Feb. 5th, 2012

jazzfish: an open bottle of ether, and George conked out (Ether George)
The Scotiabank theatre is showing a bunch of older movies in digital format for $6 apiece. I've been here long enough that this seems like a remarkably good deal; a month or so ago, a 4 PM showing of Tinker Tailor was $13 per ticket. Last night was Serenity, which we watched in the company of several folk from gaming. Good times, good company. Been awhile since I'd been out to dinner with a larger-than-small group.

The movie... doesn't hold up as well as it might. Bits of it feel blatantly manipulative, Inara and Kaylee are ciphers, and they didn't give Zoe nearly enough to do. (So it's pretty much The Mal And River Show, with Simon along for plot and Jayne and Wash for different kinds of comic relief.) The plot's perfectly fine at least, though I wonder how lost you'd be if you didn't know the series.

Today has been a wash. Plans included: finishing this story, plot noodling for another, and writing ALL the email. Instead I wrote some (though not all) of the emails, poked at the story, lazed around on the internet and the Device. Meh. And realised that I'd forgotten I'd signed up to write a story this month. Exciting. Maybe it'll make up for this one being stalled out at what looks like ten feet from the finish line. bleh. Leaving it alone for awhile.

I disapprove of my lack of energy and motivation. I don't know what to do about it, either. And now it's the end of the weekend and back to work tomorrow.

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"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen

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