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[lierdumoa]

I don't really know what I want to say in this entry. I have a million things floating around in my head. Okay, first off, a status report. I'm still importing clips to WMM for Syd's birthday vid. I still haven't gotten past scene three for IWLT pt. 2. I'm going to try to finish it today. *crosses fingers*

For those of you interested in exploring other fandoms, Syd recently gave me an author recc for Khaleesian. Read her Fast and the Furious fic (here). She's gooooooood. And let me add that dialogue sounds *so* much sexier when you get to picture Vin Diesel saying the words.



Books I Want

1. Polymorph by Scott Westerfeld.

Summary: Gifted with the ability to change her gender and ethnicity at will, a young woman moves anonymously through a futuristic New York City society. She thinks she's unique until she happens upon another of her kind, one who is all-too willing to use his abilities for his own sinister ends. Now she must stop this renegade shapeshifter out to seize control of the entire post-industrial world--where illusion wears the face of reality and the ultimate prize is absolute power!

Why I want to buy it: I lost my copy. It's a really good story. Also, it has the best sex scenes I've ever read outside of fanfiction. None of that weak assed "fade to black" shit you find in most books. (features homosexual and heterosexual intercourse; warning -- kink)

2. Bloodchild: And Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler

Summary: This slim volume brings together the author's five previously published short stories and two essays. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards for science fiction/fantasy novels, her latest being Parable of the Sower (LJ 10/15/93), Butler professes in the introduction to "hate short story writing." Nevertheless, she shows mastery of this literary form in both science fiction ("Bloodchild") and general fiction ("Near of Kin"). An afterword follows each offering, giving insight into its origin. Of particular interest is the autobiographical "Positive Obsession," a series of vignettes showing us her development from her literary awakening at age ten until she was established as the only African American woman writing science fiction for a living. Recommended for both science fiction and mainstream short fiction collections.-Robert Jordan, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City

Why I want to buy it: She is debatably my favorite sci-fi author. Her and Orson Scott Card -- can never decide who I like more. She has a way of writing that just completely fucks with your head. Why this book in particular? Cause I've read pretty much everything else by her.

3. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Summary: In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing victims of so-called "Gobblers" and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved.

Why I want to buy it: First in a series which queenofalostart once described to me as "the thinking man's Harry Potter."

4. Brokeback Mountain

Summary: Two cowboys fall in love with each other on a mountain while herding sheep. They deny they're 'queer' even during their rough love making. Each goes on to marry and develop other lives - but they never forget each other. The story spans 25 years in less than 60 pages.

Why I want it: Aside from the obvious?

Movies I Want

1. Get Real

Summary: Get Real begins with a couple of hedgehogs having sex, and deals with a topic just as prickly: gay love in adolescence. Steve (Ben Silverstone) is a student at a British school where everyone wears classy uniforms, knows he's gay, and is pretty comfortable being so. John (Brad Gorton), a top athlete and all-around admired guy, is just getting an inkling and isn't sure how he feels about it. This, cleverly, is how the movie manages to explore coming-out issues and be over them at the same time. In fact, the whole movie is pretty clever--witty dialogue, deft direction, nimble pacing, and clean editing--in exploring the seriousness of adolescent life without taking it too seriously. The key is in Silverstone's performance; he's a completely convincing mixture of hesitation and recklessness, all the conflicts of high school in one sweet-faced package. As the movie follows Steve and John's relationship--their evasions at school, getting picked up by the police in a park, goofing around in a heated swimming pool, grappling with coming out to the world at large--it lays out a bit of contrast with Steve's best friend Linda (Charlotte Brittain), who's as unapologetically fat as Steve is gay, and who's having an affair with her driving instructor. Excellent performances all around, funny, sexy, charming--if only straight teen comedies were half this good. Get Real even demonstrates the proper etiquette when soliciting sex in public restrooms; what more can you ask for? --Bret Fetzer

Why I want it: Saw it on Showtime once. Hot guys. With English Accents. Macking on eachother. Niiiiiiice. Also -- angst, angst, and yet more delicious angst.

2. Latter Days

Summary:The storyline in short, a closeted LDS Missionary from Idaho, Aaron Davis, moves to LA where he ends up living next door to a hot swinging gay boy, Christian, who has all the depth of reality TV. Christian's interest is initially motivated by a bet he makes with his friends that he can bag this "missionary boy." Aaron and Christian are quickly attracted to one another and begin to struggle with their emotions, sexual needs and the painful limitations of their respective lifestyles.

Why I Want it: Perhaps this is shallow of me, but there's just something about the idea of a Mormon discovering the joys of gay love that delights me.

3. The Faculty

Summary:Okay, you knew everyone in high school was just a little different: everyone looked at you strangely, the teachers were freaky, and you never could find the right groove to fit into. What if it turned out that it was all because your school was inhabited by creepy aliens from outer space? That's the enjoyably cheesy B-premise for this fun and scary flick from the pen of Scream's Kevin Williamson, the master of the post-modern teen horror film. Directed by Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi), it's The Breakfast Club meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers, as six disparate students from Herrington High School band together when they discover that an alien life form is invading both the student and faculty bodies, with plans to take over the world.

Why I Want it: Void.

Comments

[tehshiny.livejournal.com]

I'll get you either Brokeback Mountain or The Faculty.

*pets*

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Yay! Yaaaaaay! :D :D :D

I <3 you muchly.

[tehshiny.livejournal.com]

I <3 you muchly.
Enough that you'll come visit me? :D

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

No.

[tehshiny.livejournal.com]

That hurts.

[7sin-hellion.livejournal.com]

Ohh, someone else who's seen Get Real! Goody! I've seen it a few times on Showtime myself. I instantly fell in love with all the angst.

I LMAO when Linda wrote on her driving instructors car.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, that was definitely one of the best scenes of the movie. I think my favorite part was the intense staring as they were each dancing with their respective prom dates. Or whatever the English term for a prom is.