Somethings and some other things

Least appropriate use of a Nine Inch Nails song in a trailer ever?

Oh, "The Hand that Feeds." I wish I could quit you. (After this trailer, I really mean that.)

Some important wisdom from the holy bearded dude. (No, not Jeff Bridges.)

My coworker is out this morning because she had food poisoning. She's so good, though, that she's coming back in later this afternoon to give a talk. Should be an interesting afternoon...

30 Day Movie Challenge

Day 01 - Your favorite movie
Day 02 - The last movie you watched

Not my favorite Hitchcock ever. Cary Grant was better in North by Northwest, which really also does the "you've got the wrong man!" plot line more justice anyway. Cary Grant sure got tanned filming in the south of France, though. He looks like what John Boehner is going for with his spray tanner but just can't manage without eight-to-fifteen hours in the sun a day. Story was so-so, though the dialogue was, at times, absolutely first rate. (As were the performances, with a few of the side characters nearly stealing the show.)

My greatest disappointment: although she is still some million billion times more attractive than us mortal human women, Grace Kelly didn't actually look all that great in this. Her clothes were acceptable, as opposed to the to-die-for ensembles she sported in Rear Window. Some of her dresses were all right, but there wasn't anything that really amazed on her. She's beautiful and skinny and has the poise of a goddess. Rags would look good on her. I wanted couture on her. I got acceptable to flashy-but-ultimately-empty. Shame.

ZOMG ADORABLES

HELP HELP DEADLY LEVELS OF SQUEE

My sister's friend came over at Thanksgiving for my nephew's baptism. Her friend has the most adorable kid ever. Well, the most adorable until my nephew starts sporting the sweater vest, white shirt, and khakis I bought him. But I bought that outfit because of this kid. He was wearing a suit, people. A suit that was at least two sizes too big for him. He also never spoke, just played with my niece (whom he is younger than by at least a year) silently, watching the whole party with big wide eyes.

He kept coming over to me, though. His mom, B, said he loves the ladies, especially those with brown hair. When I was standing, talking to someone else, he came over to me and held his arms up. Thinking not much of it, I picked him up and turned back to keep on talking. B called out over the crowd, "He wants to give you a kiss!" Sure enough, I turn to look at him and he leans right in to kiss me on the lips. LADIES MAN-BOY IN GIANT TINY SUIT.

This video? SAME GODDAMNED ADORABLENESS.

Some more not good news about X:Men

I won't even bother to pretend I can do justice to just how bad the latest promo stills of X-Men: First Class are. So go read glvalentine 's vastly superior take.

I disagree with her on only one point, and that is that I think the promo photo of Kevin Bacon and January Jones looks amazing. Sure, it may be ill-advised in the sense that I don't really get "mutant freedom fighters struggling to out themselves to a cold and lonely world" from that shot. But Their costumes are faaaaaabulous. January Jones is so blandly pretty but well shaped, she's like a drag queen's wet dream. (Aside from Lady GaGa.) The catsuit suits her better than the Wonderbra (now with cape!) she was wearing in the last shot.

And Kevin Bacon with some sideburns and an ascot? If that's wrong, I don't ever want to be right. In fact, I would like to live in this world, where PVC clothing and antiquated notions of masculinity go hand-in-hand beside each other on a couch in the round. Let's go there and never go back to Stately McAvoy Manor. Please?