A world in white gets underway
Jan. 3rd, 2003 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishI've been putting off writing about New Year's because there's just no way I can adequately express its inherent coolness. Hanging out with Jonathan and Justin and Shane and Michelle (and, for awhile, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vond and kittenchan) was the most fun I've had in... months, easily. It was as if they'd never left. All that was missing was Stephen, and it would have been perfect.
...
Words fail me.
Anyway. New Year's ruled. Spirited Away was less cool, but still good. Animation was top-notch, of course, but the story itself was a bit weak. Not as good as Totoro, but better than Mononoke. (The inherent socialist commentary was a bit much as well. So maybe it's just that I dislike Miyazaki's politics and how he injects them into his work.)
Since then I've been working, slowly writing thankyous, and playing Eternal Darkness, the game in which everyone ends unhappily. (Except maybe the archaeologist.) Seriously. One was possessed, one was confined to an institution, one was possessed and then killed... the only way to "win" appears to be not to pick up The Book when you get the opportunity. (This is "winning" in the same sense that staying in your apartment and for Heaven's sake not touching anything is "winning" in Shade.)
Which reminds me, in a weird, roundabout way: DO NOT EVER TOUCH THE SPOONS AGAIN.
Been reading The Bourne Identity, something I'd been meaning to do for a long time. The movie bears superficial resemblance to the book, but huge major plot points (like Bourne's original target) were cut from the movie. Rumor has it they're working on The Bourne Supremacy, but I'm not sure how they'll make it into a movie, since it's all about unresolved plot points from the first book that weren't in the first movie. Franka Potente was brilliantly cast as Marie, though.
vond and kittenchan) was the most fun I've had in... months, easily. It was as if they'd never left. All that was missing was Stephen, and it would have been perfect....
Words fail me.
Anyway. New Year's ruled. Spirited Away was less cool, but still good. Animation was top-notch, of course, but the story itself was a bit weak. Not as good as Totoro, but better than Mononoke. (The inherent socialist commentary was a bit much as well. So maybe it's just that I dislike Miyazaki's politics and how he injects them into his work.)
Since then I've been working, slowly writing thankyous, and playing Eternal Darkness, the game in which everyone ends unhappily. (Except maybe the archaeologist.) Seriously. One was possessed, one was confined to an institution, one was possessed and then killed... the only way to "win" appears to be not to pick up The Book when you get the opportunity. (This is "winning" in the same sense that staying in your apartment and for Heaven's sake not touching anything is "winning" in Shade.)
Which reminds me, in a weird, roundabout way: DO NOT EVER TOUCH THE SPOONS AGAIN.
Been reading The Bourne Identity, something I'd been meaning to do for a long time. The movie bears superficial resemblance to the book, but huge major plot points (like Bourne's original target) were cut from the movie. Rumor has it they're working on The Bourne Supremacy, but I'm not sure how they'll make it into a movie, since it's all about unresolved plot points from the first book that weren't in the first movie. Franka Potente was brilliantly cast as Marie, though.
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Date: 2003-01-05 01:00 am (UTC)Oh yeah, and I'm safely back in San Diego.