March of the Penguins
Tonight, I watched March of the Penguins.
It was cool. It's pretty weird (in an interesting kind of way) how they adapted to live in such a place...and how much waiting and traveling they have to do =P I wonder how long they live. Must be a while, if they spend so much of their time walking/waiting/growing up. The calls they make are cool too...one of their sounds reminded me of a guitar, or a car engine or something. And it's funny how the chicks have complete opposite colour patterns from the adults! And then when the chicks lose their down they look so funny, because it's like their colours are inverted or something, hehe. I also liked the shots underwater from the penguins' point of view - I actually just watched a show about Critter Cam (which was apparently developed by Tribe of Heart, cool!), while I was home for the holidays, and they had those shots from the movie. They also attached it to whales, cats...and I can't really remember what else. But it's a neat idea. =)
This has been popping in & out of mind for a while now, but the film reminded me of it again: it would be really cool if someone would make a film like this about farm animals. Like, a completely objective, documentary of their life cycle or whatever. I guess you'd need someone who has a ton of land and lets their cows/pigs/etc. roam, but wouldn't it be cool to see how they would behave and interact with each other in nature? I know they're domestic animals, but I still think it would be really interesting. We get tons of shows about wild versions of them, like National Geographic & things like that, so I think it would be cool to see a show like that about cows. (or pigs, or chickens, or any other farmed animal really). There are sweet movies like Peaceable Kingdom, which I loved. But people don't seem to consider the natural lives of such animals, how their social structures work, how they rear their young, and all that important stuff. I think it would be great to see someone do a film or show like March of the Penguins, but about animals that we don't really give a thought to (till they're on the dinner table).
Anyway, that was getting long =P I ate some Cherry blasters tonight (I recently discovered that they're vegetarian! YAY! No gelatin in those gummies, hehe). I have a weird urge to make homemade pizza right now...I'm not quite sure why. I've had an indistinguished craving for...something this week, and so far I haven't found a way to satisfy it. (Though I have been eating homemade hash browns like it's my job. Yum). This weekend I think Michelle & I are going to the farmer's market, which I'm excited about (especially since I bought peppers last Saturday and already, they've gone totally rotten. Stupid grocery stores and their artificially ripened produce...it was hard to find good apples there, too.) I hope I'm able to get up in time tomorrow, lol. I've been trying really hard to get back on a normal-ish sleep schedule since I was pretty much an insomniac all week.
Anyway, I just might go and make that pizza...or maybe some hash browns...hehehe.
It was cool. It's pretty weird (in an interesting kind of way) how they adapted to live in such a place...and how much waiting and traveling they have to do =P I wonder how long they live. Must be a while, if they spend so much of their time walking/waiting/growing up. The calls they make are cool too...one of their sounds reminded me of a guitar, or a car engine or something. And it's funny how the chicks have complete opposite colour patterns from the adults! And then when the chicks lose their down they look so funny, because it's like their colours are inverted or something, hehe. I also liked the shots underwater from the penguins' point of view - I actually just watched a show about Critter Cam (which was apparently developed by Tribe of Heart, cool!), while I was home for the holidays, and they had those shots from the movie. They also attached it to whales, cats...and I can't really remember what else. But it's a neat idea. =)
This has been popping in & out of mind for a while now, but the film reminded me of it again: it would be really cool if someone would make a film like this about farm animals. Like, a completely objective, documentary of their life cycle or whatever. I guess you'd need someone who has a ton of land and lets their cows/pigs/etc. roam, but wouldn't it be cool to see how they would behave and interact with each other in nature? I know they're domestic animals, but I still think it would be really interesting. We get tons of shows about wild versions of them, like National Geographic & things like that, so I think it would be cool to see a show like that about cows. (or pigs, or chickens, or any other farmed animal really). There are sweet movies like Peaceable Kingdom, which I loved. But people don't seem to consider the natural lives of such animals, how their social structures work, how they rear their young, and all that important stuff. I think it would be great to see someone do a film or show like March of the Penguins, but about animals that we don't really give a thought to (till they're on the dinner table).
Anyway, that was getting long =P I ate some Cherry blasters tonight (I recently discovered that they're vegetarian! YAY! No gelatin in those gummies, hehe). I have a weird urge to make homemade pizza right now...I'm not quite sure why. I've had an indistinguished craving for...something this week, and so far I haven't found a way to satisfy it. (Though I have been eating homemade hash browns like it's my job. Yum). This weekend I think Michelle & I are going to the farmer's market, which I'm excited about (especially since I bought peppers last Saturday and already, they've gone totally rotten. Stupid grocery stores and their artificially ripened produce...it was hard to find good apples there, too.) I hope I'm able to get up in time tomorrow, lol. I've been trying really hard to get back on a normal-ish sleep schedule since I was pretty much an insomniac all week.
Anyway, I just might go and make that pizza...or maybe some hash browns...hehehe.