Non-Depressing What's Up With Life Post
Dec. 9th, 2011 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kippurbirdI still do exist.
I've just been sort of busy. I've been making Wampas for the past three days. It turns out I can make one in a day if I have nothing really better to do. As I don't really have anything better to do, I've been making one a day. Currently the cat is sitting on top of the fabric for my latest Wampa. I figure this means that I could make a wampa in a couple of days. Build up a small inventory and sell them on like Etsy or something like that.
I found a 'sporking' of the Hunger Games. It's been interesting reading. I just finished the first book a couple of days ago and there were things that bothered me, though I mostly enjoyed it, nebulous things that didn't feel right and the sporking pointed them out and confirmed others that I thought were off. It's sort of like Eragon in that regard. And I was curious to see what it was like to come off on the 'I like this book how dare someone make fun of it' side of things. Surprisingly, I wasn't at all that furious. The author of them makes good points and in a reasonable manner. I'd be interested in later in bringing up something that is quite true, the idea of exceptions for the protagonist characters. Which honestly does show up a lot.
On another reading front, I've been reading the Three Musketeers. It's amazing how many events happened in the recent movie, so far, happened in the book. You wouldn't think they would have happened in the book because they're so... ridiculous and contrived. My mom thinks that if Dumas had been born today he would have been a script writer. One thing in the movie that struck me was the similarity of the Duke of Buckingham (Played by Orlando Bloom) and Aramis (Played by Luke Evans) in how they looked. It irked me a bit because I had trouble telling them a part (Bad facial recognition aside). But I just read a part in the book where Aramis was mistaken for the Duke. Porthos says that Aramis is of the same height and shape of the Duke.
Then there was the bit about how D'Artagnan runs into the three musketeers and challenges them all to a duel one right after each other. I thought that was just to expiate the three of them meeting D'Artagnan, but it turns out that actually happens in the book.
No mention of Air Ships yet though. :( (Kidding)
And now I have the urge to listen to Simon and Garfunkel. Don't have any of his music. Life is sad.
I've just been sort of busy. I've been making Wampas for the past three days. It turns out I can make one in a day if I have nothing really better to do. As I don't really have anything better to do, I've been making one a day. Currently the cat is sitting on top of the fabric for my latest Wampa. I figure this means that I could make a wampa in a couple of days. Build up a small inventory and sell them on like Etsy or something like that.
I found a 'sporking' of the Hunger Games. It's been interesting reading. I just finished the first book a couple of days ago and there were things that bothered me, though I mostly enjoyed it, nebulous things that didn't feel right and the sporking pointed them out and confirmed others that I thought were off. It's sort of like Eragon in that regard. And I was curious to see what it was like to come off on the 'I like this book how dare someone make fun of it' side of things. Surprisingly, I wasn't at all that furious. The author of them makes good points and in a reasonable manner. I'd be interested in later in bringing up something that is quite true, the idea of exceptions for the protagonist characters. Which honestly does show up a lot.
On another reading front, I've been reading the Three Musketeers. It's amazing how many events happened in the recent movie, so far, happened in the book. You wouldn't think they would have happened in the book because they're so... ridiculous and contrived. My mom thinks that if Dumas had been born today he would have been a script writer. One thing in the movie that struck me was the similarity of the Duke of Buckingham (Played by Orlando Bloom) and Aramis (Played by Luke Evans) in how they looked. It irked me a bit because I had trouble telling them a part (Bad facial recognition aside). But I just read a part in the book where Aramis was mistaken for the Duke. Porthos says that Aramis is of the same height and shape of the Duke.
Then there was the bit about how D'Artagnan runs into the three musketeers and challenges them all to a duel one right after each other. I thought that was just to expiate the three of them meeting D'Artagnan, but it turns out that actually happens in the book.
No mention of Air Ships yet though. :( (Kidding)
And now I have the urge to listen to Simon and Garfunkel. Don't have any of his music. Life is sad.
