Maru's Mun Journal

You know, watching the deleted scenes of 'District 9' is even more harrowing than the movie itself, as all the aliens still that guy in a CGI suit...

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.

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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.

OMG we at so much food!

I did Thanksgiving again, with wiebke and cracicotus and brickling. Now we are having pumpkin pie and watching 'Krabat'.-

The Nazgul and I saw a very cute movie today.

It's more child-like than the last few Miyazaki movies, but does have its very adult, and very Japanese, moments. It's full of magic, as Miyazaki movies usually are, but what most impresses about the movie is the humanity of it.

But the end title song is terribly, terribly catchy, especially if you understand some Japanese. So I must warn you against clicking that link.

... first and foremost ashen_key, of course. You may have heard this, of course. But you are going to get majorly jossed. James Cameron is going to give us Word Of God. In spades. On dead trees, no less. The online part is already there. I like the 'documentary' introduction, too...

The Nazgul and I watched 'Avatar' tonight, in the cinema. The following are not spoilers, so I guess I'll just be brief and save myself the cut.

I liked: the aliens' ears and noses. The ears are translucent, mobile, and very expressive, and the noses are actually cat noses. Cute!!

What they were doing wrong: especially during the opening sequence on the ship and in the station, they were pulling focus and moving the camera like in a conventional movie. You can't do that in 3D. People want to be able to look wherever they like. Bits of a blurry out-of-focus person coming out of the lower left edge of the screen? Not good.

And now, picture wot phelis_kougra found. Yep, I did notice how artfully they were hiding her anatomy while not putting a bra on her...

You don't have to have model qualities to be in movies. The same is true of cats. The Nazgul and I are watching a cute animated Ghibli movie in which the witch has a cat that's exactly as gawky and ugly-cute as Mephisto. But Mephi can't talk human; Jiji can...

Ahh it was a good day, and there was so much, and I am so pleasantly tired from it, I can just enumerate it all quickly:

• Woke up early, had good thread with the Nocturnal Americans
• Yay plot is really coalescing and getting underway -- to think this was started as a mere stopgap measure!
• Cats majorly cute!
• Eeeeeeee Supernatural! But why is heaven's waiting room so rococo? Also, WTG, Bobby!
• Left on time, came to the station, no trains -- people somewhere on the rails! Gah, why didn't they just flatten the idiots, they were ASKING for a Darwin Award!
• Caught a tram to the Underground station, texted the Nazgul I was coming
• Caught the Underground, where there is no net
• Was majorly late, but when I arrived at the cinema, my ticket was waiting for me at the box office where the Nazgul had deposited it (clever Nazgul!) as I hoped she would
• Went in, found the Nazgul
• Watched the last commercial, then the movie started
• Loved the movie -- review under spoiler cut to follow tomorrow!
• EEEEEEEE Hikaru Sulu's collapsible katana was the coolest thing EVAH! And against a Romulan with an honest-to-god  battle axe!
• Trains ran again when I went home
• Bought mozzarella, made me the most luscious mozza-tomato-basil salad for dinner
• Had more nice thread, including Captain Jack Harkness
• Cats still majorly cute
• More tomorrow!

Good night!