Unrelated Notes

[brigdh]

It has been gloriously warm the last few days, and is supposed to get over 60 by Tuesday. I am so happy! I bought flowers at the farmers' market this weekend- a pot of daffodils and a pot of red tulips- and they're just starting to bloom; it's lovely. Generally I am incapable of keeping houseplants alive, but I figure if I can manage to keep these around at least until the flowers fall off, it will still be longer than a bouquet of cut flowers would have lasted, and was just as cheap.

The guy who sold them to me had been getting his picture taken by someone when I came over to pay; he came over with me to the cash register as the other guy told him to come back after, because he wanted another photo. "I think he likes me!" the plant-owner said to me, and I just laughed politely. "I mean, likes-me likes-me! What do you think? Yes or no?"

"I don't know!" I said, incredibly amused at these two older guys, in their late forties or early fifties, acting like high school students. "But I don't get strangers asking to take my photo."

Random things I have discovered on the internet: Jonathon Rhys Meyers, who I have several icons of, including the one I'm currently using, because I pretend he could play Alec, was in the remake of The Lion in Winter. Which means he actually acted out a scene wearing old-fashioned clothes and seducing someone named Richard (the relevant part starts about two minutes into that clip, but I don't know how to make it skip ahead). Too bad the personalities are entirely wrong and that everyone is such a bad actor (or maybe they only seem like it, since the poor boys have to compete against the original The Lion in Winter); I still so pleased that this exists.

Right now I have strawberries and wine and am going to go take a bath; what are y'all doing this fine evening?

Comments

[chthonicsiren.livejournal.com]

Have you seen JRM in the ads for the Tudors? It looks exciting.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh shit is it him in the Tudors? No wonder I was toying with getting Showtime.

[chthonicsiren.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's him. Of course I'm of the opinion that Showtime rules anyway for Weeds and Dexter (and if you like terrible lesbian soap opera, The L Word).

[rm.livejournal.com]

Everyone tells me I need to check out Dexter. And while I'm all for lesbians, most people tell me the L word is too awful to be into.

[chthonicsiren.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it really is just too awful. Dexter, on the other hand, is actually very good.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

Haha, I am terribly addicted to The L Word, in that trashy 'glutting myself with the box sets' kind of way. I think its biggest failing is that it tries to pack far too much into 13 episodes per season, and so fails almost immediately. But it's fairly awesome for the sheer lesbian aspect and because I haven't had a trashy soap to follow avidly in a long while..

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

My best friend is obsessed with it. And I know a lot of people who have L Word-watching parties. Yet, somehow, I have never seen a single episode, or even a commercial really. So I have no idea what it's about other than 'lesbian soap opera' which would probably be enough to make me watch it, if I had more free time. *grins*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen ads, but I did come across stills when looking for photos of him! (Although alas, apparently the Tudors had short hair and I thus cannot put those pictures to good use.) I really want to watch, but I don't have Showtime. I'll have to download it, I suppose.