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.