From the Toronto Star

"Keanu is unlike any actor I've ever met — any person I've ever met," says Vancouver-born Carrie-Anne Moss, who plays Trinity, Neo's lover and fellow warrior. The sexual heat between the two is much hotter in Reloaded than it was in The Matrix.

Hoo boy. Though I didn't pay that much attention to it either way, many of my friends have flicked flak at the first film for what they called a completely arbitrary romance between those two characters. I will be thinking of them going "Blaaah. raaaargh" with every on-screen kiss during Matrix Reloaded. Then again, maybe they'll be sitting beside me, letting me hear it as well.

In both fiction and real life, I like seeing people in love, but I hate watching people initially fall in love. Barf. The W-ski Bros. did me a personal favor by skipping all that, AFAIC.

Aaht

Spent many hours both yesterday and today walking around the city, dropping in on various Somerville Open Studious sites. Variably sized adventuring parties both days led by cthulhia. Today I bought a lot of art, spending more with each successive purchase until I had topped three figures. The idea is that these'll all decorate my new apartment, the first apartment I'm going to put real effort into furnishing and decorating, making it a nice place for me to come home to, and others to come visit. A lot of a home's identity gets caught up in its art and furniture, you see, so when the person moves, all the stuff might end up in a wholly different place, arranged 'round the floors and walls to suit the new home's shape, but asserting the very same sense of home and individuality unto those walls as they did before the move. Very important.

• Two watercolor prints of Venetian buildings (one the watery reflection of the other). The artist said she'd quit her high-tech job and taken up painting only a couple of years ago, which I wouldn't have guessed. I like to find datapoints of people who, mid-life (for various definitions of "mid-life"), pick up something new and get really good at it.


• A print of a colorful blue cartoony lady. It's actually a crappy print(out), a poor digitization of an analog painting, filled with aliasing that I didn't notice until after i'd bought it. (And despite cth saying "Gee, that looks pixelated" at it, when I wasn't paying attention.) Kind of a bummer. Good enough to tape up somewhere informal, I guess.


• A large postcard-print of green water plants on a black background.


• A photograph of some bottles in a box. I had a hard time choosing between that and a photo of an ancient collapsed house on a barren hill against a blue sky. I almost bought both, but balked at spending $70 in one go.


• The gem (almost literally) of this haul: an isohedron box made from 20 differently colored glass triangles, welded together. Five of the faces make up the hinged lid. I think it would be fun to keep miscellaneous loose gaming paraphernalia -- such as dice -- within.

Also saw more stuff I wanted at a little gallery-shop at Ball Square I didn't know about. I'll return there later.