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[cyrano]

I 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.

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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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[xleste.livejournal.com]

Just popping on to give you hugs and a vote of encouragement. :) No despair and eternal pointlessness! I'm glad you're in this world. :)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yay for hugs. (:
And yay for your office, and your new digs!

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Ridley Scott is one of my favorite directors and I have many of his movies, and Philip K. Dick is one of my favorite sci-fi authors - so the combination was bound to be a winner. Blade Runner is one of my favorite films, and I'm discovering the same is true for many of my good friends.

I'm reminded of a Texan expression; "Water finds its own level." (It can be taken either way, depending on the subject matter.)

[mostuff.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Less than 4 weeks.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

I feel that I should mention that you may have cost me $80 with this blog entry - after reading it to Brian, who loves Blade Runner, he went to look up if the original theatrical film was going to be released on HD-DVD anytime soon. Not only will it be released in HD, there will be an "Ultimate Collector's Edition" packaged in a Deckard briefcase with five different cuts and numerous special features and collectors' items, which of course he now wants for Christmas, since he's a nut about special edition games and movies that come in nifty cases and things. We'll see what Santa has to say.

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...=)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I am a bad bad man.
And besides, everybody knows that Juneau is a *dry* cold so there's really no comparison. (:

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

"Dry" cold. Riiiiiiight. And this accounts for the fact that we're in the middle of a RAIN FOREST how? =D

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Is it *raining* now? No? I didn't think so. q:

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

Subsistence, that's a good word for it. The only place I'm getting anything done, anymore, is on WoW, which isn't great. At least I folded last week's laundry last night, as well as ran a new batch and folded that, too. Big accomplishment for a week, although I can blame some of it on this awful cold, I suppose.

*hug* Hang in there. I won't say, "I'll get better," because I'm not always finding that myself, but it usually seems to, all the same.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Every time it's happened so far, it's gotten better.
And you're a load of laundry more folded than me. (: Mine's still sitting in the dryer. Or piled beside my bed, I'm not certain which.
Love you, sweetie. *hugs*