Spinning on that dizzy edge

So I just got back from seeing "Wonder Woman", and wanted to get down everything swirling in my head before I dive into the 10+ open tabs I have on other peoples' reactions.

My one-word reaction: AWESOME.

( SO MANY WORDS OF JOY/FEELINGS/SPOILERS )

I wish I could transport all of my friends to the Alamo Drafthouse so we could have our own screening of the movie and rejoice in unison. Then go pee and come back and see it all again.

I am so happy that I got to see "Wonder Woman" on opening weekend, and count towards a monster-stomp of a box office tally. This shouldn't have been the first WW movie, and it certainly won't be the last. I hope this opens the floodgates on female-led, female-driven movies and puts a damned stake in the heart of that terrible "But women can't carry a movie!" belief. Marvel, you have some ass-kicking boots to fill with "Captain Marvel". Learn some lessons and give us a movie even better than this one.

Now I'm going to go dive in those other tabs. Viva la Wonder Woman!

Are the flying pigs having snowball fights in hell? Because I seem to have made it through an entire regular TV season without a single one of my shows being canceled. That hasn't happened since...EVER. I even watched multiple new shows this year, and they all made it through. I don't think it's my tastes that are changing; either the networks are relaxing their standards for demographics and audience size required to renew, or *GASP* the masses are coming around to my way of thinking.

This includes: Castle, Grimm, iZombie, The Flash, Arrow, Agent Carter (:D :D :D), Agents of SHIELD, and Once Upon a Time. I'm not counting Glee because its end has been planned for a while.

Spoilers ahoy!

( Once Upon a Time )

I am loving everyone's delight in Mad Max: Fury Road, both fannishly and critically. ( Links and fannish adjacent thoughts )

In flashback news, I've been watching Alias. Bless that zany early 00s show; I have to shake my head every time Sydney skulks through her missions in her all black spy gear...with a belly shirt, so her abdomen flashes through like a beacon whenever she moves. So stealthy!

Confession time: I loathed Kennedy in Buffy season 7. Her storyline, her designs on Willow, the lackluster performance by the actor...everything. So I take a certain amount of catty glee (I will admit to being an awful person sometimes) to seeing Iyari Limon in an irritable bowel medicine commercial. Heh heh heh.

Speaking of commercials, have you seen Kristen Bell and her husband Dax Shepard hawking Samsung appliances? They legitimately made me laugh; I watched the whole behind-the-scenes thing, because I love watching KBell in action, being loose and comfortable with herself, and HAPPY.

I saw Avengers: Age of Ultron, because it was necessary as a MCU fangirl. I'm still deciding if it's too late to post a reaction piece about it, because about 2300 words poured out of me when I sat down to watch an AHEM copy.

I've got a business trip next week to visit the main office. Airfare was ridiculous for traveling that week, so my coworker and I will have to drive 1.5 hours to a podunk airport, take a hop to Chicago, then over to the Twin Cities, meaning a day wasted in travel each way. But I'll get to have dinner with heresluck, which I am very happy about, and lots of down time to catch up on shows. I'll be packing Lost Girl, Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries, Doctor Who, Orphan Black, plus some movies for my Big Idea VVC vid...and going into the office at some point. :)

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

I was completely excited when it was announced a few years back that The True Meaning of Smekday was being made into a movie. I hadn't heard much in the interim until I read a mention of it in the recent Entertainment Weekly.

So this brilliant story, narrated by a biracial preteen, about how Earth was invaded by aliens twice and her subsequent cross-country trip with one of the aliens, with an attention-grabbing title that is easily searchable?

Has been simply named Home. Aside from naming it "The", I don't know how they could have come up with a more generic name.

I really hope it was a clusterfuck failure on the part of marketing, and not (as my husband suggested) the author's distancing himself from the end results. (There's a trailer here. I...don't know how to feel about that. The official movie website is not confidence-inducing, either.)

I mean, I realize some sacrifices had to be made to bring it to the screen (J.Lo is now "Oh", for example). But WHY would you take away that distinctive name?

Here's hoping they keep the plucky young heroine's story front and center, and ease up on the wacky alien antics.

ETA: OK, This trailer makes me feel a little better. I'm loving Rihanna's voice acting for Tip. Jim Parson's Oh may take a little longer to grow on me, if only because I enjoyed the narrator's voice for the Smekday audiobook - J.Lo/Oh should sound more alien!

I found out this week that there's an actual-factual movie filming here in town, starring Danny Glover and a surprising list of other big-name actors (Victor Garber! Anthony Edwards! Griffin Dunne!). It's called Food, "a modern political thriller that explores the complex world of Genetically Modified Food." That's certainly something that's right up my alley, both in subject matter and in making movies in general, so I submitted my name to the casting crew. I was informed today that I got picked as an extra!

I'm reporting late afternoon tomorrow to a site a couple of miles away from my house. I'm supposed to bring several "business casual or business professional" outfits to chose from, which will be a little wacky for me, considering that my workplace has been straight-up casual for almost a year now, not to mention that the crowd I'm supposed to be a part of is not typically pictured as dressing up that much. I'm hoping that I'll be able to pull together some ensembles that work for them. I'll probably want to wear some makeup and jewelry or something, too. Female gender performance is hard, yo!

I am grinning about this opportunity, even as I'm trying not to freak out about packing snacks and drinks and outfits and entertainment. A friend from work will be there as well, which makes me feel a lot better. I've always been jealous of you guys in Vancouver and other popular filming areas, getting to peek in on sets in action. Now I'll get to be a part of one!

Time for bed and sleep - I've got a lot of errands to conquer before my closeup tomorrow. ;)

My annual job review yesterday afternoon went excellently. I received many lovely comments, and a RAISE. Woo! I'm almost done coding on my current large project, and the news looks good on the next big thing.

If you'd like to play along with a meme, comment here with AVENGERS ASSEMBLE. I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.

mrsdrjackson assigned me seven words for her meme: Emperor, gardening, elections, blue, wolves, libraries, and movies.

( Emperor )

( Gardening )

( Elections )

( Blue )

( Wolves )

( Libraries )

( Movies )

I suppose that's enough babbling for a Friday afternoon. I hope you all have an enjoyable weekend.

I slept much better last night after that post of woes.  Silly old brain.  Apologies as usual for the dump and post. 

It's no news to anyone, I'm sure, that the internet is a scary, skeevy, screwy place.  Let's see....

Exhibit A:  New Star Wars Disney Figures Coming Soon.  Now, I'm as big a fan of the crossover as anyone, and that Mickey/Yoda statue is kinda cute, and carbon-freezing him is an excellent way to get Donald to STFU already, but...Really.  You had to put Minnie in the Slave!Leia costume?  Gross, guys.  Just gross.

Exhibit B: The Cuchini Pad, for disguising that pesky case of camel toe.  (Now with celebrity examples!)  This chirpy ad proclaims "No bush, no cush!" and offers this solution to those addicted to Brazilian wax jobs and not wearing underwear with their tight pants.  I don't even know where to begin.

Exhibit C:  When you're tired of ratting your hair to ludicrous heights, turn to Bumpits!  I saw this on TV and could have sworn it was a fake SNL commercial.  Do they not realize how ridiculous the demonstrated hairstyles look?  Or, as usual, am I just hopelessly out of touch with today's fashions?  (See Exhibit B.)

Exhibit D: Color blind, or just color foolish?  You be the judge.  I had to do the copy, paste, zoom myself just to make sure that aqua = aqua.

Exhibit E: Little Love This Summer for A-List Actors.  ( Hollywood and movies: the same old new thing. )


And finally, news that got my fangirl heart beating very fast:  Chris Pine will sing and have an actual vocal offering on the soundtrack to the upcoming Small Town Saturday Night.  SQUEEEEEE!  (You didn't really need those eardrums, did you?)

And on that note - happy Friday everyone, and for those of you in the US, enjoy our national holiday dedicated to summer fun and colorful explosions!

I went to see a movie yesterday! ( Whereupon our heroine views a film and expounds at some length about it. )

In conclusion (and wow, this kind of length is why I don’t do much commentary), I firmly liked "Sweeney Todd". I wouldn’t say it was the greatest film ever and that you must drop everything and go see it, but if you’re not too squeamish, appreciate musicals and/or the oddness of Tim Burton and his merry madmen and women, then you may very well enjoy this movie, too.