QAF - The American Version.

I planned this rant a while ago, when aneli8 and I watched it, but never got around to it, and now that I have time and a day off tomorrow - WOOHOO! SLEEP! - I thought I'd throw in my two cents.

( In short? The British one is gold, and this sucks. I mean, really. )

And today was bad until two things happened:

1) I met one of the producers of "Law & Order". (He did the first 4 years.) He'd written my favorite episode ever. I got to shake his hand, and he told me I had made his night. It was fucking brilliant. (He came into the store, and he wore a L&O t-shirt, which is how we started talking...)

"Oh, you're a fan?"
"Yeah, I love it!"
"I worked on it for four years, actually."
"REALLY?!" (I'm thinking: camera-man? He looks all dishevelled and whatnot, could be on the crew...)
"Yeah, I wrote and produced it."
"..."

2) I was going home, and just sat down on the train and was about to continue reading my book, when, from two seats down, someone turns to me and asks: "Excuse me, it's Liz, isn't it?"

Guess who! You guessed it. The change-dropping boy. I laughed. We talked and he's very funny and nice, and we had fun, and he gave me his email address in the end. I think I'll email him. I'll tell him that I am very much spoken for, and I hope that he still wants to hang out, because he's nice and fun and seems pretty normal (he promised me he wasn't stalking me...) And I told Sam, anyway. And I KNOW that nothing will happen, because I don't want it to. So, yeah.

I was amused. Anyone else amused? I laughed all the way home. My mom laughed with me.

And I finally found where all the At Swims are. They're on a table, in fact, with the new paperback fiction books. Now I know where to point people. This is most excellent.

Boy, am I in need of a day off. But it's still good, even when it sucks. Because, at the end of the day, I walk out and feel like I've accomplished something, and that feels damn good after all.

But, oh, how I needed to talk to you today! I need your shoulder to weep on, I feel so lost! Alexander, how could you! Tell me a time and I WILL call. Because this is just so wrong. So, so wrong.

And I owe emails, which I will answer tomorrow, like a good girl. Why?

Because I have a day off! Woohoo!

They say it's your birthday...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, immovablemover!

May it be a wonderful occasion, full of happy puppies, boys who swim, and the older men that take care of them. I hope it's a wonderful day, a wonderful year and the beginning - or continuation - of all things wonderful.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

The Shrieking Shack scene.

I wanted to say that I refuse to get into wars about this. I know that the casting that was done has left few stones unturned, people hate it, people love it, people just don't give a shit, and it's all fine. I don't like the fact that people are getting attacked because of it, directly or indirectly. I think that we can all safely post our opinions, and they will be valid because they're opinions. You can love the picture, you can hate it. It doesn't really matter, does it?

I love the atmosphere in it. And I'm hopeful that Cuaron has done a good job with it. I'm very excited that it's there. (I know it was supposed to be, but you know what I mean. Who the hell knows anymore.) I'm VERY excited about the fact that the first publicity shot we get IS the Shrieking Shack scene, because it's such a vital scene, and it effected everybody. I hope, for the sake of the book, they got it right. I remember reading it the first time with my mouth hanging open. Literally. (And I always use that word carefully because it's been misused often. But yes, my mouth WAS open.) It was perfectly done, and it was one of the most moving scenes I'd ever read. So. I hope to god they got it right.

As for the casting - the only problem I have with this picture is that it looks like Thewlis has a mustache, and I hope to God he doesn't actually have one, because then I will get really upset. Facial hair on Sirius makes total sense to me, and, in fact, I've always been confused why we'd never heard of his beard - I mean, he couldn't exactly shave in prison, could he? But I hate mustaches. So, yes, this is a personal preference. I cannot imagine Remus with a mustache. They've always seemed slimy to me, a la Burt Reynolds. Or, hell, a la the 70's. Yikes.

I'm also curious as to why Hermione is looking all pissed off in Ron' direction, but I'm guessing we have one Scabbers on his knees. Heh. Oooo... I do wonder what Peter will look like...

In short, wow. We have our first publicity shot.

EDITED TO SAY:

Excuse me. SHOTS.

And I lied. I do have another problem with this. The slumped way Lupin is looking. I hope it's just a momentary thing, and will look much different in the whole scene. Because that isn't quite the Lupin from the Shrieking Shack scene, and we all know it. He wasn't slumping, he was too busy pacing up and down and then restraining Sirius. He didn't have time to slump against the wall. He was a bit busy, you know?