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[starlady]

I meant for this post to include more than this. But, after more than an hour wrestling with Yahoo IDs, I have finally gotten with the Naughts and created a del.icio.us account! I have added the info to my profile under 'external services' and it makes me happy, in an extremely low-threshold sort of way. Sidenote: Yahoo is the most awful 90s holdover semi-sketchy piece of crap that needs to go out of business yesterday, Y/Y?

I went with sparowhawk to see Sherlock Holmes again Friday night and I still love that movie so much. When I got home I took many characterization notes in my notebook. I think I'm going to sign up for holmes_big_bang because a) I work well with deadlines and b) writers get paired with a beta reader and an artist. \0/ Art for my writing! How cool would that be? Pretty damn cool.

I also, uncharacteristically, made plans and carried through on them to sit in front of the TV and watch TV this week. Normally I only do this for the new episodes of NCIS, but I also watched the season premieres of Burn Notice and of White Collar. I can see why so many people like White Collar. The OT3 is so obvious and so respectful of all 3 of them! Burn Notice is still high-octane, mindless mostly fun, though every time Michael Weston says that it's his job to help people I say LOLWHAT? Give me a break! Clearly the show resides in a fantasy world, and I'm not talking about Miami. Also, everyone has read this post by Center of Gravitas on how, in Burn Notice, everyone (including Fi! *gnashes teeth*) needs a straight white man to save them, right? So this is enough for me to file it in the "guilty pleasure" column, though I do think the tradecraft is plausible enough to keep in mind for future writing purposes.

I should go run before it starts raining.

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[fish_echo]

Oooh, yay for rewatch of Sherlock Holmes! (I ended up donating to Haiti the money I had earmarked for my second watching... it'll still be showing later, yeah?)

Did you tally the sunlight scenes again? Are we beyond two yet? :P

(And yes, the OT3 on White Collar-- sometimes I forget that it isn't actually explicit canon....)

[starlady]

Still the graveyard--what's interesting there is that it goes from sunny to cloudy and back in the same scene. And...I think it might be sunny when Watson goes up to roust Holmes out of his room and flings open the curtains.

P.S. And Holmes totally is taking cocaine after all. It's amazing how this movie has increased my respect of Guy Richie by about an infinite amount, I must say.

The larger theaters by me are still playing it. Probably only through Feb. 12 though, I imagine they'll want those screens for The Wolfman.

[fish_echo]

Oh, silly movie with its aversion to the sun! :)

Re the cocaine thing, good point.

I actually really want to have this movie out on video and ideally have it playing with a nice fannish gathering as we all sit around and analyse it to bits. It would be quite fun! Sadly, I think I shall have to substitute blogging for the sitting-around-in-person, but I do really want to analyse it when I've got my grubby little paws actually in control of the viewing. (Why, yes, I have basic theatre training and sometimes it bites me. It's like having fits of, what is it, malaria? Where you think you're doing okay and the next thing you know you really just need to analyse colour usage and the symbolism inherent in jewelry and then you need a nice little lie down and maybe some smelling salts. Not that smelling salts are a traditional remedy for malaria. I think I've wandered away from my point, somehow...)

[starlady]

I will look forward to your analysis posts. I don't know anything about malaria except that it's cured with quinine. I'm better on yellow fever and influenza.

Because you will probably appreciate them, have you seen damned_colonial's posts on clothing in the movie?

[fish_echo]

I anticipate that there will be much lovely discussion when the movie comes out on DVD :) (I'm especially amused because this is the first movie in a while that I've really wanted to take apart and deconstruct).

Oooh, thanks for the links! *goes over to check them out*

[starlady]

I love those shirt posts, though I had to reread them twice through and then go look things up on wikipedia to understand them entirely. Hooray for jargon. XD