It took so long to figure out what this book has been about.
I saw Coraline Saturday. Of course everyone in the theater (including us) awed at the 3D-ness of everything because it's still fairly new in common mainstream theater usage, at least around here. I was expecting flimsy paper 3D glasses with a red lens and a blue one, but instead we got these hilarious pedophile glasses. Kinda like Trav's pedo glasses, actually. We kept ours.
After that we went to Fazoli's for food, where there was much shouting and revenge havoc-wrought feasting. And plenty of bread sticks. :D
As far as an adaptation of a book goes, Coraline was pretty typical. It took the general idea of Coraline the book and plot elements and then just kinda did its own thing. They added a character that was completely new, never showed up in the book at all, and he wasn't just a silly little character that made things more amusing but didn't contribute much to the plot. They pushed him right into the plot itself, and I'm not exactly sure why. Of course, they toned down a lot of the scenes from the book too. You can always get away with more in books than movies and target to the same audience, it seems.
I was supposed to go to the apartment today and grab what I could manage to grab of my things, but Craig got called into work all day and I'm still locked out. I hope Newton is getting by, I've been locked out all weekend. Dx
Plus Anya can't pick up her thing until I take her up there but I'd rather not make a special trip to TC just for that.
So I guess it will have to wait until tomorrow. Oh well, what happens happens. Right now I'm reading the RP between Thalo, Anya and myself from waaay back in Chicago. Oh, sweet nostalgia. I wish we could be in Chicago right now, all three of us, just picking up where we left off. ^__^
Honestly, I don't think I accomplished a single thing yesterday. I didn't wake up until 3 in the afternoon. The first thing I did was watch episodes seven and eight of Six Feet Under. That filled up two hours, and then I picked Anya up from her house. And then I pretty much dicked around online for the rest of the night. I rp-ed with Thalo and Anya via meebo chat room, but it was a new RP, not a continuation of the Chicago one. This one is a lot more...er...light hearted than the Chicago one? I guess that's one way of describing it. I'm looking back and reading this and I can see where we must have been on a train or a bus or a subway, because the handwriting gets all shaky. ha... I would like to paint a picture today, not sure what of yet, but I've got a vague idea. I told Oz last night and he told me he hoped I developed psychic powers from it. I was really confused and upset until he reminded me of Duma Key. XD It was really late, in my defense, I don't think I got to talk to him until midnight, and the subject of painting didn't come up until later.
Le sigh.
After that we went to Fazoli's for food, where there was much shouting and revenge havoc-wrought feasting. And plenty of bread sticks. :D
As far as an adaptation of a book goes, Coraline was pretty typical. It took the general idea of Coraline the book and plot elements and then just kinda did its own thing. They added a character that was completely new, never showed up in the book at all, and he wasn't just a silly little character that made things more amusing but didn't contribute much to the plot. They pushed him right into the plot itself, and I'm not exactly sure why. Of course, they toned down a lot of the scenes from the book too. You can always get away with more in books than movies and target to the same audience, it seems.
I was supposed to go to the apartment today and grab what I could manage to grab of my things, but Craig got called into work all day and I'm still locked out. I hope Newton is getting by, I've been locked out all weekend. Dx
Plus Anya can't pick up her thing until I take her up there but I'd rather not make a special trip to TC just for that.
So I guess it will have to wait until tomorrow. Oh well, what happens happens. Right now I'm reading the RP between Thalo, Anya and myself from waaay back in Chicago. Oh, sweet nostalgia. I wish we could be in Chicago right now, all three of us, just picking up where we left off. ^__^
Honestly, I don't think I accomplished a single thing yesterday. I didn't wake up until 3 in the afternoon. The first thing I did was watch episodes seven and eight of Six Feet Under. That filled up two hours, and then I picked Anya up from her house. And then I pretty much dicked around online for the rest of the night. I rp-ed with Thalo and Anya via meebo chat room, but it was a new RP, not a continuation of the Chicago one. This one is a lot more...er...light hearted than the Chicago one? I guess that's one way of describing it. I'm looking back and reading this and I can see where we must have been on a train or a bus or a subway, because the handwriting gets all shaky. ha... I would like to paint a picture today, not sure what of yet, but I've got a vague idea. I told Oz last night and he told me he hoped I developed psychic powers from it. I was really confused and upset until he reminded me of Duma Key. XD It was really late, in my defense, I don't think I got to talk to him until midnight, and the subject of painting didn't come up until later.
Le sigh.