bright weekend, grey morning
Mar. 26th, 2012 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishPSA: I'm told that Korra Nation has the first two episodes of the new Avatar series for viewing. I say "I'm told" because all I get is a redirect to the Facebook page, presumably because they're prejudiced against Canadian IP addresses. Will have to actually install/configure Tunnelbear this week.
(Other television thoughts await their own post, because they are legion.)
Hunger Games: it turns out I read the books mostly for Katniss's internal monologue, so the (decently-written, decently-acted, well-filmed except for the overuse of Shakycam) movie didn't do as much for me as I'd hoped. Mildly curious as to how coherent it was for someone who hadn't read the books.
("You know what they call the Hunger Games in France? Battle Royale with Cheese.")
Weekend Seattle trip: no time for shopping, alas, but we did have some amazing sushi with a couple of writers I met at Rainforest. I'm still pleasantly surprised when I can hang out with people I barely know for two-plus hours and feel like the conversation could easily go another two, or six, or days.
But there was a Girlyman show to get to, which was the original reason for coming down. I'd sprung for the extra $5 for Really Good Seats right up front; this meant that when the clog-dancer came out for "Kittery Tide" I had an up-close and personal view of her shoes.
They played most of the songs from the new album, "Supernova." Hearing them live does make me like the album more, but I'm still only so-so on it. Which is okay; they still do my favorite live shows, and I'll happily go see them whenever they're nearby.
Otherwise, eh. Been feeling the need for comfort reading lately. Not entirely sure what's going on with that. (Man, this whole "being a grownup" thing just never stops, does it?)
(Other television thoughts await their own post, because they are legion.)
Hunger Games: it turns out I read the books mostly for Katniss's internal monologue, so the (decently-written, decently-acted, well-filmed except for the overuse of Shakycam) movie didn't do as much for me as I'd hoped. Mildly curious as to how coherent it was for someone who hadn't read the books.
("You know what they call the Hunger Games in France? Battle Royale with Cheese.")
Weekend Seattle trip: no time for shopping, alas, but we did have some amazing sushi with a couple of writers I met at Rainforest. I'm still pleasantly surprised when I can hang out with people I barely know for two-plus hours and feel like the conversation could easily go another two, or six, or days.
But there was a Girlyman show to get to, which was the original reason for coming down. I'd sprung for the extra $5 for Really Good Seats right up front; this meant that when the clog-dancer came out for "Kittery Tide" I had an up-close and personal view of her shoes.
They played most of the songs from the new album, "Supernova." Hearing them live does make me like the album more, but I'm still only so-so on it. Which is okay; they still do my favorite live shows, and I'll happily go see them whenever they're nearby.
Otherwise, eh. Been feeling the need for comfort reading lately. Not entirely sure what's going on with that. (Man, this whole "being a grownup" thing just never stops, does it?)
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Date: 2012-03-26 08:10 pm (UTC)The shakycam was really obnoxious for the first few minutes, then it sort of calmed down so I could watch the movie (which already made it better than Paranormal Activity). The general plot, I followed perfectly well. The only problem I had was the strange woman with the blue lipstick. They never explained who she was, why she was there, or even gave her a name. Cassie says her name is Effie or something? I dunno. I thought she needed a good boot to the head though. "Dessert". Bah.
I really liked it though. The only complaints I had were, "they can't even spring for a compound bow? Cheapskate games." and "this is not an effective way to keep a society from armed rebellion", but I think that probably wasn't the adaptation's fault.
Also, it was only the second most-fucked-up film I saw this weekend, because we watched The Handmaid's Tale last night.
Handmaid's Tale
Date: 2012-03-27 03:01 am (UTC)Re: Handmaid's Tale
Date: 2012-03-27 05:13 am (UTC)Re: Handmaid's Tale
Date: 2012-03-28 01:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-27 04:57 pm (UTC)"this is not an effective way to keep a society from armed rebellion"
Book 3 says "funny you should mention that."
and, yeesh. I am pretty sure that there's no amount of money you could pay me to watch The Handmaid's Tale, because I would immediately have to spend all of it on therapy.
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Date: 2012-03-27 05:01 pm (UTC)Yeah, Handmaid's Tale was kinda disturbing. I didn't think that the Corleone family's lawyer was that evil, but apparently I was wrong...
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Date: 2012-03-27 03:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-27 04:48 pm (UTC)(I'm kind of pleased that movies are less of a Thing for me now. They're bloody expensive, for starters, and not really all that fun an experience in a theatre packed with the common people, the salt of the earth. You know...)
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Date: 2012-03-26 08:18 pm (UTC)Bwahaa!
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Date: 2012-03-27 02:28 am (UTC)ROFL. Seriously, I can't breathe...