movie_marathon Toxic_Kisses Made this weekend a movie marathon while I wait on a few of the history books I ordered to get here so as to further my project. When I think of this as just a small part of a much bigger whole I feel as though I may drown. To take my mind off that as well as some other stuff D and I went and hit up the two Red Boxes at the store down the road. Together as a whole we selected: Her Transcend Walter Mitty Frozen (Been _actively_ avoiding it but now that the vile writers of “Once Upon A Time” decided to put it into my TV show I felt I unwillingly had to cave or I might not understand something that was going on within my show) Rise of the Guardians and lastly IP Man Grandmaster Couldn’t finish Her, got half way through but the whole thing was to blatantly obvious, seemed like a ok movie I just got board *shrugs* Transcend was good better than Lucy and I actually liked the movie Lucy, yet Transcend unfortunately was also a pointless waste of time, if you’ve seen it you know what I mean. Walter Mitty I actually really enjoyed, seemed a much better version of Jim Carrey’s Yes Man Frozen was bland for me possibly bc it had been too hyped for my taste, Let It Go song was good but bc I’ve seen it a few times before that was not really too much of a surprise, although what does it say about society that so many ppl can relate? Liked the movie The Sound Of Noise better, although there only very loosely related as they both contain music, so I suppose that’s not really fair as I could just as easily say I liked the 1989 movie Pollyanna better for as much as there related. IP Man Grandmaster, G decided to come by around that time and would not stop asking question after question! Hey if you want to hypothesize what will happen next (and why) or have something witty, sarcastic, and funny to say then by all means feel free to speak your mind, but if all your going to do is ask a bunch of annoying questions then SHUT THE FUCK UP!! In truth I have no idea if I like the movie or not bc I was far too annoyed with G’s incessant questions =/ About to watch Guardians next before heading off to bed so that’s still a question mark. All in all though a somewhat enjoyable weekend, but looking through Red Box I couldn’t help but wonder what happened to all the good movies. I wonder why we don’t have movies like The Bear, Flight of the Navigator, Pollyanna, The Never Ending story and the like anymore, now it seems all we’re left with is Frozen and the like, and I say and the like bc they do seem so much alike now, the ending from Frozen reminds me of the ending from Maleficent which reminds me of the ending from Brave. Blah maybe I’m just feeling nostalgic and disappointed with my Red Box choices *shrugs* who knows maybe all will be redeemed upon watching Rise of the Guardians. 141006 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I would've loved Frozen when I was about five. I was very much into Antarctica (not the Arctic as much - too close to be exotic?) and ice and snow. When Sesame Street had a song about Antarctica (a bunch of the muppets had planned to go to a vacation somewhere warm and I guess they took the wrong flight) I obsessed over it for weeks. I used the tune as a starting point for one of my own songs. I still remember how to play it on piano, but I don't know how much of the original tune it has. I haven't found the song by itself though I read it was on a Sesame Street song compilation... wait, did raze link it to me sometime? Perhaps I'm thinking of something else? OK, I'll get back to it later. The episode replayed at least twice. The first time I loved it so much, I couldn't bear to look at the screen. The second time, when I was about seven, it just wasn't the SAME. The MAGIC had gone! So I expect that's how I'd feel about Frozen. Just, "Oh, okay, a cartoon. Winter. Magic. Cool." I watched Once Upon a Time a few times more than once when I lived in Ontario - the people I lived with had a cable subscription - but I haven't really picked it up since. Sure it wasn't Very Serious, but it was well-paced and I found it interesting that as the layers kept unfolding, the bad guys became the not-so-bad guys, particularly the green-skinned man (Rumpelstiltskin?) and, surprisingly, the mayor/evil witch. It seems that if you give a face enough close-ups, the character behind that face has a tendency to get more sympathetic (though there are probably tons of exceptions too). Right now my guilty TV pleasure is The Big Bang Theory. Not completely guilty, because the characters have evolved in unexpected ways, though as a sitcom it has to keep a kind of predictable structure. Anyway. That was a fun little memory marathon! I hope you had a good time with the movie one. 141007 ... Toxic_Kisses Yea EOI its possible you may be right. Suppose I have a tendency to forget the age of the target audience for these kind of shows and as such judge them more harshly then they deserve. Ever since reading what you wrote I’ve been trying to figure out if I would like Frozen were I was a child (although admittedly some days I don’t feel all too far off from still being one (“Wheeeee!!! Sliding in socks is fuuuun!!!”)) it’s difficult to know for sure, however based upon the kind of things I liked as a child yea I do think I would of liked it more then as apposed to the way I feel about it now, but I’ve no doubt that FernGully would of still ranked higher in my childhood mind. ^.^ And yes having read past things you’ve written I am keenly aware of your Antarctica infatuation when you were younger and yes I have listened to the tracks you listed in antarctica_music *L* . When I was in kindergarten I remember the song that I obsessed about for some reason was Daisy Daisy, it went like Daisy Daisy give me your answer do, I'm half crazy all for the love of you, It won't be a stylish marriage, For I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat, On a Bicycle meant for two. And so on with the rest of the lyrics. I vividly remember coming home and going straight to my room, closing the door behind me, laying on my back sideways across the bed with my naked feet propped on the chilled wall and pressing play and rewind on my little tape player as I listened to the song ad nauseum until I was called to dinner and then had to get ready for bed. My parents wernt particularly concerned by this until nearly two weeks later when they started to ask if maybe I felt like going outside, and you know today would be a perfect day to blow bubbles out in the drive way and so on. I dident mean to worry them, but I just ~_had_~ to listen to that song, at the time there was just something so completely addictive about it to me. Now listening to the song I haven’t the faintest clue as why I was drawn to it. I mean it’s nice and I still like it but not nearly to the _intensity_ that I did back in kindergarten, so yea I feel like I sort of know what you mean when you say “The MAGIC had gone!”. So yea for about 2ish months I was absolutely addicted to that song and would lock myself in my room to listen to it nonstop. I don’t remember how its broke its hold on me, but obviously I did. Even to the point that I actually forgot the lyrics to the song, as is documented somewhere in Blue Blather. I’ve written more of a reply to this in my head today but as the sleeping meds I took are kicking in and I’m having issues transplanting the words from my head into words on the screen so I’ll come back to this before the end of Sunday. Same goes for Raze and his music video, a fragmented jigsaw reply in my head just not as of yet to be put into writing. So as this reply is incomplete please don’t reply back in return just yet otherwise we might end up in a braided overlapping kind of thing going on here. G’nite ^.^ 141008 ... Toxic_Kisses I have it all here in my head exactly what I was going to say, granted I was going to have to prune it down quite a bit bc I kept going on side tangents, some of my tangents even had one or two tangents of their own before rounding back to the main topic, which is my long winded way of saying I have a habit of being rather long winded ^.^ First I would bring up a beloved childhood show that I looked up recently that had very much lost its Magic and then relate it to something personal from back when I was a child. Then I would talk about Big Bang and Once Upon a Time as well as a few other series I’m watching. But the truth is I’m feeling particularly existential about all of these things. I don’t see how telling you I watched {insert name of show here} when I was a kid is at all enlightening when so many other kids watched the same exact show. The fact that I watched it as well says no more about me then it does about them. Therefore the same can easily be said about anything I like/d in regards to what I watch both now and back then. It’s not that I’m trying to be secretive or unsocial, it’s just that at the moment such information seems to be quite superficial so I don’t see much point in discussing it and for that matter quite possibly boring you as well with such inconsequential ramblings. I apologize if this seems an unconventional reply it’s just that after running into the blath entitled: Chivalry (in blue) And stumbling on to Wiki’s “ List of virtues “ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_virtues ) I couldn’t help but wonder “what the fuck am I doing talking about such banal things as what I watch as if that’s somehow meaningful? Or for that matter bring up my rather boring and uneventful childhood as if its actually somehow interesting?”. Honestly I’m the only one egocentric and narcissistic enough to find such things fascinating and there for think someone else would find them equally so. I’m sure were ever anyone to write a book about my life it would undoubtedly be entitled something like “The Incredibly Boring Biography of a Genuinely Mundane and Self-Centered Person” Which isent meant to be down on myself just blunt truth. Anyway, even though not what I had originally intended to write I still felt honorbound to reply, even if only with some kind of explanation as to why I refused to bore you with my original reply but with this one instead. I do not however expect a reply in return, I can’t even begin to imagine how one could reply to the above mess, so yea no worries on this end about such things. Oh and one last thing I must correct lest it turn into a source of misunderstanding. Earlier when I had said: “And yes having read past things you’ve written I am keenly aware of your Antarctica infatuation when you were younger and yes I have listened to the tracks you listed in antarctica_music *L* “ I was most definitely Not laughing at your fascination with Antarctica, but was in fact highly amused to the point of laughter that you would ever suspect anyone within Blather could somehow remain oblivious to your interest with Antarctica given the frequency in which you speak of it, and I also wanted you to know that I had read (and listened to) the blath antarctica_music (the Vangelis video was absolutely enchanting BTW) but not being the writer/editor you are was unsure of how to express those two very related things at the same time and so that thought/sentence came out a bit jumbled. Truth be told I’ve absolutely no doubt in my mind were you my editor/teacher that there is not a single line in which I’d written that would go unscathed without some kind of correction to it *L* . 141011 ... e_o_i Unconventional is good in a conversation! I wouldn't mind hearing about what shows you like, but if it seems irrelevant, don't write what you don't like. "Daisy, Daisy" reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey. When I first saw it as a teenager, the way the computer's voice faded lower and lower as it sang this, as it was being shut down, seemed quite scary and compelling... In general, I was on the edge of my seat throughout the HAL 9000 plot, whereas my mom, who was watching it with me, was yawning conspicuously and asking when it'd be over. But she kept watching it! It's not as if some people have taste and other people don't have it. People have different tastes. Now that I write that it seems so blindingly obvious. But sometimes people seem to have opinions on what you're supposed to appreciate if you're cultured or something; I'm not supposed to say that George Eliot or Hemingway are boring to me, for example. Or are they? I have a hard time consistently disliking things. At first I was worried about saying this, but I'm not sure you're actually convinced of this enough, so here it is: I'm impressed with how goshdarn intelligent you are. See, that sounds silly - it's complimenting someone for something they can't control, like saying, "You have a beautiful nose"; the recipient will think, Okay, but I didn't DO anything to get a beautiful nose. It just grew that way. Or, more likely, No, my nose isn't beautiful... because people are like that. But the thing is, it wouldn't be obvious to everyone that I was obsessed with Antarctica - even if they'd read me saying it, they'd likely forget - or that I had a librarian for a father; I'm impressed by your powers of recall, and what's more, with your way of visualizing and describing things, plus (and this is the conscious part, the part where it IS you doing something and not just you being something) the range of things you read and think about. I don't mind being laughed at! But what I said just now is honest-to-goodness. About actual movie marathons, I remember being resentful I couldn't go to some things people in my class were doing (wasn't allowed to, for one; wasn't invited, for the other, and I forget which is which): watching the three old Star Wars together and the three (then-newish) Lord of the Rings films together. But to describe these teenage anxieties would also be irrelevant and boring. Wikipedia list of virtues: rather classical bent to it, but I see where the idea of restraint comes in. Self-control in terms of temper has multiple benefits. The others in that section I'm not as sure about... chastity seems an excessive extension of the non-cheating principle, ambition can be good or bad, temperance - well, I drink more water than alcoholic beverages because water's cheaper, and that brings me to thrift, which is okay, I guess, but not really ethically good or bad. Of course, I'm being an ear elephant (irrelevant). I know you weren't putting it down just to say These things are all good! but to give some idea of thought processes and influences. 141014 ... nr thursday was the advance screening of the new trailer_park_boys movie, "standing on the shoulders of kitties." while i saw it because of connections to people involved, i legitimately enjoyed it. stuck home with laryngitis as of yesterday, i decided to google "movies like 'black mirror.' yesterday's was "ex machina," and today's was "don't worry darling." all of the days were scouring related reddit conversations post-watch. 241207 what's it to you? who go blather from