The Other Sandy

The cool thing about my job is that they're really good about giving me days off when I ask for them. As a result, I've taken opening day off for every MCU movie I've wanted to see in the theater. The good thing about that is that I get to see the movies spoiler-free. The bad thing about that is that no one else I know has seen Endgame yet and I have no one to squee with. Something happened in Endgame that made me so happy I actually cried and I can't tell anyone. I'm about ready to pop.

Pattern by Cloudsfactory.

This is just a little thing I felt compelled to start on Inauguration Day. For some reason.

Pattern lifted from the Captain America 2 Sampler by Lpanne.

Apparently stitching on black fabric until I go blind is a thing I do now.

Filched from agent_jl36.

Name six movies you can watch any time without ever getting sick of them.

Only six?

Hmm.

1. Airplane!
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
4. Gettysburg
5. Murder By Death
6. Star Wars (the original, unadulterated, Han-shot-first one)

What is it with me and cross stitching chibis lately? I swear I'm working on other things too.



Pattern by Cloudsfactory. I intend to make the whole Avengers set someday, but today is not that day.

Chibi Captain America was done on 14 count plastic canvas, and there's a magnet glued to the back.

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I may have watched this an embarrassing number of times today. Steve, you are one hot BAMF.

So, Harvey Weinstein thinks that Midwesterners are too stupid to watch Snowpiercer and need a special cut of the film to understand it. I wish I were making that up.

Dear Mr. Weinstein,

Have you ever actually been to the Midwest? We have indoor plumbing and electricity and everything. We even manage to congregate in areas called "cities," some of which are of a considerable size and contain things like museums and schools.

So thank you in advance for the "stuff blowed up real good" edition of Bong Joon-ho's SF class struggle allegory, but if you find that it "doesn't play in Peoria," it's not because we're all too stupid to understand it. It's because we're smart enough to wait for the real movie to come out on video.

No love,

Sandy (no, the other one)

Stuff I read in 2011:

( Books/E-Books )

( Graphic Novels/Manga/Manhwa )

( Zines )


Stuff I watched in 2011:

( DVDs )

About two years ago, Bruce McDonald announced that he was working on three sequels to his 1996 film Hard Core Logo, which starred Callum Keith Rennie (as Billy Tallent) and Hugh Dillon (as Joe Dick), and was hugely popular in the Fraser/Kowalski subset of Due South fandom back in the day.

The first film was supposed to be about Joe and Bucky Haight (originally played by Julian Richings), the second was supposed to be about Joe and Billy, and the third was supposed to be about Joe and Billy's teenage daughters and their band. There were meetings and script readings with CKR and Hugh.

Two of those movies have now been filmed, but with massive changes. The Joe and Billy movie became Trigger starring Molly Parker and Tracy Wright instead. Callum Keith Rennie and Julian Richings have small roles in the movie, but not as Billy or Bucky. The Joe and Bucky movie has just been released as Hard Core Logo 2 and doesn't have Joe or Billy in it either, although it does star Julian Richings as Bucky and features the return of Bruce the documentary filmmaker.

The third movie is still in the idea stage, but since Joe and Billy weren't really supposed to be in it much in the first place, I'm not holding my breath that they'll have any scenes together. What a waste. CKR and Hugh Dillon had such amazing screen chemistry in Hard Core Logo. I can't believe they haven't worked together more. Maybe they can guest star on each other's TV shows or something.