i'm hungry and that has nothing to do with anything
yesterday was so nice i feel like all i did was walk. i met a very round, very fuzzy, very cute cocker spaniel at the coffeeshop down the street - her name was mia and her person said that she was great for getting scared kids used to dogs, because she was small and well-behaved and she looked like a cartoon. and she did! she was very round and just looked so adorably squishy. she was a rescue and when her people first got her, she was afraid of everyone, and then she realized that kids were a. small, b. less threatening than adults, and c. possessed of a tendency to drop food all the time. so she'd follow them around and eventually got used to people. i wanted to pick her up and squish her but that seemed rude.
and then i spent a lot of time trying to find a book! and watching the memorial day parade. brass bands, high school marching bands, little girl dance troupes, shriners in their tiny cars, junior rotc. it was a very good day for it. i may or may not have eventually gone to the grocery store at seven, which is late, but tamalinn and her little dog came over for a little bit and it's hard to kick a small dog out of your house. she's a very cute small dog. different kind of cute than mia the cocker spaniel, tho.
on saturday my sister and i saw king arthur: legend of the sword, and it was, uh, well, i think i might have liked it better if it wasn't supposed to be a king arthur movie. there was no merlin! or guinevere! and rather than being shipped off to sir ector's to be fostered, the wee arthur was set adrift in a boat - after watching his parents get killed - and fetched up in londoninium, where he was raised by prostitutes in a brothel. the movie not-very-successfully tried to kind of update and modernize the myth, without having to set it in the present (altho i'm not sure when it was supposed to be set - there were a number of roman ruins, and some romanesque architecture, and it had a vaguely early medieval feel, but the costuming was all over the place and jude law's shoes, of all things, threw me right out of the story), with arthur as a kind of minor criminal kingpin, and jude law's (the bad guy) army dressed all in black (of course, because we are one with the cliches here) with weird metal face masks, and the urban resistance to said bad guy being known as "the resistance", and the presence of graffiti. and there were a lot of dead girls. and a lot of the cgi looked lotr-ish, as if guy ritchie had seen the trilogy way too many times. and there were giant elephants, which, whut?
on the other hand, katie mcgrath played jude law's wife, for the six seconds she was on screen, and aidan gillen played one of arthur's not-yet-knights, but he and charlie hunnam did not have any sex scenes. but charlie does take his shirt off a couple times. and the one mage/sorcerer on arthur's side - known only as "the mage" - was a woman who was not also the love interest! there was no love interest, which was kind of refreshing. and some of the editing was fun, and i did like the way a lot of it looked. and at least it wasn't billing itself as any kind of true historical fact. (like the clive owen king arthur, AHEM.) and did i mention the shirtless hunnam? i really appreciated that. and there was a giant cgi snake, which i can also appreciate. i like snakes, ok?
it's not a great movie but overall i did enjoy it. well, aside from the one scene with jude law's fucking shoes. >.< look, it has him and charlie hunnam and djimon hounsou and sometimes i'm really easy.
afterwards we went out for dinner, where the food was good but the service was interminably slow. but i got leftovers, so.
and today was slow and quiet at work. i expect slow and quiet for the rest of the week.
and then i spent a lot of time trying to find a book! and watching the memorial day parade. brass bands, high school marching bands, little girl dance troupes, shriners in their tiny cars, junior rotc. it was a very good day for it. i may or may not have eventually gone to the grocery store at seven, which is late, but tamalinn and her little dog came over for a little bit and it's hard to kick a small dog out of your house. she's a very cute small dog. different kind of cute than mia the cocker spaniel, tho.
on saturday my sister and i saw king arthur: legend of the sword, and it was, uh, well, i think i might have liked it better if it wasn't supposed to be a king arthur movie. there was no merlin! or guinevere! and rather than being shipped off to sir ector's to be fostered, the wee arthur was set adrift in a boat - after watching his parents get killed - and fetched up in londoninium, where he was raised by prostitutes in a brothel. the movie not-very-successfully tried to kind of update and modernize the myth, without having to set it in the present (altho i'm not sure when it was supposed to be set - there were a number of roman ruins, and some romanesque architecture, and it had a vaguely early medieval feel, but the costuming was all over the place and jude law's shoes, of all things, threw me right out of the story), with arthur as a kind of minor criminal kingpin, and jude law's (the bad guy) army dressed all in black (of course, because we are one with the cliches here) with weird metal face masks, and the urban resistance to said bad guy being known as "the resistance", and the presence of graffiti. and there were a lot of dead girls. and a lot of the cgi looked lotr-ish, as if guy ritchie had seen the trilogy way too many times. and there were giant elephants, which, whut?
on the other hand, katie mcgrath played jude law's wife, for the six seconds she was on screen, and aidan gillen played one of arthur's not-yet-knights, but he and charlie hunnam did not have any sex scenes. but charlie does take his shirt off a couple times. and the one mage/sorcerer on arthur's side - known only as "the mage" - was a woman who was not also the love interest! there was no love interest, which was kind of refreshing. and some of the editing was fun, and i did like the way a lot of it looked. and at least it wasn't billing itself as any kind of true historical fact. (like the clive owen king arthur, AHEM.) and did i mention the shirtless hunnam? i really appreciated that. and there was a giant cgi snake, which i can also appreciate. i like snakes, ok?
it's not a great movie but overall i did enjoy it. well, aside from the one scene with jude law's fucking shoes. >.< look, it has him and charlie hunnam and djimon hounsou and sometimes i'm really easy.
afterwards we went out for dinner, where the food was good but the service was interminably slow. but i got leftovers, so.
and today was slow and quiet at work. i expect slow and quiet for the rest of the week.