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skywaterblue) wrote2009-07-15 08:20 pm
skywaterblue) wrote2009-07-15 08:20 pm
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My dad had a drug test for a job at City Center; cross your fingers, it would help out ENORMOUSLY and make all the difference in the world, especially about our health insurance for my mom.
I lost my job. There were only eight days left, and I'm glad to see the backside of it because I knew I wasn't making my goal and so I spent the last week there constantly cringing in fear of the axe. Still don't get paid until the 24th - planning on using it for school. Can't believe this, but I owe CSN a 160 bucks, so I hope I made enough to cover this next semester.
Also, I'm running out of pens. I might put some of the earlier Boccaccio illustrations on Etsy, but I doubt anyone will buy them. :(
Because I lost the job, I have no idea when the internet will get turned back on at my house, and the neighbors seem to have gotten sick of us and locked the network down. I'm at the library right now.
I posted the first of two or three Amazon illustrations.
Here's some stuff I liked:
Now Let Us Praise Awesome Dinosaurs: this is like the story of dinosaurs from my dreams. It's about dinosaurs from Mars who move back to earth, an earth where dinosaurs do gutterpunk things like race cars and fight in youtube videos. Really, truly awesome dinosaurs.
This article on horse puppets in "Warhorse": anyone else think that puppetry for the stage is the place to be lately? This is really amazing.
I also saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Here are my thoughts:
Before I went, I read the Ebert review, which was fairly glowing for such a film. He's right on the money too - the highlight of this film for me, was the brief five minutes at the start of the film. It opens with Harry Potter, chosen one, in a tube cafe. He's reading the Wizard news, but the pictures don't move - indeed, the pictures hardly move at all in the background of this one. The waitress is a cute black girl, a little older than him, but clearly interested. She tells him she's getting off at eleven. Harry's totally going to go, except Dumbledore interupptus.
The problem with me, and Harry Potter is that: I WANT TO WATCH THAT MOVIE INSTEAD. The one where Harry Potter tells Dumbledore to fuck off, goes with the waitress and learns that her name is Amala, she's waitressing to pay her way through school, she wants to be a lawyer. They meet up and move into the flat together, with Amala's roommate who deals on the side until she gets busted and then he does a bad thing and magics her way out of it...
...except no, we have to go with Dumbledore to the Wizarding world, with its exceedingly dull middle-class British enclosed world and petty dictators. No one goes to a different school in Wizarding Britain, no one ever decides to fuck off and move to the States or South Africa or Australia (even though there surely are wizards there too, aren't there?)
Do American wizards cower in fear of Voldemort's name? Do the French or German wizards from the last film? If so, why? It doesn't seem like the ten upper-class British wizarding families who run with the Death Eaters have much scope?
And what of the muggles that do know about wizardry? Don't they ever get jealous and frustrated that people who can heal broken bones in hours with magic juice aren't say, sharing that shit? Because it certainly seems like no one goes hungry unless it's by choice in that world. The wizards of Hogwarts seem to spend their days devising new ways for small scale magics, but they don't operate cars. Do wizards care about global warming? Do they even know it's happening?
What I'm saying is that I never bought the Wizarding world in the books and I especially don't buy the threat of Voldemort. It's literally a gang of about a dozen people, dealing with the concerns about a small village. By including that scene at the top, it did nothing but remind me for the rest of the picture that we're expected to care about what happens with this ludicrous threat in this fake world.
Harry should leave them to rot and go into the wider world. Go West, young man.
Other than that, liked the movie at least as much as I like anything Harry Potter.
I lost my job. There were only eight days left, and I'm glad to see the backside of it because I knew I wasn't making my goal and so I spent the last week there constantly cringing in fear of the axe. Still don't get paid until the 24th - planning on using it for school. Can't believe this, but I owe CSN a 160 bucks, so I hope I made enough to cover this next semester.
Also, I'm running out of pens. I might put some of the earlier Boccaccio illustrations on Etsy, but I doubt anyone will buy them. :(
Because I lost the job, I have no idea when the internet will get turned back on at my house, and the neighbors seem to have gotten sick of us and locked the network down. I'm at the library right now.
I posted the first of two or three Amazon illustrations.
Here's some stuff I liked:
Now Let Us Praise Awesome Dinosaurs: this is like the story of dinosaurs from my dreams. It's about dinosaurs from Mars who move back to earth, an earth where dinosaurs do gutterpunk things like race cars and fight in youtube videos. Really, truly awesome dinosaurs.
This article on horse puppets in "Warhorse": anyone else think that puppetry for the stage is the place to be lately? This is really amazing.
I also saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Here are my thoughts:
Before I went, I read the Ebert review, which was fairly glowing for such a film. He's right on the money too - the highlight of this film for me, was the brief five minutes at the start of the film. It opens with Harry Potter, chosen one, in a tube cafe. He's reading the Wizard news, but the pictures don't move - indeed, the pictures hardly move at all in the background of this one. The waitress is a cute black girl, a little older than him, but clearly interested. She tells him she's getting off at eleven. Harry's totally going to go, except Dumbledore interupptus.
The problem with me, and Harry Potter is that: I WANT TO WATCH THAT MOVIE INSTEAD. The one where Harry Potter tells Dumbledore to fuck off, goes with the waitress and learns that her name is Amala, she's waitressing to pay her way through school, she wants to be a lawyer. They meet up and move into the flat together, with Amala's roommate who deals on the side until she gets busted and then he does a bad thing and magics her way out of it...
...except no, we have to go with Dumbledore to the Wizarding world, with its exceedingly dull middle-class British enclosed world and petty dictators. No one goes to a different school in Wizarding Britain, no one ever decides to fuck off and move to the States or South Africa or Australia (even though there surely are wizards there too, aren't there?)
Do American wizards cower in fear of Voldemort's name? Do the French or German wizards from the last film? If so, why? It doesn't seem like the ten upper-class British wizarding families who run with the Death Eaters have much scope?
And what of the muggles that do know about wizardry? Don't they ever get jealous and frustrated that people who can heal broken bones in hours with magic juice aren't say, sharing that shit? Because it certainly seems like no one goes hungry unless it's by choice in that world. The wizards of Hogwarts seem to spend their days devising new ways for small scale magics, but they don't operate cars. Do wizards care about global warming? Do they even know it's happening?
What I'm saying is that I never bought the Wizarding world in the books and I especially don't buy the threat of Voldemort. It's literally a gang of about a dozen people, dealing with the concerns about a small village. By including that scene at the top, it did nothing but remind me for the rest of the picture that we're expected to care about what happens with this ludicrous threat in this fake world.
Harry should leave them to rot and go into the wider world. Go West, young man.
Other than that, liked the movie at least as much as I like anything Harry Potter.