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[verbminx]

I ran some errands today, of a nature too banal to describe in any detail, and did some much-needed straightening around the house. Then I went to bed for a few hours (six). Enough to make me functional while hopefully not keeping me awake until tomorrow afternoon again.

Got dressed (in a cute outfit! red/black/white plaid mini kilt, black fitted tee, black tights, black knee-high boots, and slung around my hips, a black leather belt with 3 rows of pyramid studs - how many people will get it if I gripe that it was "an authentic 1979 punk outfit, not one of those poseur things!"** ??) and put my hair up in pigtails and went to the movies to see From Hell. The girl at the boxoffice window happens to be in my writing class, and she let us in for free. Yay comps! I had a garlic-parmesan soft pretzel and a cherry coke.

I liked the movie... not the best I've ever seen, but its quiet, hallucinatory quality was interesting... I'd give it somewhere around 2.5 stars. Heather Graham didn't suck in it, which is surprising. Johnny Depp was Johnny Depp... when did he get to be such a good actor? He sinks so well into every role he takes. I found this interview with Alan Moore last night, and what I've managed to read of it so far is interesting, so check it out.

For the rest of the night I'm going to be working on school stuff so that hopefully I can go to the party with N. tomorrow night.

** although it was, in fact, one of those poseur things.

Comments

[ayun.livejournal.com]

The thing that cracked me up about that movie was the shot early on, where the women are all washing up at the communal fountain (or was it a trough? I forget.)

Pan across...snaggletoothed scrubby hooker...snaggletoothed scrubby hooker with hooked nose...snaggletoothed scrubby hooker with huge rips in her clothing and dirt streaks across her face and...Heather Graham, fresh-faced, toothsome, and well-dressed (minus a couple of critical, cleavage-baring buttons, of course) and calmly brushing her long, clean (yeah, sure) red (!) hair. Red cause she's Irish, you know.

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

haha totally! she definitely looked a bit too well-scrubbed. OK, a lot too well-scrubbed.

and of course, the second-most attractive ones were the lesbian, the belgian chick she picked up, and the lobotomy victim. the rest of the body count? the average "unfortunates".

[hilarykay.livejournal.com]

does sound like a very cute outfit.