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eumeliaYesterday was a bust.
I had plans, y'all.
I was going to meet with friends and eat Sushi.
Alas.
Now I'm at work and work is slooooooow. I didn't bother to forward my current writing project (yes, I'm committing fic! Or I'm committed to fic? I don't even know) because I'm usually running around and doing stuff in the Library.
However I have complete internet access and my own spanking desk to sit at when I'm not running around making sure books are tidy and in their place.
I haven't even gotten around to starting to write about all the stuff I said I would. Why? I suck, I know. I break promises left right and centre sometimes. But those subjects will be written about eventually I swear!
In the meantime know that I've finally seen Scott Pilgrim Vs the world. Which was cute and sweet, but I wasn't Wow'd by it. The elements of Magical Realism were really well done, though. The over all design of the world was cute, but the characters themselves were a bit... not enough development on anyone's front really. Even Scott; yes, don't be an ass when you break up with someone. Good message, hardly profound or life altering as they make it out to be.
I also saw Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows part 1 and dudes! I actually enjoyed it! I actually thought it was good. I was not expecting that! The Half-Blood Prince was a stinking pile of shit compared to this, really. I hated that movie. This one, this one actually made me feel good about the characters and the plot! Jesus, Malfoy looked sick, it was awesome. And Snape's hair, it finally looked like how I'd always thought it should look - swept back and sinister - not floppy and unkempt.
The story sequence was possibly the best "Movie within a Movie" I'd seen in years. It touched all my aesthetic buttons and was actually a very compelling and moving sequence.
Emma Watson should do Audio Books.
The trio did a very good job holding the movie together, I must say. Is it just me, or did Daniel Radcliff totally queer Harry this time around? I dunno.
I don't do this usually, but I can't help but compare the film to the book, I've done this with the other films as well, because I honestly can't imagine anyone understanding the nuance and dynamic between the elements without having read the books.
But at the time (almost four years ago) when I read the 7th book, it left a very bad taste in my mouth.
J.K. Rowling doesn't do narrative coherence very well. What she puts down on the paper and what we're supposed to glean or what is conveyed isn't the same as what we actually read or understand.
I have no qualms is saying that during the wait between Book 4 and Book 5, I was very much a Snape/Sirius shipper - I thought they had a Lust/Love-Hate relationship going on. Come Book 5 and Sirius' sadism came though I was actually kind of glad he was dead.
I felt bad for Lupin, but I had such a visceral dislike to Sirius (the Marauders in general and Lily), I was okay with Lupin being with his replacement, Tonks.
My point in that little tangent is that J.K.R makes me hate characters I'm supposed to like, like Sirius and Dumbledore (who I ended up despising by the time Book 6 came along) and others as well, because the concept of accountability is utterly and totally lost in that world. The only one held accountable and pays for it dearly (over and over again) is Snape.
I'd like to see how they manage to pull him off and the other trio (Neville, Luna and Ginny) in the next movie - because the dynamic of what went on in Hogwarts, now that would be interesting.
Also, ack! Naked Hermione and Harry! WHAT?!?! Poor Ron, I actually felt sympathy for that idiot.
I had plans, y'all.
I was going to meet with friends and eat Sushi.
Alas.
Now I'm at work and work is slooooooow. I didn't bother to forward my current writing project (yes, I'm committing fic! Or I'm committed to fic? I don't even know) because I'm usually running around and doing stuff in the Library.
However I have complete internet access and my own spanking desk to sit at when I'm not running around making sure books are tidy and in their place.
I haven't even gotten around to starting to write about all the stuff I said I would. Why? I suck, I know. I break promises left right and centre sometimes. But those subjects will be written about eventually I swear!
In the meantime know that I've finally seen Scott Pilgrim Vs the world. Which was cute and sweet, but I wasn't Wow'd by it. The elements of Magical Realism were really well done, though. The over all design of the world was cute, but the characters themselves were a bit... not enough development on anyone's front really. Even Scott; yes, don't be an ass when you break up with someone. Good message, hardly profound or life altering as they make it out to be.
I also saw Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows part 1 and dudes! I actually enjoyed it! I actually thought it was good. I was not expecting that! The Half-Blood Prince was a stinking pile of shit compared to this, really. I hated that movie. This one, this one actually made me feel good about the characters and the plot! Jesus, Malfoy looked sick, it was awesome. And Snape's hair, it finally looked like how I'd always thought it should look - swept back and sinister - not floppy and unkempt.
The story sequence was possibly the best "Movie within a Movie" I'd seen in years. It touched all my aesthetic buttons and was actually a very compelling and moving sequence.
Emma Watson should do Audio Books.
The trio did a very good job holding the movie together, I must say. Is it just me, or did Daniel Radcliff totally queer Harry this time around? I dunno.
I don't do this usually, but I can't help but compare the film to the book, I've done this with the other films as well, because I honestly can't imagine anyone understanding the nuance and dynamic between the elements without having read the books.
But at the time (almost four years ago) when I read the 7th book, it left a very bad taste in my mouth.
J.K. Rowling doesn't do narrative coherence very well. What she puts down on the paper and what we're supposed to glean or what is conveyed isn't the same as what we actually read or understand.
I have no qualms is saying that during the wait between Book 4 and Book 5, I was very much a Snape/Sirius shipper - I thought they had a Lust/Love-Hate relationship going on. Come Book 5 and Sirius' sadism came though I was actually kind of glad he was dead.
I felt bad for Lupin, but I had such a visceral dislike to Sirius (the Marauders in general and Lily), I was okay with Lupin being with his replacement, Tonks.
My point in that little tangent is that J.K.R makes me hate characters I'm supposed to like, like Sirius and Dumbledore (who I ended up despising by the time Book 6 came along) and others as well, because the concept of accountability is utterly and totally lost in that world. The only one held accountable and pays for it dearly (over and over again) is Snape.
I'd like to see how they manage to pull him off and the other trio (Neville, Luna and Ginny) in the next movie - because the dynamic of what went on in Hogwarts, now that would be interesting.
Also, ack! Naked Hermione and Harry! WHAT?!?! Poor Ron, I actually felt sympathy for that idiot.
