I'm sure that we could find some common ground

[cyrano]

Feeling just generally not well, but probably better than yesterday.
Lots of friends over, and it never felt so crowded that I needed to flee the house. Miss Friday came over and we talked and sat and hugged and I cut her a couple of mix discs (playlists to follow). My lovely housemate picked up the mashed potato ball for me where I'd dropped it, and our entire sixteen-member potluck went more or less hitchless. The food was lovely and I had way too much which probably contributes to how I feel.
Harry Potter was yesterday, and it was very pretty to look at. I was amused by the other-movie references (Return of the Jedi, The Birds, and I don't know if Harry slept in the ashes like a forlorn Cinderella in the book or not...) Stuff was trimmed from the book, which meant that there was less of the cartoony kitten-eating bad guy aren't Muggles stupid stuff that annoyed me so much from the book, so that was good too. Some nice casting.
(Later added entry: One of my first thoughts on the movie was 'My God, that kid looks like Ray!' I wonder if he's glad that only a couple of people near him now remember him from that far back, as he is far cuter now.)
And I loved the preview for Monsters Inc (the charades one, to avoid spoilers), and the Episode Two trailer actually granted me with a mild interest in seeing the movie, although I still think Attack of the Clones is a goofy name, and I laughed out loud at "Annie" riding his 750cc HoverHarley across the Tattooine desert like a space-opera Marlon Brando looking for the rest of the Wild Ones.

Common Ground
The Future's So Bright -- Timbuk3
Chorus -- Erasure
Basket Case -- Moog Cookbook (Green Day)
Asshole -- Dennis Leary
She Has a Girlfriend Now -- Reel Big Fish w/Gwen Stefani
Hateful -- No Doubt
Psycho Drift -- Shriekback
Message in a Bottle -- The Police
Dedicated Follower of Fashion -- The Kinks
Dog Pound Hop -- John Krikfalusi (Ren + Stimpy)
Lust For Life -- Tom Jones and the Pretenders (Iggy Pop)
You Need Love Like I Do -- Tom Jones and Heather Small (Temptations)
Sexuality -- Billy Bragg
Place in the Country -- Adam Ant
Could You Be the One -- Husker Du

Matter of Fact
Stormbringer/Jack Frost -- Heather Alexander
Sviraj (Lullaby) -- Aria
Piano Song -- Erasure
Dreams -- Cranberries
Willow -- Aria
Walking After You -- Foo Fighters
Exquisite Corpse -- Shriekback
Can't Stand Losing You -- The Police
Can't Take My Eyes Off of You -- Morten Harket
Marching Song -- Billy Bragg
Work is a Four-Letter Word -- The Smiths

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[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

And the end rankled about as much as it did in the book.
I have issues with incompetent authority figures who, at the last moment, waggle their eyebrows and say 'Hurm. These rules I've made don't do what I want them to at all. I shall have to discard them momentarily so I can get the results I wanted.' Kind of like my problem with some of Xianity's versions of JHVH.