2002: A Hat Odyssey
Oct. 11th, 2002 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbminxBecause I have a burning desire to drive myself insane, I ripped out the Noro hat thingie I was working on (in the 2x2 rib) and started it over in a different stitch. The rib was just pulling in too much, and I was afraid it wouldn't work for the hat construction. I had only done like 8" out of the 37" strip I need to do, so it was no problem. I am about half as far along again as I was when I pulled it out. The new stitch is firmer, but I don't remember what it's called - it's basically moss stitch except instead of alternating (K/P) every stitch you alternate every two stitches and do the opposite on the next row. Broken Moss Stitch? something like that. sorry, the book I'd look it up in is in my mom's room, and she's asleep.
While I was doing this I watched 2001, which I've never sat through before. The ape bit at the beginning usually bores me into watching something (ANYTHING) else. But this time I persevered and was pleasantly rewarded... the movie does pick up after the ape bit. But... but... I don't get it. I mean, I understood and enjoyed what was going on until Hal was disconnected, but the rest of it (the Giant Fetus In Space, the monolith, the Weird Room With Various Daves In It) didn't make much sense to me at all. Other than that, I dug it (one more notch in the Kubrick Fan Belt). I have to stand by my conviction that it's a Boy Movie - the only women are the Russian scientist, the flight attendants, Floyd's Daughter, and Frank's Mom, and it's sci-fi, for crying out loud - those are the hallmarks of a Boy Movie. :)
While I was doing this I watched 2001, which I've never sat through before. The ape bit at the beginning usually bores me into watching something (ANYTHING) else. But this time I persevered and was pleasantly rewarded... the movie does pick up after the ape bit. But... but... I don't get it. I mean, I understood and enjoyed what was going on until Hal was disconnected, but the rest of it (the Giant Fetus In Space, the monolith, the Weird Room With Various Daves In It) didn't make much sense to me at all. Other than that, I dug it (one more notch in the Kubrick Fan Belt). I have to stand by my conviction that it's a Boy Movie - the only women are the Russian scientist, the flight attendants, Floyd's Daughter, and Frank's Mom, and it's sci-fi, for crying out loud - those are the hallmarks of a Boy Movie. :)
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Date: 2002-10-11 07:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-11 07:43 am (UTC)i do like fantasy, some of it, but a lot of it i just feel like i've outgrown, or like there are things of better quality with similar elements that i could be reading, that are outside the genre ghetto. it was frustrating when i was friendly with that guy in OH because he read a ton of fantasy and every book he recommended to me was something i'd read when i was 17ish.
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Date: 2002-10-11 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-11 12:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-11 10:34 am (UTC)As for the whole SF is for boys thing, I think that is generally true. For an amazing crossover, I recommend Galaxy Express 999 by Leiji Matsumoto. It's the manga space adventure series (later made into a bunch of anime shows and movies) that features Captain Harlock. I've always loved it, and in reading the intro to the reissued volumes, it says that Matsumoto is considered the father of a genre called "men's romance" which is basically SF/adventure told from the point of view of sensitive/intuitive characters. Really, quite an amazing series.
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Date: 2002-10-11 10:43 am (UTC)(i have to make the base banal comments when these things come up... ;)
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Date: 2002-10-11 11:26 am (UTC)