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[trinityvixen]

What a funny collection of miscellany I have to report for my first post-Disney LJing.

One: I now have to go see the live-action G.I. Joe movie. Pity me? Christopher Eccleston wastes his talent on yet another project that will be only as good as his presence can make the thing. Never liked Joe all that well, especially not after reading some of the Cobra after-action reports on SomethingAwful. Ah well. I enjoy seeing that Ray Park still gets work. He's awesome. Yet another non-speaking part, alas. He's got a cute British accent. And Joseph Gordon-Levitt is still alive! Amazing!

Two: A woman is stripped searched forcibly by seven different guards after someone dials 911 to report that she's been the victim of assault. Fucking sickening. The video gave me the creeps, and before anyone comments, you have to watch the video. Because there's no way anyone deserves what she went through, least of all when she was already the victim of an assault. This? This is why people stop calling the police. Worst of all is the complete silence on the police end in the video. If there HAD been any legitimate reason to attack her this way, the least they could do would be to explain to her, after any one of her agonized, repeated screams for them to do so, why they were doing this. Suicide risks need more fragile treatment. A truly suicidal person would have bitten their tongue clean off in despair after this bullshit.

Three: I bought stuff on feiran's XBOX 360! I gots me some Rock Band downloads. I got to sing "The Joker & the Theif" and I was all happy forever and ever. It's strange to buy stuff not for my system--I've been the one with the system that things got bought for for so long, it's just a funny change.

Four: I should just pay the money to have orders from Best Buy shipped to me because I spend more on going to the store with a pay-as-you-go metrocard. Also, erm, I can't ever seem to leave the store with just the thing I ordered. I went for my $5 copy of The Aristocats and went home with Transformers and The Wedding Singer and the aforementioned purchased points for the XBOX machine. Then I happened to pass a Barnes and Noble where I dropped my $25 gift card and a little on my own copy of Set and two more Pratchett books. And, finally, my own Scrabble dictionary. For when we have those, you know, intensely debated games. That was sarcasm. I'd love to have more games of Scrabble. I really enjoy the games I played over Christmas with various folks. And the paper copy will cover us when we're away from the computer (like if we do Shakespeare in the Park again--ooh, do let's!)

Five: I skipped class tonight. I ended up out in the snow shopping and I'm not getting to bed early. This seems a tad silly to have done if I weren't going to do anything with that newly free time. Like homework. Aiyah.

Six: I haven't got a single hat/scarf/gloves matching set. I'm doing my best to approximate around it. It just takes the classiness out of my big-girl fashionable coat to be so poorly coordinated. SIGH.

Seven: Twenty-four hours ago, I wanted a swim, it was so warm. Then it was a blizzard. Stupid weather!

Comments

[gryphonrose.livejournal.com]

1. Looks like fun. And of course, Ray Park as Snake-Eyes. The only other person I could see playing him would be Cyril Raffaelli or David Belle, both from District B13 (Raffaelli was also in Live Free or Die Hard).

2. That is *seriously* f*cked up!

3. Um, okay.

4. Join Facebook and sign onto Scrabulous. I know tons of people who play it that way.

5. Ah well. Sometimes you just need to skip class.

6. Me either! :)

7. You gotta love February. Right?

[shell524.livejournal.com]

I have three matched hat/scarf/glove sets thanks to a) gifts from my mom and Aunt and b) going out one day without them when it was warmish and the temperature taking a nose dive forcing me to buy a cheap knit set from Duane Reade. :p I never WEAR whole sets. I usually wear one of the two longer scarves (black knit or purple chenille fuzzy), my behind the head ear muff things, and black leather gloves. So.... I guess what I'm saying is that sets are overrated. :)

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

While I'm sure you don't need any more stuff to be outraged by, I should also point out: Deputy dumps paralyzed man out of wheelchair. Then of course that thing on GMA about the cop throwing a teenage skateboarder to the ground...

Seems like cops around the country are really bating 1000 these days.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I just saw the news about the incident with the man in the wheelchair. Jesus H. Not to trivialize what the woman went through, but his case has so much more potential for future complications, I don't even want to contemplate how much. Tiny things--a hairline fracture or bruise that he can't feel--could lead to major complications (one of the top killers of quadrapelegics is complications arising from bed sores, for fuck's sake).

I want these people fucking fired. The evidence is right there. How much more do they need to review? SHE DUMPED HIM OUT OF A WHEELCHAIR. MEN FORCIBLY STRIPPED (but didn't bother to search!?) A WOMAN. They violate their own rules, the rules of common decency, the spirit of public trust? FIRE THEM, GODDAMNIT.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Was this Raffaelli person the one that was all gerbil-y in Live Free or Die Hard? 'Cause he'd make a cool Cobra ninja then...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

They do look growed-up though...

[gryphonrose.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's him. He's a martial artist and a Parkour expert--he's usually behind the camera as a stunt coordinator. David Belle is actually the guy who created Parkour, and the two of them and Luc Besson are friends.