Stupid articles and sheepage

Some people think gay people should stay out of politics

Let's just say that all my muses hold the author in equal contempt, including historical!Dracula (not to be confused with historical!Roxula), who's as homophobic as they come, but still agrees that the bisexual sultan Mehmed II was a kickass war leader.

Meme ganked from shezan:

Name a CD you own that you think no-one else on your friendslist does:
Polish ones wouldn't be fair, so... HIM, Greatest Love Songs vol. 666. Mmm, love metal covers of pop hits :D

Name a book you own that you think no-one else on your friendslist does:
Erberto Petoia, "Werewolves and Vampires". A lovely resource on Balkan folklore, but I think it was ever only published in Italian and Polish.

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that you think no-one else on your friendslist does:
Kindred: The Embraced was a TV show, but I do have the DVD.

Name a place that you have visited that you think no-one else on your friendslist has:
Wetlina in the Bieszczady mountains? *looks at the Polish portion of the f-list*

Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool you own that you think no-one else on your friendslist has:
No idea, actually. I'm probably the only person with a Caran d'Ache fountain pen...

Underworld: Evolution

Also known as: Excuse me? What's the Doom rip-off doing in my vampire movie?

Meh. It's still visually über-pretty (the eyes!) and has some extremely cool moments, many of them courtesy of Derek Jacobi. I'm also glad to see that they kept true to the form and didn't put in gratuituous dialogue and exposition. Cool, but not the OMGCheesyLove that Underworld was for me.

The interesting thing is that from previews and interviews I expected something much different. People kept mentioning the semi-prequel character of the movie, the abundance of flashbacks that was somehow reduced to one ten-minute opening sequence and several disjointed scenes, and finally there were people on the cast list that I didn't see in the movie at all - especially Sophia Myles (Erika, the blonde who was after Kraven). Post-production cuts? Bah humbug.

I wanted more. I wanted Lucian and Sonya, Amelia explained, Viktor offering immortality to Selene, Kraven meeting Selene and falling in love with her. Instead I got a slasher movie, and not in the boy-love sense of the word.

I guess that's what fanfic is for, right? Too bad that I never seem to find good Underworld fic.

Selene, Kraven, Lucian: OUT of my head. I MEAN it. No, not even if you pout.