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astillarMy brief bout of freedom was very refreshing. Once I got the truck onto the paved highway I stopped worrying about getting caught or having some phenomenal bad luck that would ruin my plans. I got to Fort Mac just in time for the first showing of Inception, though I drove past the theater a few times because it was so small and inconspicuous. Man, I haven’t been to such a rinky-dink theater in a loooong time. But I totally didn’t mind. I was just glad to be there.
Inception was pretty good. Definitely a Christopher Nolan movie. The only way I think it could’ve been better would be if they’d waited a bit longer to release it. “Shutter Island” came out less than six months ago; another movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a man lost between reality and fantasy while tormented about his insane dead wife? There’s enough similarity between the two films to diminish the novelty of the latter. In fact, my first thought after watching Shutter Island was, “It’s a lot like Memento.” I would’ve preferred to have seen the dream worlds presented in a more amorphous manner, but I guess they didn’t do that because it might’ve changed the nature of the movie too much.
I might actually like SI more than Inception. I’ll probably watch it again, partly so I can decipher some of Ken Watanabe’s garbled lines. I really liked seeing the zero-G combat, especially since I’d just recently re-read similar scenes from Gunnm while doing my meme. I was all, “Wow, so THAT’s what it looks like in motion. Cool! These guys are good!” I think if I see (whatshisface) in one more movie, I’ll finally be able to stop seeing him as just ‘that kid from “Third Rock from the Sun”.’
Once I was out of the movie I really wanted to spend the whole day in town, as much time as I possibly could in civilization and away from camp. But by that point I’d been awake for 24 hours and I was fading fast, despite the movie theater BladderBurster of soda I’d had. I went to the town’s sad little Wal-Mart (instead of the CANADIAN TIRE). After that bit of shopping I went straight back to camp and crashed. Well, I tried. As tired as I was, somehow I could not fall asleep. I think I had too much residual caffeine in my system and I only got 3 hours of sleep last night. Three hours of sleep out of 48. I’m a zombie today.
From this point on I have no idea what my schedule’s going to be like. I’ve sailed beyond the edge of the map/calendar; everything here is in limbo. All they can tell me is that I’ll be getting a break some time in August and the new end-date is looking to be October. I can be okay with that, I guess. Two, two and a half months to go. It’s curious, how much lighter the burden of this job becomes, once I have some semblance of a goal in sight. And it’s a good thing I requested my Dragon*Con vacation as early as I did. Now it can be the anchor around which they arrange my schedule.
I'm feeling brain-dead right now so I'm kinda phoning this one in.
9. Character you'd bring home to your parents
Kimji, because he's probably the only 'character' that wouldn't kill someone or destroy the place. He doesn't talk much either. He's just a little poof ball that sits there and watches stuff and occasionally flies around. He's a surveillance drone for the terrestrial government. Go figure. For the longest time I thought he was some sort of alien life form.
Inception was pretty good. Definitely a Christopher Nolan movie. The only way I think it could’ve been better would be if they’d waited a bit longer to release it. “Shutter Island” came out less than six months ago; another movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a man lost between reality and fantasy while tormented about his insane dead wife? There’s enough similarity between the two films to diminish the novelty of the latter. In fact, my first thought after watching Shutter Island was, “It’s a lot like Memento.” I would’ve preferred to have seen the dream worlds presented in a more amorphous manner, but I guess they didn’t do that because it might’ve changed the nature of the movie too much.
I might actually like SI more than Inception. I’ll probably watch it again, partly so I can decipher some of Ken Watanabe’s garbled lines. I really liked seeing the zero-G combat, especially since I’d just recently re-read similar scenes from Gunnm while doing my meme. I was all, “Wow, so THAT’s what it looks like in motion. Cool! These guys are good!” I think if I see (whatshisface) in one more movie, I’ll finally be able to stop seeing him as just ‘that kid from “Third Rock from the Sun”.’
Once I was out of the movie I really wanted to spend the whole day in town, as much time as I possibly could in civilization and away from camp. But by that point I’d been awake for 24 hours and I was fading fast, despite the movie theater BladderBurster of soda I’d had. I went to the town’s sad little Wal-Mart (instead of the CANADIAN TIRE). After that bit of shopping I went straight back to camp and crashed. Well, I tried. As tired as I was, somehow I could not fall asleep. I think I had too much residual caffeine in my system and I only got 3 hours of sleep last night. Three hours of sleep out of 48. I’m a zombie today.
From this point on I have no idea what my schedule’s going to be like. I’ve sailed beyond the edge of the map/calendar; everything here is in limbo. All they can tell me is that I’ll be getting a break some time in August and the new end-date is looking to be October. I can be okay with that, I guess. Two, two and a half months to go. It’s curious, how much lighter the burden of this job becomes, once I have some semblance of a goal in sight. And it’s a good thing I requested my Dragon*Con vacation as early as I did. Now it can be the anchor around which they arrange my schedule.
I'm feeling brain-dead right now so I'm kinda phoning this one in.
9. Character you'd bring home to your parents
Kimji, because he's probably the only 'character' that wouldn't kill someone or destroy the place. He doesn't talk much either. He's just a little poof ball that sits there and watches stuff and occasionally flies around. He's a surveillance drone for the terrestrial government. Go figure. For the longest time I thought he was some sort of alien life form.
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Date: 2010-07-26 03:22 pm (UTC)I hate it when they do that with movies. I felt like they did that a little while back with Will Smith and Pursuit of Happiness followed by a bunch of other Will Smith movies. I love that man and even I was like, "enough!"
I loved Shutter Island but I didn't care for Memento too much. It was too gritty and realistic for me to enjoy as much I guess.