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yay it's
missv day! :D
Today, or now technically yesterday, I was snowed-in. It started out not-so-bad, but the snow picked up just as soon as cabin fever set in, so I ended up spending the whole day sitting around knitting. I made one mitten of Noro Shinano, ABT (All But Thumb), wool and silk in colors similar to a tweedier Kureyon. Started a scarf in Kureyon #40 to match my weird wrap hat, then came to a drastic conclusion: I'm going to unstitch the wrap hat where it's sewn to turn it back into a scarf, and use the remaining balls of yarn to make a new hat... so I pulled out the 3" of scarf that I'd knit. Watched utterly inane Golden Globes preview coverage until I was able to wrest television control from the semi-catatonic parent, after which I watched Amelie on DVD, which I haven't seen in a while, and then the Golden Globes.
OK, first of all - the Golden Globes are utter BS, you know that, right? Good, now that that's out of the way... I was super-happy, first of all, that Return of the King got all its awards. Peter Jackson so deserved the damned things, and so did Howard Shore. I was surprised but also happy that The Office, which is as excruciating as it is funny, cleaned up in the comedy series and tv comedy actor awards. Still want to see Lost in Translation, which did very well in the comedy categories.
I would just like to say right here: The English Patient is one of my favorite movies, and I think Anthony Minghella is a fine director. Nicole Kidman and Jude Law are among my favorite actors, and I would normally go out of my way to see a Minghella/Kidman/Law project. But wild horses ain't gonna drag me to Cold Mountain. It looks like a boring prestige picture, and I feel like I need to see another Civil War movie about as much as I need to grow turnips from my ears. I get the point: "in Appalachia, people may have had to fight for the Confederacy, but a lot of people thought it wasn't their war, because slavery was pretty rare there. But some people who disagreed called themselves The Home Guard and tried to punish people they thought were traitors. Also, most women, especially those of the middle and upper classes, were ill-prepared for subsistence farming with no assistance from young, able-bodied men." (And really, about that last part: HOW much has changed? On a farm, I'd be just as useless as Nicole's character Ada initially is.) Anyway, I'm kind of thinking that Cold Mountain's disappointing showing at the GGs, especially considering the buzz and number of nominations, confirms my desire to wait for it to come on cable next year.
Am indeed going to the Cure release party on Tuesday. Now to decide what is just the right level of "fabulous." Ness.
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Today, or now technically yesterday, I was snowed-in. It started out not-so-bad, but the snow picked up just as soon as cabin fever set in, so I ended up spending the whole day sitting around knitting. I made one mitten of Noro Shinano, ABT (All But Thumb), wool and silk in colors similar to a tweedier Kureyon. Started a scarf in Kureyon #40 to match my weird wrap hat, then came to a drastic conclusion: I'm going to unstitch the wrap hat where it's sewn to turn it back into a scarf, and use the remaining balls of yarn to make a new hat... so I pulled out the 3" of scarf that I'd knit. Watched utterly inane Golden Globes preview coverage until I was able to wrest television control from the semi-catatonic parent, after which I watched Amelie on DVD, which I haven't seen in a while, and then the Golden Globes.
OK, first of all - the Golden Globes are utter BS, you know that, right? Good, now that that's out of the way... I was super-happy, first of all, that Return of the King got all its awards. Peter Jackson so deserved the damned things, and so did Howard Shore. I was surprised but also happy that The Office, which is as excruciating as it is funny, cleaned up in the comedy series and tv comedy actor awards. Still want to see Lost in Translation, which did very well in the comedy categories.
I would just like to say right here: The English Patient is one of my favorite movies, and I think Anthony Minghella is a fine director. Nicole Kidman and Jude Law are among my favorite actors, and I would normally go out of my way to see a Minghella/Kidman/Law project. But wild horses ain't gonna drag me to Cold Mountain. It looks like a boring prestige picture, and I feel like I need to see another Civil War movie about as much as I need to grow turnips from my ears. I get the point: "in Appalachia, people may have had to fight for the Confederacy, but a lot of people thought it wasn't their war, because slavery was pretty rare there. But some people who disagreed called themselves The Home Guard and tried to punish people they thought were traitors. Also, most women, especially those of the middle and upper classes, were ill-prepared for subsistence farming with no assistance from young, able-bodied men." (And really, about that last part: HOW much has changed? On a farm, I'd be just as useless as Nicole's character Ada initially is.) Anyway, I'm kind of thinking that Cold Mountain's disappointing showing at the GGs, especially considering the buzz and number of nominations, confirms my desire to wait for it to come on cable next year.
Am indeed going to the Cure release party on Tuesday. Now to decide what is just the right level of "fabulous." Ness.
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Date: 2004-01-26 06:23 am (UTC)1. They have a new album coming out? yay!
2. Lucky you!
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Date: 2004-01-26 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-26 06:50 am (UTC)~ xo
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Date: 2004-01-26 02:28 pm (UTC)