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Jun. 2nd, 2012 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raincitygirlMy internet connection has been decidedly sluggish for the past 24 hours. If it goes on much longer, I will be forced to call Shaw. Which I really don't want to do on a Saturday night. On the bright side, I have falafels, and it's not raining.
I am watching a Brazilian movie called "Romeo and Juliet Get Married", about a lifelong Corinthians fan who falls in love with the daughter of the Palmeiras fan club president. At the moment Romeu is on his first date with Julieta, and lying like a rug about being a Palmeiras fan to avoid getting dumped. Methinks her dad is going to be seriously pissed off when the truth inevitably comes out (it's a rom-com, obviously the truth will come out eventually).
However, his fury will doubtless be assuaged a little by the fact that the Corinthians fan in question is an opthalmologist. Did I spell that right? It looks wrong. A doctor for a son-in-law is a coup even if he supports the wrong local football team. I remain puzzled by the fact that Julieta looks to be in her late twenties but still lives with her parents. Maybe Sao Paulo is a very expensive city or something. I'd look it up on Wikipedia, but I already expended enough energy establishing that Corinthians and Palmeiras are both football teams based in Sao Paulo. The movie assumes people know that.
It's slightly weird watching a movie in Portugese (it has English subtitles) because it sounds a lot like Spanish, only...not. That shouldn't be a surprise, since it's an ENTIRELY different language, but it's a jolt anyway. Thus far the movie's amusing without being laugh-out-loud funny.
I am reading The Poisonous Seed, by Linda Stratmann, which is very good. Someone on Livejournal or Dreamwidth recced it, but I can't remember who in order to thank them. A pharmacist's daughter in Victorian Bayswater turns detective in order to clear her father's name of a crime he didn't commit. Haven't finished it yet, but it's ticking along nicely so far.
I am watching a Brazilian movie called "Romeo and Juliet Get Married", about a lifelong Corinthians fan who falls in love with the daughter of the Palmeiras fan club president. At the moment Romeu is on his first date with Julieta, and lying like a rug about being a Palmeiras fan to avoid getting dumped. Methinks her dad is going to be seriously pissed off when the truth inevitably comes out (it's a rom-com, obviously the truth will come out eventually).
However, his fury will doubtless be assuaged a little by the fact that the Corinthians fan in question is an opthalmologist. Did I spell that right? It looks wrong. A doctor for a son-in-law is a coup even if he supports the wrong local football team. I remain puzzled by the fact that Julieta looks to be in her late twenties but still lives with her parents. Maybe Sao Paulo is a very expensive city or something. I'd look it up on Wikipedia, but I already expended enough energy establishing that Corinthians and Palmeiras are both football teams based in Sao Paulo. The movie assumes people know that.
It's slightly weird watching a movie in Portugese (it has English subtitles) because it sounds a lot like Spanish, only...not. That shouldn't be a surprise, since it's an ENTIRELY different language, but it's a jolt anyway. Thus far the movie's amusing without being laugh-out-loud funny.
I am reading The Poisonous Seed, by Linda Stratmann, which is very good. Someone on Livejournal or Dreamwidth recced it, but I can't remember who in order to thank them. A pharmacist's daughter in Victorian Bayswater turns detective in order to clear her father's name of a crime he didn't commit. Haven't finished it yet, but it's ticking along nicely so far.
