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So I was playing on the IMDb while I was doing my hair and today's poll is "Which Razzie winner from the last ten years is by far the worst?" And Battlefield Earth is winning.

This bothers me, and I've got a confession to make -- I love Battlefield Earth.

Now, let's keep in mind that I love it based on two unwavering beliefs -- that Battlefield Earth is a parody, and that you should take a shot every time a plot point makes no fucking sense, dialogue sound trite and idiotic, or John Travolta gets scenery stuck in his teeth. If your liver is not gasping for help by the end of the first scene, you're not very observant.

Also on the list of movies I'm embarrassed I still love ... Titanic. Shut up. And as if it wouldn't already be embarrassing, I'm a Titanic junkie. I know there's stuff wrong, and I know where it's wrong, and I know all of the stories that were much more interesting on that boat than Cameron's insipid love story. The problem is that I'm so in love with the ship that when watching with me, most of the movie sounds like this -- "Ooo, look at the pretty boat! And there's the nicest first-class suites, and there's the Grand Staircase, and there's the bow, and ... oh, no, the boat got a bump on its knee! Aw, c'mere, pretty boat -- wait! Where are you going, pretty boat? No, don't sink, boat! I'll never let go, boat! I'll never let go! *watches ship sink and sobs*"

Yes, I'm infatuated with a ship. Ours is a forbidden love.

So, what about you guys? Which movies are you embarrassed to admit you adore?

.The first thing you do if you have technojoy is get the instructions and throw them out the window!

I have achieved bus ticket! Also, I have achieved new minidisc player, which I immediately pried from the plastic and christened Bob. This shouldn't be much of a shock considering I name everything I own Bob except for my car, but whatever. It also came with a very cool and pretty gold minidisc and some paperwork, but to find out what I did with the paperwork, feel free to refer to the Eddie Izzard quote in the subject.

Then after that, I went to see Hellboy. I'm in love with Ron Perlman. I just felt I needed to share that.

( Aaaaand now I get to bitch about annoying people. Yay! )

And in fuck-the-government news today, why have an election when you can blow up a federal building instead? (Also, the Dubya version of "The United States of Whatever" makes me giggle.)

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Jude picspam, and lots of it. Holy, everlovin' fuck.

Erm ... I need to go work on "Dead Men in Dark Suits" right the hell now. *rushes off to write*

Yeah, I'm spamming LJ. What's it to you?

If a song makes it extraordinarily difficult to sing the lyrics at any point -- see Blues Traveller's Hook or the entirety of It's The End of the World As We Know It -- I feel a compulsive need to learn them all.

Right now, I'm trying to learn Weird Al's Hardware Store. I may need to develop an extra set of lungs for this.

EDIT: Music isn't my only compulsion when it comes to memorizing stuff. Once, when we were studying Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven in English class, we were supposed to memorize the first stanza for homework, and any extra stanzas for extra credit. I promptly went home and memorized the whole bloody thing. (Which I believe was either twenty-one or twenty-two stanzas long.)

It probably would have been more impressive if I'd been the only one in the grade Hermione enough to try it, though (one other person did, too, in th other English class), but still, I think that's partly why I got the Poe's signature tattoo.

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robyn_ma, it's all your fault.

You suggested that I put "We Will All Go Together" on my Apocalypse mix, so I downloaded it and put it on my playlist 'cause I'd never heard it.

And what am I doing now after listening to it for the five millionth time? I'm digging through my room looking for my screenwriting program because I can see the movie trailer in my head. No spoken words, just the end of the world and that song playing over it.

Damn you, giving me script ideas. ;P

EDIT: Seismic Experts Rip NBC Quake Miniseries

Oh, I love this. My favorite bit is this quote -- Asked whether he consulted scientists in developing the project, [executive producer] Braunstein said: "Not really. We went on the Internet for backup research."

*giggles hysterically*

"What kind of research did you do for your earthquake miniseries?"
"Well, this one time, I went on the ride at Universal. And George Kennedy is my hero."