Happy Holiday!

We saw Macbeth at Shakespeare in the Park (and much thanks to feiran and darkling1 and all the others who were with them to wait for the tickets), which was fantastic. I've never seen Shakespeare of any vogue performed live, nor had I ever been to the summer theater in the park, so it was a double treat. Liev Schreiber was great as Macbeth, with Jennifer Ehle so-so as Lady Macbeth (good as manipulative harridan, not so good as grief-stricken crazy person). It was strange to see the story translated to a 1930s stylized set, but it wasn't distracting from the story, so that was okay.

I came home for the 4th, had a good barbeque with family, and got to see my sister's college roommater and her new baby, Samantha. Well, the baby is as active and cute as anything, and she spent a good hour just gaping at all of us. I've never seen a baby look so shocked before. Predictably, when I got to hold her, she started to cry. Babies always cry with me. This is probably due to a vicious cycle--a baby cried on me once, I stopped volunteering to hold babies which led to me not being offered a baby to hold until it was cranky from being passed around, and thus it would cry on me, beginning the cycle again. Cute baby, just the same. I can't wait to be an auntie!!!

And my youngest sister needed to go to Best Buy (so she can have cable in her room GRRRRR), so I went with. Used up my coupons from the Reward Zone thing in abot ten seconds. They were having a sale on certain TV sets (ivy03: The Pretender is on sale--$15 a season!), so I picked up the first season of Futurama. With my coupons, that cost me $10. I also got Spider-Man, which I never actually bought despite owning Spider-Man 2, and Devin provoked me into buying the Family Guy movie, which was only $6 with coupons factored in. Now I just need to get all the seasons of Family Guy.

And more DVD storage.

Also, I've found myself defending Superman Returns left and right of late, and I only just found that odd. I definitely enjoyed it, but I didn't looooooove it. It was good, did what I needed/wanted it to do for the most part, and it tugged the old heartstrings. I guess it was good enough to defend, maybe not good enough to be obsessed with (though I definitely want to see it in 3D--mostly because, hey, movie in 3D!)

Movie Quotes Meme

I don't have access to my songs from home, so I thought I'd do this tried and true meme one more time.

1) Identify the movie the quote is from
2) Bonus point if you can identify the character (or, failing that, the actor/actress) who said it.
3) And to punch it up a little, I'm going to group the quotes together. Guess the connecting theme of each set for extra points!

A1. "You mean we're all gonna die 'cause you screwed up on the math?"
A2. "I leave for five minutes, and when I come back everyone's a fucking alien. Now, if I have to Men In Black your ass, you're gonna fucking take it!"
A3. "Congratulations. On a scale of one to ten on the perversity meter you just hit a seventy three."
A4. "If I want sarcasm, Mr Tanner, I'll talk to my children thank you very much."
A5. "So...they say you're the bad guy."
*
B1. "No, see this is a really shit idea. You know why? Because it's really obviously a shit idea."
B2. "I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm."
B3. "No one gets laid until we've finished our movie."
B4. "First rule of leadership: everything is your fault."
B5. "I'm trying to get you laid; I'd appreciate a little help!"
*
C1. "And using our powers to build a 'help the town and make it a better place' machine was following rules?"
C2. "Maybe we should call in a bomb threat to Houston. I think it's free beer night at the Astrodome."
C3. "I'm gonna miss bein' disreputable."
C4. "If I could go back in time, I would want to meet Snoopy."
C5. "I won't get et! You shoot me if they take me!"
*

D1. "I knew a man once who said, 'Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.'"
D2. "Tell you what: after I've crushed my enemies, we'll see about getting you published."
D3. "Most of the time, I work in a little glass jar and lead a very uneventful life--I drive a Volvo, a beige one."
D4. "Immortality seems like a good idea, until you realize you're going to spend it alone."
D5. "This is the really real world, and there ain't no comin' back."