Scattered misc
Aug. 25th, 2003 12:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishSaturday brought with it the enlightening discovery that the Farm House restaurant doesn't serve lunch on weekends. However, E, Z, J., Mo, and I went to Tacky Texas instead, and good food was had. (The perceived goodness may be related to the time of 'lunch' consumption being approximately three o'clock.)
"I'm not seeking treatment because I don't want anything to interfere with the recording. Well, except DYING." --Warren Zevon, late November 2002
The Zevon special on VH1 was pretty good for what it was, which was a retrospective of the past year, and the process of recording the new album (which, from the soundbites, will be better than Life'll Kill Ya but not as good as My Ride's Here). It was a really cool 45 minutes, and I'd certainly watch it again. I dunno. I think I was expecting more of a career-long retrospective. Oh well, you take what you can get.
Saw Matrix Reloaded on Friday night. Not much more to say than I had the first couple times. This time I feel like I fully understood almost everything about the scene with the Architect except for why he told Neo that Trinity was dying. Choice, he says, is necessary; but never does he say that it has to be fully informed choice. (This rapidly devolves into speculations on the nature of 'freedom.')
When the Oracle asks Neo what he's dreamed about, she sounds honestly curious-- maybe she can only predict events in the Matrix?
Architect: program or human? I'd been pretty firmly convinced that he was program, since I firmly believe that he and the Oracle are set up to be diametrically opposed in every way... but 'in every way' implies that (unlike her) he's not a program.
One of the brief images we get during the trailer after the credits (you did all stay through the credits, right?) is of Seraph holding two guns. This fills me with a great deal of joy, as I imagine he will be able to do a more than passable Chow Yun-Fat impression.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
"I'm not seeking treatment because I don't want anything to interfere with the recording. Well, except DYING." --Warren Zevon, late November 2002
The Zevon special on VH1 was pretty good for what it was, which was a retrospective of the past year, and the process of recording the new album (which, from the soundbites, will be better than Life'll Kill Ya but not as good as My Ride's Here). It was a really cool 45 minutes, and I'd certainly watch it again. I dunno. I think I was expecting more of a career-long retrospective. Oh well, you take what you can get.
Saw Matrix Reloaded on Friday night. Not much more to say than I had the first couple times. This time I feel like I fully understood almost everything about the scene with the Architect except for why he told Neo that Trinity was dying. Choice, he says, is necessary; but never does he say that it has to be fully informed choice. (This rapidly devolves into speculations on the nature of 'freedom.')
When the Oracle asks Neo what he's dreamed about, she sounds honestly curious-- maybe she can only predict events in the Matrix?
Architect: program or human? I'd been pretty firmly convinced that he was program, since I firmly believe that he and the Oracle are set up to be diametrically opposed in every way... but 'in every way' implies that (unlike her) he's not a program.
One of the brief images we get during the trailer after the credits (you did all stay through the credits, right?) is of Seraph holding two guns. This fills me with a great deal of joy, as I imagine he will be able to do a more than passable Chow Yun-Fat impression.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
--Arthur Schopenhauer