My Favorite Potter

We watched a few minutes of "Order of the Phoenix" tonight, the ending scene. It makes me cry every time.
I think it's some of the best storytelling/filmmaking I've ever seen.

1. SIRIUS: GET AWAY FROM MY GODSON! (smacks Lucius right in the face).

2. Bellatrix LeStrange. WONDERFUL in every scene she has. I love HBC, she was perfect as Bella.

3. Sirius's nonverbal spells while dueling Lucius. Apparently Harry picks up on how to do nonverbals as well? Last two blows before his death (to Lucius) are lovely.

4. Lupin holding Harry as he cries for Sirius. The overlapping of shots and no sound but the sad music is also beautiful.

5. Voldemort waving away Harry's wand. Dumbledore emerging from the flu network. Voldemort having the confidence to battle with Dumbledore. The wand noises, the fiery snake, the electric shocks when the wands connect, the big water ball, and Voldemort trying to curse Harry from within it.

6. My favorite, FAVORITE scene in the entire film is when V draws in the energy from Dumbledore's spell and then flails his arms out and yells, sending it all out everywhere throughout the ministry, breaking all the glass, shattering everything, everywhere. It is seriously AMAZING. I wish I could do that, but for good instead of evil.

weekend occult media

i finished probably the greatest book i have ever read (after some random classics and the potter series) by JOE HILL. yes, i finally broke down and ordered it from barnes and noble dot com. HEART SHAPED BOX. i loved LOVED LOVED it.

somehow i knew i would. what wouldn't i love about something written by stephen king's son? the guy would just have to be cool. he was born in 1972, matt's year, so the pop culture and icons were so our generation. the guy is more than a little bit hung up on nirvana, obviously, but beyond that (beyond that, she's great) he really wrote a great book. i think when i first started it the first 100 pages gave me the creeps like nothing else i've ever read before. very descriptive and believable prose about GHOSTS and being haunted. chills. ended wonderfully.





3. together with this going on, we watched potter's order of the phoenix last night and this morning. I pronounce phoenix FO-NIX. much like foetus (fo-tuss) and chipotle (chi-pottle) i get a lovely thrill just doing it for the hell of it, daring anyone to assume i am doing it because i don't know any better.

i had such a deeper reaction to it this time around since i have finished the last novel and know how it all ends. seeing snape in any scene is almost too much for me to bear because i know all his secrets now and i seriously get teared up every time he's on. I LOVE SNAPE. dumbledore too. especially because he was so suspiciously unavailable and mysterious in this film but then CRASHES IN at the end to rescue potter and duel with "tom." bellatrix decides she better bug out once albus comes on the scene even though she is crazier than a shithouse rat. i love her too. come to think of it, i really love everyone they have cast in those films. the only one i wasn't crazy about was that id in chamber of secrets.......Kenneth Branaugh? the rest are all tops in my book, even L-malfoy, if you can imagine.

rock on.