Dakota

Last night, Jamie, jamie'sKristen, jamie'sMatt, and I went to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It was amazing; I love The Prisoner of Azkaban, and I think that Goblet ended up being better. I am of the mind that the films do keep getting better and better, and Goblet really went above and beyond my expectations.

Perhaps a more in-depth analysis later--I need to reread the book.

I will say that I don't particularly like the longish hair thing they've got Harry and Ron sporting... And ( Read more... ) And yay Miranda Richardson, Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes (who was friggin' scary... and what the fuck was ( Read more... )), Frances de la Tour (who I thought was downright sweet as Madame Olympe Maxime, with Hagrid), and Gary Oldman (( Read more... ))...

Yep. Only downfall: Midnight show meant going to bed at 3 am.

- Show
...was splendid!
I met Mr. Merlin (who is a Crim from California, and someone who I've briefly bantered with on LJ), who was very nice. I was happy with my performance, and I think everything went quite smoothly.

- Some films I've reached recently...
On Showtime, I saw It Runs in the Family, with Michael and Kirk Douglas. It was a sad, somewhat underdeveloped, story of three generations of one family. It never stayed with one set of people long enough to really be gripping, and lots of things were left unresolved, but it was interesting, and I like Bernadette Peters (who played Michael Douglas' wife).
I also saw Mean Girls, which I was supposed to wait for with MSU-Brian (possibly; I know we're supposed to watch it together--I don't know if I had to have never seen it... but, well, that was a long time ago). I really liked it. It was a good, solid commentary on high school that didn't insult the age group so much as expose it. Most high school films seem to be made by people who really don't remember high school and either gloss it over, or make it out far worse than it was, or somehow fuck with it. I felt Mean Girls, despite it's liberties in the riot scene, kept itself in check for the most part.
I started to watch Basic Instinct on some network channel... It was too slow to watch with commercials; I may like it all at once, but I couldn't go 30 minutes with 8 of them being ads for cereal and fucking NetZero.

- Commercials
I am amazed by the assault of NetZero, Optimum Online, Netscape, and AOL ads on television. You will likely see at least two of those for every commercial break. And sometimes, in a row. And if you change the channel, well, then your odds are even better. They are everywhere, and have made me somewhat hostile. None of them are entertaining.
Cellphones, too, but that's hardly new. Mostly these days it's just Catherine Zeta-Jones encouraging me to "get more." Well, I would if I could, Catherine, but I appreciate your support.

- Grey's Anatomy
... made me cry. Not tonight's episode, but one from like two weeks ago. I don't even know why. It was just did. It had to do with this train accident and these two people who had never met who were brought together quite literally by a metal pole that went through their abdomens in the crash. One had to die to save the other, and the actress who played the female patient for some reason just made me start streaming salt water.
I love Sandra Oh, who plays Dr. Yang on the series. She, and pretty much all the cast, is extraordinary. Well, actually I have something of a love/hate for Dr. Grey.
I have last week's, and tonight's to watch, in addition to tonight's Desperate Housewives. There is just never enough time.

- Sleep
I don't want to go to sleep soon, but I know I have to. One because I have to take another dose of something-Quil soon, and I can't take two, so I have to pick one. And NyQuil will help me sleep... But tastes awful. But I should go to sleep anything, because (two) I have work in the morning.