lemmings of the world unite
Mar. 15th, 2004 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charloweenI've been remiss in posting. (I'm also fuzzy about the proper use of "remiss" and I'm too lazy to look up spelling/if it's a verb... but verbing is fun). I blame the Business Writing module just ended for turning my brian to mush and sapping my will to live. It's probably the easiest class I'll encounter (save Computer Fundamentals, where the hardest concept was clicking the little plus-sign thing and expanding the folder) but I'll probably get the worst mark of my program in that module because I stopped paying attention. Fucking memos.
But the weekend was fun, and so was last weekend. Last weekend was laser tag: I played as "lemming" and the games lasted until 5 am. In the past week Reed and I saw an inventive production of Les Miz at Austin. Catholic school = the entire play is about how great God is. Er? I thought it was about a bitter ex-con who learned how to be a human. The kids could have used another month or so of rehersal and the Valjean looked like Spike from Buffy. Creepily like Spike. We went because Reed's friend-from-work Anne was playing the Thenardiesse. She was really good: probably the only person on the stage who not only didn't drop character but was acting in the first place. Master of the House was by far the best song in the piece... but we left after the first act. To stay for the rest would have been self-torture.
Friday I had an exam. I think I didn't do so well because I was brain-dead. We had to write a sales letter and mine was for A-1 Maxi-Fun brand cellos that Will Change Your Life and was it ended up 3 pages long. I found it funny, at least. You, yes YOU could get 3 FREE lesson vouchers with the world-renouned Mrs. Flagerbuster, a local cello teacher. See, hi-larious.
The rest of Friday was better. I met up with my sister and we went to dinner at a really neat place in the downtown (we ate alligator... fear me). We're both big Johnny Depp fans - must be genetic - so we went to see Secret Window. It was okay, but nothing new plotwise and the way the ending was put together was positivly painful. It would have been a horrible movie if it wasn't for Johnny Depp's acting. He's good, the film was okay, but the ending was a disappointment. They made it cheesy, whereas they could have made it way better if they kept it dark.
On Saturday I met the infamous Colin, ex-wild man (living in the jungles of Guyana, diving for gems) who is currently a master plumber. Interesting person number 314. His kid was really cute... 2 yrs old, speaking some weird form of Chinese for all I could make out. His dad is South African, his mother is British, both have their own sets of slang and accents PLUS the Canadian versions that he learns outside the house... No wonder the kid is confused.
Still on Saturday: work. Work was work, work was boring. I'm not learning anything, 7.65/hr is okay but not for the hours I'm getting. Then I went to Grant's and we watched TV and watched him play AvP. Cute little aliens.
Sunday... happened. I read Essential X-Men vol 3 cover to cover as well as a Robert J Sawyer novel about seeing the future/predestination. Interesting thing about it was that the novel was written in 1998/9, set in 2009 and the point of the book is that everyone on Earth saw 2 minutes of 2030. (whew) Even though it's set in Switzerland, he has characters go to Vancouver and Toronto ('cause he's Canadian), and while in Canada, the characters go to Chapters and Indigo. Funny thing is, the two stores merged in between the time the book was written and the near-future it was set in. Interesting in a book all about fate and predestination and the World of the Future.
Then my parents wanted to watch the curling final. I made popcorn, went downstairs and watched X-Men. In the comics that I've been reading they always make a point about Wolverine being Canadian, ie having him drink Molson Export. In the bar at the beginning of the movie he orders a beer, and that's what is delivered. I've never noticed that before. Something else I've never noticed: Magneto to Sen. Kelly as M enters K's cell: "how are you feeling? advanced, I hope" I don't know what I heard before, but I never picked up on the 'advanced' part. Made me laugh.
Then I picked up my brother from work.
I don't have March Break this week, so I'm in class right now, not doing work (done already). Spiffy.
But the weekend was fun, and so was last weekend. Last weekend was laser tag: I played as "lemming" and the games lasted until 5 am. In the past week Reed and I saw an inventive production of Les Miz at Austin. Catholic school = the entire play is about how great God is. Er? I thought it was about a bitter ex-con who learned how to be a human. The kids could have used another month or so of rehersal and the Valjean looked like Spike from Buffy. Creepily like Spike. We went because Reed's friend-from-work Anne was playing the Thenardiesse. She was really good: probably the only person on the stage who not only didn't drop character but was acting in the first place. Master of the House was by far the best song in the piece... but we left after the first act. To stay for the rest would have been self-torture.
Friday I had an exam. I think I didn't do so well because I was brain-dead. We had to write a sales letter and mine was for A-1 Maxi-Fun brand cellos that Will Change Your Life and was it ended up 3 pages long. I found it funny, at least. You, yes YOU could get 3 FREE lesson vouchers with the world-renouned Mrs. Flagerbuster, a local cello teacher. See, hi-larious.
The rest of Friday was better. I met up with my sister and we went to dinner at a really neat place in the downtown (we ate alligator... fear me). We're both big Johnny Depp fans - must be genetic - so we went to see Secret Window. It was okay, but nothing new plotwise and the way the ending was put together was positivly painful. It would have been a horrible movie if it wasn't for Johnny Depp's acting. He's good, the film was okay, but the ending was a disappointment. They made it cheesy, whereas they could have made it way better if they kept it dark.
On Saturday I met the infamous Colin, ex-wild man (living in the jungles of Guyana, diving for gems) who is currently a master plumber. Interesting person number 314. His kid was really cute... 2 yrs old, speaking some weird form of Chinese for all I could make out. His dad is South African, his mother is British, both have their own sets of slang and accents PLUS the Canadian versions that he learns outside the house... No wonder the kid is confused.
Still on Saturday: work. Work was work, work was boring. I'm not learning anything, 7.65/hr is okay but not for the hours I'm getting. Then I went to Grant's and we watched TV and watched him play AvP. Cute little aliens.
Sunday... happened. I read Essential X-Men vol 3 cover to cover as well as a Robert J Sawyer novel about seeing the future/predestination. Interesting thing about it was that the novel was written in 1998/9, set in 2009 and the point of the book is that everyone on Earth saw 2 minutes of 2030. (whew) Even though it's set in Switzerland, he has characters go to Vancouver and Toronto ('cause he's Canadian), and while in Canada, the characters go to Chapters and Indigo. Funny thing is, the two stores merged in between the time the book was written and the near-future it was set in. Interesting in a book all about fate and predestination and the World of the Future.
Then my parents wanted to watch the curling final. I made popcorn, went downstairs and watched X-Men. In the comics that I've been reading they always make a point about Wolverine being Canadian, ie having him drink Molson Export. In the bar at the beginning of the movie he orders a beer, and that's what is delivered. I've never noticed that before. Something else I've never noticed: Magneto to Sen. Kelly as M enters K's cell: "how are you feeling? advanced, I hope" I don't know what I heard before, but I never picked up on the 'advanced' part. Made me laugh.
Then I picked up my brother from work.
I don't have March Break this week, so I'm in class right now, not doing work (done already). Spiffy.
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Date: 2004-03-15 12:36 pm (UTC)explain
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Date: 2004-03-16 05:41 am (UTC)The kids in this musical only acted when they were speaking, if we were lucky. The rest of the time they just stood there however the director told them, with no consideration for staying in character... or even understanding the character beyond the lines they've been given. The absolute hardest part of acting isn't acting in character, it's reacting in character, reacting to what the other actors are saying and doing in the way that your character would.
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Date: 2004-03-16 05:42 am (UTC)