It's Bali Fashion Week. I wasn't going to post any Fashion Victims from these, partly because, hey, it's a different culture, so different cultural norms and fashions. Not mockable. But I'm not sure this works under "different culture" unless your culture is as one of the Fat Albert kids.

Or possibly what superheroes like to wear when they kick back and head to the beach.

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I was trying to narrow down the next Five Favorites. I want to do Thrillers, which occupy a sometimes overlapping, sometimes separate category between "suspense" and "horror" for me. Hitchcock, of course, excelled in this, but there's also where it might overlap with "action" (The Bourne series, for instance).

Really, it's one of those categories that's almost a free-for-all, but I think I will, anyway:

1. The Others--Perfect example. Scary, but not horrific--for the most part. I think this is my favorite Nicole Kidman role, too.

2. North by Northwest--Cary Grant is always good, but he's even better when hanging off Mt. Rushmore or being chased down by a crop duster.

3. The Sixth Sense--It's a little closer to horror than The Others, and another ghost story, but I love the way the whole movie is constructed.

4. Rear Window--Yes, another Hitchcock, and one that gets mentioned all the time, but with reason. It could easily be boring: it's set bound and it's got a small cast, and it could so easily be creepy (guy watching his neighbors through binoculars--okay, the only reason it's not really creepy is that it's Jimmy Stewart, lets be honest). But it works and it flows and you really feel the tension build. And you definitely get that the cast is not slowing him down where Grace Kelly is concerned.

5. Wait Until Dark--Audrey Hepburn does vulnerable like no one else, and while many movies have attempted the blind-girl-in-peril thing, I don't think there has yet been a scarier scene in any of them than the final one in WUD where the bad guys come after her. Thrilling, to be sure.

Tags: fashion victims, five favorites

Today we got three of the four packages we were supposed to get and the last package is missing somewhere, maybe on the truck, maybe in the warehouse, who knows.

"You'll just have to come back then, won't you?"

"Yeah, I'll come back," he grins. "People will talk."

"Hooray," I laugh.

And he grins a bit bigger.

*snerk*

Tags: atms the soap opera

I'm all for Palin being VP.


I absolutely love his travel stuff. And he runs a mean cheese shop.

Well this is all very interesting

I made the long trek up to the FedEx warehouse last night and collected my laptop--and then, um. Fell on top of some poor woman on the bus trying to carry everything? *shame*

Her name is Savannah (short reason: because my sister is the boss of me, and she said so). However, my new flash drive is Pepper, and I'm itching to buy something else electronic so I can name it Lars.

...which would be WRONG. So I WON'T.

(sigh.)

I'm still getting used to her; she has a different center of balance than my old laptop. (She's, uh, top-heavy. I know, right? It's the webcam, probably, and the screen is a little different.) And she came with compulsory Vista. :P But she's very shiny and bright and I'm sure we'll be fast friends.

As soon as I'm done leaving her behind for a week to go to New York. Hopefully she won't react to personal rejection like my cats do (note to self: lock up shoes).

Speaking of New York! Thursday night party info and RSVP here. *bounces*

Current Mood: happy

ZOMG!  xkcd went there! I badly needed some cheering and squeeeee!

I must confess a [not so] secret preference for the Han/Chewie OTP tho...

Current Mood: ecstatic

McCain picks female VP, also vows to 'make salads and talk about our feelings' with women voters

Fucking awesome. Talk about showing how scared you are. The entire Republican party basically unzipped it's fly. Best news I've heard all day.

Current Mood: amused

HONOLULU (AP) — Tanned, dirty and hungry, two men who spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land - more here.

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