On a lighter note...

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. Looking them up is cheating, please don't.

Note: this was quite hard for me, since I don't actually have many movies that leap to mind as "favorites". Thus, I found eight. One movie is represented three times here. Possibly these are all way too easy... but it was nice putting the list together, reading all the quotes and remembering the cleverness and passion for life that's embodied in most of these films. So start guessing.

1. On really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion. --Waking Life, heisenbug


2. "Daddy, are we lost?" "Don't worry, I've got four-wheel drive."--Spirited Away, heisenbug


3. My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell. --American Beauty, heisenbug


4. Life is a matter of a miracle that is collected over time by moments flabbergasted to be in each others presence. --Waking Life, heisenbug


5. I don't know. She doesn't want to be white trash anymore. I told her, "You're white honey! Just get over it."


6. This is the only book I've ever read in my whole life, and you're not going to put it on that fire!--Pleasantville, hiddenbear


7. Hey. Could we do that again? I know we haven't met, but I don't want to be an ant. You know? --Waking Life, heisenbug


8. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.


9. Greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy: now that's fun!


10. End, begin, all the same. Big change. Sometimes good. Sometimes bad. --The Dark Crystal, miyyu

The Love Show

heisenbug and I just got back from seeing The Love Show, which I am the last of my friends here on LJ to see... here's one review from when they were in NYC (friends-locked) and another from Brattleboro. ETA: oh, and one more from Boston, earlier showing than we saw.

The show was campy, which I found fun for the most part -- sure, some of the vaudeville stuff bored me a bit, but that's par for the course with me so I was ready to forgive that. The circus equipment was integrated well into the storylines, as if it just happened to be around. Unfortunately, I hated Cupid. Is there anything more annoying than a 17-year-old boy who's trying to be funny/annoying? Oh wait, yes, yes there is -- it's a 17-year-old boy who's trying to be funny/annoying while wearing a giant diaper. EW. DO NOT WANT. *shudder*

I'll list some things I liked:

• Girls coming out in frilly, strappy little dresses, looking all cutesy but who had HUGE HONKING ARMS. It was pretty great. I wish I were muscular enough that someone would look at me and think "wow, what does SHE get up to in her spare time"?


• The love stuff was not exclusively straight. OK, gay love didn't get any long pieces devoted to it, but there was at least one time when a guy got hit with an arrow from Cupid and started going after another guy (and his girlfriend interpreted it as sexual). I think there was one more of those where Cupid himself was infatuated. So, I'm not sure where someone else's complaint that it was all straight came from unless they left all that out of the NYC show.


• This awesome juggling/dancing duo whose sheer quality sneaked up on me and surprised me. I forgot how sexy and flirtatious juggling can be (though it isn't always). The woman also did a dance with shiny silver juggling clubs, not juggling for the most part but swinging them like poi, and made it look gorgeous.


• Super neat three-woman act on a triple trapeze setup. Not the regular kind of triple trapeze either, but one where the third trapeze was hanging between (and directly from) the other two, so they weren't all on a level.


• Super cute three-woman act on three folding chairs, made cuter (I thought) by all of them pretending to be on cell phones.


• Although I'm not one to often feel touched by children... at the end of an adagio partner-acro act when the woman made come-here gestures and a small boy who was obviously their son ran out to be hugged by the performers and carried offstage, there was an "oooh!" sort of reality shock for me, remembering that these are real people and realizing that they were also, obviously, a real couple.

I was a bit disappointed that there was no handbalancing aside from some hand-to-hand work near the end in an adagio act. I'm also disappointed that my grip seems to fail when I try to hang by one hand from our pullup bar (which means that maybe it wouldn't be safe to practice meathooks after all. I bet it would go better if I were grasping something less slippery). Aside from that, though, no complaints. We even caught the bus back from Watertown perfectly.

It appears to me the pen / has overanalyzed again...

Apparently, I will have to buy that album that Starbucks has been pimping lately. Last week I heard the geekiest pop song ever, and I finally searched for the lyrics and it turns out to be by Sia. At least I know where to buy it. :)

I am a dash and you are a dot
When will you see that I am all that you've got
I'm a binary code that you cracked long ago
But to you I'm just a novel that you wish you'd never wrote
I'm greater than x and lesser than y, so why is it
That I still can't catch your eye?
You're a cryptic crossword, a song I've never heard
While I sit here drawing circles I'm afraid of being hurt

Oh academia you can't pick me up
Soothe me with your words when I need your love...