damkianna: A cap of the Reverend Mother from the Dune miniseries, with accompanying text: "Space cowgirl." (Default)
Hey, look, it's another really long annoying post. \o/

First, two weird/mildly interesting dreams. ) I know I'm probably getting excessive about recording these things, but some of them are really interesting, and I'm hoping I'll get better at remembering them as time goes on.

In Human Cultures last week, we watched a video about the gold rush and consequent white settlement of Papua New Guinea, about which I have a few thinky thoughts. ) Mostly, I ended up wondering what would have happened if the Papua New Guineans had had the chance to control their own natural resources, instead of having them essentially stolen.

I also have new gripes about B to record. For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, she came to Chicago on the trail of her father's killers rented both Princess Mononoke and Life Is Beautiful. Life Is Beautiful, she rented without knowing it was a movie about the Holocaust; along the way, there is a point at which it becomes obvious beyond a shadow of a doubt that the main character's family is Jewish. B responded to this revelation with the following utterly boggling statement: "But [the main character] doesn't look Jewish."

Fortunately for my own self-respect, my mouth did not manage to get in the way of my brain this time; I said something rather acidic about how, yes, right, of course, because you could definitely tell whether people were Jewish just by looking at them. Fortunately for our continuing friendly relations, she immediately turned sheepish, and apologized.

(... For the record, B does not spend every second of every day saying offensive things; just the other day, she paid for a complete stranger's lunch because he forgot his student ID card. I have to start noting the times she makes me glad I know her, too, just so that I don't end up with a ton of bitter entries and nothing nice to balance it out. :D)

And, finally, I spent this last weekend at home. We don't get today off, but Friday was our fall recess, and today I only have - well, would have had - one class, so I skipped and spent an extra day at home. The guineas are truly enormous now; they haven't lost all of their baby feathers yet, so if you had to, you could probably tell Clary, DG, and Evey apart, but it's tough. They have also developed the adorable habit of following anyone that comes within a fifteen-foot radius, including people, the dogs, and the car. They don't like to be without the sound of human voices, so we've put a clock-radio out in the barn, and we turn it on for them to listen to.

My sister got my mother a board game - The Settlers of Catan - for her birthday; we played it about four times this weekend, and came up with at least a page of alternate rules. The most significant alteration was probably our set of changes to the Robber. ) Probably worrying about the meta implications of a board game makes us both complete freaks, but. I like the Reaper a lot better than the Robber. I'd worry about having erased the natives of Catan, except I don't think the game's creators intended for anybody to think of the Robber as such, or, indeed, for anybody to worry about whether Catan had a native population in the first place. Which is kind of fail in its own way, I guess.

I am managing to mostly keep up with SPN through reaction posts; I really, really don't want to spend time and energy watching the show until I know how S5 is going to end. Which I know is wimpy, and possibly even kind of wanky/entitled, but I need to be happy, okay. Unless the ending is in the general vicinity of what I want to have happen, I don't want to get myself super invested, because then I will cry like a baby. A hungry, angry baby. And be sad.

The same kind of goes for Merlin, except without the worry - that's just because I don't have access to the show at the moment.

I spent pretty much the entire trip back on the bus making hypothetical mental vids to the songs that came up on my playlist. Peculiarly enough, the fandom that comes most readily to my mind when I hear Stroke 9's Do It Again is due South, solely because of the "you're a freak" part; every time I hear that, there's, like, a ghost "... understood" that follows it in my brain, and I spend the rest of the song picturing RayK and Fraser.

... Someday, I should actually watch that show.

Also, I did not throw up on the bus, or pass out. \o/

omg squee.

May. 8th, 2009 08:10 pm
damkianna: A cap of the Reverend Mother from the Dune miniseries, with accompanying text: "Space cowgirl." (Default)
I have not yet seen the new Star Trek movie - my whole family's going to see it together tomorrow, natch, we are all Trekkies together - but I love it already, if only because it has sparked a whole lot of reruns of other Star Trek movies on TV. SciFi showed First Contact yesterday (and is showing it right now, actually, I think), which I kind of love, even if the Borg Queen's twitching spine gives me the creeps.

This is probably not going to be great meta, because I'm biased. )

I also found myself suddenly drawn back into Tin Man, for no particular reason. The first time I watched it, I immediately started shipping Glitch/Cain. Glitch's fight scene, plus the exchange about him saving Cain from hypothermia - because fandom has taught me where that always leads - and I was sold.

Obviously there are problems with that source text ... )

I recognized Callum Keith Rennie almost instantaneously, and pretty much entirely from Due South icons, as I have never actually watched even a single episode of Due South. I did look up caps once, the first time I realized that whole buddy-breathing thing was actually from canon, but that's about it. It was a very peculiar experience, knowing his face so unbelievably well without actually having watched anything he's been in. Also, the musical theme is extremely reminiscent of the music from the opening credits of SG-1; there's one batch of notes that's exactly the same, as far as I can tell, and then it diverges. It was driving me crazy for the first hour or so.

All told, it's been a very fannish couple of days. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to ease my way back into the real world this weekend, so that I can get everything relating to my thesis research sorted before my job starts. Augh.

ETA: I forgot to add a couple other commentaries. I did what could perhaps be termed some excessive movie-watching today. First Contact was yesterday, and Tin Man I'm just bibbling a few notes about because it was on my mind today, not because I watched it.

What I did watch today was:

Tristan &/+ Isolde )

And then there was also Casanova )

... That ETA was crazy long, yikes. I can really yammer when I get going, I guess. :D

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