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A memory, a movie, and a quest for a book.
Today I did something for the 2nd time in my life: I saw a movie alone.
So now I've seen three movies in 2007: 1. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's EndMr. Depp, Mr. Bloom, Mr. Fat, 2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Daniel Radcliffe (not old enough yet to earn a "Mr."), and Transformers umm...Bumblebee??
Before I went to the movie, I braved the expanse of Walmart on the weekend. I try to avoid Walmart at all costs (har har), but since my hometown does not have a real bookstore, if you want to buy reading material, you have to go to Walmart, Target, Kroger, etc. And I needed a few things I can only get at Wally World anyway, so :P. Anyway, Kiokonai's imouto (I need to give her a Japanese name) told me a few days ago how excited she was about the upcoming third volume in a series she likes, and she told me about how the entire series begins. It sounded enjoyable, and since she had bought the first volume at Wally World herself, I decided to buy it, too. Only...they didn't have it. I searched their completely disorganized book and magazine section for 15 minutes and couldn't find a single copy. (HP 7? Check. Shojo Beat August issue? Check. Naruto vol 15? Check. Every Nora Robers and Danielle Steele book ever in print? Double check! But not one copy of the book I wanted. >3< And of course, no book section employees were in existence. I didn't realize how much I wanted to read that book until I couldn't find it. *sulks* The book is Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer, BTW. *sulks some more*
On a work note, I just finished drawing 1,000 radial lines for the first appearance of Naruto's upgraded Rasengan attack in Shippuuden. Line drawing is incredibly tedious, but it could have been worse. They could have been curved radial lines, like the ones in the original Rasengan attack (which I dealt with in vol 25...) or they could have been lines plus tone. (I'm looking at you, Clay!!) But hey, at least it's Kyuubi Naruto casting it. I love Kyuubi Naruto...it's the fangs and the whisker lines. Eeeeeee. *^^* Kyuubi Naruto is almost as yummy as Gaara-sama! XD
It's taken me this long to attend the theater alone a 2nd time b/c my first time was rather...unpleasant. I had wanted to see There's Something About Mary, I went inside the theater only 20 minutes before the movie began, so my seat wasn't the best and I really had to look for it...and the movie itself was a comedy date movie...in a college town. So the theater was overflowing with couples and rambuctuous friends out together, having a jolly good time. I felt like I had a huge neon sign floating over me, blinking "Single Geeky Loser with No Social Life or Friends!" through the entire movie. So understandably, I've been rather reluctant to repeat that experience.
But my desire to see Transformers--and my greatly increased confidence and maturity--outweighed my former horrible experience, so alone to see the movie I went. It was rather fun, and I was pleasantly surprised to see Hugo Weaving (aka Agent Smith in the Matrix trilogy, and Elrond in LoTR) was the voice of the main bad guy, Megatron. I thought the movie would have been better if they'd cut the frantic back-door-confrontation-with-Dad and search-the-room-for-the-spectacles scenes in half. And how in the world did not one person spot those 30 foot robots roaming around the neighborhood and climing all over bridges and the Hoover Dam? Bwa? But I enjoyed it anyway. Truth be told, I have no soft real spot for Transformers in my heart. I'm the right age to have watched it when I was a kid, but my boy's 80s cartoon love is GI Joe.I was seriously in love with Shipwreck. OMG. When that stupid mermaid woman appeared and stole him from me, I was PISSED. And I was only in the 2nd grade!! What a bitch! *snarls*
Ahem! My favorite character was Bumblebee, but then aside from him and Optimus Prime, we didn't really get to know any of the other Autobots. And none of the villains really appealed to me. (Though the little one was Jurassic Park raptor-creepy. Ghaa!) I do wish Bumblebee had cleaned up his classic Camaro self, rather than changing to the new model. But I'm glad the Love Interest wasn't some shreiky save-me type. She really held her own!! BTW, I now understand why there's so much porn/slashy fanfic out there for this movie. AHEM! Why no, I'm not tempted to hunt up any Bumblebee/Mikaela, of course not. That would never workunless the author was really creative. *has shifty eyes*
But my desire to see Transformers--and my greatly increased confidence and maturity--outweighed my former horrible experience, so alone to see the movie I went. It was rather fun, and I was pleasantly surprised to see Hugo Weaving (aka Agent Smith in the Matrix trilogy, and Elrond in LoTR) was the voice of the main bad guy, Megatron. I thought the movie would have been better if they'd cut the frantic back-door-confrontation-with-Dad and search-the-room-for-the-spectacles scenes in half. And how in the world did not one person spot those 30 foot robots roaming around the neighborhood and climing all over bridges and the Hoover Dam? Bwa? But I enjoyed it anyway. Truth be told, I have no soft real spot for Transformers in my heart. I'm the right age to have watched it when I was a kid, but my boy's 80s cartoon love is GI Joe.
Ahem! My favorite character was Bumblebee, but then aside from him and Optimus Prime, we didn't really get to know any of the other Autobots. And none of the villains really appealed to me. (Though the little one was Jurassic Park raptor-creepy. Ghaa!) I do wish Bumblebee had cleaned up his classic Camaro self, rather than changing to the new model. But I'm glad the Love Interest wasn't some shreiky save-me type. She really held her own!! BTW, I now understand why there's so much porn/slashy fanfic out there for this movie. AHEM! Why no, I'm not tempted to hunt up any Bumblebee/Mikaela, of course not. That would never work
So now I've seen three movies in 2007: 1. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Before I went to the movie, I braved the expanse of Walmart on the weekend. I try to avoid Walmart at all costs (har har), but since my hometown does not have a real bookstore, if you want to buy reading material, you have to go to Walmart, Target, Kroger, etc. And I needed a few things I can only get at Wally World anyway, so :P. Anyway, Kiokonai's imouto (I need to give her a Japanese name) told me a few days ago how excited she was about the upcoming third volume in a series she likes, and she told me about how the entire series begins. It sounded enjoyable, and since she had bought the first volume at Wally World herself, I decided to buy it, too. Only...they didn't have it. I searched their completely disorganized book and magazine section for 15 minutes and couldn't find a single copy. (HP 7? Check. Shojo Beat August issue? Check. Naruto vol 15? Check. Every Nora Robers and Danielle Steele book ever in print? Double check! But not one copy of the book I wanted. >3< And of course, no book section employees were in existence. I didn't realize how much I wanted to read that book until I couldn't find it. *sulks* The book is Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer, BTW. *sulks some more*
On a work note, I just finished drawing 1,000 radial lines for the first appearance of Naruto's upgraded Rasengan attack in Shippuuden. Line drawing is incredibly tedious, but it could have been worse. They could have been curved radial lines, like the ones in the original Rasengan attack (which I dealt with in vol 25...) or they could have been lines plus tone. (I'm looking at you, Clay!!) But hey, at least it's Kyuubi Naruto casting it. I love Kyuubi Naruto...it's the fangs and the whisker lines. Eeeeeee. *^^* Kyuubi Naruto is almost as yummy as Gaara-sama! XD