The Glowing Edge

Tag: aliens

  • Avatar: Aliens plus Strong Women, Sign Me Up

    Anyone can tell you that I’m not a huge movie buff, so when one catches my attention it’s a standout. I love sci fi, drama, and most especially strong female characters (surprise!).

    Avatar is crammed with cliches and I can tell you right now how it’s going to end but I don’t even care. I have to see movies with alien planets (or moons of alien planets: hello, Ewoks!); from Hyperion to Darkover to Dune, I love ’em. Discworlds, Smoke Rings, they’re all freaky wonderful and I’m compelled to immerse myself in the flora and fauna.

    Now, put Lt. Ripley in it, and I’m aaaaallll over it. Sigourney Weaver can save the planet, or not, depending on how bad you piss her off. And Avatar has Michelle Rodriguez, one of my fave actresses from Blue Crush (she played Eden, and was far more compelling than Kate Bosworth; she was also the boxer chick in Girlfight). As if that weren’t enough, we get Nyota Uhura of Star Trek, which would be the very sexy Zoe Saldana.

    I think there’s some dudes in it too.

    Special thanks to Rob Mars over at the Athletic Women blog for the heads-up on this one. Avatar opens on December 18th.

  • Saturday Schedule

    9:30 am: drop off The Maker at his basketball game
    10:30 am: drop off The First and his two friends at the mall
    11 am: pick up The Maker from his basketball game
    Noon: shop for groceries, including snacks for The Ice’s basketball game
    1:15 pm: drop off The Ice at his basketball game
    2:30 pm: deliver snacks, pick up the Ice from his basketball game
    3 pm: take the Maker and pick up The First and his friends from the mall
    5:30 pm: drop off the First at his basketball game
    7:00 pm: pick up the First from his basketball game

    The above schedule does NOT reflect:

    1. Breakfast, lunch*, or dinner, which we had.
    2. Showering or brushing teeth, which some of us did.
    3. Posting to blogs, which I did. (Blogger Lisa: I only did it twice. Bad Lisa: It isn’t midnight yet.)
    4. Heathly exercise like running. (Runner Lisa: It isn’t midnight yet. Bad Lisa: Don’t try to convince me you’re actually going to make it around the block even once. Runner Lisa channeling FloJo: I probably won’t try to convince you, I’ll just surprise you!)
    5. Writing tomorrow’s teaching message that I’m responsible for (Good Lisa: Well, it’s not midnight yet.).
    6. Arguing with children about WHY I can’t ALSO ferry them to Dick’s Sporting Goods to purchase Heelies (The Ice), or to the skatepark (The Maker), or to the mall to shop for pocket knives (The Maker: “But I have enough money saved up!”). Check.
    7. Speaking to anyone in more than short 15 minute bursts of essential information exchange.
    8. Finally watching the last of Aliens on my computer after everyone else goes to bed. (Hopeful Lisa channeling 20 year-old Lisa: It’s not midnight yet!)

    *For amusement purposes ONLY I am listing my lunch menu (and I use the term loosely) for three, do not try this at home:

    • Swanson’s chicken pot pies (4 minutes each in the microwave) all around
    • 1 Diet Dr. Pepper split three ways
    • 2 Girl Scout cookies (Samoas, only the best for my family) each
    • and for me alone: a 4 oz Super Energy Booster Emergen-C Cranberry Fizzing Drink with 32 Mineral Complexes and B Vitamins. So I won’t keel over dead from lack of nutrients.

    I pretty much just left the detritus all over the kitchen. Thank God there’s Sunday.

  • alien(s) goodies

    Best line
    Hudson: Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
    Vasquez: No. Have you?

    Look again
    The first time I noticed move title effects was when I saw Alien for the first time.

    Goofy
    I still think the second stage aliens (bursting from the stomach) look like sock puppets. I giggle when I see them, and I can’t resist making my hand look wildly from side to side, then skitter off making squeaky noises. Honestly, even sleestack are better than these little critters.