Pirates!

Yesterday, I re-dyed my hair in a colour that called itself 'Vibrant Violet' but turned out rather more like a rude raspberry, but I don't mind -- I finally have some colour on my head again! The purple dye from my last time at the hairdresser's had washed out remarkably fast, and left me coppery-and-blonde in a way I didn't entirely approve of. Now it's a purply red, or a reddish purple, nicely unnatural and in-your-face, and you can still see the originally bleached fringe area as the colour is entirely, shrilly artificial there while the rest is a little darker and browner-tinged. I am content with the result.



And then the Nazgul went to see PotC4 -- in fact, the picture was taken in front of the cinema. It's that famous cinema in Munich where Rocky Horror Picture Show has been running continuously since it first opened, and it's a treasure in and of itself, old and entirely analogue, each of the theatres painted with murals about one specific movie. We weren't in the RHPS room, we were in the Deep Blue room this time. It's one of the two cinemas where they show movies in the original -- one in walking distance from where I live (this), and the other one, much larger and technically more advanced and air-conditioned and everything, in walking distance from where the Nazgul lives.

The movie itself was rather like everybody had said it was -- good fun, but with a feel of a 'packaged tour led by Captain Jack Sparrow', as Der Spiegel hat put it. Predictable, stuck in its own iconicity, providing all the right tropes at the right time. It's a amusement park ride, after all -- and people are happy to see things again they know, and see Jack Sparrow flail a lot. That's what expected, and there was lots of it, and we loved and enjoyed every minute of the 136 there were, right down to the Easter egg at the end of the credits (which one expects by now, too). But I think the movie knew what it was doing -- the thing with the fake Jack Sparrow at the beginning makes it amply clear that he's just as iconic in-universe as he is in actual reality. Forget Twilight, move over Harry Potter, the pop culture character of the 2000s that's going to survive down the times is Captain Jack Sparrow.

( Now a cut with some spoilery details... )

And yes, I'm going to see it again with the Little Lady, I'm going to buy the DVD and see PotC5 if there ever is one, but that doesn't lessen the predicatbility. But medieval markets are predictable as well, and we keep going there to drink beer, listen to wannabe-medieval silliness and interesting music, and buy scraps of fur for the cats. Why shouldn't Pirates be the same? It's still fun.

Middle Ages in early May

I posted one picture at the time, but was too sick to get up the energy for an entire picture post. In fact, on the day, I felt too ill to get up the energy to take pictures much. Most of these, the Nazgul took with my camera. She has a way of looking at medieval merchandise that I quite like.-

( Lots of medieval pictures under the cut! )

Gratuitous cat picture

You can see how they are totally taking up the entire divan...

Mogget, sleeping?

White cats are so cute -- especially the parts that are pink.


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Unusual interview

Sorry, I'm spamming the flist today. But Der Spiegel has an interview with Shaun Tan where he answers in pictures*.



He has a monster that eats his leftover ideas! How immensely useful. Both the Nazgul and I could use one of those before our stacks of things to do and books to read pile up beyond the limits of the solar system...


*questions are in German, but his answers are drawings, universal as his wordless graphic novel 'The Arrival'. Also, he has a Wikipedia article at last.