Conceptual Anniversary
It's amazing, and kind of scary, how sharply your level of give-a-shit-osity towards your own birthday diminishes as you age past like... 21. Despite being reminded numerous times by my parents, I had managed to completely forget about my impending birthday until reminded again the preceding morning. Crazy stuff.
Fortunately, in a day and a half I managed to organize a shindig wherein Apple graciously agreed to make her improbably delicious chicken alfredo for 7 people, and those same 7 people went to see District 9. Which was so awesome that Priam actually enjoyed it a little. Amazing.
It's kind of like this:
"Hey, you got social commentary in my sci-fi!"
"Hey, you got sci-fi in my social commentary!"
... *taste*
"You know, that's actually pretty good!"
As good as it was, though, I'm not sure it's a recipe I would recommend to other directors/writers/producers. I'm not sure how many of them I could trust to do it well.
Fortunately, in a day and a half I managed to organize a shindig wherein Apple graciously agreed to make her improbably delicious chicken alfredo for 7 people, and those same 7 people went to see District 9. Which was so awesome that Priam actually enjoyed it a little. Amazing.
It's kind of like this:
"Hey, you got social commentary in my sci-fi!"
"Hey, you got sci-fi in my social commentary!"
... *taste*
"You know, that's actually pretty good!"
As good as it was, though, I'm not sure it's a recipe I would recommend to other directors/writers/producers. I'm not sure how many of them I could trust to do it well.