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cyranoI overextended myself tonight and I'm paying for it. I went to catch the matinee showing of Blade Runner at the Aquarius. To find out that the Aquarius doesn't have Sunday matinees. So I said, screw it, it's only a couple of hours, and I want to go to Borders and pick up a book anyway. I'll just hang out in Palo Alto.
It was too cold and too much standing and walking or sitting somewhere cold and hard. I'm home and doped up now. But the movie is about as amazing as I remembered it, perhaps more because of the big screen effect.
That entire first scene, with Leon and Hunt, knocked me on my ass. The cinematography--at first I wanted to call it 'beautiful' but I'm going to have to go with 'breathtaking'. This film was really seminal for me--it was one of the first science fiction films to present a future I could believe would actually happen.
That was about as far as I got Sunday before I ran entirely out of gas.
And right now words are not my forte. I'm working on 'getting through the day alive'.
I did, however, get to listen to lots of cool music while hanging out at Borders. (Gogol Bordello's new album, the Tossers, Johnette Napolitano... And why didn't anybody tell me that Johnny Marr was working for Modest Mouse now? Also, there's an Evil Dead:The Musical, apparently. The OCR was not available for purchase, however.)
Um. Yeah. That's what you get.
EDIT: Or not. Right now I'm running in a slump. Low energy, no creative focus, more or less subsistence living. It used to be that this would be accompanied by a bleak despair and a sense of eternal pointlessness. So far, this time, I'm just tired. Fingers crossed.
It was too cold and too much standing and walking or sitting somewhere cold and hard. I'm home and doped up now. But the movie is about as amazing as I remembered it, perhaps more because of the big screen effect.
That entire first scene, with Leon and Hunt, knocked me on my ass. The cinematography--at first I wanted to call it 'beautiful' but I'm going to have to go with 'breathtaking'. This film was really seminal for me--it was one of the first science fiction films to present a future I could believe would actually happen.
That was about as far as I got Sunday before I ran entirely out of gas.
And right now words are not my forte. I'm working on 'getting through the day alive'.
I did, however, get to listen to lots of cool music while hanging out at Borders. (Gogol Bordello's new album, the Tossers, Johnette Napolitano... And why didn't anybody tell me that Johnny Marr was working for Modest Mouse now? Also, there's an Evil Dead:The Musical, apparently. The OCR was not available for purchase, however.)
Um. Yeah. That's what you get.
EDIT: Or not. Right now I'm running in a slump. Low energy, no creative focus, more or less subsistence living. It used to be that this would be accompanied by a bleak despair and a sense of eternal pointlessness. So far, this time, I'm just tired. Fingers crossed.
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Date: 2007-12-04 02:46 am (UTC)Also, as an Alaskan, I feel compelled to mock you about "cold" weather. How "cold" was it really in Palo Alto? 45 degrees? Le boo hoo. In Juneau it was 15 degrees with 25-below wind chill and 50 MPH gusts. Bloody cold snaps...=)
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Date: 2007-12-04 05:40 am (UTC)And besides, everybody knows that Juneau is a *dry* cold so there's really no comparison. (:
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Date: 2007-12-04 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-04 07:00 pm (UTC)