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miss_pryssGod, when did I last update? A while ago, that's when. OK, time to number things because that's apparently the only way I can organize my thoughts anymore.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1) I love John Sheppard
2) I love onion relish in my chana saag
3) I love SERENITY
4) I love lemon olive oil
5) I love getting stuff done
6) I love INVADER ZIM
1) I am falling in love with John Sheppard all over again. For a while, my infatuation with Rodney was making it hard for me to think about anyone else, but now that infatuation has calmed down and settled into a kind of deep, abiding adoration, and I can finally look around and notice other characters again.
And oh, John. I rewatched the pilot ep last night and there's something so heartbreaking about his affect in the scene where the team has gathered in that Colorado base to go through the gate to Pegasus and Sumner gets all pissy with him. John has this smirky look on his face that mostly just looks self-mocking. He looks like a man who is wondering why the hell he thought this would be any different, but bitterly appreciates the irony that it isn't.
I also love the scene where they meet Teyla for the first time, because John's whole "let's all get to know each other -- look at my charming smile!" act isn't really actually all that charming, imho. He's acting kind of tense and untrustworthy, but there's a certain native sweetness that shines through his sleezy surface, and I like to think that it's that sweetness Teyla is responding to, rather than that she's taken in by his awfully unconvincing spiel.
Also, let's not forget that the man is very, very pretty. Maybe that's what Teyla is responding to. And who could blame her?
2) Friday night Mr. Smarty-Pants came with me to a little gathering at the Haus, where he renewed his acquaintance with the majority of the Parish, and met![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eleanor_lavish and apetslife for the first time. We ate indian food and because we ordered so very much of it they threw in this enormous TUB of the red onion relishy stuff that they usually parcel out in these parsimonious little packets. I chucked a mountain of it into my curry and the combination was so delicious that the next night I insisted that Mr. Smarty-Pants and I order indian AGAIN just so I could ask for extra onion and repeat the experience!
3) Saturday night I was going to go to this fannish convocation downtown, but Mr. S-P tempted me into staying home with the aforementioned repeat experience of oniony curry, and also a viewing of SERENITY on our newly purchased DVD of same. I'd seen it already -- it was in fact my first exposure to the 'Verse. Mr. S-P hadn't seen it but we've watched all 14 eps now, and he'd read the shooting script, so neither of us came to it entirely unprepared. Still, two things interested me this second time around. OK, three.
First, having watched the show in the interim and gotten used to how the characters appear in the show, I was amused to note that they seem to have given each character a tidy hair-cut in preparation for the movie. Lookit, Wash! You're gonna be in a movie! Off to the barber with you! And don't forget to brush your teeth!
Second, the movie has a lot more impact on the big screen than on my dinky little iBook screen.
Third, the movie is an awesome introduction to the show for someone who hasn't (as I hadn't) ever seen the show. But having now seen the show, I realize that the movie, as wonderful as it is, isn't quite as wonderful as the show. It's probably mostly a function of the necessary trade-off of character-development time in exchange for exposition and context-setting, but still. Disappointing.
OK, there's a fourth thing. We watched the deleted scenes section, and then got into a heated argument about whether pulling the scene at the end where the Operative asks Mal how we went on after losing everything he believed in in the war, and Mal tells him to get outta there, and then mutters "What a whiner!" on his way back up the ramp. I thought this scene really should have been left in, because the Operative's sudden change of heart has always felt confusing and unconvincing to me, and this scene really helped me believe it. It humanizes him a little, which needed to happen in order for me to believe he actually had seen the evil of his former employers and responded to it in an ethical way.
4) Yesterday I went grocery shopping and made fannish white bean and rosemary soup for dinner. This is a recipe I got through fandom, hence the name. It's delicious. Comment if you want me to post the recipe. We ate the soup with kale sauteed in garlic and olive oil, and Bathazar baguette dipped in lemon-infused olive oil and sprinkled with maldon salt. I drank a beer. It was tasty and fun!
5) Today I have the day off from work, and I plan on Getting Stuff Done. Stuff I want to get done includes:
* Dying my hair purple
* Buying pretty boxes to replace the shoeboxes I currently keep financial records and old letters in
* Maybe taking some stuff to the Good Will if I have time
* Making muffins with strawberries in them
* Working on a story I'm writing
* Emailing my parents
* Finding a photo printing service and finally getting some of the digital wedding photos made into prints so I can put them in the pretty album my friend gave me
* Watching some FIREFLY with a pal from work. Note to self: call her.
6) Mr. Smarty-Pants and I have been watching INVADER ZIM a lot lately. We're completely in love with Gir, and it's gotten to the point where one of us can scream "HI, FLOOR! MAKE ME A SAMMICH!" or "Why IIIIIS his head so big? WHHYYYY is his HEAAD so BIIIIG?!" and we'll both instantly be incapacitated laughing. Our favorite quote/exchange is this:
Zim (on realizing the soap he's washing with is covered in strips of bacon): GIR! WHY WAS THERE BACON IN THE SOAP?
Gir: I MADE IT MYSELF!
OK, it's funnier with the audio. Here, listen!
7) I'mma go make oatmeal and muffins! Zowie!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1) I love John Sheppard
2) I love onion relish in my chana saag
3) I love SERENITY
4) I love lemon olive oil
5) I love getting stuff done
6) I love INVADER ZIM
1) I am falling in love with John Sheppard all over again. For a while, my infatuation with Rodney was making it hard for me to think about anyone else, but now that infatuation has calmed down and settled into a kind of deep, abiding adoration, and I can finally look around and notice other characters again.
And oh, John. I rewatched the pilot ep last night and there's something so heartbreaking about his affect in the scene where the team has gathered in that Colorado base to go through the gate to Pegasus and Sumner gets all pissy with him. John has this smirky look on his face that mostly just looks self-mocking. He looks like a man who is wondering why the hell he thought this would be any different, but bitterly appreciates the irony that it isn't.
I also love the scene where they meet Teyla for the first time, because John's whole "let's all get to know each other -- look at my charming smile!" act isn't really actually all that charming, imho. He's acting kind of tense and untrustworthy, but there's a certain native sweetness that shines through his sleezy surface, and I like to think that it's that sweetness Teyla is responding to, rather than that she's taken in by his awfully unconvincing spiel.
Also, let's not forget that the man is very, very pretty. Maybe that's what Teyla is responding to. And who could blame her?
2) Friday night Mr. Smarty-Pants came with me to a little gathering at the Haus, where he renewed his acquaintance with the majority of the Parish, and met
eleanor_lavish and apetslife for the first time. We ate indian food and because we ordered so very much of it they threw in this enormous TUB of the red onion relishy stuff that they usually parcel out in these parsimonious little packets. I chucked a mountain of it into my curry and the combination was so delicious that the next night I insisted that Mr. Smarty-Pants and I order indian AGAIN just so I could ask for extra onion and repeat the experience!3) Saturday night I was going to go to this fannish convocation downtown, but Mr. S-P tempted me into staying home with the aforementioned repeat experience of oniony curry, and also a viewing of SERENITY on our newly purchased DVD of same. I'd seen it already -- it was in fact my first exposure to the 'Verse. Mr. S-P hadn't seen it but we've watched all 14 eps now, and he'd read the shooting script, so neither of us came to it entirely unprepared. Still, two things interested me this second time around. OK, three.
First, having watched the show in the interim and gotten used to how the characters appear in the show, I was amused to note that they seem to have given each character a tidy hair-cut in preparation for the movie. Lookit, Wash! You're gonna be in a movie! Off to the barber with you! And don't forget to brush your teeth!
Second, the movie has a lot more impact on the big screen than on my dinky little iBook screen.
Third, the movie is an awesome introduction to the show for someone who hasn't (as I hadn't) ever seen the show. But having now seen the show, I realize that the movie, as wonderful as it is, isn't quite as wonderful as the show. It's probably mostly a function of the necessary trade-off of character-development time in exchange for exposition and context-setting, but still. Disappointing.
OK, there's a fourth thing. We watched the deleted scenes section, and then got into a heated argument about whether pulling the scene at the end where the Operative asks Mal how we went on after losing everything he believed in in the war, and Mal tells him to get outta there, and then mutters "What a whiner!" on his way back up the ramp. I thought this scene really should have been left in, because the Operative's sudden change of heart has always felt confusing and unconvincing to me, and this scene really helped me believe it. It humanizes him a little, which needed to happen in order for me to believe he actually had seen the evil of his former employers and responded to it in an ethical way.
4) Yesterday I went grocery shopping and made fannish white bean and rosemary soup for dinner. This is a recipe I got through fandom, hence the name. It's delicious. Comment if you want me to post the recipe. We ate the soup with kale sauteed in garlic and olive oil, and Bathazar baguette dipped in lemon-infused olive oil and sprinkled with maldon salt. I drank a beer. It was tasty and fun!
5) Today I have the day off from work, and I plan on Getting Stuff Done. Stuff I want to get done includes:
* Dying my hair purple
* Buying pretty boxes to replace the shoeboxes I currently keep financial records and old letters in
* Maybe taking some stuff to the Good Will if I have time
* Making muffins with strawberries in them
* Working on a story I'm writing
* Emailing my parents
* Finding a photo printing service and finally getting some of the digital wedding photos made into prints so I can put them in the pretty album my friend gave me
* Watching some FIREFLY with a pal from work. Note to self: call her.
6) Mr. Smarty-Pants and I have been watching INVADER ZIM a lot lately. We're completely in love with Gir, and it's gotten to the point where one of us can scream "HI, FLOOR! MAKE ME A SAMMICH!" or "Why IIIIIS his head so big? WHHYYYY is his HEAAD so BIIIIG?!" and we'll both instantly be incapacitated laughing. Our favorite quote/exchange is this:
Zim (on realizing the soap he's washing with is covered in strips of bacon): GIR! WHY WAS THERE BACON IN THE SOAP?
Gir: I MADE IT MYSELF!
OK, it's funnier with the audio. Here, listen!
7) I'mma go make oatmeal and muffins! Zowie!
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Date: 2006-02-20 03:45 pm (UTC)Siria: *backs slowly away*
But yeah, wouldn't that be AWESOME?
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Date: 2006-02-20 04:18 pm (UTC)"Shut your noise pipe, taco human!"
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Date: 2006-02-20 04:46 pm (UTC)*is seriously considering the taco human thing*
And yes, mucho icon love: it's by
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Date: 2006-02-20 04:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-02-20 04:19 pm (UTC)muffin making and john
Date: 2006-02-20 04:52 pm (UTC)Other things: I will buy Serenity when I get a job. And your strawberry muffins will be a smash!
And John... the meaner he gets on the show, the more layered he is and the better I like him. His chilling mean streak is... wrongly sexy. And the fact that he's also dorky and yes, the native sweetness, something that allows Teyla to give him a chance, and he's full of secret hurts on top of it!
Mmmm, John.
plus!
Date: 2006-02-20 04:53 pm (UTC)Re: plus!
Date: 2006-02-20 09:43 pm (UTC)Re: muffin making and john
Date: 2006-02-20 09:42 pm (UTC)But I can't figure out if what I chose to read as John's layered, complex personality is just the result of bad writing plus indifferent acting. Oh well -- I guess this is the complaint about every terrible show that inspires tons of fanfic. If it were tight and complete there would be no need.
Thank you for the beta offer! I may in fact take you up on it, although it's not a fanfic. I'll email you if I ever finish it...
Re: muffin making and john
Date: 2006-02-20 09:45 pm (UTC)Dude, this is the one thing that really scares me about SGA--that someday the ambiguity will resolve itself in favor of the latter option and my heart will be broken. Because I do love Rodney, I do, but my heart goes out to John in a way I can't even fully explain.
Re: muffin making and john
Date: 2006-02-20 09:52 pm (UTC)Re: muffin making and john
Date: 2006-02-20 10:30 pm (UTC)And, totally, it's harder to lose a person than a mytharc.
THAT HAPPENS TO ME SOMETIMES
Date: 2006-02-20 09:43 pm (UTC)Also, how totally awesome would it be if Zim attempted to take over Atlantis? Can you imagine Rodney trying to cope with Gir?
"I've still got a hug in me..."
Re: THAT HAPPENS TO ME SOMETIMES
Date: 2006-02-20 09:53 pm (UTC)