battles on the homefront, onscreen

status check - determined
background ambiance - averi, "bounce"

"you don't mess with a journalist and political type. baaad move."

i'm not one for confrontation. in fact, i'm known to do anything i can to avoid it most of the time. it's screwed me over in the past, but i'm not letting it now.

as my flatmate and i embark on this "we're sticking by our guns" mentality, i'm finding myself looking forward all the more to "troy" - for some reason, i'd managed to let it drop off my radar screen lately, with all the businesses, local focus and then illness. but now i'm gearing up for it. while i've never really understood why the concept is always that paris "stole" helen (let's face it, i've always thought the randy girl ran away with him, wasn't like she was bound and gagged), the story, like much of mythology, always interested me.

and yes, i'm looking forward to seeing orlando bloom in a new movie - sans blonde wig or swashbuckling gear, no less (note: i say this, but thoroughly enjoyed both the LOtR trilogy and "pirates of the carribean"). just a skirt this time.

good god, "the calcium kid" needs to come out in the us so i can see him in a contemporary film already.

if you're faced with life and love or death and honor, what would you do? everyone would like to say death and honor - at least as a guy - but paris chooses love and life ... it's an intimidating thing, to make an audience understand what you're doing - so they don't completely loathe you. - o.b.

side note: i admit it, i'm a dork like this, but i love reading reference to upcoming news and knowing, at least partly, what a bit of the news is. funny how i can remember that, but i shockingly forget other things ...

and, on a somwhat related note, i'm happy to report that i'm feeling much better today. rejoice ...