.: i'm sure the view from heaven :.

Mom: Oh, I got Captain America from the library!
Me: What did you think?
Mom: HE MISSED HIS DATE. AND THEY KILLED BUCKY. IS BUCKY DEAD? Your father doesn't know anything about Captain America he's USELESS to me.

While Mother's Day is a constant worry of fretting and what-to-get my notoriously hard to shop-for mother ("You don't need to get me anything!" YES I DO RRRRGH.) Father's Day is possibly the easiest. This year's haul: Carte Blanche, the brand-new James Bond novel authorized by the Fleming Foundation, street date June 14th, and thrown in to make the shipping free is a book I know my father's been looking for: Being a Scot, authored by one Sir Sean Connery, released stateside for the first time.

God bless my father's fangeeky little heart, it makes my life so much easier.

(Now if only I can train them the reverse - they try, my mother was SO PROUD when they found the first season guide for Supernatural at a Half Price Books and bought it for me, and I didn't have the heart to tell her I already had it, haha. BUT THEY TRY.)

Mm, the weekend. Tomorrow I shall wake up early and sally toward my shoppings in the morning. So much less traffic on Nicholasville when I do my shopping before 9 a.m., haha. And then first-showing-of-the-day for my movies. Going to go see X-Men, of course, but I haven't decided on my Sunday viewing. There is a showing of something called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" that seems to be about cave painting, I shall have to investigate that title a little further, caves make me antsy but ... shiny educational film! DECISIONS.

Zoning out as I always do on a Sunday evening, watching the Gintama movie that I hadn't gotten around to yet, and the phone rings. It's my dad's ringtone - notable in that it's not a ring tone, it's the alert from The Prisoner (Now leaving northern perimeter, number Six, repeat-) and that means I usually don't hear it go off. Both of my parent's ringtones are like that, now I think about it. Anyway.

Now, I should pause to say that my father rarely calls me. Usually messages are funneled through my mom, unless it's something serious. In fact, I wager the last time my dad called me was this summer when they got into that car wreck. I call him, or my mom calls me, or we e-mail.

All that being said, my father called me from Barnes & Noble on the Levee to tell me they have the third set of Bond blu-ray on sale for half off, but that means he's going to have a duplicate of Goldfinger and do I want the double?

I love that I get first dibs on the Bond movies because I'm the oldest. I also love that I've not had to buy a single Bond blu-ray for myself yet. In fact, I've only bought the Craig movies on my own, everything else I just have to wait for the newest and shiniest set to come out and then I get the cast-offs, muhaha. 

And it's Goldfinger. Fuck yeah!

I also think my father has finally been brainwashed by all the CG movies my mother drags him to, hah, because he actually voluntarily described Rio to me as "cute." This amuses me far more than it should, my dad usually sleeps through those movies. 

Okay, back to Gintama! Then to catch up on Gosick and check out Hyogemono before I jump back into the Inuyasha madness. MADNESS I TELL YOU. Okay, look, I don't have any icons yet. When dog-boy starts showing up in icons THAT'S when you need to worry.

*phone rings, ringtone is seagulls from Finding Nemo*

Me: Hello?
Mom: I GOT DRAGONS
Me: ... what?
Mom: I got Dragon! AND IT'S ON BLU-RAY! Also, I blew up the vacuum cleaner today so we were looking at vacuums and they had Dragon! AND I GOT IT!
Me: Oh, you got How To Train Your Drag- you did WHAT to the vacuum?
Mom: YES. We're going to watch it tonight! BECAUSE IT'S SO AWESOME AND YOUR FATHER HASN'T SEEN IT YET. What's the dragon's name?
Me: Toothless.
Mom: Toothless! *to my dad* The dragon's name is Toothless! *back to me* Did you know the interior of the car is red? I'm out and it's dark and the inside of this car is red, it's like a UFO.
Me: Have you been drinking?

Dad: So I was at Half Price Books today, and I found a really good deal on a box set of Bond movies on blu-ray! But now I have two copies of Dr. No and From Russia With Love, would you like the duplicates?
Me: HELLS YES.

Annnnnnnnd it starts, hahahahaha.

So I got my father a blu-ray player for his birthday/Father's Day present, along with a copy of Goldfinger on blu-Ray. He is now gleefully sitting in front of the TV watching the special features and clicking through it, absolutely amazed. We went out to Half Price Books and they had both Dr. No and From Russia With Love on blu-ray used, so he now owns four blu-ray movies ... all of them Bond.

He was also astounded, it took approximately two minutes for me to hook everything up for him. He didn't believe it would work with just one cord. HDMI ftw.

I am also gleeful, as we ended up at the one Best Buy in 200 miles that had FMA:B volume 1 on blu-ray. So now I have my blu-ray. x3; I won't have my own blu-ray player for a while yet, but they've dropped in price for simple ones to down under $100 now, so I can get one fairly soon.

Aside from that, lazy weekend is lazy.

My mother called me to ask what I thought about Twilight. Because she's reading it. Because her friend from work is obsessed with Edward Cullen and made her read the book so she could talk to her about it. And she's going to make my father watch the movie with her. AND THEY'RE GOING TO GO SEE NEW MOON. AND SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE HALF-FINISHED VERSION OF THE FIRST BOOK FROM EDWARD'S PERSPECTIVE.

About halfway through the conversation I just started laughing hysterically and couldn't stop.

Then my dad got on the line and asked if my mom was allowed to see Twilight, because, well. Vampires. My mother does not do well with scary movies or gory or anything of the like so we are all well-trained in whether or not a movie is mother-appropriate. I told him it was vampires who sparkle in the sunlight. I don't think he quite believed me.

I, just. MOST SURREAL CONVERSATION EVER. Then my dad and I discussed Prisoner, he doesn't hate it (which I was shocked) but I knew about the role Patrick McGoohan was supposed to play except he turned it down. (And then, obviously, died before production began anyway.) Note: STILL HAVE NOT WATCHED IT. At this point I'll wait for the last two episodes and watch them all on Saturday.

...and now my mother texted me and asked if there were werewolves in New Moon. I HAVE NO WORDS FOR THIS.

I was cleaning out my messenger bag after about two weeks of crap accumulating in it and found a DVD of Dirty Harry. WHAT THE FUCK. I have no idea where this came from, so I called my mother. My mom's favorite response to anything to do with media is "ask your father" so I played a bit of phone tag, and he finally called back.

"Oh yeah," he said. "I put that in your bag for you on Sunday, I got a special edition box set of Eastwood movies and figured you'd want the single DVD."

...well, that explains that. SURPRISE DVD!

Now I want to watch Bullit and Dirty Harry and Zodiac all in a row, because I'm masochistic easily amused like that. starving4scotch, I sense a movie marathon.

Dad: Can you get the new Star Trek movie?
Me: ... you mean like, download it?
Dad: Yeah! And put it on DVD like you did Quantum of Solace.
Me: Sure. I didn't think you'd be as interested in the new Star Trek movie.
Dad: It's not for me, it's for my police buddies.
Me: ...
Dad: ... that doesn't sound so good, does it.
Me: NO NOT REALLY.

Good god my brain has deserted me. Skimming my feeds I saw a headline "Michael Wilson Comments on Chitty Remake" and my first reaction was 'wow, typo.'

*facepalm* They're talking about remaking Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

In my meager defense, I was expecting another Quantum of Solace report, not anything to do with other projects. Ahhh, brain.

Scored massive amounts of candy today, in the form of Nestle Milk Chocolate bars. Sadly, they're not for me (although I just broke into a bag, heeheehee whoops). I'll have to go buy another bag or two when I get paid, and then they're getting packed up north to my father who goes through constant Nestle deprivation.

You can't get the solid milk chocolate bars in Cincinnati, at all. It's ridiculously rare that he ever gets solid Nestle chocolate, so he's gonna get a surprise package in the mail. Along with the action figure of Dr. Henry Jones I picked up at Wal-mart last week and, upon reflection, went "wtf am I going to DO with this?" RANDOM SEAN CONNERY ACTION FIGURE, WUT.

My dad's going to get this package and be like "WTF?" Hee.

Finished Angel Heart today, actually loved the show to death. I confess I only downloaded it because it's essentially the meaning of my last name, I had no idea it was connected to the City Hunter series. It was cute and endearing, and when that's the description of a show about ex-assassins, well. :D I can definitely see why TPTB choose to cast Jackie Chan in the live action movie, though. I may have to look in to more of the series, old as it may be.

On to Angel Links, and following that, Argentosoma. I think Argentosoma downloaded in dual audio, oh god did the dub of that show break my brain. I had the first DVD aaaaages ago, never saw the rest of the series but I was scarred by the fact that the scary guy with the red goatee was the same dub voice as Kenshin.

He spoke in rhyme or something and it had something to do with Shakespeare... nnngh, that's going to be INTERESTING. Ahh, Japanese audio option how I love thee...

Cross-stitch pics maybe tomorrow, for I am lazy.