"I'm Daria Morgendorffer. I love to see the first bloom of a wild rose, to smell the salt spray of an ocean breeze, to hear the laughter of little children at play. Oh no, wait, that's somebody else."For the record, not much happened today, although I did discover that Taquoa apparently talks to herself while studying, which is why she prefers to be alone. Hmmmm. Doesn't bother me if she does it (so do I), but whatever. Also studied WAAAAAAAAY too many dates for four hours. This is stupid.
While browsing entries, read this one on never settle (ing for loveless sex, I guess). Geez, isn't that the opposite of my life. If I didn't settle I'd get nowhere.
Today's Buffy show was the one where she's prophesied to die. I hadn't seen it before, and well, wow. While I'm wondering why she wouldn't take comfort in other people (Giles, Angel, Mom) when she had to live with the information that she was going to die. Her reaction was great, heartbreaking- likewise the tear she cried as she was about to die. Loved her toughness after coming back to life- and of course, I loved her dress- one of my prom dresses looked like that, but in purple. Anyway, a touching show.
Also got a kick out of tonight's Daria episode. On my bulletin board and over e-mail Demma and Anna and I have been fighting it out over how I'm like Daria- this is quite true. I look a lot like her. Well, I look exactly like her, if you change the hair color to dirty blonde and make it longer. And of course, I actually CHANGE my clothes. See, if you wondered what I look like, there you go. No need for pictures, not like I was going to put any up anyway.
The episode today was interesting- Daria can't write- I was going, "Wow, a favorite whining topic of mine too." But Daria's story about the future . . . wow. Quinn not an idiot, with a sense of humor? Nice to know she improves. But Daria . . . not only do I have sweaters like that, my hair at times has looked like that, and she writes a column (which I've always wanted to do) . . . the similarities are even closer.
So on to today's theme: Found this on Lizzie's site-
"I know that it is cultural heresy to say anything negative about The Princess Bride, but please: if you love that movie, go see this one, and see if there is any comparison. I love The Princess Bride in spite of myself, but the Buttercup character makes me gag. She's worse in the book, in which two things are made very clear: one, she is the most beautiful woman in the world, and two, she is a complete idiot. (Well, three things are made clear, the third being that William Goldman is a pig ... but I like a lot of his work, so I'll let it pass as long as he never wants to come over for dinner.) They cleaned that up in the movie by simply giving her no personality whatsoever. We are supposed to cheer for this couple, because this is true love: a savvy, adventurous, all around cool hero like Wesley, in love with this walking, talking mannequin. Oh, yeah, that gets my heart all aflutter."
There is some kinda irony in that I just watched this movie yesterday (Princess Bride). I have to admit that I've never liked Buttercup very much, she seemed to have not much of a soul and acted cluelessly most of the time. What an idiot. And she of all people had Westley! Beautiful, sexy, brave, smart, babelicious Westley! (I looove him when he's got an accent and mustache. When he was on Seinfeld without either of those, he became completely boring. It was tragic.) I WANT WESTLEY, DAMMIT! SHE DOESN'T DESERVE HIM!!!! I WOULD NEVER SEND HIM AWAY LIKE THAT AND BE AN IDIOT!! WHATEVER HAPPENED TO "I'LL NEVER DOUBT AGAIN???" Okay, I'll calm down now. But really . . . what kinda message is this sending out to America's youth? Act like idiot and have no personality and the boys will be swooning? Oh, whoops, I forgot- that IS today's society. But still, she's right.
"But Ever After ... wow. Drew Barrymore is even a little less beautiful than usual. If The Princess Bride made little girls secretly want to grow up to be Wesley, this movie may have little boys wanting to grow up to be Danielle. As for me, I've stopped trying to work the phrase "Drop your sword!" into daily conversation, and now I'm just waiting for my opportunity to tell some guy that I'm going to slit him from navel to nose."No wonder I'm into Buffy lately. I just wanna kick some ass. I love Lizzie's remark about the sword, cracked me up!
Links to other sites on the Web
By Design (prince and Cinderella, sword, girl hero, e-mail)
Dread Pirate Robert's Princess Bride Page (you can figure it out)
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