Twilight Movie

[jessica_de_milo]

It was good. Not jump up and down, sobbing, screaming, I-have-to-see-this-every-day-until-it-leaves-the-theaters good, but good. I was entertained. I would have been entertained even had I  not read the books. Probably more so in fact. Symptomatic of the fact that a film rendering of a book is always, only a rendering, not a moving mirror.

Comments

[clowe]

You lived in southern Cali? I lived in Palmdale and Lancaster for ten years when I was really young. I have a ton of family all over Cali.

[jessica_de_milo]

So, I would generally hesitate to say this sort of stuff in such a public forum as this, but I grew up in Lancaster; several years in Antelope Acres, a while in Little Rock! Also for about 10 years, from about 1990 to 2000. When were you there?

[clowe]

Wow, that's absolutely incredible! Late 82 to about 1993. Not specific on the date - I know we left shortly after the riots. I still have family in Palmdale and Quartz Hill, not to mention all over the rest of Cali. How crazy of a small world do we live in?

[jessica_de_milo]

Super small and super crazy! Do you travel down there often?

[clowe]

Not as much as I'd like. I was down there recently because of the possibility of eye surgery, but that was a very fast visit.I 'm hoping to get down there every couple of years, but not being able to drive puts a real hamper on that. How about you?

One thing that struck me was how quickly the landscape changes there. Back in 2000 or so, they were just putting up a very modern walking mall. When I was down there in September, the walking mall was already mostly shut down. Coming from a town now where change happens at a slug's pace, it was a bit of a trippy sight.

But I do miss California - quite a bit, actually. It's family, mostly, but also I just kind of enjoy living in a city, as strange as it sounds. Missoula and Bozeman are really my ideas of ideal cities, nestled up next to the mountains and yet still with all the creature comforts I could ask for. And I freakin' love Seattle - you'll hear me coo about it often.

[jessica_de_milo]

I also really liked Seattle the one visit I made there. I haven't been back to California since Christmas of '03 I think. I had lots of friends there, but I don't have much extended family to speak of, and I'm not close with what family I have.

The outlet mall was a weird phenomenon, wasn't it? I think the thing I miss most is the poppies in the spring - and movie theaters with more than three screens.

[clowe]

Haha, yes! The theater is incredible. I've only been there a few times, but it is seriously one of the coolest (and comfiest) ones I've seen.

And the poppies are gorgeous - my parents have a picture from a recent vacation they took down there of an entire field of poppies. I'll have to snag it and post it on Facebook. It's jaw-dropping, because you don't really realize that it's an entire field at first.

And I've only been to Seattle once myself on a spring vacation back in 2002, but it was such an incredible vacation that I fell in love with Seattle, or rather, the small little town I stayed in (Lesbos, I believe).