Birthdays

Happy birthday wishes to shayalyce and rakshathewolf!

Hope that you're both having the very best of days and that the sun is shining on you.

Me, I have freezing rain :-)

We went to the kitchen shop yesterday and made a start on ordering things; brought back some door samples, chose a style (Mission; he says it's very in right now and we go for the simple styles so it suited us). The dream of granite countertops died a swift death though; they'd cost an extra $3,000.00 on top of what the laminate ones would be.

Wow. That's. Um. Yes.

Bye, bye granite...

Starship Troopers 2 and Richard Burgi

I watched it last night (with cider) and you know, it wasn't that bad. David stayed until the end, so that says it all. The acting at the start was clunky but once they were settled into the tower it wasn't too bad. Not a film I'll probably watch again, but not eye-gougingly awful.

I had to grit my teeth at the idea of MI without suits because they RUINED that aspect of the book both here and in the original movie and just made the MI foot soldiers, which they weren't but I'm moving on, I'm letting it go ::breathes::

Okay, so, eye candy. I ripped two RB scenes I liked and uploaded them to Mediafire. Around 23 MB, maybe three minutes long. No gore and RB bare chested in the second one, fending off the advances of (this really isn't a spoiler) an alien.

http://www.mediafire.com/?2zcxmh2tbz1

I also did some screencaps. The quality isn't brilliant because the movie is PITCH BLACK DARK for most of the time.

And why did no one tell me it has Mary Alice from Desperate Housewives in it and Nathan Stark from Eureka? Not to mention Chris' father-in-law, Hank, from Mag 7! I was squeaking as I recognised people.

I didn't listen to all the commentary but two fun bits were them mentioning how good Richard looked with a beard and saying that he took the huge banner at the end of the movie and it's hanging on the wall of his swimming pool in his very nice house in the Hollywood hills (their words, more or less). Puzzling. An outside wall? Indoor swimming pool? Oh, whatever.

( RB eye candy )

due South drabble 'Defining Desire' Fraser/RayK

No spoilers, set anytime really. Just a sudden impulse, mid-sentence on another story (why does that happen? Why? :;whimpers::)


Defining Desire

Red used to mean danger. Red used to mean stop. Red, when it was blood-red, his blood, used to make him slightly sick to the stomach.

Red was the color of shame, embarrassment, humiliation, skin bright, skin hot.

Red was passion -- oh, yeah, he's getting closer now. Valentine's Day, hearts and flowers, roses are red…

But now, red means Fraser's coat, just that, and so, therefore, means warmth, means real and visible (hey, he can always see Fraser coming.)

And under all that red, under that buttoned-up, regulation gear, is Fraser's body, hidden, untouchable.

So red still means stop.

Fuck.