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[austin_tycho]

I guess I haven't posted in a couple of days. LJ was still slow, then I realized everything was slow and hub discovered the router was on 'ludes and adjusted it so that it wasn't. Hooray fast interweb!

Let's see... Wednesday I do believe I ended up doing a big steaming pile of nothing, which was nice. Oh, I did go to the bank and drop off the checks and money from the Pope's fundraiser (check out here if you'd like to help, or there's a link for the mundanes here) and we went to see the new Harry Potter movie. My take- it was good. It's been long enough since I've read the book or seen the other movies that I didn't notice the continuity errors ('oh, a bridge! That's nice.') and I don't think I would have even noticed how they were in 'street clothes' for most of the movie if I hadn't heard so many people were irked about it. I guess I'd make a really bad fashion designer. I don't tend to notice clothes unless it's tie-dye. I guess I could be a tie-dye fashion critic. I still contend that Tara Thrall makes the best looking tie-dye, but her business sense is for shit. I had 2 different people try to order me stuff and her website dropped the orders, and she denied that there was anything wrong with the site. We also ordered a large item from her in January and it still isn't here. We got a letter about a month ago (after some prodding) and she said 'we're working on it; we've had personal problems!' Well, we still don't have it- and while I understand how shit happens, it's usually bad form to wait to tell your customers until they get so mad they write you a 'where the hell is my order?' letter before mentioning anything. Pfft.

Oh, Harry Potter. So, yeah, good. I liked Buckbeak a lot- he was really believable. And pretty! I want one. The new Dumbledore was fine; he seemed a little more spry than the other one. The new Malfoy, however, stunk. The actor was fine, I guess, but he seemed a lot less threatening. It was probably more the script than the actor, but I seem to think he should have been a lot more menacing; Harry and them should've been a lot more evenly matched. But no, every time anything happened, Malfoy and goonfriends runn oft crying. They were yeller.

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[starcrossedlady.livejournal.com]

It's too bad we don't live closer :( aside from all the other coolness, the kids and I are going to tye dye this coming week!

[fulguritus.livejournal.com]

i said hi to snape for your friend.
damn he's hot.

me = potter geek

[burgundy.livejournal.com]

Tom Felton has played Draco Malfoy in all the movies. I guess he just looks like a different person because he's growing faster than the others are. Also, they're doing a terrible job dyeing his hair. He's supposed to be "white-blond" and instead it's this nasty orange-y bleach job.

I've never felt that he was particularly menacing. He can make trouble for Harry because he's Snape's pet and his father is well-connected, but there's nothing intrinsically scary about him. He's the archetypal bully - as long as he feels he's working from a position of strength, he'll be really horrible, but as soon as he feels the tide turn against him, he runs off with his tail between his legs.

Re: me = potter geek

[mielikki.livejournal.com]

Ah- I had read somewhere that the actor was bailing on the series because he was tired of playing it, so I'd assumed it was someone else (he does look a lot different, and the hair looking worse was part of it). He seemed an even more one-trick-ponyish than before- show up, sneer, get punched/hippogriff-clawed/whatever, run away crying. I wish instant karma had worked that fast on all the bullies I had to put up with in school. Harry just seemed more afraid of him in the books than the way he was portrayed in the film warranted.