Ah, life is good.

[quidditchgrrl]

I need to remember to get out of this chair and interact with flesh and blood humans once in a while.

Spent the morning in orientation at the Capital Area Humane Society.  The girls and I are going to volunteer there as an on-going service project, walking dogs.  (You'd think they'd let younger kids do things like clean cages and bowls, but you have to be 18+ for that.  Huh.)

The rest of the day was taken in the company of one hastyent, eating way too much and giggling at inappropriate moments during

Oh dear, Constantine.  Yes, very hokey on many fronts.  But, the pretty!  Why didn't anyone tell me Gavin Rossdale was in this movie?  Ah, the pretty!  :)  And Shia LeBoeuf, whoa.



We also hit B&N and went through Q Magazine to find some decent Brit music.  Our love for The Streets knows no bounds.

(Incidentally, has anyone read Name All The Animals by Alison Smith?  It won a NF book award last year. Oh, and mental_floss magazine rocks.)

Now, I'm watching Wimbledon, which is coming into the denouement and has to potential to be marginal or really, really sucky.  (Okay, it sucks.  Never mind.)

Comments

[hastyent.livejournal.com]

Found out what was so deadly important that I get home.

Anniversary present in teh form of a spa package. :((

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Oops. Is this good or bad?

[hastyent.livejournal.com]

It's fun, but again with the guilt thing. It's a nice package and he made me pick from a list of like 4 and I picked the least expensive. because aromatherapy in a spa treatment gives me headaches. Egads.

[1anonymous1.livejournal.com]

the three of us should hang out in a couple of weeks

[queenkatieett.livejournal.com]

Gavin Rosssdale!?

Dammit. I didn't want to have to see that movie.

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, it's totally worth it, just for the few minutes Gavin is strolling around in his pinstripes. Buh.

[roguebitch.livejournal.com]

Being a diehard fan of the Hellblazer comic, I'm refusing to give any money to that monstrosity -- at least until it hits the second run theaters. I've heard that if you've never read the comic, it's actually a pretty good movie.

Plus, I could ask that coworker I'm currently obsessing about if he wants to go with me. ;-D

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

I'm a manga reader. I know how important casting is to live action adaptations. I was curious about Hellblazer, so I looked at a few scanalations of it online. After reading about three panels, my reaction to Keanu Reeves was *WTF*?

He seems completely inappropriate for the role of John Constantine. Anyone else would have been appropriate for the role. For some reason James Marsters from BtVS comes to mind. I'm not sure why. Teh crazy dark hell thing maybe?

Anyway, the comic looks fantastic! I've been thinking of branching into American comics, but I'm so stuck in the Japanese manga style. I was thinking of starting with Gaiman - His stuff looks cleaner and more stylistic than most. Am I correct?

[roguebitch.livejournal.com]

Constantine was modeled after Sting. So having a dark-haired American do the role -- as an American -- is wrong, so wrong. James Marsters would be good because he's already proven he can do a credible Cockney accent and play a guttersnipe.

Neil Gaiman is a writer, not a comics artist, so any comic you read that's associated with his writing will be a good read, at least. I think a good deal of the Sandman art is rubbish, frankly, except for a couple of story arcs. Books of Magic is a good read and the art is great. Charles Vess is a great illustrator who is associated with some of Neil Gaiman's stuff. If you liked Hellblazer you could do worse than to check out Preacher. I also quite like Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things and that whole series, by Ted Naifeh.

That's your comics geek PSA -- hope it helps! ;-D

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

AH! The bathroomie reading goodness that is Mental Floss! We've been subscribing to it for a long time now. It's such a good magazine.

[instantramen]

I have no idea why I didn't put something about Gavin Rossdale being in the movie outside the cut, except that I'm a tremendous ditz that way.

But mmmmm, Balthazar. :D