I love getting to be a regular at take-out places. In New York, the guy at the eatery across from class would give me half-price on sandwiches and now, Tarik at Bitar’s gives me free mini-desserts. Life is good.
Dear Disney,
You cannot fathom my wrath. This project will be dropped immediately. You are not cool and we are not pleased and this is the evidence. Get your act together and don’t mess with my favourite book.
(Unless, of course, you throw us a complete curve ball and actually manage to produce an enjoyable film. You gave us PotC after all, though that was entirely due to the Midas touch of Johnny Depp.)
Wrathfully,
Priscilla
Renata! Neil linked to you again! (Also, this is the entry that has the thing about Johnny. Come back to us, Terry Gilliam!)
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Tanja’s going to be able to come to America this summer! You’re welcome to crash in Dallas at any time, my loffie. And hmm, come to think of it, I’d love to go to Alaska and meet Rebecca, too…
*gurgles*
Just found out from Heidi, who found out from Neil’s blog, that before the Good Omens movie was put on hold, Johnny Depp was set to play Crowley. How perfect is that casting? Guh, I feel weak in the knees. Can you just imagine him calling Aziraphale “angel”?
Humminahummina.
Whee! I got laughed at by total strangers today!
Well, classmates, but people I didn’t know, nonetheless. I suppose it all starts with laundry.
I had gone far too long without doing laundry. Because it’s very difficult to get a washing machine in the evening or over the weekend, I decided to wash my clothese while I was in class today. Unfortunately, my only pair of non-superformal pants that I hadn’t worn were my stripey Nightcrawler pants, so I decided to wear those to class while my jeans were in the wash. I should have known the effect they would have on me! I’ve found that while wearing them, they magnify my natural dorkiness quotient 400%, which is always dangerous. Alas.
We were having a quasi-review session in my Communications class, as the teacher had to be somewhere else, so the TAs were going over old material and covering some things we hadn’t yet touched on. One of these was focal length and lenses in film and photography. However, when talking about the “flattening” effect of long lenses, it was obvious to me that many of the students (and in fact, the TA as well) didn’t understand the concept. So I piped up with an example of wide angle and long lens used in tandem, Hitchcock’s Vertigo, and described the effect achieved by zooming out and moving the camera towards the subject at the same time, keeping composition the same but changing focal length. But with every word I said, I could feel the class thinking “What the…?”, so I wrapped up quickly and retreated into my coat, like a turtle. The whole class laughed a “What did she just say and why did she say it?” laugh as I repeatedly facepalmed, much to the amusement of those around me. “Because everybody here has seen Vertigo” a fellow DMDer said with a grin. “Well, they also use it in Lord of the Rings…” I said in a small voice.
So three cheers for dorkiness! I had an incureable grin all the way back to my dorm. It’s so healthy to laugh at oneself every so often.
I know that nearly every entry I’ve posted the past three days has either been about LotR or Howard Dean, but this just needed to be shared. And W00t, finally acquired a d/led copy of RotK! And the quality is fantastic! Go me!
In other news, I really need to update tnm.n. And think of a new layout. The current one went up in May 2002!
::laughs and laughs and laughs::
For Your Consideration LotR Oscar nominations website. *sobs over just about everything*
Oh, and Orlando Bloom, age 4. And the M&P quintessential hobbit scenes from RotK. W00t!
… WOAH! I just got totally freaked out! My sister and I are M&P! Melissa and Priscilla. And ever since we first encountered Pippi Longstocking, my family nickname has been Pippi. My middle initial is N, so I am Pippi N. And because my sister also has a male middle name (Hudson), when she was young, she gave herself a second middle name: Mary. We are Mary and Pippi N. Why did it take me this long to notice that? *twilight zone theme plays*
Edit: And, um, my mom’s grandfather was a Sam, and one of my dad’s rugby buddies had his name legally changed to Gandalf, and er… I think I’ll stop right there.
Guess what? Dean’s still ahead. But in a way, I’m glad we came in second in NH. I’ll be nice to have the media attacking Kerry for a while. Provided, of course, that he doesn’t bore the media out of their minds in a week.
Meanwhile, SNOW AND LOTS OF IT. *dances*