RP imitates art imitates RP
Jul. 3rd, 2003 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeToday started out evil. I got up, I stumbled over to the computer and banged out another chapter of Understanding, worked some more on some original fiction. And then my sailor boy comes over with the news of doom.
Well, okay. I should know damn well by now that getting my hopes up does absolutely no good. I went to the Target place. I filled out the application, got an interview (which some of the people there didn't get, so that's something)... and then today he shows up with the news that when he went back to fill out the application they told him all the positions had been filled. Now that was like a swift kick to my nonexistant jumblies. I spent the next half hour in a good cry, with poor Blue trying to pull me out of it. Talk about sucknuts. It ended in due course of time, because of course my sailor boy can always make me feel better. Wonderful man, he is. He always makes me feel happy when I'm depressed. Which, given my tendency/history of depression, is a good thing. So we flipped through more job newspapers and circled more numbers and made a note to call them on a day that wasn't the day before a holiday.
Then we went out for lunch. Had some chinese food, came back, buggered around. I finally convinced him to let me write for a couple hours while he gathered everyone together for the evening's festivities... it's funny. He maintains the optimistic view that getting the J and B crew together is remotely easy and accomplished quickly. I maintain that it's like herding cats. So anyway, after about three hours (not two, which, he left at four and I said I'd be ready at six and it still took another hour and a half or so) we finally got together with Pirate John and went off to see Sinbad.
Cunt! I swear! The damn gate to Tartarus was a giant pussy! The whole time it was on the screen I was just gaping at it thinking 'They did NOT put this in a Disney movie...' which, actually should have been the biggest clue. It's a Disney movie. Of course they were going to put in something sexual.
On the whole it was rather what I had expected... with a few twists. I didn't expect the Prince Proteus. That was actually kind of a sweet twist on things, having Sinbad have a guy to bring out his better nature and then having that guy nobly sacrifice the woman he loved, unrequitedly. And besides, Proteus was kind of cute. I also didn't think they were going to give that much of a personality to his crew, but the crew had wonderful people in it.
My two favorites: Kale and Rat. Kale, because he was big and kind and always right. He was like Sinbad's big brother, telling him to be nice to the girl and all those other good things, all with that wry sort of smirk on his face. Rat, because he was so acrobatic and yet adorable in the way he clung to everyone all weepy eyed and ... well, just cute. I want a pair of them for ... well, not really for anything. But I want a pair of them. They're just wonderful.
The banter between Sinbad and the token female character, Marina (and hah! Yeah, that name wasn't a dead giveaway) was entertaining but ultimately predictable. I'm not sure whether that was because the whole movie was pretty predictable or because Pirate John and I have been basically acting them out in Bri's game for the last several months. Either way.
Eris... I hadn't looked up much about this movie before I saw it, which is unusual for me, but the second she started blathering on about chaos I knew, and I wasn't disappointed. She was actually damn cool, and Michelle Pfeiffer did a very good job with her voice. I absolutely adore her and want to be/do her.
But, all in all, it was cute, very Disney, very predictable. And I am not going to go see Brother Bear. Dammit. Disney's just reaching there.
And after the movie the cutest thing happened. We were discussing the movie, how much everyone was like our characters in Blue's Palladium game. Especially Jame and Eisen. But afterwards we were discussing where to eat lunch, and NavyBlue mentioned the Old Spaghetti Factory. And then I mentioned my favorite dish to date, although my enthusiasm pales next to that of Pirate John's. I mentioned the word 'mizithra' and he sort of... exploded. Like an excitable anime character. My darling sailor boy said later in the car when I was still recovering from that bout of .. whatever.. that he hadn't seen John that excited in a long time. It was hilarious.
And we sat and talked for a couple hours. The Pirate couldn't believe I hadn't seen Cutthroat Island. Again. Blue expressed disbelief that I ordered something other than the mizithra pasta, and I teased them both about being old fogeys when they talked about seeing Star Wars and the Terminator movies in the theatre. Grand old time. And I finally got their oreo shake, which proved to have more chocolate and vanilla ice cream than actual oreo.
The downside to this is that I got food coma. So, here I am, and trying to stay awake so I don't do the eat-thud-sleep thing.
It's been a relatively good day.
Well, okay. I should know damn well by now that getting my hopes up does absolutely no good. I went to the Target place. I filled out the application, got an interview (which some of the people there didn't get, so that's something)... and then today he shows up with the news that when he went back to fill out the application they told him all the positions had been filled. Now that was like a swift kick to my nonexistant jumblies. I spent the next half hour in a good cry, with poor Blue trying to pull me out of it. Talk about sucknuts. It ended in due course of time, because of course my sailor boy can always make me feel better. Wonderful man, he is. He always makes me feel happy when I'm depressed. Which, given my tendency/history of depression, is a good thing. So we flipped through more job newspapers and circled more numbers and made a note to call them on a day that wasn't the day before a holiday.
Then we went out for lunch. Had some chinese food, came back, buggered around. I finally convinced him to let me write for a couple hours while he gathered everyone together for the evening's festivities... it's funny. He maintains the optimistic view that getting the J and B crew together is remotely easy and accomplished quickly. I maintain that it's like herding cats. So anyway, after about three hours (not two, which, he left at four and I said I'd be ready at six and it still took another hour and a half or so) we finally got together with Pirate John and went off to see Sinbad.
Cunt! I swear! The damn gate to Tartarus was a giant pussy! The whole time it was on the screen I was just gaping at it thinking 'They did NOT put this in a Disney movie...' which, actually should have been the biggest clue. It's a Disney movie. Of course they were going to put in something sexual.
On the whole it was rather what I had expected... with a few twists. I didn't expect the Prince Proteus. That was actually kind of a sweet twist on things, having Sinbad have a guy to bring out his better nature and then having that guy nobly sacrifice the woman he loved, unrequitedly. And besides, Proteus was kind of cute. I also didn't think they were going to give that much of a personality to his crew, but the crew had wonderful people in it.
My two favorites: Kale and Rat. Kale, because he was big and kind and always right. He was like Sinbad's big brother, telling him to be nice to the girl and all those other good things, all with that wry sort of smirk on his face. Rat, because he was so acrobatic and yet adorable in the way he clung to everyone all weepy eyed and ... well, just cute. I want a pair of them for ... well, not really for anything. But I want a pair of them. They're just wonderful.
The banter between Sinbad and the token female character, Marina (and hah! Yeah, that name wasn't a dead giveaway) was entertaining but ultimately predictable. I'm not sure whether that was because the whole movie was pretty predictable or because Pirate John and I have been basically acting them out in Bri's game for the last several months. Either way.
Eris... I hadn't looked up much about this movie before I saw it, which is unusual for me, but the second she started blathering on about chaos I knew, and I wasn't disappointed. She was actually damn cool, and Michelle Pfeiffer did a very good job with her voice. I absolutely adore her and want to be/do her.
But, all in all, it was cute, very Disney, very predictable. And I am not going to go see Brother Bear. Dammit. Disney's just reaching there.
And after the movie the cutest thing happened. We were discussing the movie, how much everyone was like our characters in Blue's Palladium game. Especially Jame and Eisen. But afterwards we were discussing where to eat lunch, and NavyBlue mentioned the Old Spaghetti Factory. And then I mentioned my favorite dish to date, although my enthusiasm pales next to that of Pirate John's. I mentioned the word 'mizithra' and he sort of... exploded. Like an excitable anime character. My darling sailor boy said later in the car when I was still recovering from that bout of .. whatever.. that he hadn't seen John that excited in a long time. It was hilarious.
And we sat and talked for a couple hours. The Pirate couldn't believe I hadn't seen Cutthroat Island. Again. Blue expressed disbelief that I ordered something other than the mizithra pasta, and I teased them both about being old fogeys when they talked about seeing Star Wars and the Terminator movies in the theatre. Grand old time. And I finally got their oreo shake, which proved to have more chocolate and vanilla ice cream than actual oreo.
The downside to this is that I got food coma. So, here I am, and trying to stay awake so I don't do the eat-thud-sleep thing.
It's been a relatively good day.
