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Yeah yeah it's been awhile since I updated. Life is boring nothing new with that. Yes I have been reading my flist but I feel kinda flat right now and don't seem to have anything to contribute. There is a meme going around asking people to drop a rant subject in comments. Yesterday I read the best one about bras. I can rant on that and happily. It was funny because she said alot of the things I think. I hate shopping for underwear and bras are the worst. When I find a style I like that does what it should, it aint there when I go back. Typical. I tend to think the people who design women's bras aren't women. My daughter wears a common bra size, she can find the cute sexy ones that FIT. I can't.

Oh well I don't want to rant about that. I could but I just don't want to. It pretty much comes under TMI, and I suspect every one of my flist can rant this as well as I can. Agh. Roomie has been traveling and coming home. He was home today after working all last night running cable and he was wiped. He spent the day in bed and now it looks like he is up for the rest of the night. Of course if he is up, he expects me to stay up. I don't think so. I spent 8hrs yesterday going through his billing stuff for him to send off to the district office and emailed it for him last night. I am going to bed when I damn well please and he'd better let me sleep.

junediamanti posted recently about why she likes the movie Titanic. Took my daughter monthes to get me to see it. And then it wasn't the love story that got me. To give Cameron his due, he did the research and it showed up on the screen. The star of that movie to me was the ship. I didn't give a rip about the two lovers or the classism thing although he did lay that on with a trowel. That was kind of hard to take from a man who made more money than God with the Terminator films.I believe Linda Hamilton got a huge chunk of his Terminator and Titanic profits when he left her for the other actress he took up with. That movie came out during my divorce, and I wasn't interested in a love story. My ex was scaring the hell outta me then with his stalkerish behavior(is stalkerish even a word) and the last thing I wanted to see or even believe was a love story. But yeah the authenticity of the ship was worth it when I saw it at the discount cinema. Pearl Harbor was another movie that was teh suxxors as far as that goes, best part of it was the attack. Too bad the damned attack was the last 45 minutes of the film. The rest of it was teeth achingly excruciating.

The Oscar nominations were announced and yes PoA got two nominations. Big whoop. I still thought the movie sucks. Yes I know movies adapted from books often leave things out. BUT, if you adapt a script from a book for GOD's sake adapt it so that the main story ISN'T butchered. PoA was butchered! I had to explain what it was about to my roomate after we watched it because as he put it, he didn't have a clue. He understood PS/SS no problem. He understood CoS no problem, but he really did not understand PoA. I am seriously worried that GoF will be just as badly butchered. We already know from press releases that Julie Walters(Molly Weasley) and Chris Rankin(Percy Weasley) won't be in GoF. That bodes ill. Both characters are in the book and should be in the movie. The guy playing Viktor Krum looks nothing like I envisioned him. Ugh I am not gonna be waiting for it in the theaters.

Fanfiction reading as usual. Some good stuff came out recently, Back in Black an SS/SB story is amazing. MPREG of all things and Severus/Sirius? You know it's good if I rec that. On ISF and other places. I read it and was blown away. And I don't normally read Sirius paired with Severus. Too much hate there for it to be realistic, never mind the whole unreality of MPREG. Chaos Has Come Again is finally done and sadly there wasn't a sappy happy ending, but the ending was true to the rest of it, so it was very well done indeed. I would like to see an SS/HG or SS/HP where they aren't tossed together by some outside force (ie marriage law, forced bonding etc) and it developes from something other than the bloody war. For instance, they meet at a club and start talking and enjoy the conversation or something. I can deal with an after war celebration, but for shits sake don't make the other person have some unrequited lust thing from student days. Snape works very hard to be a bastard, let that stand for something.

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Well today has been interesting. Some folks are doing the down the rabbithole thing in their LJs which I just skipped reading because I was never a Lewis Carroll fan and others are marking the Holocaust. Another post that has been interesting is dphearson 's entry on the French wine industry's economic woes. Oh dear so they can't get people to buy their overpriced wines outside of France. Perhaps there's a reason for that. I personally prefer the Italian, German, American, Australian and other countries wines much more than the French. In the US we have wineries in what seems like every state. I know I've had good LOCAL wines in Missouri and yes good Texas wines. I'd love to see Alton Brown do an episode on wine and beermaking, that would be wonderful. jenocclumency is gonna hate me, he's going to be here in Austin on saturday at several bookstores and one of the Whole Foods markets here so I intend to see him.

The Holocaust has been written about extensively on LJ today. junediamanti had the first post about it I read today. Happily not the last. I say happily but that's really not a good term for it. But I am happy that it is not going unremarked today. I first heard about the Holocaust when I was in school waay back before PCs and such. I believe I was in 5th grade when a teacher handed me Anne Frank's diary. I had to read more after reading it. I never discussed it with my parents, they had been in Ireland during the war. They remembered rationing and all that, but it was not a topic we discussed. Somewhere around 1972 all of us who read alot read Exodus by Leon Uris, the movie actually was shown on afternoon tv in San Francisco around the time we read the book. Leon Uris fictionalised the founding of Israel with Exodus, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising with Mila 18, a libel trial concerning a Holocaust novel with QB VII. I read all of them and started on nonfiction pretty much about the same time. I also read Elie Wiesel around the same time and passed it to Mom. Believe it or not we did discuss that. It was more along the lines of how could this happen? I don't know, but we discussed it. We had neighbors who immigrated to the US around the time my parents did who had the camp tattoos. I had a teacher who survived the camps in HS. I met survivors and perpetrators in Germany. Yes perpetrators. There was an older guy I met at a bier hall who'd been in the SS and made no bones about telling us Americans that he'd served his country and his Fuhrer in WWII. There were plenty of others who told us when we lived there that they didn't know for sure what was going on but disappearing people was noticed, not commented on but noticed nonetheless. I liked living in Munich but I could never forget that was where Hitler built his political base.

I actually visited Dachau. Never got to Poland, at that time I couldn't. My ex had a job that limited travel to within NATO countries and Poland was most definitely Warsaw Pact at the time. Yes it was the 80s and Reagan was pretty much preaching the "evil empire" thing and my ex was military intelligence. So no I didn't see Auschwitz, didn't need to. Dachau was horror enough for me. Never forget, folks never forget. I wish the deniers could see what really happened. The proof it happened is so extensive I wonder what color their sky is in the mornings, it surely isn't the same reality I see here.