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featherynscale ([personal profile] featherynscale) wrote2006-02-13 08:37 am

Crazy Dreams, Bad Film and Going to Con

Crazy dreams last night and very frustrating. Lugh was trying to tell me something, and every time he got round to making the point, something would happen so that I couldn't hear, or he couldn't say it, or something. The interruptions ranged from things like my cellphone ringing and people coming into the room to things like cars outside the window crashing, or the sudden appearance of a television on which Animal-Planet type people were about to demonstrate something about elephant penises. I blame Super Roommate J for this last, since he was up and clicking the internet when I went to bed, with one of the last things I saw him finding involved mating rhinos. Anyway. I'd consider this inauspicious, except that usually either a) Lugh doesn't talk to me or b) I have no understanding that Lugh is talking to me, so this might actually denote some sort of odd progress. Probably some sort of divination is in order, to see what might be going on there.

In other news, we saw Underworld Evolution yesterday, as part of our Transylvanian Sunday. We figured it was Transylvanian Sunday because the two largest agenda items were a vampire movie and a Unitarian Universalist service, and vampires and Unitarians both come from Transylvania. It's true. You can look it up. The film was not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be, but that still left plenty of room for it to be plenty bad. We did learn a number of things by seeing it, though, namely that 1) vampires and werewolves are coated with Teflon and therefore are able to completely remove troublesome blood, dirt, and even latex paint simply by shrugging; 2) Chalk drawings last for hundreds of years in damp caverns; and 3) Derek Jacobi is a Secret Chief of All Existence.

Speaking of Secret Chiefs, [livejournal.com profile] triadruid and I are currently working on an adaptation of Steve Jackson's Illuminati card game which will include Mafia elements and be playable in the mafiascum forums. This has caused us at several points over the weekend to excitedly jump up and say things like "No, the Orbital Mind Control Lasers totally overcome resistance to recruitment!" and "There's no room for Masonry in this game....wait.", and "Yeah, they're wanna-be Illuminati", which has caused much amusement in Super Roommate J and much shaking of [livejournal.com profile] kittenpants' head.

And, speaking of games, we registered for DragonCon and reserved a room. Whatever else happens, we figure, we're going to Con again this year. Figuring that out this early in the scheme of things means that 1) we can still get a room in a host hotel (which we have) and 2) we can be excited about it for a really long time in advance. So, I apologize if that gets on anybody's nerves.

Well, duh.

[identity profile] fionnabhar.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Derek Jacobi is a Secret Chief of All Existence

Now, this I could have told you a long time ago if I'd known you'd needed the information.

Re: Well, duh.

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I figured you knew this already. You may be excused from seeing the film if you like :)

Re: Well, duh.

[identity profile] fionnabhar.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[livejournal.com profile] twixxa and I have been looking forward to it, though. Even it's cheesy, we'll probably go see it.
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Re: Well, duh.

[identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
He's also got the best coat in the entire film, which is probably saying something.

Kate Beckinsale still had the best pants, however.

Re: Well, duh.

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Kate Beckinsale certainly has the best ass. I'm not sure she was wearing pants, though.

Re: Well, duh.

[identity profile] fionnabhar.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
He had the best coat in Henry V, too. He's kind of a coat man.

Teflon

[identity profile] gamera-spinning.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
vampires and werewolves are coated with Teflon and therefore are able to completely remove troublesome blood, dirt, and even latex paint simply by shrugging

This would also suggest that they can be used for cooking surfaces. However, I would think a werewolf-cooked omelet would be very hairy.

Re: Teflon and the hairy werewolf

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I imagine that this is true. However, no actual data on the usefulness of vampires or werewolves as cooking surfaces has ever been obtained, as it is extremely difficult to get the subjects to stand still that close to an open flame. Further study is necessary.

[identity profile] brandy22kc.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
sounds like you had a great weekend, maybe the dream is trying to tell you lough is talking and you just not listening or are ignoreing ?

[identity profile] zianuray.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Heee! See you at DragonCon :D

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Hell yeah! I'll be the one in the.... well, I don't know yet what I'll be wearing, but I'm sure it will be exciting. Are you going to be a dealer?

[identity profile] zianuray.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Not in the dealer ROOM, but WereLlama and I are sharing a table in the ART room! (She says I AM an artist, and my medium is "Wax Casting.")

[identity profile] kittenpants.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
WOOHOO! I'll see you in the art room! I'm trying to get my paintings in the show this year!

SQUEE!

[identity profile] fionnabhar.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Werellama.

Hmm. Takes notes.

Hehe.
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[identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I thought it was funny...

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[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
*snork*

They're onto us. I'm not sure if the "they" in this case is the Illuminati or the Wikipedians though... Hey! Wait a minute! The Illuminati *are* the Wikipedians! They're Oppressive Wiki Overlords!

Or something.

[identity profile] matchgirl42.livejournal.com 2006-02-14 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
*snicker*

[identity profile] lordkalkin.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
We saw Underworld Evolution a couple of weeks ago. I ended up thinking the first one was better because although it had less plot, it wasn't trying to have too much plot. The sequel seemed way too plot-happy, as in it maybe needed to be three movies.

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah -- we left the theater going, "Wait. Didn't they say that XXX was YYY? What about ZZZ? I mean, that just vanished off the face of the film." And so on and so forth.

Plot is all good and everything, but it is heady stuff, and should be reserved for those that can handle it. On the other hand, it looks like UltraViolet is slated for the Plotless Superhuman Film of the Year, so maybe they had no choice.

[identity profile] lordkalkin.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm looking forward to Ultraviolet for the same reason. And then V for Vendetta just to warm my anarchist heart.

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, we're more excited about V for Vendetta with every passing preview.

Also, X-3 looked fantastically watchable. I realize I may be setting myself up for disappointment here, though.

[identity profile] matchgirl42.livejournal.com 2006-02-14 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
YAY CON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!