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May. 16th, 2005 04:29 pmFirst of all: happy birthday to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elgorgo! Welcome to the land of 29!
Well, I just took off my adhesive moustache for a shower, and my split lip seems to be healing up OK. The seam is formed, it doesn't seem to want to resplit if I move my mouth around. I'm going to keep it covered-and-butterflied another day or two and then let it breathe the free air of Spring. As it were.
(For those of you not in the loop, my dog freaked out over some food on Saturday night and bit me, or rather smacked into my face in the middle of a bark, and cut my upper lip pretty much right down the center both above and below the lipline.)
Spent the weekend mostly watching Freaks and Geeks with Tom; we are now more than halfway through the series. The last episode we watched was the one where Neil rides around with a garage door opener to establish whether or not his dad is having an affair.
I also watched Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. It has pretty animation, a lot of CGI, but the story is kind of confusing in parts. COnfusing in the same way that Lain can be in its second half - lots of VR-looping, questions about the motivating factors of the events portrayed, etc. Innocence could either have been shorter, cutting shots and sequences that are pretty but have little to do with the story, or longer, actually giving the story more detail and weight. Overall I think I may actually like Stand Alone Complex best of the GITS onscreen oeuvre.
At some point today I should head to the library; the aforementioned DVDs are due. I'll be picking up The Village for my mom, although I'm not really into seeing it. (What a cheap, predictable gimmick!)
And hey, if you care: The Adventures of Pete and Pete is out on DVD tomorrow!
Apparently this post is mostly DVD news. Does anyone really want to hear about how I read today that the Royal Forests in England were originally founded not so that "only the king and his men could kill deer" (what they later became) but because, supposedly, the king who founded them - William the Conqueror - didn't want any deer killed? So sayeth Danziger's 1215. Not to be taken without the prerequisite salt grain, but something for the curious to look into.
elgorgo! Welcome to the land of 29!Well, I just took off my adhesive moustache for a shower, and my split lip seems to be healing up OK. The seam is formed, it doesn't seem to want to resplit if I move my mouth around. I'm going to keep it covered-and-butterflied another day or two and then let it breathe the free air of Spring. As it were.
(For those of you not in the loop, my dog freaked out over some food on Saturday night and bit me, or rather smacked into my face in the middle of a bark, and cut my upper lip pretty much right down the center both above and below the lipline.)
Spent the weekend mostly watching Freaks and Geeks with Tom; we are now more than halfway through the series. The last episode we watched was the one where Neil rides around with a garage door opener to establish whether or not his dad is having an affair.
I also watched Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. It has pretty animation, a lot of CGI, but the story is kind of confusing in parts. COnfusing in the same way that Lain can be in its second half - lots of VR-looping, questions about the motivating factors of the events portrayed, etc. Innocence could either have been shorter, cutting shots and sequences that are pretty but have little to do with the story, or longer, actually giving the story more detail and weight. Overall I think I may actually like Stand Alone Complex best of the GITS onscreen oeuvre.
At some point today I should head to the library; the aforementioned DVDs are due. I'll be picking up The Village for my mom, although I'm not really into seeing it. (What a cheap, predictable gimmick!)
And hey, if you care: The Adventures of Pete and Pete is out on DVD tomorrow!
Apparently this post is mostly DVD news. Does anyone really want to hear about how I read today that the Royal Forests in England were originally founded not so that "only the king and his men could kill deer" (what they later became) but because, supposedly, the king who founded them - William the Conqueror - didn't want any deer killed? So sayeth Danziger's 1215. Not to be taken without the prerequisite salt grain, but something for the curious to look into.
