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today truly is a happy friday.
first it is the birthday of [livejournal.com profile] kurusawa2005 and [livejournal.com profile] ventrueahole
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUYS!!!!

second. it's friday. what's not to love about friday.
third. we are going to jerad and rachel's for dinner and games tonight. it will be good to see them.
forth. SOMEONE on ravelry MADE MY MONTH yesterday. remember i was drooling over that lace pattern and lusting after mahogany over marmalade (orange brown) silk lace that i can never afford ravelry link here? someone on ravelry heard my woe and offered to trade me for two skeins of sock yarn and $20 over paypal. my world is complete! i'm going to actually GET my silky buttery exquisiteness! ~raptures~ 1000 yards!!!! i'm going to roll in it. this means i've got the makings for 2, possibly 3 incredible lace shawls. no one should be THIS happy about yarn. but i am. i have a day full of happy fiber fantasies ahead of me.
those of you who are knitters will understand. for the sake of those of you who are not, i will continue on about other things.
fifth. our friends anne and russ got a big-ass lcd tv that is way better and bigger than ours. it had a factory defect. a small place at the bottom of the screen is incompletely covered by one of the layers of coating. anne didn't even notice it, but russ did. they called the company, who sent them a new one and didn't ask for the old one back. they are therefore selling it to us for a STEAL. finally we can get rid of the monstrosity that ross and i can barely lift together and that takes ridiculous space and leaves permanant impressions on our carpet!!! and it will do all kinds of technical things that will make ross happy. i like it when ross is happy.

i went to the gym yesterday, so i feel great today, if a bit sore. i went to spinning class, which i had been missing for a while. i need new gym shoes.
the ones i have are weird in the toes and gradually cut off my circulation during my workout. it changes a little depending on how much time i spend on my toes during my workout. yesterday's was good. the instructor worked us harder than she has in the past. the only thing that sucked is the endless techno. now i don't mind electronic music. i've occasionally been known to listen to it on purpose. but not a whole 45 minutes worth with only 3 tracks! i depend on change of music during my work out to distract my brain from the pain of the workout. and this stuff was just NOT interesting enough. i mentioned it to the instructor as a suggestion? and she (who is maybe 18) talked to me like i was an imbecile who knows nothing about music, telling me it is an "aquired taste" like enjoying music that never changes and has no lyrics makes her a better person. i find sentiments like this disgusting.

ross is still fighting off a migraine from yesterday. i came home and he was sick on the couch, poor guy. i therefore had to make him spaghetti and meatsauce and garlic bread and rub his neck. i so rarely get the opportunity to really take care of him and go the extra mile (like an extra trip out for garlic bread), that i treasure times like this. i am not happy that he hurts, but i am happy that i get to show him how i love him, not just tell him.

we watched crash last night. man what a star-studded cast!

i liked the hap-hazard coming together of the plotline (though ross complaining about it was a distraction). and i liked the resolution sandra bullock's character came to even though she was a major bitch through most of the movie. but i didn't feel charmed or warmed or inspired by this movie. the message i got was very much "people are racist assholes, sometimes for good reasons, sometimes for bad. they over-react and don't listen and do terrible things to each other and sometimes have redeeming moments, but most of the time blame other people for their problems." and this is something i already know. having it put into a movie didn't illuminate any facet of human nature for me that isn't painfully obvious to me already. so i guess my reaction overall is. well done, but it failed to educate/inspire me, which is what i want from this kind of subject matter. give me something useful out of all the crap, or i'm really not ever going to want to watch it again.

at somepoint this weekend i still hope to see watchmen. i don't expect to like it. i do expect to get a better feel for the story, and movies made from non-traditional comics. we also plan to get together with darla and john and play board games at some point. these things will be good.

i wish everyone as awesome a friday as i am having. :)

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Date: 2009-03-14 10:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sidhebear.livejournal.com
Just out of curiosity, why don't you expect that you will like it?

I found the book to be an amazing social commentary.

An acquaintance of mine who has her Piled-Higher-and-Deeper in some sort Philosophy and teaches tenured actually did a presentation on desire and objectification in comic books based on The Watchmen. For graphic novels, it's a fairly heady one as far as undertones are concerned.

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Date: 2009-03-14 11:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 2eclipse.livejournal.com
i don't expect to like it because i didn't like the comic.
i didn't like what it had to say and i didn't like any of the characters.
doc rorschack is the easiest character to relate to and he's not a good guy, and he's definitely crazy.
i do think what it says is important and interesting. but it didn't TEACH me anything.
generally if i'm going to spend my time with depressing material, it's because i'm going to get something out of it other than just being depressed. i want ...i dunno, some ACTION i can take that will take this depressing thing and make it even the tinist bit smaller. but ultimately this story made me feel helpless as well as discouraged, and i didn't feel connected to the characters enough to have any deep feelings of meaningfulness out of it like i did with say...schindler's list.
this BARELY qualifies as having something to offer besides depression. it's interesting enough that i want to see it once.
but i don't expect to like it.

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