Random

Here is the current contents of my blog.txt file. It's a month old now and needs to go away. I think I was planning on contextualizing these better, but it's too late now. Suffer

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It's official: people uninitiated into geek/hacker culture think the bogus FOO country sticker on my car and laptop means that I am a Foo Fighters fan. Just as I feared. But actually it's OK because I think the Foo Fighters are pretty good. I mean, they did that video parodying those wacky-Euro Mentos TV ads, a few years ago. I wouldn't have thought of that! Excellent.

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The 1369's music selection just went from the theme song/background motif (lots of hard-driving violins) from "Waking Life" to the "Twin Peaks" theme (lots of synth strings and boing-boing thingy). Hmm.

I wonder if anyone in my moviegoing group actually understood the reference when I pointed to the "Waking Life" closing credits, made of eerily wiggly alphanumerics, and said, "Yay, it's the Toejam & Earl font." Everyone laughed anyway, because it's a rather ridiculous thing to say in any case, I suppose.

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When the van, trying for a right turn, honked as it inched towards the wide Mass Ave crosswalk over Magazine Street, one woman decided to be representative of our glop of pedestrians and, looking at the van's driver, pointed at the 'WALK' sign and said, "Walk sign." At the same time, another woman recognized the driver, who was actually trying to get her attention specifically, and they waved to each other in a familiar fashion. The first woman got flustered and doubled her walking speed to get clear of us kooky kooks.

The moral could be that you shouldn't jump to conclusions, but really, you shouldn't make like you're slowly plowing your van into some pedestrians, either. The end.

Burrrrp

I just ate a lot of chinese food. I dedicate this subject line to Peter Jackson. (Also pheromone.) Three Circle-D friends and I went to go see FotR again on Friday, because the new Two Towers preview was attached!

Non-spoilery reaction: Disappointed that they spoiled one of the major surprises. (There were clearly people in the (packed!) theatre who were watching FotR for the first time, judging by vocal reactions during the film. (There were some little girls who kept going "Eeeew!" every time there was a hairy Hobbit-foot closeup.)) It was great to see Eowyn, and otherwise get a taste of the whole Rohan sequence, which looks wonderful. The preview's other major focus was the battle of Helm's Deep, and... well, it will be pretty much as you'd expect. Still, glimpsing thousands of Orcs on the cliffside, beating their shields in unison, then watching Aragorn commanding ranks of archers... bah, I feel like a aicn writer. Anyway, yeah. There was a clever final shot showing Gollum sneaking up on Frodo and Sam going "We WANTS it!" and that's the last thought you're left with. Impatient fanboy Gollum. Is it Christmaseses yet?

But: No Ents? I know at least one person who'll be pissed if Jackson's shuffled them into the third movie. (They have to be in there somewhere, or Merry and Pippin are going to have a much-abridged adventure.)

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In other movies:

A friend mails me theory overheard from other people that the ending of "Ghost World" (a movie I enjoyed very much) was symbolic for the main character killing herself. To this I say, "?!" It might as equally be symbolic of the main character deciding to adopt a pet Greyhound. You are all insane.

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We met the landlords this evening. Everyone likes each other. The apartment's ours. All are psyched. Which is to say, M is psyched, and N and I can only say "yaaay" in a and-there-was-great-rejoicing sort of way, because we lack such fundamental ebullience. So it goes.