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Took a day off today, sort of. Got up very late (paying off a lot of sleep debt) and went to Harvard Square to buy a belt, as my one belt was nearly disintegrated. Then visited ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dictator555 to go over the Volity slideshow. I sat down with Cotton over it a couple of days ago as well, so I'm actually quite confident how to improve it. Oy, between this and the plan I have a lot of writing to do tomorrow, don't I. Expect me to be vanished into the Diesel all day.
Anyway, we then watched The Village, Netflixed since it had come up in conversation some days earlier. I liked it, and we talked about it for a while afterward. The twist was telegraphed a mile away, but actually didn't go as far as I thought it would. (Was expecting it to be a bit more Dark City.)
When I got home I wanted to watch more movies. Was in the mood to see one of the MST3Ks I burned two winters ago, but the one I wanted to watch couldn't be read off disc. Boo. So instead I watched Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, which was, I think, the one movie I own on DVD that I had not actually watched. It's a Guy Maddin picture from 1997, and shares the disc with his Archangel and Heart of the World; I bought the DVD a long time ago because of the latter, which is one of my favorite short subjects by anyone.
I found Twilight entertaining and visually interesting, but can't generally recommend it. All of Maddin's movies are dreamlike, but this one is delirious, just barely coherent as it blazes with layers of unnatural color. Plenty of things happen for no rational reason at all. I'd call this the weakest of his movies, but I think that Archangel was even weaker, since I can barely remember watching it.
I still need to see his Dracula movie sometime.
dictator555 to go over the Volity slideshow. I sat down with Cotton over it a couple of days ago as well, so I'm actually quite confident how to improve it. Oy, between this and the plan I have a lot of writing to do tomorrow, don't I. Expect me to be vanished into the Diesel all day.Anyway, we then watched The Village, Netflixed since it had come up in conversation some days earlier. I liked it, and we talked about it for a while afterward. The twist was telegraphed a mile away, but actually didn't go as far as I thought it would. (Was expecting it to be a bit more Dark City.)
When I got home I wanted to watch more movies. Was in the mood to see one of the MST3Ks I burned two winters ago, but the one I wanted to watch couldn't be read off disc. Boo. So instead I watched Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, which was, I think, the one movie I own on DVD that I had not actually watched. It's a Guy Maddin picture from 1997, and shares the disc with his Archangel and Heart of the World; I bought the DVD a long time ago because of the latter, which is one of my favorite short subjects by anyone.
I found Twilight entertaining and visually interesting, but can't generally recommend it. All of Maddin's movies are dreamlike, but this one is delirious, just barely coherent as it blazes with layers of unnatural color. Plenty of things happen for no rational reason at all. I'd call this the weakest of his movies, but I think that Archangel was even weaker, since I can barely remember watching it.
I still need to see his Dracula movie sometime.