2633: Storm In A Teacup
Sorry, I've been sick -_- and most of my higher functions have been devoted to not feeling like total crap. Problem is I need sleep but can't get it because 1. New Year's meant nobody wanted to sell me NyQuil or orange juice, and 2. with what I have, even with NyQuil and orange juice, I end up waking up every couple of hours with severe dry mouth and lack of ability to breathe. Going out is torturous [as much as I tried to enjoy Fawx's party], and I end up feeling like a totally antisocial bitch for something I really can't help, I suppose because I've done the same thing before only for feeling "too tired/cold" to go out.
Something I've meant to note before:
George Lucas and his seeming "I hate you fanboys" attitude about Star Wars reminds me of that one Pink Panther short about "Leonardo da Vinci" painting the Mona Lisa, where he keeps painting this ugly frown on her, and the Pink Panther keeps grimacing at it and painting on a smile [or, wry grin or whatever]. Leonardo is angry at this mystery smile constantly appearing on his work and goes crazy from it, but everyone else loves it that way and praises it, despite Leonardo's feelings.
I finished listening to the remainder of the BBC Radio 4's H2G2 broadcast, and it reminds me of how rikkisimons described the movie: "Something your loving family and friends makes for you when you are dead. It's like when you're not there to pick out your socks, and they get you the weird blue ones that have little to do with your personality." Douglas Adams definitively ended the H2G2 series, so there couldn't possibly be any more adventures for the lot of them--except maybe Young Zaphod--yet the broadcast, which mysteriously continued in 2004 with the remainder of the books, changes the ending to a jarring happy one where everyone ends up at Milliways, even Fenchurch and Marvin =p
Mostly I comment in terms of the Pink Panther factor: Is this REALLY what Adams wanted for the characters? The entire series is spent showing how Life, the Universe, and Everything doesn't make happy endings, and it feels like trying to make a "happy ending" for The Ring, for instance =p or, Sin City X/
In Lucas's case, it's why I can't entirely feel sorry for fans who complain that he's trying to jerk them around by refusing to release just the original versions of the Star Wars trilogy to DVD/etc. high-quality release--I'd feel the same way if I had the chance to improve my work and everyone else mocked the improvements as total crap, because it's not what THEY wanted. [He also has the money to not give a shit whether fans care, and I can't argue with that, either.] Of course, as H2G2 has shown, that he's still alive means he can veto stuff that he feels is detrimental to the series like that, unlike Adams.
Did Adams maybe change his mind? Well, I've read The Salmon of Doubt--the last public traces of his creativity--and haven't seen a single indication that he had second thoughts about ending the books that way, so I'm left with the feeling of tamper-evidence, as it were, even if the BBC Radio 4 broadcast was the first version [oddly enough]. It is possible, but not likely from the limited point-of-view I'm given. You'd have an easier time convincing me that Tim Burton started writing Dr. Seuss-style cheery, flowery stories where the scariest/most unsettling thing they contained was maybe a pickle pie that had gone off a week ago.
I still "need" a faster processor for my computer, as Photoshop is slogging to do touch-up work at a printable scale. [I haven't even gotten into details yet--this is just scaling up and smoothing out the hardcopy!] It's something I'm sure I could do in no time at all if not for the wait time between strokes, but I'm totally clueless as to what I need specifically. New computer entirely? =p I don't think I have money for that just yet...
Boy, cabin fever is so much worse when sick Xp
Something I've meant to note before:
George Lucas and his seeming "I hate you fanboys" attitude about Star Wars reminds me of that one Pink Panther short about "Leonardo da Vinci" painting the Mona Lisa, where he keeps painting this ugly frown on her, and the Pink Panther keeps grimacing at it and painting on a smile [or, wry grin or whatever]. Leonardo is angry at this mystery smile constantly appearing on his work and goes crazy from it, but everyone else loves it that way and praises it, despite Leonardo's feelings.
I finished listening to the remainder of the BBC Radio 4's H2G2 broadcast, and it reminds me of how rikkisimons described the movie: "Something your loving family and friends makes for you when you are dead. It's like when you're not there to pick out your socks, and they get you the weird blue ones that have little to do with your personality." Douglas Adams definitively ended the H2G2 series, so there couldn't possibly be any more adventures for the lot of them--except maybe Young Zaphod--yet the broadcast, which mysteriously continued in 2004 with the remainder of the books, changes the ending to a jarring happy one where everyone ends up at Milliways, even Fenchurch and Marvin =p
Mostly I comment in terms of the Pink Panther factor: Is this REALLY what Adams wanted for the characters? The entire series is spent showing how Life, the Universe, and Everything doesn't make happy endings, and it feels like trying to make a "happy ending" for The Ring, for instance =p or, Sin City X/
In Lucas's case, it's why I can't entirely feel sorry for fans who complain that he's trying to jerk them around by refusing to release just the original versions of the Star Wars trilogy to DVD/etc. high-quality release--I'd feel the same way if I had the chance to improve my work and everyone else mocked the improvements as total crap, because it's not what THEY wanted. [He also has the money to not give a shit whether fans care, and I can't argue with that, either.] Of course, as H2G2 has shown, that he's still alive means he can veto stuff that he feels is detrimental to the series like that, unlike Adams.
Did Adams maybe change his mind? Well, I've read The Salmon of Doubt--the last public traces of his creativity--and haven't seen a single indication that he had second thoughts about ending the books that way, so I'm left with the feeling of tamper-evidence, as it were, even if the BBC Radio 4 broadcast was the first version [oddly enough]. It is possible, but not likely from the limited point-of-view I'm given. You'd have an easier time convincing me that Tim Burton started writing Dr. Seuss-style cheery, flowery stories where the scariest/most unsettling thing they contained was maybe a pickle pie that had gone off a week ago.
I still "need" a faster processor for my computer, as Photoshop is slogging to do touch-up work at a printable scale. [I haven't even gotten into details yet--this is just scaling up and smoothing out the hardcopy!] It's something I'm sure I could do in no time at all if not for the wait time between strokes, but I'm totally clueless as to what I need specifically. New computer entirely? =p I don't think I have money for that just yet...
Boy, cabin fever is so much worse when sick Xp