Weekend update

[featherynscale]

Yet another long-arsed weekend full of er... mostly working for us. Friday night, triadruid, kittenpants and I helped brandy22kc move into her new place. This mostly involved clearing out a storage unit, pulling some bizarre and unnecessary stunts, getting lost between Shawnee Mission and Olathe, and generally being cold and tired, but it also involved coffee and some truly funny moments, so all was well. Best wishes to B and family in their new house -- we understand that in 6-9 months, we'll be moving them again, out of program housing to somewhere better (and freer), and that's good too.

Saturday, we had visitors from Texas. The church I think of as The Other Pagan UU Congregation (although it may not be the only other one; there may be one in Florida now too) sent some people up to talk to us about leadership of our congregation and see how we did things in case there was anything they wanted to steal. They stayed through Sunday evening, and left with hopefully a lot of good stuff that will help them. Apparently also, kittenpants and I will be visiting their congregation in May to teach an abbreviated version of Excellence in Ritual, so that will be fun. (Especially since it will be right after we get done teaching the full 8-week version here... yeesh.)

Late last night, in a stunning bout of irresponsibility, triadruid blew off working on Winter Bazaar to go see Casino Royale, which was just stunning. I enjoyed the hell out of the new Bond concept, but I'm thinking that I might not continue to enjoy it as they make more films -- the brutality and hands-on nature of New Bond I am digging, but I can't for the life of me work out why anyone would want to go to bed with New Bond, and that's going to be a problem for me as the franchise continues. Shining moments: a fantastic sequence in the beginning of the film in which Bond chases down a minor bad guy who happens to apparently be proficient in parkour; the most flips ever achieved in a car crash with the help of an air cannon (7) (and by the way, that's the 2007 Aston-Martin DBS); Felix Leiter; M lamenting the end of the Cold War.

Comments

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

I, for one, would totally do Daniel Craig. On principle, that is. Perhaps there is something off-putting about his Bond that precludes that.

But SRSLY, I doubt it. Snape hasn't kept me off Rickman for one second.

In other news, Daniel Craig played Lord Asriel in the UK film of The Golden Compass.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

More power to you. I thought he was an utter thug. Fun to watch, but not at all attractive.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

My taste in men can only be explained by the philosophy that everyone needs someone to love them. :-)

utter thug

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

::sigh::
More for me.

Re: utter thug

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You automatically get all thugs. I get mad scientists, broken artists and tormented geniuses of all stripe, unless they are elderly and Scottish, in which case they go to fionnabhar.

Re: utter thug

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

You say the sweetest things. (grin) Can't wait to see the movie myself!

Re: utter thug

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Welsh is good, too.

Re: utter thug

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

but, but...

What does that leave for me???

Re: utter thug

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Who do you want? We are willing to negotiate. Except for fionnabhar.

Re: utter thug

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

Darn! Sean Connery does it for me every time.

I'll bargin with you for mad geniuses. I'm not into tormented, but a little odd and quirky works pretty well for me.

Re: utter thug

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

No. Scottish + What featherynscale considers elderly = MINE.

Also Welsh.

And Irish.

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

a fantastic sequence in the beginning of the film in which Bond chases down a minor bad guy who happens to apparently be proficient in parkour

Fun fact: the the guy that Bond chases is Sebastien Foucan, who co-founded Parkour with his childhood friend David Belle. He did his own stunts without any special effects.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I recognized the style, but not the artist. Absolute treat to watch -- they're so fantastically graceful. It's like ballet, but relevant and interesting.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I think they opted for the weaker ending for the Bond girl in this one, compared to the book (but if you haven't read it, the Venice scene is plenty powerful), and the traditional we-translated-this-from-a-book-we-love-so-we-can-leave-some-things-out problem, but overall a very solid film. The parkour thing added, Bond is a more realistic/human thug that you can identify with (rather than a God Among Men), and Dame M was just fucking brilliant, as always.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I liked the ending, actually. It allows us to imagine that somewhere in there, Bond is wondering if he did the right thing. And that he's suffering for it. But then, maybe I'm just a sadist. (And I do like watching Dench as M drop the effing hammer on him -- she was fantastic.)

"I gotta get me one of these!"

[niveus-tigris.livejournal.com]

Thanks for being useful and providing me with the info on Bond's car.

I F'ing want one for xmas. Like whoa. With rocket launchers.

With that awesome steel-blue-gray prismatic finish.

Yeah.

Re: "I gotta get me one of these!"

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

With rocket launchers.

And a smoke screen, and oil slick button? :)
(Yeah, I looked up the car First Thing This Morning -- it was so very, very sexy. Things like that shouldn't belong to people like Bond. He has no idea how to take proper care of them.)

Re: "I gotta get me one of these!"

[niveus-tigris.livejournal.com]

Hence the fact that he threw the wheels off of it.

Still, I would feel sexier if I drove one of those. Seriously.

I'd never wear bright colors and tell everyone that I was MiB.