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Here's a playlist I'm having a lot of fun grooving on. Almost 200 songs, all from my teenage years:




Greatest Hits of the 70's - Youtube playlist



Holy shit, this takes me back. High school. My first girlfriends, Tina and Pam. (Well, only girlfriends. I never had any other women lovers after them.) My first concert - Queen, Night at the Opera tour, the Los Angeles Forum. Pam and I dressed in matching black satin. Damn, was she beautiful. Tall, broad-shouldered, these unreadable eyes. (I'm always terrible at describing skin tone, but I'd say hers was hazelnut...yeah.) And my first boyfriend, Ted. He was beautiful too. Imagine a male Elisabeth Shue but with fuller lips. A real English rose. We used to park his mail jeep in front of my parents' house and go at it before I went back in. (Yes, a mail jeep. We were both pretzels. Ah, youth.) Laserium at the Griffith Park Observatory. Smoking out by the Hollywood sign, back when you could still climb up there. Goddamn.

* ssssst *

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Thriller

Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 11:32 am
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Your Picture Queen returns, with more grabs from that MoP video...




Oh, Josh baby...yeah, just like that... )


Enjoy!
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...oh come, never come
Oh, come to me, beautiful rain...


-- Ladysmith Black Mombazo, Beautiful Rain


I've just spent a lovely 20 minutes sitting on my back steps, having a nice long smoke as I dig on the raindrops lacing my lemon tree like ropes of jewels.

Yes, we have RAIN!

At some point in the night, the sky opened up and we've been getting soaked since. The temp is coolish-warmish, which is very nice, and the air is full of that wet smell. It took a while to get Frodo to come in for his breakfast, because he so fucking hates to get wet, but once in he decided that's it for him, and is curled up on my bed doing his level best to forget the sky can even do that. (Casey, of course, didn't leave the house last night and so is now being annoyingly smug.)

I'm gonna cook up some bulgur for breakfast. That stuff is awesome. I've never been fond of oatmeal, so it's nice to find a cooked grain I can enjoy in the morning.

Am considering making some blackberry rugelach today, as I just got a tasty-looking jar of conserves at Trader Joe's. Since my brother's birthday was yesterday, I gotta make him a batch of cookies as my usual gift - baking comes in so handy when you've no money for gifts - so I'll take the opportunity to see if this stuff works for rugelach. I'm told I've gotten really good at making them. *buffs nails on lapel*

So begins the autumn.




Celebrate the Rain - Alice di Miceli
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Ever wanted to know what Mambo No. 5 would sound like if it were played completely on bicycle horns? Well, now you can.

You're welcome.

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May I just say that watching Elijah Wood jerk off to a video of himself with three sex slaves is, you know... really fucking WEIRD?


Just wanted to toss that out there.

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Here's a rather stupid and filthy idea, but I thought those of you who've been squeeing here might find it amusing...

Alternative Casting Game! )
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Watched August last night. Uh...yeah. Seems Josh has been wilding on camera for a while now. Mm, mm, mm. Yummy, yummy man.

I'm getting a little jumpy at the way sex scenes are just THROWN at you these days, though. There doesn't seem to be a lot of buildup anymore. Two characters are having a conversation and then BAM, they're rutting like crazed animals. It's a bit...abrupt. I'm not exactly complaining - the slam of erotic energy I got when the film cut from a sexy look to full-on FUCKING!!! was certainly enjoyable. I'm just glad nobody else was in the room, because I made a pretty bizarre sound when that happened, LOL.

The film itself was surprisingly good. It's one of those Some Guy indie films, like Thumbsucker. Some Guy (or Some Gal) films don't really have plots so much as they have spans. Here's a guy, here's where he works, here are the people he knows. He goes places, he talks to people, things happen, and then it's over, but you haven't necessarily gone any great distance. They don't have plotting in the classic film sense, and they depend on the characters' ability to engage the audience, so the actors are really important.

This one is about a Zuckerberg type who runs a start-up, and right from the get-go I was rooting for him to get a massive bitchslap. Wow, he is a shit. And Josh played it beautifully, all smug manipulation and manic narcissism, spouting off that terminally annoying techie nonsense as if it actually meant something. Gods, the self-stroking horseshit was astounding. I wonder how hard Josh had to work to learn those lines, because there is absolutely NOTHING to hang your understanding on unless you actually do that kind of work. He might as well have been speaking in numbers: "Nine fifty seven eight hundred thousand? ZERO FOURTY NINE AZIMUTH MILLION SQUARE ROOT SKEWEY, ASSHOLE!!!" It really did sound like that - just mouthfuls of hot air, but he rattled it off like every word had import. That's something I really admire in good actors - their ability to inject real meaning into things they might not understand at all. I guess those "recite the alphabet as if you were breaking up with your girlfriend" theater games really do pay off.


SPOILERS )

Yeah, this is one I'd definitely recommend if you're looking for things he's been in. It's a tour-de-force, too - he's in every single scene. The movie is completely about him, and yet it never really enters him. I mean, it's not terribly hard to figure this guy out, but he never gets explained. Know what I mean? I don't know if the filmmakers actually want to you to sympathize with him or not; it's really hard to say. But I enjoyed it, and I think you will, too.

P.S. The character's name is Tom Sterling. I find that incredibly funny, myself. It's a name seemingly crafted to put across every bit of his egocentrism and superficial charm.

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Monday, August 20th, 2012 08:43 pm
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It suddenly occurred to me to wonder what Smaug would be like if he were played by James Spader.
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The Lazy Song - Bruno Mars



Leonard Nimoy. In a bathrobe. Flipping people off. OMFG

He is SO on my fantasy smoke-out list now.
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Courtesy of @ebertchicago, I've been grooving on an internet meme that's been around awhile, but is still incredibly cool nonetheless:


Fake Criterion Collection covers


For those of you who don't know, The Criterion Collection is a company that restores important films and markets them on high-quality, extras-laden DVDs. (They started out with VHS, then went to laserdiscs, but well, we all know what happened to those.) Getting on Criterion pretty much guarantees that your film will achieve a level of ultra-geek hipness that sure doesn't hurt. Of course, they steer clear of pretty much all pop entertainment, preferring the classic, the out-of-the-way or the rare. Which conditions led to the meme, of course. One thing you can count on with internet geeks: we just can't leave anything alone. Especially the Photoshoppers.

So I thought I'd take a crack at it myself. Here are a couple of Fake Criterion Collection covers for films that will probably never make it into their ranks:


The Lord of the Rings )

Star Trek XI )


Hope you like 'em.
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Blast from the past...a trip on the imaginational highway.


Autobahn - Kraftwerk



Part 1




Part 2

Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn

Vor uns liegt ein weites Tal
Die Sonne scheint mit Glitzerstrahl

Die Fahrbahn ist ein graues Band
Weisse Streifen, gruener Rand

Jetzt schalten wir ja das Radio an
Aus dem Lautsprecher klingt es dann:
Wir fah'rn auf der Autobahn...


(We are driving on the Autobahn

In front of us is a wide valley
The sun is shining with glittering rays

The driving strip is a grey track
White stripes, green edge

We are switching the radio on
From the speaker it sounds:

We are driving on the Autobahn...)



Huzzah for the internetz. I remember seeing this film at animation festivals back in the 70's, back when pop music had more room to be relaxed and album cuts of 20 minutes or more were not uncommon. Amazing stuff. Animation by Roger Mainwood, and of course the trippy genius of Kraftwerk, the founders of the Electronika movement in music.

So kick back, fire up the headphones (and any attitude adjusters you may have on hand), maximize your screen, and get ready for a journey down the Autobahn.

Geeky greed

Sunday, May 17th, 2009 01:41 pm
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Oh my gods, WANT. WantwantwantwantWANT.


*ahem* Sorry about that. Carry on.

Um....wait, WHAT?

Monday, April 20th, 2009 08:10 am
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Sprinkler Rainbow Conspiracy



Because every now and then, you need to feel smart..
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At 11:00 p.m., THE RACE HAS BEEN CALLED:


275 - 141










When Jon announced the result, I burst into tears. My mom and I hugged, grinning like loons. Man, I feel exhausted.

There are cars driving by in the street below, honking. So great.


I'ma go have a puffa. Celebrate amongst yourselves.


Hugs to everyone!

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