Happy Thursday! The schedule got all switched up so I had to work tonight when it woulda been a day off. My feet hurt. >=[ And I have to work in the morning, again, too. AND we have to sell rewards again, so that's fantastic.
And after work tomorrow we're jetting off to fancy Azusa for the fancy film premiere. INK-MAN 2 will be seen and judged by the world. Eep. But it should be fun. And the reception's at the newish Mediterranean place that I went to once while Beth and Megan were frightened and waited in the car.
Last year this event was in Pasadena, but tomorrow it'll be at the cheap theater across the street. Which they remodeled so it'll at least seem fancy. SAM! Get ready for your face on the big screen!!
My mom's birthday was on Tuesday, so I bought some balloons and stuff and we made a cake. I got her a DVD collection of Picard episodes, and made two flowery pillowcases. I made those in secret bwahaha. The flowers I planted have rainchecked to Mother's Day, since they're only like two inches tall now. But one day soon they'll bloom, and they're for my mom!
And here's the story of how I figured out what I did last weekend:
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
did we do anything last weekend?
Souji says:
ujmmmmmmmmmmm
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
we watched a Due South, or no?
Souji says:
i did not go to the island
i don't think you came over
you worked then were going to watch the movie with your parents?
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
you had to draw
Souji says:
since i think i drew that day
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
we played Rock Band.....when on earth was that
Souji says:
yeah, that was the day i watched two movies in a row
oh
um
friday?
no
the day dollhouse is on?
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
oh, maybe!
friday
Souji says:
since you had to leave before nine
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
right
Souji says:
so you can watch the show
ah
yup, played some rock band and watched some due south
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
was that just the first episode of season 4?
Souji says:
i think that was it over here
um
maybe 2 eps?
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
really?
Souji says:
since we are on like 4 or something
right?
there were two different girls
in two different eps
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
the canadian baseball game
Souji says:
we did not watch that in the same sitting?
oh, we only watched just that one, that time
?
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
I think ... so
because of all the rock band
Souji says:
then when did we watch the others?
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
did we even see more?
Souji says:
there was only 30 minutes of rock band
oh i thought we did
like the girl and the old lady
the con
then later the card game
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
oh yeah!!
Souji says:
that is 3 eps
i thought we watched them all in one sitting
since i want to say rock band ended at 5
right?
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
sure
Souji says:
three eps is till 8
little over into 8 o clock
um
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
and then I guess it was Saturday that I didn't come over
Souji says:
yup
and i have no clue what you did on those other days of the week
Ayan: Halfway Jumpers says:
me either
The end.
I guess DUE SOUTH really isn't that memorable of a show? XD Season four seems sillier than the previous one, and not necessarily in a good way. But I shall have to see more. MOAR.
On Monday CHUCK and HEROES had their season finales (although no one's sure if CHUCK is coming back, yet). CHUCK was pretty solid and HEROES was pretty ridiculous. I don't want to talk about it.
Caught HIMYM online the next day, it was funny but I'll have to think a moment longer to remember what it was about. Three Days Rule. Yeah, it wasn't bad.
I saw yesterday's LOST today and ever since I've had this backburner urge to watch more. But I can't, because I'm caught up. Farraday was in it, and had some cool backstory and some widely varied acting moments. Also, it's strange to think that some characters are newer than others, like Farraday and Miles, and Juliet and Ben before them. Minus Juliet, I like this new batch more than any of the originals. And where's Sayid at these days? I know he had a backstory/catch-up story just recently, but I've already forgotten everything we covered there.
To sum up, there's not much wrong LOST is doing these days. They had some rough patches in seasons past, but so far, this one is just as top-notch as the first. I hope it lasts until the end. (Actually, their focus and drive is probably now due to the fact that they know how the heck this thing is going to end. ...at least, I hope they do.)
I also cleaned my room today. w00t. And I came across the FFXII manga I bought at last year's AX, and I think I'm going to try to read it again. Every year I end up picking up a book in Japanese, just to get my language lessons by reading. Putting the book in the middle of the dictionary, I end up reading a page every like fifteen minutes. It's pretty intense reading. But I haven't done it in a while--I haven't done anything Japanese related in a while--so I'll try to start up again.
Final thought: I've decided I'm super excited for STAR TREK. Sidenote: we got some Trek dolls in a the store (I know, right?) and the old school Kirk is decidedly black. The Spock, on the other hand, looks just like Nimoy. The Quinto one, not so much.
-Steph
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Unicorns and Speed Racer
Happy Thursday! I had a pretty cool week, over all. There was a lot of hanging out and for a while it was actually summer. Now it's like fake fall time. Not really what I had in mind.
Eventually on Friday Beth came over! We had so many plans but we didn't really do much. I took her on a countryside tour out to Santa Paula and back. Oh before that we went to the mall, today! But pretty much any store I'm interested in shopping at is closed now. All there is is punk shoes and tween girl clothes. And jewelry shops.
And then we picked up some potato salads and headed to Carolyn's house. There was a kid named John there, and he was pretty cool. Steven grilled, and we ate so much. Beth finally saw the first episode of DUE SOUTH and I'm sure she liked it. SURE. Eventually we played Rock Band and then everyone went home.
I have no memory of the weekend. Somewhere in there I watched the highly disappointing BUTTERFLY EFFECT.
I think I really need to start keeping a calendar again. I used to write down the interesting things I did, like what movie I saw or where I went with who. Now I just can't keep track of anything!
Monday, it must have been, I trucked out to Azusa to finish INK-MAN 2. Yeah. It's done. What I really did was spend the day eating with the old roomies, and then exported the movie super late at night. Just like old times! And, on the way there, I actually saw a truck that was on fire.
Tuesday Wednesday was bite-sized works. Business was real slow. But yesterday after TWILIGHT played out, my manager put in SPEED RACER. You know, that little movie that makes blu-ray worth your while? So I caught bits of it for the rest of the day, and by the time I left I had already decided to watch it when I got home. But since no one had bought anything all day, I caved and grabbed the used blu-ray copy we had for sale and brought that along home with me. $13.50 with the discount! And since it got put out for sale pretty soon after we started stocking blu-rays, it's a perfect disc. A grand deal, I think.
So I watched that with my mom and a box of curry. It was a comfort movie/food sort of day. My mom had actually already seen it, when I got the DVD, but she forgot. Speaking of, this is the first thing I've owned in both formats, so of course I popped them both in and cued them up to the same frame. Flipping back and forth I noticed that the blu-ray had about a 3% increase in sharpness. My conclusion: we need an HDTV.
Now I'm sure you guys have noticed by now that my cinematic tastes fall all across the board. SPEED RACER, as it turns out, is definitely one of my favorite movies of all time. There's nothing wrong with it. I say that, but you know I wish there wasn't a monkey in it. But even with a monkey, the rest of it is so...fitting with my sensabilities that I can easily overlook the monkey.
It makes me think again about the way people rate, recommend, or talk about movies. This particularl movie was a box office failure, which usually is a sign that the audience didn't find it appealing. A lot of people hate this movie. A lot of people think it's a bad movie. Cale, for one. But I think that the way we judge movies should be a lot more complicated than that. I love this movie, and I think it's a good movie, and for the same reasons that others reject it. I think that when people judge a movie, I think the most important thing to figure out is whether or not the movie was for you. Or, if you are included in the intended audience.
It's like saying that all kids movies are dumb. Well, maybe to adults a kid's movie is dumb. But an adult isn't that movie's audience. Ask a kid. The kid thinks it's great. So to me, that means that movie is a success. Or a horror movie. A lot of people don't think horror movies are any good, and wonder why people go to see them at all. But there is an audience for those films, and if a horror movie is judged by a horror fan to be good, to be everything that person is looking for in that horror movie, then that's a success. To be a cheesy teen romancedrama, if a thousand teen girls all go see TWILIGHT and love it for its cheesy teen romance, then it's a success.
And clearly it is.
So. I think it's okay to not like a movie, or to find a movie to be bad. But I think you need to realize that maybe that movie wasn't for you. Maybe that genre isn't for you. If you know you don't like raunchy humor, don't go see a Judd Apatow movie. But don't immediately assume it's going to be a bad movie. Someone out there finds meaning in it (the creators, for example), and they don't need you skewing the test results.
In conclusion, feel free to think that SPEED RACER is a stupid, drug-induced, childish movie. It's a perfect movie for me.
It's also like how there may be someone in the world that you can't stand, but somehow that person is married. Clearly, you're not that person's audience, but that doesn't mean no one is!
Oh gosh, what am I talking about anymore? Unicorns.
Last night I said to Beth, "I want to write something that someone wants to read. What do you want to read?"
[A good key to success is to find the audience first.]
And she said, "You should write about unicorns."
I said, "I already have."
She lol'd and then told me to write a story about a unicorn who goes on crazy adventures and then you find out it never was a unicorn but a guy on an acid trip. I said I would call it "My Name is GloBrite," and then I wrote it.
Another unicorn named Pancakes is mentioned in that story, and when I was done, I exclaimed, "I want to write a story about Pancakes!" So I did. I'm about halfway done, and it's like five pages. It's called "Pancakes and the Three Wishes." I don't want to give too much away, but right now they're meeting the Chupacabra.
It's going to be an awesome kid's book. Should test it out on my nieces. Watch out, kids!
In other news, I'm going to miss Michael Scott Paper Company. These most recent episodes have felt really fresh and fun, and that's exactly what that show needed. Can't wait to see where they go next.
HEROES! Finally some real action. This last episode was full of excitement and wtfery. Sylar's sort of crazy now. I don't imagine Nathan is going to survive the season finale next week. For real this time.
CHUCK, on the whole, may not be surviving? They seemed to wrap up everything very nicely this week, and with one more episode in the season, it sort of feels like that's going to be it. But I have no real news either way. I hope it goes on. Maybe they'll do something fresh and fun, too.
I hadn't seen the last two episodes of LOST, so I caught those back to back on Tuesday or so. It was like a phenomenal LOST banquet. No two episodes in a row have been so good as those two. So many surprises and answers and more questions!! One of them being a Ben episode and the other being Miles...that may have factored into my overall liking, but still. And then yesterday rolls around and I hoped that that episode would maintain the high caliber I'd come to expect from it......and it's just this lame recap episode. Waste of my time, so I went away in disgust.
Well, I guess I had better get back to my Pancakes. I'll let you know how it turns out.
-Stephanie
Eventually on Friday Beth came over! We had so many plans but we didn't really do much. I took her on a countryside tour out to Santa Paula and back. Oh before that we went to the mall, today! But pretty much any store I'm interested in shopping at is closed now. All there is is punk shoes and tween girl clothes. And jewelry shops.
And then we picked up some potato salads and headed to Carolyn's house. There was a kid named John there, and he was pretty cool. Steven grilled, and we ate so much. Beth finally saw the first episode of DUE SOUTH and I'm sure she liked it. SURE. Eventually we played Rock Band and then everyone went home.
I have no memory of the weekend. Somewhere in there I watched the highly disappointing BUTTERFLY EFFECT.
I think I really need to start keeping a calendar again. I used to write down the interesting things I did, like what movie I saw or where I went with who. Now I just can't keep track of anything!
Monday, it must have been, I trucked out to Azusa to finish INK-MAN 2. Yeah. It's done. What I really did was spend the day eating with the old roomies, and then exported the movie super late at night. Just like old times! And, on the way there, I actually saw a truck that was on fire.
Tuesday Wednesday was bite-sized works. Business was real slow. But yesterday after TWILIGHT played out, my manager put in SPEED RACER. You know, that little movie that makes blu-ray worth your while? So I caught bits of it for the rest of the day, and by the time I left I had already decided to watch it when I got home. But since no one had bought anything all day, I caved and grabbed the used blu-ray copy we had for sale and brought that along home with me. $13.50 with the discount! And since it got put out for sale pretty soon after we started stocking blu-rays, it's a perfect disc. A grand deal, I think.
So I watched that with my mom and a box of curry. It was a comfort movie/food sort of day. My mom had actually already seen it, when I got the DVD, but she forgot. Speaking of, this is the first thing I've owned in both formats, so of course I popped them both in and cued them up to the same frame. Flipping back and forth I noticed that the blu-ray had about a 3% increase in sharpness. My conclusion: we need an HDTV.
Now I'm sure you guys have noticed by now that my cinematic tastes fall all across the board. SPEED RACER, as it turns out, is definitely one of my favorite movies of all time. There's nothing wrong with it. I say that, but you know I wish there wasn't a monkey in it. But even with a monkey, the rest of it is so...fitting with my sensabilities that I can easily overlook the monkey.
It makes me think again about the way people rate, recommend, or talk about movies. This particularl movie was a box office failure, which usually is a sign that the audience didn't find it appealing. A lot of people hate this movie. A lot of people think it's a bad movie. Cale, for one. But I think that the way we judge movies should be a lot more complicated than that. I love this movie, and I think it's a good movie, and for the same reasons that others reject it. I think that when people judge a movie, I think the most important thing to figure out is whether or not the movie was for you. Or, if you are included in the intended audience.
It's like saying that all kids movies are dumb. Well, maybe to adults a kid's movie is dumb. But an adult isn't that movie's audience. Ask a kid. The kid thinks it's great. So to me, that means that movie is a success. Or a horror movie. A lot of people don't think horror movies are any good, and wonder why people go to see them at all. But there is an audience for those films, and if a horror movie is judged by a horror fan to be good, to be everything that person is looking for in that horror movie, then that's a success. To be a cheesy teen romancedrama, if a thousand teen girls all go see TWILIGHT and love it for its cheesy teen romance, then it's a success.
And clearly it is.
So. I think it's okay to not like a movie, or to find a movie to be bad. But I think you need to realize that maybe that movie wasn't for you. Maybe that genre isn't for you. If you know you don't like raunchy humor, don't go see a Judd Apatow movie. But don't immediately assume it's going to be a bad movie. Someone out there finds meaning in it (the creators, for example), and they don't need you skewing the test results.
In conclusion, feel free to think that SPEED RACER is a stupid, drug-induced, childish movie. It's a perfect movie for me.
It's also like how there may be someone in the world that you can't stand, but somehow that person is married. Clearly, you're not that person's audience, but that doesn't mean no one is!
Oh gosh, what am I talking about anymore? Unicorns.
Last night I said to Beth, "I want to write something that someone wants to read. What do you want to read?"
[A good key to success is to find the audience first.]
And she said, "You should write about unicorns."
I said, "I already have."
She lol'd and then told me to write a story about a unicorn who goes on crazy adventures and then you find out it never was a unicorn but a guy on an acid trip. I said I would call it "My Name is GloBrite," and then I wrote it.
Another unicorn named Pancakes is mentioned in that story, and when I was done, I exclaimed, "I want to write a story about Pancakes!" So I did. I'm about halfway done, and it's like five pages. It's called "Pancakes and the Three Wishes." I don't want to give too much away, but right now they're meeting the Chupacabra.
It's going to be an awesome kid's book. Should test it out on my nieces. Watch out, kids!
In other news, I'm going to miss Michael Scott Paper Company. These most recent episodes have felt really fresh and fun, and that's exactly what that show needed. Can't wait to see where they go next.
HEROES! Finally some real action. This last episode was full of excitement and wtfery. Sylar's sort of crazy now. I don't imagine Nathan is going to survive the season finale next week. For real this time.
CHUCK, on the whole, may not be surviving? They seemed to wrap up everything very nicely this week, and with one more episode in the season, it sort of feels like that's going to be it. But I have no real news either way. I hope it goes on. Maybe they'll do something fresh and fun, too.
I hadn't seen the last two episodes of LOST, so I caught those back to back on Tuesday or so. It was like a phenomenal LOST banquet. No two episodes in a row have been so good as those two. So many surprises and answers and more questions!! One of them being a Ben episode and the other being Miles...that may have factored into my overall liking, but still. And then yesterday rolls around and I hoped that that episode would maintain the high caliber I'd come to expect from it......and it's just this lame recap episode. Waste of my time, so I went away in disgust.
Well, I guess I had better get back to my Pancakes. I'll let you know how it turns out.
-Stephanie
Thursday, April 16, 2009
It's Captain Anderson to you
Happy Thursday! I also recorded a video blog to share, but it seems our connection won't let it upload for some reason. I'll maybe try again later. But it won't be Thursday special anymore. =[
Today was a special day because I woke up at 9 of my own free will and got ready for work...and went to Carolyn's house. We fit in the last two episodes of DUE SOUTH season 3 before I had to leave for work and she had to go to school. Kinda like last Thursday. So this season finale was a 2-parter, written by the Mountie, Paul Gross (not show creator Paul Haggis, who is, incidentally, a member of the writing team responsible for the Daniel Craig style Bond movies), and it was twice as dramatic as usual, and also twice as ridiculous. Next up, season 4.
Yesterday I had my first 8-hour shift at the store, due to everyone else being employed for inventory that night. Waaaaa, it was a long day.
Me and Carolyn had to hash out what else we did this week because we both have the memory capacity of the senile. It turns out that on Friday or Saturday I visited and we may or may not have played Starcraft. But for sure on Saturday we watched the second half of DUE SOUTH up till what we watched today, also went duck shopping, and watched some animated Hulk movies, where he "fought" Thor and/or Wolverine. Hulk vs. Thor wasn't bad at all, but vs. Wolverine was probably worse than event the Avengers movies.
I don't believe I did anything else super exciting this week. But my flowers that I planted have sprouted, and they're doing very well. It's like Harvest Moon but real. There was also an awful awful wind the last two days or so, which made me antsy and nervous and grouchy and bored and agitated. I couldn't go outside. Maybe I have a wind phobia. So I was watching all the anime I have to catch up on, but I'd sit there for three minutes before starting to skip through it to get done faster....but then I'd be done with nothing else to do and nothing would keep my attention for long enough for me to not be bored. It was bad. And then yesterday at work the doors were just continuously open thanks to the wind, and everything inside got super dusty and it was really cold.
:<
I can has summer nao?
Beth is coming to visit tomorrow! WE ARE GOING TO GO TO THE MALL, TODAY!
Okay, I wrote all that a long time ago, waiting for the video to upload. Since then, I caught up on two episodes of the OFFICE I somehow missed, and watched the new one and 30 ROCK. This whole Michael Scott Paper Company thing I'm liking a lot. Way to shake things up. Shaking things up like video blogs, but I guess Thursday does not want to be shook just yet.
See y'all later!
-Steph
Today was a special day because I woke up at 9 of my own free will and got ready for work...and went to Carolyn's house. We fit in the last two episodes of DUE SOUTH season 3 before I had to leave for work and she had to go to school. Kinda like last Thursday. So this season finale was a 2-parter, written by the Mountie, Paul Gross (not show creator Paul Haggis, who is, incidentally, a member of the writing team responsible for the Daniel Craig style Bond movies), and it was twice as dramatic as usual, and also twice as ridiculous. Next up, season 4.
Yesterday I had my first 8-hour shift at the store, due to everyone else being employed for inventory that night. Waaaaa, it was a long day.
Me and Carolyn had to hash out what else we did this week because we both have the memory capacity of the senile. It turns out that on Friday or Saturday I visited and we may or may not have played Starcraft. But for sure on Saturday we watched the second half of DUE SOUTH up till what we watched today, also went duck shopping, and watched some animated Hulk movies, where he "fought" Thor and/or Wolverine. Hulk vs. Thor wasn't bad at all, but vs. Wolverine was probably worse than event the Avengers movies.
I don't believe I did anything else super exciting this week. But my flowers that I planted have sprouted, and they're doing very well. It's like Harvest Moon but real. There was also an awful awful wind the last two days or so, which made me antsy and nervous and grouchy and bored and agitated. I couldn't go outside. Maybe I have a wind phobia. So I was watching all the anime I have to catch up on, but I'd sit there for three minutes before starting to skip through it to get done faster....but then I'd be done with nothing else to do and nothing would keep my attention for long enough for me to not be bored. It was bad. And then yesterday at work the doors were just continuously open thanks to the wind, and everything inside got super dusty and it was really cold.
:<
I can has summer nao?
Beth is coming to visit tomorrow! WE ARE GOING TO GO TO THE MALL, TODAY!
Okay, I wrote all that a long time ago, waiting for the video to upload. Since then, I caught up on two episodes of the OFFICE I somehow missed, and watched the new one and 30 ROCK. This whole Michael Scott Paper Company thing I'm liking a lot. Way to shake things up. Shaking things up like video blogs, but I guess Thursday does not want to be shook just yet.
See y'all later!
-Steph
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Thank You Kindly
Happy Thursday! I think it was a little better of a Thursday than we've been having lately, or was it just me? My day, at least, was thoroughly enjoyable. My day, let me show you it.
My folks are back, so that's yay. But I ditched them and went over to Carolyn's in the morning to start DUE SOUTH (season 3), which is a Canadian show from the 90s I may or may not have told you about. I don't think I have? Anyway, it stars some guy as a Mountie working with these cops in Chicago, and his partner is played by Callum Keith Rennie, which some of you may know as Leoben. Rennie is only in season three, if that answers any unasked questions.
Oh guys, it's even better than I imagined. We watched like, what, eight episodes? I don't think Carolyn loves it as much as I do, but I certainly think I discovered something amazing. It's half sitcom, half cop drama, and 100% ridiculous. I'm in love.
And while I came back home for lunch (some people still have classes to go to), I ended up back over there until like nowish, DUE SOUTHing and then a little Starcrafting. It was a good day.
So this week I worked a little, sewed a little, hung out at Carolyn's but I don't remember what we did. Played some video games or watched some stuff.....I don't remember which. There was a day I hung out with Steven because I tried to pick him up from school but then we cleaned my house some.
I watched TIN MAN, which is the most oddly named miniseries I've ever seen. It's not even about the tin man. It's that Wizard of Oz reimagining? The concept was actually pretty good, but the execution--nearly every aspect of it, from direction and acting down to special effects--was poor. I honestly would have stopped watching (or at least fast forwarded through more) but surprise of surprises! Callum Keith Rennie had a henchman part that I had to stick around for. Was he worth it? .....Almost.
And for reasons too numerous to go into at this particular juncture, it was this Tin Man appearance that eventually led me to DUE SOUTH, so I guess it had it's purpose.
Canadians (and I suppose especially Mounties) are very polite. "Polite cop, bad cop," is one of their tactics.
Seriously, so what else happened between this week and last? Between last week and this? Nothing important, I suppose. I bought some BSG stuff on ebay. We discovered that the Joann's in Oxnard still exists, but I don't know if that was this week exactly. I planted mystery birthday flowers in the backyard for my mom. I finished Beth's story about if Sylar went to APU. OH, there's something:
Me and Carolyn started writing a story about vampire hunters. Some of them are called Halfway Jumpers, because they are the only ones who can go to the Halfway Station which is halfway between earth and the sun. Why do they go there? Because when they stake a vampire, they fill up this capsule thing on the end of it with the energy from the vampire's soul, and when that's all filled up, they take 'em all up to space and beam the energy at the sun to keep it going. OR SO THEY THINK. It's going to be epic.
So I guess we also went thrifting because we were downtown when this started--no, in Lowes, looking at something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike this. Then we went thrifting and then we went to Korean food.
Yep, I guess that's about it. Since it's late and I have to work in the morning, I'm gonna sign of here. And I'll try to keep my fake accidental Canadian accent in check. Or maybe I won't.
-Steph
My folks are back, so that's yay. But I ditched them and went over to Carolyn's in the morning to start DUE SOUTH (season 3), which is a Canadian show from the 90s I may or may not have told you about. I don't think I have? Anyway, it stars some guy as a Mountie working with these cops in Chicago, and his partner is played by Callum Keith Rennie, which some of you may know as Leoben. Rennie is only in season three, if that answers any unasked questions.
Oh guys, it's even better than I imagined. We watched like, what, eight episodes? I don't think Carolyn loves it as much as I do, but I certainly think I discovered something amazing. It's half sitcom, half cop drama, and 100% ridiculous. I'm in love.
And while I came back home for lunch (some people still have classes to go to), I ended up back over there until like nowish, DUE SOUTHing and then a little Starcrafting. It was a good day.
So this week I worked a little, sewed a little, hung out at Carolyn's but I don't remember what we did. Played some video games or watched some stuff.....I don't remember which. There was a day I hung out with Steven because I tried to pick him up from school but then we cleaned my house some.
I watched TIN MAN, which is the most oddly named miniseries I've ever seen. It's not even about the tin man. It's that Wizard of Oz reimagining? The concept was actually pretty good, but the execution--nearly every aspect of it, from direction and acting down to special effects--was poor. I honestly would have stopped watching (or at least fast forwarded through more) but surprise of surprises! Callum Keith Rennie had a henchman part that I had to stick around for. Was he worth it? .....Almost.
And for reasons too numerous to go into at this particular juncture, it was this Tin Man appearance that eventually led me to DUE SOUTH, so I guess it had it's purpose.
Canadians (and I suppose especially Mounties) are very polite. "Polite cop, bad cop," is one of their tactics.
Seriously, so what else happened between this week and last? Between last week and this? Nothing important, I suppose. I bought some BSG stuff on ebay. We discovered that the Joann's in Oxnard still exists, but I don't know if that was this week exactly. I planted mystery birthday flowers in the backyard for my mom. I finished Beth's story about if Sylar went to APU. OH, there's something:
Me and Carolyn started writing a story about vampire hunters. Some of them are called Halfway Jumpers, because they are the only ones who can go to the Halfway Station which is halfway between earth and the sun. Why do they go there? Because when they stake a vampire, they fill up this capsule thing on the end of it with the energy from the vampire's soul, and when that's all filled up, they take 'em all up to space and beam the energy at the sun to keep it going. OR SO THEY THINK. It's going to be epic.
So I guess we also went thrifting because we were downtown when this started--no, in Lowes, looking at something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike this. Then we went thrifting and then we went to Korean food.
Yep, I guess that's about it. Since it's late and I have to work in the morning, I'm gonna sign of here. And I'll try to keep my fake accidental Canadian accent in check. Or maybe I won't.
-Steph
Thursday, April 02, 2009
aw arrone in da worrld
Happy Thursday! It has been quite an uneventful one so far! Except for what could be a fire/alien babies over the hill, but there's no word on that whatsoever.
What did I even do this week? Having a week off + being alone is pretty insane. I don't think I would like retirement. Unless it was like weekends at school, when at least there's people around to do wacky stuff with. That would help a lot.
I know I hung out with Carolyn for two days, filled up on sanity. We...went to Walmart and happily found the Jo-Ann's there is NOT out of business. The Jo-Ann's nearby, not in the Walmart. And we went thrifting and I found an army jacket suitable for adaptation into Colonial fleet wear. I'm wearing it right now! But it's a little ginormous and will have to be taken in in addition to being pasted up with BSG paraphernalia.
We also watched The Next Avengers, which was so much better than the other Avengers movies, and also so much more ridiculously funny. Why does everyone think Thor is a woman? I don't know, but I love it. Why didn't Tony give Hank Pym's son a first name? Or is it Pym Pym? Why was James from an anime? It was very entertaining.
We also watched PAPRIKA, which was also entertaining, also insane. We also watched an IMAX-on-Blu-ray movie(s) about the planet and also space. They were from '90 and'85 so they were mildly ridiculous. But pretty.
I also watched WANTED (eh) and PRINCE CASPIAN (decent), and today I "watched" THE MIST (fast forward on 10x and then 30x), and season one of WEEDS. For tomorrow, I have rented TIN MAN, the Wizard of Oz update miniseries.
No regularly scheduled programing tonight, thanks to the last episode of ER. I did watch LOST this week, and liked it; haven't seen HEROES yet and I'm now two behind in CHUCK. HIMYM was random and not nearly Barney/Robin enough for my attention span.
Looking forward to DOLLHOUSE tomorrow, sorta don't care about KINGS at all, and I'm definitely not watching CASTLE.
Other than that, me and Carolyn also played some Left 4 Dead, a zombie game. Rented Fallout 3 which is by the same folks as brought you Oblivion, but it didn't capture me and I had to return it. Getting closer and closer to actually finishing FFXII.
I sewed two more pillows, a camo/shirt one and a red paisley/black. While watching WEEDS today I cut out a bunch more pillow-sized shapes, ready for sewing tomorrow.
What else have I been doing with all my time? I don't know. I rock a mean shake-n-bake. And I only burned myself just a little on taking a pan out of the oven. OH MAN here's a story.
My mom told me to water the plants and stuff so they wouldn't die, right? So yesterday I go out there and start raking all the leaves, and sweep the driveway, right? So it looks nice, and I'll water after. There's so many leaves that I fill up the yard waste trash can all the way and there's still like four more piles sitting on the lawn. I left 'em there. I water everything, and the backyard and everything is nice and neat. WELL today, I am the most over-all sore from raking and sweeping like you can't believe. Remind me to do yard work more often, I'm a weakling.
Okay, so that was a pretty lame story. I'm sorry I don't have anything really interesting for you. I'll make it up with a really funny lolcat, if I can find one.
Maybe not lolarious (I just made a word!) but here. My own cat is a whiny whinerson. Here's a conversation I had with him:
I was in the garage, doing my laundry, and he was doing his own wash.
Me: Hey Donnie, do you ever get tired of your fur?
Me: Like, do you go, it's time to get some new fur, for springtime? And then you go down to the mall and get a new dress?
Me: And then your husband finds out and goes, "that's a lot of money, honey."
Me: And you go, "screw you! it's not the 1950s anymore! I'm leaving you for another woman!" ?
Yeah, that's the kind of conversation I have when there's no one to talk to. Someone help!
-Steph
What did I even do this week? Having a week off + being alone is pretty insane. I don't think I would like retirement. Unless it was like weekends at school, when at least there's people around to do wacky stuff with. That would help a lot.
I know I hung out with Carolyn for two days, filled up on sanity. We...went to Walmart and happily found the Jo-Ann's there is NOT out of business. The Jo-Ann's nearby, not in the Walmart. And we went thrifting and I found an army jacket suitable for adaptation into Colonial fleet wear. I'm wearing it right now! But it's a little ginormous and will have to be taken in in addition to being pasted up with BSG paraphernalia.
We also watched The Next Avengers, which was so much better than the other Avengers movies, and also so much more ridiculously funny. Why does everyone think Thor is a woman? I don't know, but I love it. Why didn't Tony give Hank Pym's son a first name? Or is it Pym Pym? Why was James from an anime? It was very entertaining.
We also watched PAPRIKA, which was also entertaining, also insane. We also watched an IMAX-on-Blu-ray movie(s) about the planet and also space. They were from '90 and'85 so they were mildly ridiculous. But pretty.
I also watched WANTED (eh) and PRINCE CASPIAN (decent), and today I "watched" THE MIST (fast forward on 10x and then 30x), and season one of WEEDS. For tomorrow, I have rented TIN MAN, the Wizard of Oz update miniseries.
No regularly scheduled programing tonight, thanks to the last episode of ER. I did watch LOST this week, and liked it; haven't seen HEROES yet and I'm now two behind in CHUCK. HIMYM was random and not nearly Barney/Robin enough for my attention span.
Looking forward to DOLLHOUSE tomorrow, sorta don't care about KINGS at all, and I'm definitely not watching CASTLE.
Other than that, me and Carolyn also played some Left 4 Dead, a zombie game. Rented Fallout 3 which is by the same folks as brought you Oblivion, but it didn't capture me and I had to return it. Getting closer and closer to actually finishing FFXII.
I sewed two more pillows, a camo/shirt one and a red paisley/black. While watching WEEDS today I cut out a bunch more pillow-sized shapes, ready for sewing tomorrow.
What else have I been doing with all my time? I don't know. I rock a mean shake-n-bake. And I only burned myself just a little on taking a pan out of the oven. OH MAN here's a story.
My mom told me to water the plants and stuff so they wouldn't die, right? So yesterday I go out there and start raking all the leaves, and sweep the driveway, right? So it looks nice, and I'll water after. There's so many leaves that I fill up the yard waste trash can all the way and there's still like four more piles sitting on the lawn. I left 'em there. I water everything, and the backyard and everything is nice and neat. WELL today, I am the most over-all sore from raking and sweeping like you can't believe. Remind me to do yard work more often, I'm a weakling.
Okay, so that was a pretty lame story. I'm sorry I don't have anything really interesting for you. I'll make it up with a really funny lolcat, if I can find one.
Maybe not lolarious (I just made a word!) but here. My own cat is a whiny whinerson. Here's a conversation I had with him:
I was in the garage, doing my laundry, and he was doing his own wash.
Me: Hey Donnie, do you ever get tired of your fur?
Me: Like, do you go, it's time to get some new fur, for springtime? And then you go down to the mall and get a new dress?
Me: And then your husband finds out and goes, "that's a lot of money, honey."
Me: And you go, "screw you! it's not the 1950s anymore! I'm leaving you for another woman!" ?
Yeah, that's the kind of conversation I have when there's no one to talk to. Someone help!
-Steph
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