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[raybear]

I'm surviving ANOTHER goddamn weekend of houseguests. Smarten up, Nas. I'm learning to not participate in every event because I don't have to be the perfect boyfriend. Besides, they obviously didn't come to Chicago to see me.

Anyway, here's my weekly horoscope. It's rather eerie and amusing, especiall in light of a tarot reading I did this afternoon with Damon. This horoscope isn't just for any Cancers -- I think it's tailored a bit more based on rising signs and planets and whatnot.


Dear Raymond, here is your Weekly Horoscope for Aug 12 to 18

It is your finances that resonate with a real snap, crackle, and pop at
the moment. Things are happening in this department, and they are
bringing you all the opportunities you need to travel, explore, get
ahead with your career and to shine in general. You are determined to
have your say, and go your way, as far as spending your money is
concerned. But do take care as far as discussions with coworkers are
concerned. Mercury moves to square Pluto and others may find your
comments fussy, annoying, and unnecessary. If you want to keep on good
terms with them, try and see things from both your own and their
perspective. But if you feel the need to get something important out
into the open, then you can use this opportunity to do so as well. Your
love life is about to start moving through a much more interesting phase
than it has for some time. Saturn is moving to trine Uranus, and you are
gradually seeing the possibilities inherent in a certain relationship
that may have seemed elusive up until now. Perhaps this has been a
relationship over the Internet or a start and stop affair. Whatever the
situation you are now finding ways to make it more committed and
concrete.

In other news.....

I watched Amelie on Saturday night and thoroughly enjoyed, despite my doubts (everyone I know has liked it, which makes me wary of movies, but then again, it's not like everyone I know AND Time magazine and VH1 and USA Today was telling me it was great -- not exactly a blip on the general pop culture radar, which is a shame since it's good).

Also, I've been outted about my secret nickname with Sophie: mija. It's another thing I picked up in NYC while on vacation, because of Cute Paralegal Coworker, and I was saying it in my near-sleep on Saturday morning while MelRo was in the room. I guess I don't have to whisper it anymore.

Other than that, I'm reading some comics then going to sleep. They're currently watching Best In Show. We just watched Guffman. I just wasn't up for proselytizing anymore. I also had a brief moment of fear that it's possible to actually watch the movies TOO many times, and I don't need to press my luck. Not the whammy.

And that pretty much brings us current

Comments

[milosh.livejournal.com]

anamaria's mom calls her 'mija' and it's adorable :)

dear lord, if one could watch those movies too many times, then please strike me down right here and right now so that i do not have to experience such a let-down!!!!

no whammies no whammies no whammies..STOP!

[nineinchlovely.livejournal.com]

yoohoo..

thanks for being such a gracious host when I was there unplannedly. I realized shortly before leaving that I wasn't apparently presenting too well to the guesties. They kept telling each other to give "her" the yearbook and low and behold they meant me. Other than that, they were super, and had I the gumption to correct them, maybe I would have, but then again, I figured they're not necessarily anyone too terribly connected to me anyway.

Perhaps you ought to subject yourself to the Parker Posey-orama highlighting the lesser known films of the Parker Posey Panorama. I personally would like to do that with Alan Cumming. Care to tag along for the glam sometime?

[sharkysmachine.livejournal.com]

i finally saw Amelie and didn't know what the big deal was? mmmm cute skinny white chick wandering around being cute. what's so damn interesting about that?

[raybear.livejournal.com]

i liked the visuals of the movie and the cinemtography -- the colors and the sets and the movement. i was often more interested in the second tier characters. i sort of like the erotic sexual nature met with remarkably naivete.

amelie reminded me of my friend who needs to find her weird guy under the photo booth, but i fear she'll never actually 'break free' or whatever and actually DO something.

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[sharkysmachine.livejournal.com]

i sort of like the erotic sexual nature met with remarkably naivete.

that was the most cliched part to me, i mean that's how much of hollywood depicts white women. i don't know i try to care/get into stuff like that but i'm just jaded and not very impressed. i just kept seeing julia ormond's face and gweneth's face and insert your fave ingenue's face and it just made me want to hurl a dead squirrel at the tv set.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

for the first half of the movie, i saw amelie as being the inverse of the typical sexual naivete shtick -- like in a gwyneth movie, she wants sex but is scared of it or doesn't know how to do it with the particular person. in Amelie she had sex but preferred skipping stones to it. but then it starts to break down and become the typical romantic compulsion towards partnering and true love and soulmates, blah blah blah. i actually didn't necessarily like the ending where she was being driven toward this romantic relationship and found true love or whatever -- i almost wish she had just stayed celibate because sex is so ridiculous. but the romantic courtship was different and amusing (as least to me).

and strangely enough, as the movie took the slightly cliched path in the latter half, THAT's when she reminded me of my friend. the strange compulsion driving them towards finding some other half. i wish the movie had ended with them having good sex and then her going back to her satisfying life alone -- so that the boy was just another adventure, a means to an end, not the end itself.

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[sharkysmachine.livejournal.com]

i'm just crabby today. i hate everyone except patrick stewart.

hang up the chick habit.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

i just thought we were having a discussion that disagreed without either one of us throwing the other off the friends list or writing as nasty livejournal post about the other. we ARE on livejournal after all.

and how could one not love patrick stewart? particularly when he talks about looking like a gay superman in Jeffrey.

Re: hang up the chick habit.

[sharkysmachine.livejournal.com]

i know, but i just like saying "i'm crabby today." just letting people know that they shouldn't take anything i say seriously. you should call me.