Plants!

[icepixie]

In a document that I read at work today honoring a seed company, there was an awesome and I assume unintentional pun: "[Company name] was a growing enterprise on [street]..." Heh.

Speaking of plants, a couple more pictures:







And finally, I won the Netflix lottery and got Black Swan the day after it came out. Unfortunately, it stank.

I think my problem with it boils down to the fact that I can see how some film studies doctoral student is going to wet themselves over all the critical things you can get out of this (search for perfection, depictions of mental illness, fantasy vs. reality, innocence and sexuality, the creepy mother, and if you're a Lacanian you'd have a field day), but it was not enjoyable to watch on any level. At all. Maybe I just don't get psychological thrillers? I'm not sure what others in the genre I've seen. I was expecting something enjoyably creepy, but instead I got a lot of weird things that apparently never happened in reality and ENTIRELY too many scenes of Natalie Portman feeling herself up, getting groped by her director, and having sex with her understudy and some random guy. APPARENTLY SHE HAS A HANG-UP ABOUT SEX AND THIS IS BAD. OKAY. WE GET IT.

Also, even putting aside the story (because maybe this genre just isn't my thing), I am somewhat astounded that Natalie Portman won an Oscar for this, because from what I can tell, she had exactly one expression--a sort of breathless not-quite-horror--throughout the whole film. Maybe this was also the point, though. Who knows.

I guess the dancing was pretty?

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[celamity]

Whenever I see roses with water on/in them, I can't resist gently shaking the water off. (My dad taught me to do this to our roses, as apparently if they got too much rain while they were close to opening, the water got trapped inside and the flower rotted)

I decided from a review and knowledge of the general concept that Black Swan would not be a film I'd enjoy. I have not seen it, though.

[icepixie]

Heh. I think it would be a full-time job to do that to our roses, seeing as it rains almost every day in spring, and we also have about ten large tea rose bushes (one of which is about five feet tall and nearly six feet wide, and is basically taking over that corner of the house).

I wasn't sure about Black Swan, but I gave it a try because I like ballet and I like Swan Lake. Big mistake.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Aw, man, I loved Black Swan*. We are opposites! Opposites!

*(Not that I thought it was a perfect film - it was definitely flawed. But I find I appreciate something that's flawed that at least is trying to do something different and interesting, rather than something "better" but that is kind of boring.)

[icepixie]

Complete and utter opposites! ;)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, your roses are already in bloom? It'll be months before roses around here start going, and that's in a normal year when we're not supposed to have lowland snow (!!!) later in the week. *So jealous* Love love love the shots of everything with rain on - that's my favorite kind of picture of flowers, because the colors are always so bright and everything looks so sweet and clean. ♥

[icepixie]

Heh. Our roses have been in bloom for almost three weeks now. These are tea roses, which bloom in April or May no matter where they're planted, though*; perhaps you just have a different varieties up where you are. My mom doesn't have any of the later-blooming species of rose at the moment, but they grow down here too.

* They only grow in zones 6a and up, but I just checked, and where Nashville is 6b, Seattle is actually considered 7a.

And thank you! :) I love the rain photos too; if you do it right, it's like capturing glass marbles.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Damn, maybe all the roses at my university and all that were just late-bloomers... I always remember roses from June onward (...which I guess is not nearly as far off as I was thinking, being that next month is May), but I suppose I do remember some roses in the neighborhood of the museum I worked at last year being in bloom while I was doing my work there, and that had to have been before June... Weird how stuff gets into your head wrong sometimes!

[pezprez.livejournal.com]

Can move into your photo album and live there? So pretty! I've been meaning to read the screenplay for Black Swan, but I haven't seen it yet...

[icepixie]

Can move into your photo album and live there?

It might get a little boring in the winter, when I don't take many pictures, but sure. ;)

I've been meaning to read the screenplay for Black Swan, but I haven't seen it yet...

I feel like the concept would've worked better for me in prose. It's a bit like The Turn of the Screw, except modern and (IMO unnecessarily) over-sexed, and TotS was sort of fun to read.