** tomorrow i make my big screen debut as a barista in the movie being shot in the coffee shop i work in. it's just an extra part and considering all i have to do is what i already do all day, it shouldn't be too hard :-) though i do have to keep my cool in a room with a couple of american music legends, i.e. kris kristofferson and willie nelson.
**i continue to have weird and vaguely provocative interactions with both of my rl man crushes. the one that's much too young for me keeps making googly eyes and having extreme shy-boy issues and the one that's much too old for me will find any excuse to touch me (no, not like THAT) and makes vaguely erotic comments. srsly though, one of them needs to man the fuck up and do something about it. i just don't feel like chasing after anyone right now.
**it's been over a week now since i stopped smoking the devil's lettuce and still no freakout. yay me!!! thank chuck it wasn't like when i quit cigarettes. i never want to go through that kind of emotional pain again.
**got a semi-turdy comment back from someone on my flist and it has been bothering me ALL DAY. i don't really think she was trying to be rude, it's probably just one of those lack-of-inflection on the internet things. but, man, i feel the need to explain and justify myself. but so what if i ship j2 and read more into photos than may be there? i am surely not the only one. perhaps the monthlies are making me over emotional.
**show made me cry last night, so i ran to my bookshelf for comfort and decided on alice's adventures in wonderland, which i somehow avoided reading thus far. it is made of win, not surprisingly and much less creepy than the disney film. animated tweedle dee and tweedle dum still haunt my nightmares, creepy rolypoly bastards.
February 12, 2011
February 9, 2011
justified is the second best thing on tv
after several attempts to write actual thinky-thoughts, i have decided to take a fangirl-ier approach and picspam my way through an explanation of why i love "justified" so goddamn much.
1. the opening credits are incredible. basically just a montage of all things kentucky, they are brought to life by badass music provided by t.o.n.e. z and the bluegrass gangsta rap group gangstagrass (get it?!?). i never thought i'd hear such a bizarre mixture, but it totally works and reflects the show's dixie mafia environs.
2. i never saw a cowboy i didn't like and timothy olyphant as raylan givens is the best one i've seen since steve mcqueen. he has that perfect mixture of charm and self-righteousness, not to mention a flawless quick-draw and an ass that was meant to be encased in a tight pair of wranglers. raylan, won't you be my sheriff marshal?!?
3. the crux of the show is the push/pull relationship between raylan the lawman and boyd crowder the criminal (portrayed by the inestimable walton goggins). raylan shoots boyd early on and his near-death experience causes him to find god, though you never quite know if he's sincere or not. a snafu on raylan's part gets boyd released from prison and the marshal spends most of the season trying to put him back there. arrests and gunfights aside, the two men clearly like each other and you can't help but hope they end up on the same team.
4. i lovelovelove westerns!! and it's nice to see one set in modern times, replete with all the old gunfighter cliches. stetson wearing, gun toting lawman? check. ridiculous amounts of whiskey bourbon swilling? check. outrageous backwoods accents? check. "black hats" versus "white hats?" check. thanks for paving the way, deadwood.
5. raylan has two women chasing after him, one is the shotgun wielding country girl ava crowder (nemesis boyd's sister-in-law) and the other is classy dame winona hawkins, his ex-wife. both are bombshell beautiful and tough as nails and raylan can't seem to pick between them. not that i can blame him!
6. there have been a slew of rad guest stars, including the surprisingly buff travis wester aka harry spangler from spn. there have also been several of olyphant's co-stars from deadwood and naturally, the justified-deadwood-supernatural connections have me hoping that a certain jim beaver may eventually show up. make it happen tv people!!
7. mostly the story follows the greater arc of the marshals versus the dixie mafia. but there are a couple of stand alone episodes that are pretty darn good. the above cap is taken from one of these, a strange story intertwining the worlds of thoroughbred horses and obscure art. the jars are full of ashes of all the hitler paintings a collector has bought and destroyed. (and yes, the guest star is robert picardo, the leprechaun from the faerie episode of spn. whee!)
the new season starts tonight and i cannot wait! anti-heroes and kentucky accents ftw!!
1. the opening credits are incredible. basically just a montage of all things kentucky, they are brought to life by badass music provided by t.o.n.e. z and the bluegrass gangsta rap group gangstagrass (get it?!?). i never thought i'd hear such a bizarre mixture, but it totally works and reflects the show's dixie mafia environs.
2. i never saw a cowboy i didn't like and timothy olyphant as raylan givens is the best one i've seen since steve mcqueen. he has that perfect mixture of charm and self-righteousness, not to mention a flawless quick-draw and an ass that was meant to be encased in a tight pair of wranglers. raylan, won't you be my 
3. the crux of the show is the push/pull relationship between raylan the lawman and boyd crowder the criminal (portrayed by the inestimable walton goggins). raylan shoots boyd early on and his near-death experience causes him to find god, though you never quite know if he's sincere or not. a snafu on raylan's part gets boyd released from prison and the marshal spends most of the season trying to put him back there. arrests and gunfights aside, the two men clearly like each other and you can't help but hope they end up on the same team.
4. i lovelovelove westerns!! and it's nice to see one set in modern times, replete with all the old gunfighter cliches. stetson wearing, gun toting lawman? check. ridiculous amounts of 
5. raylan has two women chasing after him, one is the shotgun wielding country girl ava crowder (nemesis boyd's sister-in-law) and the other is classy dame winona hawkins, his ex-wife. both are bombshell beautiful and tough as nails and raylan can't seem to pick between them. not that i can blame him!
6. there have been a slew of rad guest stars, including the surprisingly buff travis wester aka harry spangler from spn. there have also been several of olyphant's co-stars from deadwood and naturally, the justified-deadwood-supernatural connections have me hoping that a certain jim beaver may eventually show up. make it happen tv people!!
7. mostly the story follows the greater arc of the marshals versus the dixie mafia. but there are a couple of stand alone episodes that are pretty darn good. the above cap is taken from one of these, a strange story intertwining the worlds of thoroughbred horses and obscure art. the jars are full of ashes of all the hitler paintings a collector has bought and destroyed. (and yes, the guest star is robert picardo, the leprechaun from the faerie episode of spn. whee!)the new season starts tonight and i cannot wait! anti-heroes and kentucky accents ftw!!
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