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Mar. 25th, 2013 10:42 pmThis past week, I had a fuck of a lot to say about what I was reading/watching, so this post got slightly unwieldy. And this coming week is vacation, the theme of which seems to be actually watching some of the shit I've had on my computer for a year or more, so I think I'm finally gonna dive into Generation Kill. And, if I like it half as much as every single person I know seems to, I am gonna want all the fic recs, so if you could drop a few in the comments here, I'd appreciate it lots! ♥
Week of March 18
Books/Novellas:
The Unicorn Club #13 : Who Will Be Miss Unicorn?, Alice Nicole Johansson (created by Francine Pascal)
The Unicorn Club #14 : Lila on the Loose, Alice Nicole Johansson (created by Francine Pascal)
* "The Sweet Life #1: The Sweet Life," Francine Pascal (Iiiii guess that's what it's called? It's the first in a six-part novella series and all the other parts have their own titles, so. It's set three years after Sweet Valley Confidential, so everyone is implausibly paired up [I still cannot get over Steven and Aaron Dallas, okay, he has dated both your sisters Steven that is just creepy] and somehow Jessica is allowed to be a mother.)
* "The Sweet Life #2: Lies and Omissions," Francine Pascal and Cara Lockwood (Lockwood is not credited in the first one, but she gets a "with" credit in all the rest, so probably the ghostwriter.)
* "The Sweet Life #3: Too Many Doubts," Francine Pascal and Cara Lockwood (In which my eyerolling over the gay couple being left out is rewarded with such a terrible subplot that I wish they had continued to be left out. Aaron is such a goddamn obnoxious parent that I don't know why Steven hasn't taken the kid and run. Everyone else is breaking up, after all. Though as I recall, it is hilariously consistent with how controlling Aaron got during the inevitable "parenting-an-egg project" book in Sweet Valley Twins, so - points for continuity?)
* "The Sweet Life #4: Secrets and Seductions," Francine Pascal and Cara Lockwood (In which there are awkwardly-written sex scenes - all hetero, of course - and Aaron recognizes the brand of a designer scarf because that is what the gays do.)
* "The Sweet Life #5: Cutting the Ties," Francine Pascal and Cara Lockwood (In which I sense incoming Evil Lesbians. Please let me be wrong.)
* "The Sweet Life #6: Bittersweet," Francine Pascal and Cara Lockwood (No evil lesbians, but there is a surprise!trans man who is consistently referred to with the wrong pronouns even after the revelation of his gender identity, so I'm not actually all that happy. In other news, I did enjoy the outright confirmation - Lila's "Who could've guessed that such a hot and famous movie star would be so crazy?" - that the unbalanced actor Jessica's been dating is totally a thinly veiled and Irish Tom Cruise, because you know that's what I was picturing the whole time.)
Television:
Mystery Science Theater 3000 9x08, "The Touch of Satan"
Rizzoli & Isles 1x01 (I've had the first season of this sitting on my harddrive for like a year, so I figured it was time to give it a look.)
Rizzoli & Isles 1x02
Rizzoli & Isles 1x03
Rizzoli & Isles 1x04
Rizzoli & Isles 1x05
Rizzoli & Isles 1x06
Rizzoli & Isles 1x07
Movies:
Easy A
Pontypool (a great zombie movie loosely adapted from a terrible book, Pontypool Changes Everything. Even the author thinks it's terrible. I'm not kidding. The Afterword in the edition I have is all about him apologizing for the fact that we read it and assuring us that the movie, for which he wrote the script, is actually good. The premise, which I'm not spoiling for you, is a really solid and unique idea which the movie does indeed handle a hell of a lot better than the book does. I saw the movie first and then read the book; I recommend you skip that second step.)
The Runaways
Scream 4
Clue (childhood staple! Raise your hand if you too grew up watching this a frillion times on Comedy Central. Bonus points if your conditioned response to "to make a long story short" is "too late!")
Scream (To this day I cannot watch the opening sequence with Drew Barrymore. It's just too much for me.)
Scream 2 (This marked the end of this week's media consumption, and I feel some serious meta coming on.)
Week of March 18
Books/Novellas:
The Unicorn Club #13 : Who Will Be Miss Unicorn?, Alice Nicole Johansson (created by Francine Pascal)
The Unicorn Club #14 : Lila on the Loose, Alice Nicole Johansson (created by Francine Pascal)
* "The Sweet Life #1: The Sweet Life," Francine Pascal (Iiiii guess that's what it's called? It's the first in a six-part novella series and all the other parts have their own titles, so. It's set three years after Sweet Valley Confidential, so everyone is implausibly paired up [I still cannot get over Steven and Aaron Dallas, okay, he has dated both your sisters Steven that is just creepy] and somehow Jessica is allowed to be a mother.)
* "The Sweet Life #2: Lies and Omissions," Francine Pascal and Cara Lockwood (Lockwood is not credited in the first one, but she gets a "with" credit in all the rest, so probably the ghostwriter.)
* "The Sweet Life #3: Too Many Doubts," Francine Pascal and Cara Lockwood (In which my eyerolling over the gay couple being left out is rewarded with such a terrible subplot that I wish they had continued to be left out. Aaron is such a goddamn obnoxious parent that I don't know why Steven hasn't taken the kid and run. Everyone else is breaking up, after all. Though as I recall, it is hilariously consistent with how controlling Aaron got during the inevitable "parenting-an-egg project" book in Sweet Valley Twins, so - points for continuity?)
* "The Sweet Life #4: Secrets and Seductions," Francine Pascal and Cara Lockwood (In which there are awkwardly-written sex scenes - all hetero, of course - and Aaron recognizes the brand of a designer scarf because that is what the gays do.)
* "The Sweet Life #5: Cutting the Ties," Francine Pascal and Cara Lockwood (In which I sense incoming Evil Lesbians. Please let me be wrong.)
* "The Sweet Life #6: Bittersweet," Francine Pascal and Cara Lockwood (No evil lesbians, but there is a surprise!trans man who is consistently referred to with the wrong pronouns even after the revelation of his gender identity, so I'm not actually all that happy. In other news, I did enjoy the outright confirmation - Lila's "Who could've guessed that such a hot and famous movie star would be so crazy?" - that the unbalanced actor Jessica's been dating is totally a thinly veiled and Irish Tom Cruise, because you know that's what I was picturing the whole time.)
Television:
Mystery Science Theater 3000 9x08, "The Touch of Satan"
Rizzoli & Isles 1x01 (I've had the first season of this sitting on my harddrive for like a year, so I figured it was time to give it a look.)
Rizzoli & Isles 1x02
Rizzoli & Isles 1x03
Rizzoli & Isles 1x04
Rizzoli & Isles 1x05
Rizzoli & Isles 1x06
Rizzoli & Isles 1x07
Movies:
Easy A
Pontypool (a great zombie movie loosely adapted from a terrible book, Pontypool Changes Everything. Even the author thinks it's terrible. I'm not kidding. The Afterword in the edition I have is all about him apologizing for the fact that we read it and assuring us that the movie, for which he wrote the script, is actually good. The premise, which I'm not spoiling for you, is a really solid and unique idea which the movie does indeed handle a hell of a lot better than the book does. I saw the movie first and then read the book; I recommend you skip that second step.)
The Runaways
Scream 4
Clue (childhood staple! Raise your hand if you too grew up watching this a frillion times on Comedy Central. Bonus points if your conditioned response to "to make a long story short" is "too late!")
Scream (To this day I cannot watch the opening sequence with Drew Barrymore. It's just too much for me.)
Scream 2 (This marked the end of this week's media consumption, and I feel some serious meta coming on.)