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weird, WEIRD movies
Aug. 1st, 2004 06:48 pmOkay, so it's a nice, lazy Sunday. There was sleeping in, there was a little bit of editing on chapter 46, there was someone (two someones!) interested in betaing the original novel I'm working on. I did a little baking, and can I just say, if you have never looked at Nigella Lawson's How to be a Domestic Goddess, may I heartily recommend it? I made Medeira Cake and Nigellan bread, which is a sort of flatbread, only not totally flat, as there's yeast and you have to let it rise. But neither is it puffy reglar bread. It is, however, DELICIOUS with hummus. I made some of that a week or so ago -- delicious. Except... I think I need to get a mortar and pestle, because it's REALLY hard to grind cumin seeds otherwise.
Anyway. One of the joys of our new apartment is the fact that I can see the television quite clearly from the kitchen, so I got to enjoy some of the weirder Sunday fare on various cable channels. I watched the last half of "2001: A Space Odyssey," and "Willard."
Holy jesus god. Fucking WEIRD movies, y'all. Just... weird.
I'd never seen "2001," but I was not wholly ignorant of it. I mean, I think everybody knows HAL and some of his infamous lines. "What do you think you're doing, Dave?" and "I can't let you do that, Dave." HAL's voice is so delightfully emotionless and creepy -- HAL rocks, seriously. But, wow. The rest of the movie? I'd like to know what drugs Stanley Kubrick was on, because... wow. Just... wow. The psychedelic freakiness doesn't seem to END after Dave turns off HAL. I just... don't know.
Actually, "2001" is one of those movies I'd like to see remade, I think. You know, without the lame, freaky-ass, laser-light CG kaleidoscope sequence. Although I suppose you can't remake it and NAME it "2001: A Space Odyssey," since, y'know, 2001? Kind of three years ago.
So, failing a re-make, "2001" is one of those movie's I'd LOVE to see![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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m15m. I'd just... LOVE it.
So, after "2001," we watched "Willard," which I seem to recall IS a remake, though I only have the vaguest recollection of the original. At any rate -- FUCKED UP MOVIE. I'm not particularly squicked out by rats, but Crispin Glover, playing a nutball? Wow. Scary. And why does it seem that he ALWAYS plays these uber wussy characters? I loved "Back to the Future," but McFly? Wuss. Anyway -- Willard Stiles was completely spineless, but also completely creepy.
Yarrgh. One thing about lazy Sundays -- you're completely idle, so you're faced with all of the things you want to get done in the coming week. *sigh* Well, this calls for me to pluck a book off the bookshelf and settle in with a cup of tea. ^^ Yay, for avoidance tactics! Whee!
Anyway. One of the joys of our new apartment is the fact that I can see the television quite clearly from the kitchen, so I got to enjoy some of the weirder Sunday fare on various cable channels. I watched the last half of "2001: A Space Odyssey," and "Willard."
Holy jesus god. Fucking WEIRD movies, y'all. Just... weird.
I'd never seen "2001," but I was not wholly ignorant of it. I mean, I think everybody knows HAL and some of his infamous lines. "What do you think you're doing, Dave?" and "I can't let you do that, Dave." HAL's voice is so delightfully emotionless and creepy -- HAL rocks, seriously. But, wow. The rest of the movie? I'd like to know what drugs Stanley Kubrick was on, because... wow. Just... wow. The psychedelic freakiness doesn't seem to END after Dave turns off HAL. I just... don't know.
Actually, "2001" is one of those movies I'd like to see remade, I think. You know, without the lame, freaky-ass, laser-light CG kaleidoscope sequence. Although I suppose you can't remake it and NAME it "2001: A Space Odyssey," since, y'know, 2001? Kind of three years ago.
So, failing a re-make, "2001" is one of those movie's I'd LOVE to see
cleolinda play with on m15m. I'd just... LOVE it.So, after "2001," we watched "Willard," which I seem to recall IS a remake, though I only have the vaguest recollection of the original. At any rate -- FUCKED UP MOVIE. I'm not particularly squicked out by rats, but Crispin Glover, playing a nutball? Wow. Scary. And why does it seem that he ALWAYS plays these uber wussy characters? I loved "Back to the Future," but McFly? Wuss. Anyway -- Willard Stiles was completely spineless, but also completely creepy.
Yarrgh. One thing about lazy Sundays -- you're completely idle, so you're faced with all of the things you want to get done in the coming week. *sigh* Well, this calls for me to pluck a book off the bookshelf and settle in with a cup of tea. ^^ Yay, for avoidance tactics! Whee!
