The Bookworm's Musings

• 23:08 Newest Fandom: White Collar. OMG! So cute! So hot! So very, very slashy!

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• 21:17 Watched From Paris With Love. Loved it! Lots of slash potential. Yum.

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So, does anyone know where I can find English translations of the Russian lines in Steven Seagal's 2009 movie, Driven to Kill? I don't speak Russian, but I would like to know what is being said, and the subtitles don't help, sadly.

Venturing into the murky waters of original slash fic. Much harder to find good stories, and even the stories that are relatively good aren't, really. Only in comparison to the rest of the dross.
So, I like the whole arranged/forced marriage to alien/other plotline. But is it too much to ask for a little realism and worldbuilding? Humans aren't stupid weaklings, even when physically out-classed. And public humiliation is hardly a good foundation for a lasting relationship. Humans aren't sex toys, and treating your new spouse like one doesn't mean you love them, it means you're suffering from a selfish and unhealthy obsession. Grow up.
I'd like to see some stories where the human isn't just a damsel in distress. Where they can adapt, survive, kick ass and take names in the right situation. It's our minds and ability to adapt that make us dangerous.
Know of any really good slash stories along these lines? I tried Twisted Realities' Husbands for Peace, but was disappointed with it. To much infliction of public humiliation and unhealthy narcissism on the part of  the alien half of the pairing, while the human half seemed unable to express his objections in a rational manner. A real let-down.
Any recommendations?

So I just finished watching Starsky and Hutch: The Movie.
Taken alone, it wasn't bad for a comedy, although not as funny as it thought it was.
But as a long-time Starsky & Hutch fan, it was downright painful. The characters weren't even pale shadows of themselves - they were just to random men who happened to have the same names as the original Starsky & Hutch.
It hurt, it was so twisted. The best part was the ending scene, where the real characters show up momentarily.

• 02:28 Watched Edge of Darkness. Not bad, but nothing special. Minor fanfic potential, little slash.

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• 19:34 Watched #Legion - not bad. Michael/Gabriel, yum. Reasonable amount of fanfic potential.

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Ok, your copy protection is going way the fuck too far when I can't even play the fucking DVD! I didn't get it because I needed a new sun-catcher, dammit!
Yes, I have all the required Codecs installed. Yes, I've tried VLC. No, I'm not trying to copy or in any way steal your damn movie!
No, I don't have a conventional (non computer) DVD player to use. And if I did, why would I want to watch it on my tiny TV screen when I have a perfectly good widescreen computer monitor?
See, this is why people rip and torrent movies. I try to do the right fucking thing and actually pay for your creative work, and what happens? Nothing, that's what. No satisfaction whatsoever. Greedy, paranoid, skinflint bastards!
Perhaps you should stop worrying so damn much about people stealing from you, and start worrying about your paying customers. You know, the people who keep you in business?

I guess it's a Pirate's life for me...at least then, I get what I pay for!

I just wanted to watch 3:10 to Yuma (2007). Damn it.

I recently watched the first two movies of the Pirates of The Caribbean series.
The first movie wasn't too bad. Certainly not a masterpiece of historical film, but hey, not bad for what it is. The characters had potential, and I had visions of Jack/Elizabeth/Will, Jack/Will & Norrington/Elizabeth, or Jack/Elizabeth & Norrington/Will dancing about in my head.
And then I watched the second movie, where they took both Jack & Norrington and crushed them into pale and twisted shadows of themselves. Mind you, I liked most of what I saw concerning Will & Elizabeth's character development, but that doesn't excuse the vicious destruction of Jack & James.
It was like a horrible parody of a parody.
Now I don't even want to watch the rest of the movies, and I have an urge to write fanfiction to fix it all.

• 01:07 Hurrah! RT @cnnbrk: Mexico City legalizes same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. bit.ly/7qjcTw

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• 18:36 RT @Microsoft_EDU: Check out student deals on Office Ultimate, Visio Professional & Windows 7 Professional tinyurl.com/6xogbt

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I've recently undertaken something of a Movie Marathon. I've just started working my way through the entire SciFi section of my local Hollywood Video rental.
I've watched good movies, bad movies, corny movies, etc.

But  the most recent movie was a movie called Absolute Zero. Now, I didn't have unreachable expectations for this movie. I expected it to be a less polished, rather corny version of it's cousin, The Day After Tomorrow (great movie, btw).
And it was. Unfortunately, the punchline of the movie totally ruined it for me, and made it impossible for me to truly suspend disbelief. It first showed up near the beginning of the movie, and was repeated throughout, mostly by scientists.
What was the punchline? Science is never wrong.
No true scientist would ever, ever say this! The Scientific Method (see here, and here for an in-depth explanation), which forms the foundation of all sciences, can not be used to prove a hypothesis to be true. It is not designed to do so. Instead, it is used to prove a hypothesis to be false. Basically, as our understanding of the world increases, we replace false hypothesis with hypothesis which have not yet been proven to be false. Over time, we gather new information which allows us to prove those hypothesis to be false and replace them with more advanced hypothesis, which we then seek to prove false.
Science is often wrong, that's the whole point! If it's not wrong, you're not doing it right!
It is deeply disappointing that the writers and producers of this movie didn't even have a basic high school level of understanding of the Scientific Method, and that they clearly chose not to do even the most elementary research on the matter.
It is laziness of this sort that perpetuates the myths about science and the scientific method, making it more difficult for the layperson to understand and judge the reliability of scientific research. It builds impossible expectations that can not be fulfilled, leading to confusion and distrust.
I don't expect real science or ground-breaking plots from you, but is it too much to ask that you not perpetuate dangerous myths and misunderstandings about science?
Shame on you, producers of Absolute Zero. Shame!

• 10:48 Got a B+ in Non-Profit Acct & in ACCT 351! Yahoo!

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• 00:16 Moved & Updated Tuvok Slash List. Tags, fixed broken links. digs.by/x1i

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• 23:50 Just got back from watching Armored. Awesome movie! Twisty, thought-provoking, emotional depth. Definitely recommend!

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• 15:10 period started right before finals week: of course! Ugh. Hate.Why doesn't my reproductive system come with a handy off switch?
• 18:24 I've moved my Post-Apocalypse Survival Slash Thematic List to it's own LJ community. Tags! Check it out: digs.by/wNj

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• 13:23 Found the perfect scarf @ Warefair CWU

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• 20:53 ACCT 351 test: very depressing

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• 15:14 Why is the flag flying at half-mast on CWU campus today?

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• 06:46 Updated Apocafic Slash list: digs.by/tJH

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