wait until later. But... damn... I want to be immortal...

*bounces up and down*
I just bought Big Fish! I've got Ewan! *bouncy bouncy*
Only cost me an extra $3 at Target as I was using gift card from Christmas. Happy happy. Ewan! *giggles maniacally*
I love this movie. As a writer, it inspires me SO much. And it's got everything... giants, true love, magic, destiny, humor, a werewolf, Siamese twins, war, death, birth, stories, mystery, compassion, loyalty, father-son tension, and EWAN! Not to mention Tim's vision (which are always so fresh and vivid) and great music and sets and, oh, did I mention EWAN?!!!! *giggles* Happy happy! *bounces*