Getting an early start, yo

I woke up at 4:49 this morning! Happy Long Weekend! Really, though, I don't mind. I love being awake and alone early in the morning. Also, it gave me time to wrap mckitterick's last present. Since classes are over, he's home pretty much any time I'm home, and that's just really weird for one, and for two, it means I don't have a lot of alone time, which brings me back to that part about not being upset for waking up even earlier than I do on workdays.

Does anyone here read slashfic except me? I mean, people who are reading this LJ. Obviously there are huge communities for it out there, but I'm just curious if anyone who reads and comments here likes slash.

Endless.com is having a 50% off boot sale and I'm trying to decide if I have the willpower to just window shop. I mean...I'm saving up for the boots of magic awesomeness. I shouldn't be looking at buying anything but groceries right now, you know? But shoe shopping is sort of like browsing porn for me. Except you can legally purchase the goods for sale at the shoe store.

What I should do is go work on something in the craft room. I gotta get it cleaned up because it's wrecked like whoa, but I want to work on at least a couple more projects and I might as well do that while shit is spread out all over the place already.

So anyway. Sort of a pointless hello post to anyone else who's up at this hour. You. Poor. Bastards.

Sherlock Holmes 2 FTW

mckitterick and I just got back from seeing the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It's fucking awesome, people. So. Much. Fun. Non-spoilery comments:

They pretty much threw the homoerotic subtext out the window and just put that shit out there on a platter for all the slash-lovers to eat from. It was delightful. I can only imagine the screencaps that are going to come out of this once the DVD hits shelves.

The fight scenes aren't quite as ... well, I don't know what. Graphic? Visceral? Something? I don't know. I guess not much is going to measure up to that boxing scene in the first one. They're still very good, don't get me wrong. I think that boxing scene just set such a high bar.

But the FX stuff makes up for it. The running through the woods while being shot at sequence (that takes up so much of the previews) was outstanding. Really, really good.

The costumes. Oh my god the costumes. There are no words. Only drool and incoherent promises made in a darkened theater to outfit mckitterick in pretty much everything worn by either RDJ or Mr. Law. Ngnggngnggg. *wibble*

( Now some spoilery bits )

And because it seems no movie-going experience is possible for me these days without an Oh No They Didn't moment: At least this was in a trailer and wasn't another movie patron. So, Sacha Baron Cohen has a new movie coming out, The Dictator, which looks just awful, but it's not my type of movie, and that's okay. Here's the problem--he's portraying some sort of African/Middle Eastern type dictator, and all the visuals are strongly indicative of that culture. But the music they used for it? You guys, the music they used was (I swear it was, and I played the CD for mckitterick when we got home just to help confirm my hunch) Safri Boyz's Rahaye Rahaye. One of the most well-known Bhangra songs out there. And even if it wasn't that particular song, it was most definitely Bhangra music used in the preview. Bhangra. As in Indian Pop Music. Jesus, people. Total, absolute fail on the part of the music editor for this. I mean come on.