If you want to spend tomorrow the way I have spent today, aurally speaking (and I'm sure you do), this is what to listen to. Good for grey very-nearly-rainy afternoons and for hanging around the linguistics section of libraries.
Oh oh, I've now watched most of "Twilight" on the interwebs. I'm about an hour and a half in, and so far there is no plot, and it's clearly been filmed illegally in a cinema so the visual quality is really bad, meaning that when Edward is meant to be sparkling threateningly in the sunlight it just looks like he's standing around with an unnecessarily horrified expression. I can, however, absolutely tell that it would've worked on me as an impressionable twelve-year-old (not the sparkling so much as the notion that fir-tree climbing at high speeds and not being allowed to actually kiss your boyfriend constitute epic romance). It all makes me sort of glad that what I had as an impressionable twelve-year-old was "Titanic". I rewatched this with Maren a few months ago and was expecting to be far less impressed with Leonardo DiCaprio's character than I was when I first saw it (to be fair, it would've been hard for me to be any more impressed), but in fact he comes off as unpatronisingly thoughtful and competent, and it's quite a good relationship up until the floating-on-driftwood-in-the-ocean part. I'm not giving my pre-teen self credit for being a very discerning judge of character, it's more that I think some generations are more fortunate with their epic romances than others.
On the other hand "Titanic" doesn't have a single scene involving vampire baseball, so it all balances out.
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