#bzangy

[moominminded]

bzangy replied to your chat “what i need to be doing: writing the papers i've been putting off what...”

noooo, I'll just send it to you! :-D

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 NO WAY, REALLY?? BECAUSE THIS IS LIKE, A DREAM FOR ME

[moominminded]

bzangy replied to your post “.”

Hope you feel better soon and sending you hugs!

much better! i played acnl and drank iced tea all day

[moominminded]

bzangy replied to your post “so are my expectations too high? or am i just fundamentally...”

*hugs*

the hugs are acknowledged and appreciated :)

[materassassino]

bzangy reblogged your post:…Iced buns are just sweet hot dogs?

non nooo noooooo!

THEY LOOK LIKE IT THO

[achinglonging]

bzangy replied to your post “[[MOR] 43 fucking pound for the morning after pill what the fucking...”

43 quid??? wtf??

punishment for being an idiot i guess! 43 quid is slightly excessive though!

[achinglonging]

bzangy reblogged your photo and added:

Aww, I missed them! Did you have a good time?...

Ahh man i basically went for taking back sundsay, and they definitely delivered! i really did enjoy it, even making a bit of a jackass of myself at the afterpoarty was pretty fun! did you enjoy it?? :D

[iheartvelma]

15 films

as I’ve been nominated by bzangy:

North By Northwest (1959), Alfred Hitchcock. A Cary Grant spy-intrigue caper that literally set the template for future James Bond movies. So many good lines and scenes, is there a movie out there that hasn’t lifted one or two or made a passing reference?

I have to pick a Gene Kelly film, but I can’t decide between An American In Paris (1951) or Singin’ In The Rain (1952). So I’ll go with Jacques Demy’s 1967 Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, a French New Wave tribute to MGM musicals set in the eponymous port city, starring Kelly, Catherine Deneuve, her sister Françoise Dorleac, Broadway stars George Chakiris and Grover Dale, and French cinema legends Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli and Danielle Darieux. Score by Michel Legrand.

Star Wars (1977), George Lucas. Basically the first thing I ever saw in a cinema. It changed movies, and the way movies were made, forever. Logan’s Run, the big sci-fi release made just the year before, looks chintzy, small and primitive by comparison. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched it. (I still don’t forgive Lucas for his Special Edition.)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Steven Spielberg. Basically the 2nd thing I ever saw in a cinema. Wonderful storytelling, with interweaving storylines of an international investigation into UFOs tangling with ordinary citizens who’ve been “summoned” to meet the aliens. Builds suspense, never showing too much, until a pull-out-the-stops finale of light, colour and sound. “They haven’t aged at all. Einstein was right.” “Einstein was probably one of them.”

Superman (1978), Richard Donner. The 3rd thing I ever saw in a cinema. I did believe a man could fly. And at this point, John Williams’ soundtracks owned a large part of my developing brain. 

Condorman (1981), Charles Jarrott. A Disney live-action Bond spoof starring Michael Crawford as a comic-book artist entangled in international intrigue...for kids! He had a cool car. 

Chariots of Fire (1981), Hugh Hudson. A gorgeous slice of slo-mo, gentlemanly sports rivalry, tweed, religious fervour, and overcoming-of-prejudice on the 1924 England Olympic team, overlaid with a thick Vangelis CS-80 synthesizer score.

Blade Runner (1982), Ridley Scott. It took Lucas’ “used universe” visual styling to the maximum, stretching endless rain, perpetual dusk, neon, choked pedestrian streetscapes, flying cars, replicants and city-sized billboards over a template of Los Angeles film noir; it’s Chinatown, Deckard. 

Tron (1983), Steven Lisberger. Because computers + frisbees + Jeff Bridges is far more fun than it sounds. 

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Hayao Miyazaki. A mind-blowing post-apocalyptic future tale adapted from Miyazaki’s own manga; borrowing a lot visually from Moebius’ graphic novel Arzak, it’s the first of Miyazaki’s girl-centered adventure movies, and one with a strong environmental message.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), John Hughes. Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t look around once in a while, you might miss it.

My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Hayao Miyazaki. I didn’t discover this until the 2000s but I’m glad I did. Pretty much a perfect rainy-day movie for all ages.

Metropolitan (1990), Whit Stillman. Endlessly quotable. A cozy, wordy, nerdy, preppy take on Mansfield Park and a pocket universe I can go back to time and again. Wes Anderson wouldn’t exist without it.

Spirited Away (2001), Hayao Miyazaki. It’s a masterwork - characterization, detail, animation, vision. I’ve felt that a lot of the Ghibli output after this pales in comparison; the art more digital, the characters less detailed, with a few exceptions like...

From Up On Poppy Hill (2011), Goro Miyazaki. A glorious return to form for the studio, a nostalgic tale of star-crossed young lovers set in 1960, around the time of the Tokyo Olympics.

[vaguestblogging]

bzangy reblogged your post:In the year of Beyonce 2015, there are still...

I see too much RT stuff on here. Don’t people realise it’s as much propaganda as Fox??

My mom's told me stories about how even in the Soviet Union there were news stories about how racist the US was, but that doesn't mean that Russia is a human rights champion?? RT is literally Putin's mouthpiece.