I Got It!
► Delivered! Sitting at the computer, I was startled at 8:30am when the apartment buzzer buzzed. It was Canada Post, and I got my parcel from John! It only took 6 days from when he mailed it last Friday, that's not bad timing.
It was a lot of fun opening and going through the box, finally able to hold in my hands the books and stuff I've been anticipating for over a month. Flipped through Superman books a bit. I'll have to find a spot for my Big Barda mini bust (which is much smaller in person than I thought, but still very cool), and frame my Mera sketch. Luckily I bought a frame for the sketch last month.
I'm very excited and pleased!Derek: the big package came this morning :-D
Dran: X-D
Derek: ....that sounds vaguely pornographic
Dran: haha
Also, I've added the Mera sketch and the photo of the signed Barda bust to my ComicArtFans gallery. Since I've been awake all night, and my ribs are in an incredible amount of pain having spent that time bent over the computer, I should probably take a nap now.
► I talked with Dad, letting him know the parcel arrived. Since I don't have to wait here for it now, he wants me to go with him to visit my grandmother tomorrow. I said I'd go, but I'm still feeling sick with nerves.
I suppose I should just push myself to go.
► Principle of astrology proven to be scientific: planetary position imprints biological clocks of mammals - Nothing makes crackpots unbearable like the slightest hint of credibility.
► How Michel Gondry became cinema's most versatile director - The most interesting bit from this profile and interview of the director of the upcoming Green Hornet movie:'His eyes light up when he mentions Rogen, but the reaction of the fanboys and bloggers to the prospect of The Green Hornet - which the director describes as a "super-antihero movie" - could hardly have been more hostile. During the film's presentation at San Diego's Comic-Con this summer, the Q&A session was almost drowned out by the stampede of walkouts. Gondry sneers quite magnificently at the memory. "I usually identify with the nerds," he points out, "but these ones just reinforce the social rules. Their values are fascistic. All those people marching around in capes and masks and boots. The superhero imagery is totally fascist!" He's on a roll now. "When you step into this genre, they feel it belongs to them. They want you to conform, or they won't like you. They want the conventional. But it's fine. The movie's been doing very well, I think, whenever we've screened it to normal people."'
That's some shocking hyperbole there. Liking comic book fans to fascists, and not "normal people"? Ironically, Michel Gondry sounds like the rage spewing blogging fanboys he's railing against. Making sweeping, ridiculously insulting generalizations. Knee-jerk reactions begetting knee-jerk reactions. While what happened in San Diego is sad and pathetic (why go to a Q&A session if you're sure you won't like the movie?) maybe they're just people concerned that a very avante-garde European auteur director and the pot-comedy star actor are going to turn a classic superhero character into a mocking camp spoof. Misfits, to use Gondry's word, afraid of outsiders coming in and making fun of them. We've been burned before. Many times.
Oh, and I loved Be Kind Rewind.
► The Year Without a Santa Claus - The Heat Miser Song
Twelve Days of Christmas Quotes
Heat Miser's Men: He's Mister Green Christmas. He's Mister Sun. He's Mister Heat Blister. He's Mister Hundred-and-One.
Heat Miser: They call me Heat Miser. Whatever I touch starts to melt in my clutch. I'm too much.
- The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
Drinking: Brisk fruit punch
Reading: Vanity Fair magazine (Jan 2011 issue)
Watching: Cheers: Season 3
Last Watched: The Other Guys (2010)
It was a lot of fun opening and going through the box, finally able to hold in my hands the books and stuff I've been anticipating for over a month. Flipped through Superman books a bit. I'll have to find a spot for my Big Barda mini bust (which is much smaller in person than I thought, but still very cool), and frame my Mera sketch. Luckily I bought a frame for the sketch last month.
I'm very excited and pleased!Derek: the big package came this morning :-D
Dran: X-D
Derek: ....that sounds vaguely pornographic
Dran: haha
Also, I've added the Mera sketch and the photo of the signed Barda bust to my ComicArtFans gallery. Since I've been awake all night, and my ribs are in an incredible amount of pain having spent that time bent over the computer, I should probably take a nap now.
► I talked with Dad, letting him know the parcel arrived. Since I don't have to wait here for it now, he wants me to go with him to visit my grandmother tomorrow. I said I'd go, but I'm still feeling sick with nerves.
I suppose I should just push myself to go.
► Principle of astrology proven to be scientific: planetary position imprints biological clocks of mammals - Nothing makes crackpots unbearable like the slightest hint of credibility.
► How Michel Gondry became cinema's most versatile director - The most interesting bit from this profile and interview of the director of the upcoming Green Hornet movie:'His eyes light up when he mentions Rogen, but the reaction of the fanboys and bloggers to the prospect of The Green Hornet - which the director describes as a "super-antihero movie" - could hardly have been more hostile. During the film's presentation at San Diego's Comic-Con this summer, the Q&A session was almost drowned out by the stampede of walkouts. Gondry sneers quite magnificently at the memory. "I usually identify with the nerds," he points out, "but these ones just reinforce the social rules. Their values are fascistic. All those people marching around in capes and masks and boots. The superhero imagery is totally fascist!" He's on a roll now. "When you step into this genre, they feel it belongs to them. They want you to conform, or they won't like you. They want the conventional. But it's fine. The movie's been doing very well, I think, whenever we've screened it to normal people."'
That's some shocking hyperbole there. Liking comic book fans to fascists, and not "normal people"? Ironically, Michel Gondry sounds like the rage spewing blogging fanboys he's railing against. Making sweeping, ridiculously insulting generalizations. Knee-jerk reactions begetting knee-jerk reactions. While what happened in San Diego is sad and pathetic (why go to a Q&A session if you're sure you won't like the movie?) maybe they're just people concerned that a very avante-garde European auteur director and the pot-comedy star actor are going to turn a classic superhero character into a mocking camp spoof. Misfits, to use Gondry's word, afraid of outsiders coming in and making fun of them. We've been burned before. Many times.
Oh, and I loved Be Kind Rewind.
► The Year Without a Santa Claus - The Heat Miser Song
Click to viewTwelve Days of Christmas Quotes
Heat Miser's Men: He's Mister Green Christmas. He's Mister Sun. He's Mister Heat Blister. He's Mister Hundred-and-One.
Heat Miser: They call me Heat Miser. Whatever I touch starts to melt in my clutch. I'm too much.
- The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
Drinking: Brisk fruit punch
Reading: Vanity Fair magazine (Jan 2011 issue)
Watching: Cheers: Season 3
Last Watched: The Other Guys (2010)