Get this cinnamon monkey off my back
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ebonlockI have discovered that the cinnamon bread sold at the Sunnyvale farmer's market contains crack. It is dangerous and highly addictive. For the love of god don't buy a loaf or you're doomed, doomed! Had two slices with a little margarine on them for breakfast, the loaf is about half gone since Saturday morning....*sigh*
Still, got a lot done this weekend and I feel very accomplished. Most of my Xmas shopping is done. One more Amazon order should take care of it and then just a bit more wrapping and the two big craft projects to finish. I feel very proud of this, and delighted that December will be much lower in pressure and stress than usual. I'll still stress about getting the house clean for my family's visit, but that's it.
Friday night I got most of the stuff on hand wrapped while Aelf and I plowed through the "I, Claudius" series. Also got some crafting done and met my goals for the weekend which felt good. Ran all necessary errands, did enough housecleaning to make me feel like it wasn't totally out of control, and finished up the basic choreography I've been working on. I'm content with it, though I think Alyne will be able to give me some good ideas on how to tighten it up a bit.
Also saw Kill Bill.
Overall I liked it, and I thought it did what Tarrantino set out to do. He wanted to make an homage to the classic chop suey Hong Kong films. When he opened with the "Shaw Brothers" logo I heard a bunch of folks in the audience chuckling, myself included, if you got that you got the film. I heard quite a few people complain about the amount of blood, and it's true the film had a lot. But I would contend that it was highly stylized blood, not like his usual shoot 'em up and let 'em bleed out style.
We even got "blood geysers", which made the folks who weren't conversant with the genre titter. Yes it looks silly, but that's not the point. He was remaining true to the original works his was based on. Believe me, compared to most films in the genre this one was actually pretty damn tame.
Only two quibbles, and they're purely personal, snobbish ones. First, no "spinning death", which I missed terribly. In HK films if a woman is injured or killed she usually does this marvelous spin. When she's wearing something flowy or big-sleeved the move is even more dramatic. Lots of women died in this one...no one spun...this saddened me.
Second, and it's one that Aelf brought up first so I knew it wasn't just me. Lucy Liu's character at one point lops a guy's head off. She shakes the blood from the blade, and while still bloody she sheaths it. She sheaths a bloody sword. Argh! I actually winced when she did it. Now if this had been just a throwaway kitana that she didn't give a shit about I might have said, "Ok, whatever." But the character is supposed to know and love her weapon deeply. But more than that she's supposed to respect it. No one with even a modicum of respect for their weapon would've treated it thusly.
So all in all a positive review, this movie's for HK and anime fans primarily. If you know and love the genres you'll probably enjoy it.
After seeing the movie I ended up with a raging headache, and I'm beginning to wonder if maybe it's my eyes or something. Felt like a sinus headache, but I wasn't sneezing much that day, and I hadn't had any similar problems all weekend. I'll try to figure out a time to go and get them checked, and stock up on Alleve before Trilogy Tuesday, I think.
Still, got a lot done this weekend and I feel very accomplished. Most of my Xmas shopping is done. One more Amazon order should take care of it and then just a bit more wrapping and the two big craft projects to finish. I feel very proud of this, and delighted that December will be much lower in pressure and stress than usual. I'll still stress about getting the house clean for my family's visit, but that's it.
Friday night I got most of the stuff on hand wrapped while Aelf and I plowed through the "I, Claudius" series. Also got some crafting done and met my goals for the weekend which felt good. Ran all necessary errands, did enough housecleaning to make me feel like it wasn't totally out of control, and finished up the basic choreography I've been working on. I'm content with it, though I think Alyne will be able to give me some good ideas on how to tighten it up a bit.
Also saw Kill Bill.
Overall I liked it, and I thought it did what Tarrantino set out to do. He wanted to make an homage to the classic chop suey Hong Kong films. When he opened with the "Shaw Brothers" logo I heard a bunch of folks in the audience chuckling, myself included, if you got that you got the film. I heard quite a few people complain about the amount of blood, and it's true the film had a lot. But I would contend that it was highly stylized blood, not like his usual shoot 'em up and let 'em bleed out style.
We even got "blood geysers", which made the folks who weren't conversant with the genre titter. Yes it looks silly, but that's not the point. He was remaining true to the original works his was based on. Believe me, compared to most films in the genre this one was actually pretty damn tame.
Only two quibbles, and they're purely personal, snobbish ones. First, no "spinning death", which I missed terribly. In HK films if a woman is injured or killed she usually does this marvelous spin. When she's wearing something flowy or big-sleeved the move is even more dramatic. Lots of women died in this one...no one spun...this saddened me.
Second, and it's one that Aelf brought up first so I knew it wasn't just me. Lucy Liu's character at one point lops a guy's head off. She shakes the blood from the blade, and while still bloody she sheaths it. She sheaths a bloody sword. Argh! I actually winced when she did it. Now if this had been just a throwaway kitana that she didn't give a shit about I might have said, "Ok, whatever." But the character is supposed to know and love her weapon deeply. But more than that she's supposed to respect it. No one with even a modicum of respect for their weapon would've treated it thusly.
So all in all a positive review, this movie's for HK and anime fans primarily. If you know and love the genres you'll probably enjoy it.
After seeing the movie I ended up with a raging headache, and I'm beginning to wonder if maybe it's my eyes or something. Felt like a sinus headache, but I wasn't sneezing much that day, and I hadn't had any similar problems all weekend. I'll try to figure out a time to go and get them checked, and stock up on Alleve before Trilogy Tuesday, I think.
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Date: 2003-11-10 01:12 pm (UTC)Definitely a little hottie, and her weapon of choice was fun, though it was a real commitment type-weapon. Get that sucker stuck on something and you're out of the fight pretty damn quick.
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Date: 2003-11-11 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-11 08:35 am (UTC)Yep, and yep, I need to dress up like her for Halloween one year I think. Shouldn't be too difficult, though I will have to invest in a gold cross :)