Feb092010
Report from Ice Station Kilo
Filed under movies,Photos by Kim at 3:36 pm on Feb 09 2010
I couldn’t remember the NATO phonetic alphabet for ‘K’ and had to look it up. Sad.
For the past several hours, in fact most of the day, I have kept myself sequestered in the upstairs office, with the curtains closed, distracting myself from what’s going down out there. I had a bit of a moment yesterday and since then have not been letting other people’s alarm get to me! Anyways, the pictures I took before I lost my damn mind can be find when you click through the skis.
We are going to have to get all our gutters replaced, I suspect. One fell off and most of them are horribly bent. Maybe we can get them fixed? I have no idea. (See this photo and comments for the long and the short of that.)
I have this winter workout jacket I bought to run in. I used it for its intended purpose exactly once. But right now, I am hugely grateful to have it! It’s super lightweight and zips up to the chin and is the perfect shoveling fashion. Basically something like this.
I have watched everything that is available from Netflix Instant that has anything to do with Liev Schreiber, including Kate and Leopold, and I was tempted to skip the parts that did not involve Liev, but I did not! Anyways, it was funny to see him & Hugh in a context that was not Wolverine. (Note to self: Assemble a Wolverine viewing night.) I forgot to mention on here that I recently watched Taking Woodstock and I loved it so much. I had forgotten that it was Ang Lee until I was halfway through and then realized, oh yes, that is why I am profoundly touched by this film. That Liev can pull off a command performance as Victor Creed (no seriously – he acted the shit out of that) and then turn around and act the shit out of his role in Taking Woodstock, well. I don’t know much about acting as an art but I know what good looks like. I also recently watched him in A Walk on the Moon which blew me away too.
Then I was telling some girlfriends about this snowbound actor obsession, and this may have devolved into a highly frivolous discussion during which I realized that young Peter Tork and young(er) Jared Padalecki may have the same appeal. Amirite? Gilmore Girls fans, back me up?
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Note: I am keeping my blessings in mind during all this. We have so much and are so lucky. To all those out there that are helping others – public workers, health workers, volunteer drivers, volunteers of all kinds, food donaters, folks running shelters, folks working to get power back, folks keeping bread stocked, you are heroes. Everyone deserves kindness, obviously, but I hope particularly that people are treating you kindly during this, make no mistake, historic event.
1 Vickion 10 Feb 2010 at 7:52 pm
Oh, I see what you mean about Peter Tork and Jared P.! That wouldn’t have occurred to me.
I’d never seen Liev Schreiber in anything till *Taking Woodstock*, but he’s gorgeous in that. In fact, I put a screen cap of him up as wallpaper for a while.
There’s going to be so much fixing-up needed after all this snow melts. :/
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Kim Reply:
February 10th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
I may or may not have a Liev Schreiber as Sabretooth wallpaper up on my mac right now.
I was looking at the Monkeespic livejournal community (people come up with crazy finds there!) and saw a photo that I could have fooled myself into thinking was JP! It’s not the one that I posted above because I already forgot where it was! But I was like, whoah.
I really need the weather to back off for a while so I can rally myself, for sure. I’m not handling too well.
Thanks for coming by to comment Vicki! 😀
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2 Brion 10 Feb 2010 at 8:05 pm
Now I do see the Tork/Padalecki resemblance. Padalecki doesn’t do it for me–As far as Gilmore Girls go, I was all about Rory’s first bf Jesse. Rawr. But thanks a lot; Now I’m on a hottie-actor kick that’s probably going to distract me from *real* productivity for the next week or so 😛
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3 CSueon 10 Feb 2010 at 8:52 pm
I spent almost two hours shoveling out there, and let me tell you, it’s like Doctor Fucking Zhivago.
True story: The last time this happened (’96), PBS was actually showing Doctor Zhivago Sunday afternoon. Oh, the irony. We made sure to tape it, and still have the copy, but it doesn’t seem like a good idea to watch it right now.
Peter Tork – The only Monkee with a real musical education! (Juilliard) I also heard he developed a nasty drug habit later. *sigh*
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4 LEon 11 Feb 2010 at 12:28 am
I am so sorry about your gutter! We recently got a good price on some roofing, which involved gutters, and was less than I was afraid of, so getting it fixed may not be too awful.
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5 Beckion 11 Feb 2010 at 12:27 pm
It’s the dimples! They definitely have some sort of similar appeal.
I’ve liked Liev for a long while now. I can’t remember what I first saw him in, but I know I was instantly drawn in, and had to watch as many of his performances as I could. I loved him in A Walk on the Moon, especially his John Wayne impersonation. Hee. It makes giggle just thinking about it.
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6 Michelleon 13 Feb 2010 at 12:11 pm
Oh I totally agree with you about the Peter Tork thing! Though I was always more of a Mickey Dolenz girl.
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7 Angela @ Lost In Splendoron 17 Feb 2010 at 7:37 pm
Love Liev, but haven’t seem Taking Woodstock yet. I must add that to my list of items to rent. I’m glad to hear it was good!
I definitely see the resemblance you’re talking about and I have always been a Dean person.
I am SO TIRED of winter!!!
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