Haha... It's almost certainly for the best that you're waiting anyway, since I'm still tweaking it a bit. I pretty much wrote seven pages of contradictory claims...all of which are, I believe, true, and I still haven't _quite_ figured out how. Even if I _did_ feel that this was completely finished*, I would still absolutely agree that you should get your thoughts down before you read anyone else's. I remember how tough it was to resist reading your DMC and AWE thoughts before I was done scribbling mine down, but it is just something you have to do, I think.
1) I didn't wind up discussing the Kraken scene in any depth because you have pretty well covered it and it's Supreme Awesomeness elsewhere, but yeah, those two scenes are pretty much perfection. Oh, Hector...**
2) Again, your mother is, in fact, quite awesome. In a related story, back in the early days of Facebook, when it was actually still used by college students to get in touch with people in their classes if they needed homework help or missed a lecture and needed notes, joining groups was about the height of frivolous interaction. One of my favourite groups was "I applauded when Barbossa finally got that apple," and I remember it having quite an awful lot of members at the time. (Rather cruelly, the group image was of Jack taunting him with the apple in CotBP...)
3) UGH, I love that line, too! Barbossa almost qualifies as an official Inner Voice, as often as his lines flit through my brain... Today was an awful, AWFUL day at work (short version: my entire office may be jobless at the end of the month), but I couldn't help laughing to myself every now and then about some bit of Jack and Barbossa back-and-forth that popped up for no reason. That made me rather popular around the office, as I'm sure you can imagine - everyone else is trying to figure out how they will feed their children in July, and I've got the Random Giggle Virus.
ANSWER: Um...actually, I don't have an answer, because I'm having a difficult time remembering when I said anything about this or what the heck I was thinking about. I mean, I've got a couple of ideas what I might have meant, but until I work out some context, I've got nothing. I'll be thinking on it, though. (I am _still_ chasing myself around in circles trying to explain my interpretation of Barbossa's character, so it's no wonder I have entirely forgotten what I was talking about probably two days ago...)
I feel that I had at least one dream about hating OST, but I was apparently more anxious about _why Barbossa was in a uniform_ and whether or not my podunk theater would still be playing the movie two weeks after it premiered.
OST Factoid of the Day: The wordplay went over much better in College Mini-City than in Podunk I-10 Pit-Stopville, but it was the Podunk I-10 Pit-Stopville audience that seemed to be having the better time. I will probably stop by the megamultiplex in Tourist Mecca Beachtown in another week or so for my third trip, just to make sure I sample all of the available audiences.
* I kinda only posted it because I figured I would have a grace period before anyone read it, anyway ^_^
** A phrase I use in much the same way I find myself saying, "Oh, Spikey..." while watching "Lovers Walk" or "A New Man."
Edited to prove I do, in fact, know how footnotes work.
1) I didn't wind up discussing the Kraken scene in any depth because you have pretty well covered it and it's Supreme Awesomeness elsewhere, but yeah, those two scenes are pretty much perfection. Oh, Hector...**
2) Again, your mother is, in fact, quite awesome.
In a related story, back in the early days of Facebook, when it was actually still used by college students to get in touch with people in their classes if they needed homework help or missed a lecture and needed notes, joining groups was about the height of frivolous interaction. One of my favourite groups was "I applauded when Barbossa finally got that apple," and I remember it having quite an awful lot of members at the time. (Rather cruelly, the group image was of Jack taunting him with the apple in CotBP...)
3) UGH, I love that line, too! Barbossa almost qualifies as an official Inner Voice, as often as his lines flit through my brain... Today was an awful, AWFUL day at work (short version: my entire office may be jobless at the end of the month), but I couldn't help laughing to myself every now and then about some bit of Jack and Barbossa back-and-forth that popped up for no reason. That made me rather popular around the office, as I'm sure you can imagine - everyone else is trying to figure out how they will feed their children in July, and I've got the Random Giggle Virus.
ANSWER: Um...actually, I don't have an answer, because I'm having a difficult time remembering when I said anything about this or what the heck I was thinking about. I mean, I've got a couple of ideas what I might have meant, but until I work out some context, I've got nothing. I'll be thinking on it, though.
(I am _still_ chasing myself around in circles trying to explain my interpretation of Barbossa's character, so it's no wonder I have entirely forgotten what I was talking about probably two days ago...)
I feel that I had at least one dream about hating OST, but I was apparently more anxious about _why Barbossa was in a uniform_ and whether or not my podunk theater would still be playing the movie two weeks after it premiered.
OST Factoid of the Day: The wordplay went over much better in College Mini-City than in Podunk I-10 Pit-Stopville, but it was the Podunk I-10 Pit-Stopville audience that seemed to be having the better time. I will probably stop by the megamultiplex in Tourist Mecca Beachtown in another week or so for my third trip, just to make sure I sample all of the available audiences.
* I kinda only posted it because I figured I would have a grace period before anyone read it, anyway ^_^
** A phrase I use in much the same way I find myself saying, "Oh, Spikey..." while watching "Lovers Walk" or "A New Man."
Edited to prove I do, in fact, know how footnotes work.
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