the casting of sirius black

my hesitation over gary oldman as sirius isn't because he's not pretty enough. he is kind of pretty, really. i do think he's a bit old... and one can be both young and worn down and crazed so i really don't understand that argument very well. but putting aside age... he's just not... um... sirius in my head. which doesn't mean my mind won't be changed by his brilliant acting. (not that i recall having seen him be brilliant in anything thus far.) i don't really know what everyone else is saying... and i don't have a better suggestion (not that anyone's asking anyway). i'm not upset with this choice, i'm just not excited about it. i guess i won't be getting on the booo! gary oldman train but neither am i on the yay! train. i'm just gonna sit here and wait for the movie and decide then.

it is curious though, that i can come up with a few people i would like to see play remus but i have yet to see or make any suggestion for sirius that seems right. i'm also surprised at how ok i am with the david thewlis thing. i thought i'd be way pickier about remus - loving him the way i do - but i find myself completely open to this possibility. go me.

my sweet lil otp

oh goodness. all this talk of oldman and thewlis... has me in a very sirius/remus-y mood. it's been a while. has me checking for new chapters in the two r/s wips i consider worthwhile. this is dangerous. they have a tendency to eat my brain. i just love them so. how can one not?

maybe this should be the swansong of my current journal layout. it's all about the sirius/remus. and, while i believe they will always make me swoon and tear up and ache, i haven't been as much about them for a while as i was when i put this all together. so, a new concept. hmmm... will have to ponder.

then again - is there a point to that? how long do i have, i wonder, before cim and wax's novel is posted and i lose myself in them once again?

this is the song that you shall hear

this day sucks. it's a shambles. a wreck. i hate it. ::spits::

ok, perhaps i'm overreacting. i just need to go now. out of the house. to go file. let's hear it for mind-numbing activity! and i'm just. trying to plan my stupid rehearsal and i'm braindead. braindead! i tell you. i can't do anything.

partly, i blame an e-mail i had to write to my friend r. a why-i-am-a-bad-friend e-mail. which forced me to think about a lot of things i'm usually good at not thinking about. i'm not a bad friend. it's just... the part of me who is good friend part went on vacation a few months ago. let me know if you see her.

and writing this is just another way not to go do things i need to do. this day. i hope it's salvageable. unsolicited niceness from the general area of finland has helped some.