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books.
Still listening to Storm Front, the first Dresden book. Worked my way through the pre-Avengers comic tie in (Fury's Big Week) and the prelude to Thor: The Dark World for my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
marvel_bang, though they *only* thing I'm using from that is this panel, because, mmmm, Hawkeye. Still haven't thrown in the towel on The Lost Sisterhood, but I haven't made much progress either. On the plus side, the hold list coughed up Rhys Bowen's next Lady Georgie mystery, Heirs and Graces, which almost always satisfies my itch for cozy mysteries, so that's ready to go. The hold list is also coming through with all three TPBs of Saga, so I can re-read 1 & go right into 2 & 3.
tv.
I finally finished off S2 of Once Upon a Time and gave in and sent some money to Hulu so I could watch S3 w/o having to jump through hoops (like I'm going to have to in order to finish off this season of Arrow--*why* CW doesn't make it available somehow w/o me having to buy the whole season on itunes is beyond me.) The interwoven stories still do it for me--the boys think I'm fairly funny when I cackle at who turns out to be what fairy tale character. (FWIW, I think my favorite encounter of the entire series is Neil telling Mulan about her movie.) Also, still watching Penny Dreadful, though I stalled out at 1.04 and haven't gotten back into it. Again with the loving all the interwoven stories and characters, but oy, I have to psych myself up for the blood and sex and horror.
movies.
FINALLY got to see X-Men: Days of Future Past and... well, let's say my inner 14 year old is still delighted to see her secret obsession playing out on the big screen. And, in a way, it's better that I didn't know this storyline as that obsessive teen, because there was my world, the X world, but someone was telling me a new story in it. Kinda like why I'm so into fic. I mean, I generally knew the storyline, but it wasn't the one that broke my heart in the 70s (hi, Dark Phoenix.) And in a way, this movie fixed the whole Dark Phoenix bit, which killed me in print, not so much in the movie, because there was Jean! I might have smacked my kid a little too hard in my happiness/excitement, but he knew it was coming & was braced for it.) So that was good.
We also got Rush on DVD, which I was mostly watching for the clothes, while the rest of the testosterone-fueled house was in it for the Formula 1. I did get a kick out of telling them that the part that had Hollywood-liberties taken with it wasn't that Lauda was back in a race car after 6 weeks, but that Hunt & Lauda were actually friends & roommates as well as rivals, not just rivals who came to respect each other. I also had to explain the whole Richard Burton/Elizabeth Taylor thing, which none of the HoB had ever heard of. I think I'm taking that as a win, parenting-wise.
And also for themarvel_bang, I re-watched Thor 1 & 2 & all the deleted scenes, which I know you know was such a hardship, :D.
ok, my house is a freaking disaster area and I am out of time to procrastinate about getting it shoveled out. Ciao, bellas!
Still listening to Storm Front, the first Dresden book. Worked my way through the pre-Avengers comic tie in (Fury's Big Week) and the prelude to Thor: The Dark World for my
marvel_bang, though they *only* thing I'm using from that is this panel, because, mmmm, Hawkeye. Still haven't thrown in the towel on The Lost Sisterhood, but I haven't made much progress either. On the plus side, the hold list coughed up Rhys Bowen's next Lady Georgie mystery, Heirs and Graces, which almost always satisfies my itch for cozy mysteries, so that's ready to go. The hold list is also coming through with all three TPBs of Saga, so I can re-read 1 & go right into 2 & 3. tv.
I finally finished off S2 of Once Upon a Time and gave in and sent some money to Hulu so I could watch S3 w/o having to jump through hoops (like I'm going to have to in order to finish off this season of Arrow--*why* CW doesn't make it available somehow w/o me having to buy the whole season on itunes is beyond me.) The interwoven stories still do it for me--the boys think I'm fairly funny when I cackle at who turns out to be what fairy tale character. (FWIW, I think my favorite encounter of the entire series is Neil telling Mulan about her movie.) Also, still watching Penny Dreadful, though I stalled out at 1.04 and haven't gotten back into it. Again with the loving all the interwoven stories and characters, but oy, I have to psych myself up for the blood and sex and horror.
movies.
FINALLY got to see X-Men: Days of Future Past and... well, let's say my inner 14 year old is still delighted to see her secret obsession playing out on the big screen. And, in a way, it's better that I didn't know this storyline as that obsessive teen, because there was my world, the X world, but someone was telling me a new story in it. Kinda like why I'm so into fic. I mean, I generally knew the storyline, but it wasn't the one that broke my heart in the 70s (hi, Dark Phoenix.) And in a way, this movie fixed the whole Dark Phoenix bit, which killed me in print, not so much in the movie, because there was Jean! I might have smacked my kid a little too hard in my happiness/excitement, but he knew it was coming & was braced for it.) So that was good.
We also got Rush on DVD, which I was mostly watching for the clothes, while the rest of the testosterone-fueled house was in it for the Formula 1. I did get a kick out of telling them that the part that had Hollywood-liberties taken with it wasn't that Lauda was back in a race car after 6 weeks, but that Hunt & Lauda were actually friends & roommates as well as rivals, not just rivals who came to respect each other. I also had to explain the whole Richard Burton/Elizabeth Taylor thing, which none of the HoB had ever heard of. I think I'm taking that as a win, parenting-wise.
And also for the
marvel_bang, I re-watched Thor 1 & 2 & all the deleted scenes, which I know you know was such a hardship, :D. ok, my house is a freaking disaster area and I am out of time to procrastinate about getting it shoveled out. Ciao, bellas!
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Also X-Men ♥
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(Though, really, that Thor prequel comic actually was kind of suffer-y, not at all in a good way. I'm ignoring it for the sake of my sanity, if not my art. Though I did like how they drew JR's Hawkeye...)