Yay!!
I have my computer back! Now on to reinstalling everything....
Also, hopefully now I can play with Premiere and maybe be a Buffy vidder. Course, might give up halfway because Premiere scares me or something, but we'll see. It's bad... I've already got four vid ideas, sigh.
I also finished reading War of the Flowers. I think I had a bit of a similar reaction to it and Hellbound -- not scary enough. Although I felt War was a bit more of a let down, considering the spookiness of the irrha and the not so subtle hints about the Silent Primrose Maiden. I found Williams' take on Faerie to be interesting, with the equation of science and magic, although not too original for some reason. I think it reminds me a bit of anbaric and electric power in Pullman's His Dark Materials. I also had a harder time getting into the characters of this book, as opposed to Otherland, which is a sure killer for me. Theo felt too much like any stock fantasy hero -- loser, only to be dragged into an incredible world, shown around by cute girls, and eventually, it turns out *gasp* he is a part of this world! I figured that part out when his mother died. Plus, the sudden desertion of Cat and the like didn't make enough sense for me. I guess not enough background info or something? Oh, I also didn't like Poppy, not because she was a lousy character, but because she screamed "love interest" from the second she appeared. I liked foul-mouthed Applecore much more, and I thought Applecore was more interesting.
Also read The Da Vinci Code and had a splendid time mocking the writing. I'm not nice, but honestly! The first chapter, we have the cliche of Robert Langdon looking at himself in the mirror and describing how he looks. Then of course it doesn't help much when that's followed by someone gratuitously reading aloud some magazine article so he's compared to Harrison Ford in tweed! My head hurts from the anvils. I also had a great deal of fun separating the truthful things Brown had in there about Mary Magdalene and early Christianity and the things he twisted just enough to misrepresent stuff. Not that I'm an expert by any means, but I feel that if the somewhat controversial things Brown was claiming were true were actually true, Gager (my prof. for my early Christian history class) would have mentioned something. I mean, if the theory that Mary Magdalene were actually the wife of Christ and the mother of his children was widely accepted, I think it would have been brought up, considering that we did talk a good deal about the passage in the Nag Hammadi scrolls about Jesus kissing her on the mouth. I had also heard that theory about the Grail from my roommate, although she conceivably could have gotten it from the book or from the same source Brown got it from. Also, the whole thing about the sacred feminine and the Church being completely responsible for patriarchal culture pissed me off. If so, then why were all the heads of the Priory of Sion, formed to protect Mary Magdalene's tomb and the sacred feminine blah blah all male? Seems to me that they were doing nothing more than what the Church was doing with Virgin Mary and placing the female on the pedastal and not letting her actually do anything. Also, the whole idea that Mary Magdalene and the loss of the sacred feminine was in everything pop culture? Further annoyed me... esp. with the claim that Disney's Snow White and Sleeping Beauty and Little Mermaid were all about the sacred feminine! If that's sacred femininity, count me out. Completely passive. I think what annoys me the most was the blend of truth and fiction. Plus, I wanted a mention of the Holy Spirit and Wisdom and the stuff Pagels talked about in her book with God as androgynous, composed of a male part and a female part. I mean, when one is already partially dragging in the Gnostic Gospels with Mary Magdalene, one might as well go all the way.
Also, hopefully now I can play with Premiere and maybe be a Buffy vidder. Course, might give up halfway because Premiere scares me or something, but we'll see. It's bad... I've already got four vid ideas, sigh.
I also finished reading War of the Flowers. I think I had a bit of a similar reaction to it and Hellbound -- not scary enough. Although I felt War was a bit more of a let down, considering the spookiness of the irrha and the not so subtle hints about the Silent Primrose Maiden. I found Williams' take on Faerie to be interesting, with the equation of science and magic, although not too original for some reason. I think it reminds me a bit of anbaric and electric power in Pullman's His Dark Materials. I also had a harder time getting into the characters of this book, as opposed to Otherland, which is a sure killer for me. Theo felt too much like any stock fantasy hero -- loser, only to be dragged into an incredible world, shown around by cute girls, and eventually, it turns out *gasp* he is a part of this world! I figured that part out when his mother died. Plus, the sudden desertion of Cat and the like didn't make enough sense for me. I guess not enough background info or something? Oh, I also didn't like Poppy, not because she was a lousy character, but because she screamed "love interest" from the second she appeared. I liked foul-mouthed Applecore much more, and I thought Applecore was more interesting.
Also read The Da Vinci Code and had a splendid time mocking the writing. I'm not nice, but honestly! The first chapter, we have the cliche of Robert Langdon looking at himself in the mirror and describing how he looks. Then of course it doesn't help much when that's followed by someone gratuitously reading aloud some magazine article so he's compared to Harrison Ford in tweed! My head hurts from the anvils. I also had a great deal of fun separating the truthful things Brown had in there about Mary Magdalene and early Christianity and the things he twisted just enough to misrepresent stuff. Not that I'm an expert by any means, but I feel that if the somewhat controversial things Brown was claiming were true were actually true, Gager (my prof. for my early Christian history class) would have mentioned something. I mean, if the theory that Mary Magdalene were actually the wife of Christ and the mother of his children was widely accepted, I think it would have been brought up, considering that we did talk a good deal about the passage in the Nag Hammadi scrolls about Jesus kissing her on the mouth. I had also heard that theory about the Grail from my roommate, although she conceivably could have gotten it from the book or from the same source Brown got it from. Also, the whole thing about the sacred feminine and the Church being completely responsible for patriarchal culture pissed me off. If so, then why were all the heads of the Priory of Sion, formed to protect Mary Magdalene's tomb and the sacred feminine blah blah all male? Seems to me that they were doing nothing more than what the Church was doing with Virgin Mary and placing the female on the pedastal and not letting her actually do anything. Also, the whole idea that Mary Magdalene and the loss of the sacred feminine was in everything pop culture? Further annoyed me... esp. with the claim that Disney's Snow White and Sleeping Beauty and Little Mermaid were all about the sacred feminine! If that's sacred femininity, count me out. Completely passive. I think what annoys me the most was the blend of truth and fiction. Plus, I wanted a mention of the Holy Spirit and Wisdom and the stuff Pagels talked about in her book with God as androgynous, composed of a male part and a female part. I mean, when one is already partially dragging in the Gnostic Gospels with Mary Magdalene, one might as well go all the way.