OMG LOOK AT THIS BABY.

OMG LOOK AT THIS BABY.

HE IS THE MOST AMAZING BABY.

Makes me want to start a tumblr called "Pete Campbell Smiles Sincerely."

Before Darren Criss was the Handsomest Boy Alive on Glee, he was the Handsomest Wizard Alive in A Very Potter Musical. Seriously, every time I say "oh I'll just watch the first ten minutes of this," I end up watching the whole three hours. It's that amazing.

Watched Primer for the first time. My sister warned me it was going to be jargon-dense and nonsensical, which it was, but it also ended up being really, really interesting. It was filmed on a shoestring budget, which makes me wonder if a little more time and money would've given the writer/director more opportunity to make things explicit (the party sequence that ends up being the focal point of all the goings-on isn't even mentioned until way late in the movie). But given how much the narrative prided itself on being realistically opaque, maybe more cash and time wouldn't have changed anything.

It's interesting (if a little meta and killjoy) to consider works in light of the constraints their creators were under. Everyone who's ever written to a deadline knows that feeling of "if I only had a little more time, I could make this so much better."  I've read a few books -- Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn, for example, or the last three books in Stephen King's Dark Tower series -- where the need to be finished has clearly taken precedence over most other things. Characters seem flatter, solutions to problems feel a little hackneyed, and it's frustrating because you can sympathize with both sides: wanting a work to be carefully and thoughtfully crafted, and needing a work to just be done.

In Primer's case, I feel like the movie wouldn't have been harmed by unpacking the last half hour into something longer and more detailed. But it was still awesome as it was (which is more than I can say for the last three books in the Dark Tower series).

Sora was mad at Tumblr being down, too.

I have a great idea, you guys.

In honor of Oprah picking Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities for her book club, I'm declaring it CHARLES DICKENS WEEK. Only the finest and most tasteful of Charles Dickens content will be allowed on my Tumblr, and also maybe some stuff about Kanye.

ARE YOU READY TO HAVE YOUR WORLD ROCKED BY A VICTORIAN NOVELIST WITH A CRAZY BEARD??