Five things for a Tuesday
Nov. 11th, 2014 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bironic1. I made a (Festi)vidlet today! That feels good. Then moved on to actual assignment and got a few short segments of clips laid down. I'm starting with the easy one(s), lest the process and/or daunting editing job scare away whatever oomph has come back. It took a few tries to remember how to even get clips from the preview window onto the timeline in Premiere.
2. Reserving judgment until the end, but to my surprise, halfway through, I am mostly enjoying the new Anne Rice book. It helps immensely that it's a sequel to The Queen of the Damned, the last good one IMO. Even though new characters and characters from the books in between are in it, like Benji and Thorne and some ghosts and Talamascans and stuff, the events concern what happened in QotD and the ancient history outlined therein. It's kinda fun. As long as the Voice doesn't turn out to be divine.
2a. This brick of a library hardcover has actually become a good conversation starter. The hairdresser griped with me about the QotD movie while he set me up under the dryer yesterday. (p.s. Annual haircut achieved! It's short and side-parted and I think I just have to keep fluffing it until it relearns how to behave.) A neighbor told me that his wife liked the first few back in the day. A couple of people at work said they preferred the Mayfair series. Etc.
3. Is it possible to approach a movie with low expectations and high hopes at the same time? That is how I felt going into Interstellar. It turned out there was no need to worry. None of that paced-too-fast-so-you-don't-realize-it-makes-no-sense-until-afterwards stuff Christopher Nolan perfected in Inception and Memento; none of the woo-woo cosmic mysticism I was afraid we'd get in the second half of the narrative; no stupid "gotcha" ending; just a nice, leisurely, engaging, character-/family-driven science fiction movie with some good action scenes. Many homages to SF movies across the decades, not least 2001: A Space Odyssey all the way up through Gravity. (Does Field of Dreams count? Magical realism, I guess.) Feminist messages, some subtler than others. Scenes that bring the beauty and awe of space and time to life in fresh ways. And a new top ten favorite robot. Did it have flaws? Yes. But oh, it was just so well made and enjoyable. So much so that it didn't bother me that some parts were less sciencey and more speculative, or that I saw the "twists" coming. Just goes to show that having a good story (and Kip Thorne as a consultant, ha) matters most. The rest of the day, my mom and I were all *happy sigh*.
4. Then I showed her Star Trek: Into Darkness and commiserated as she whimpered at the utter destruction of all she holds dear in TOS. She did like Karl Urban's McCoy, and despite her protest at Scotty becoming the comic relief she laughed at him calling Kirk "mad bastard."
5. A story came to me out of the blue yesterday morning before I got out of bed. Aliens and size differentials and erotica and maybe entirely OCs. IDEK. We'll see if it gets written down.
Back to work tomorrow. Possibly with vid song still stuck in my head.
2. Reserving judgment until the end, but to my surprise, halfway through, I am mostly enjoying the new Anne Rice book. It helps immensely that it's a sequel to The Queen of the Damned, the last good one IMO. Even though new characters and characters from the books in between are in it, like Benji and Thorne and some ghosts and Talamascans and stuff, the events concern what happened in QotD and the ancient history outlined therein. It's kinda fun. As long as the Voice doesn't turn out to be divine.
2a. This brick of a library hardcover has actually become a good conversation starter. The hairdresser griped with me about the QotD movie while he set me up under the dryer yesterday. (p.s. Annual haircut achieved! It's short and side-parted and I think I just have to keep fluffing it until it relearns how to behave.) A neighbor told me that his wife liked the first few back in the day. A couple of people at work said they preferred the Mayfair series. Etc.
3. Is it possible to approach a movie with low expectations and high hopes at the same time? That is how I felt going into Interstellar. It turned out there was no need to worry. None of that paced-too-fast-so-you-don't-realize-it-makes-no-sense-until-afterwards stuff Christopher Nolan perfected in Inception and Memento; none of the woo-woo cosmic mysticism I was afraid we'd get in the second half of the narrative; no stupid "gotcha" ending; just a nice, leisurely, engaging, character-/family-driven science fiction movie with some good action scenes. Many homages to SF movies across the decades, not least 2001: A Space Odyssey all the way up through Gravity. (Does Field of Dreams count? Magical realism, I guess.) Feminist messages, some subtler than others. Scenes that bring the beauty and awe of space and time to life in fresh ways. And a new top ten favorite robot. Did it have flaws? Yes. But oh, it was just so well made and enjoyable. So much so that it didn't bother me that some parts were less sciencey and more speculative, or that I saw the "twists" coming. Just goes to show that having a good story (and Kip Thorne as a consultant, ha) matters most. The rest of the day, my mom and I were all *happy sigh*.
4. Then I showed her Star Trek: Into Darkness and commiserated as she whimpered at the utter destruction of all she holds dear in TOS. She did like Karl Urban's McCoy, and despite her protest at Scotty becoming the comic relief she laughed at him calling Kirk "mad bastard."
5. A story came to me out of the blue yesterday morning before I got out of bed. Aliens and size differentials and erotica and maybe entirely OCs. IDEK. We'll see if it gets written down.
Back to work tomorrow. Possibly with vid song still stuck in my head.
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