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What a strange, miserable day. Went to work on three hours' sleep because I'd been writing a major paper that I didn't even proofread before submitting because I was so fried -- it was one of four assignments due on Sunday. Spent half the day watching Notre Dame burn in numb shock and commiserating with work colleagues and RL friends because we're watching the destruction of something beautiful and precious and significant. Then went to the doctor and he expressed surprise that I was upright considering all I have on my plate. ("When is your down time?" "I don't usually do homework on Thursday and Friday evenings after work?") But today is still Monday and now I sit and prepare to do homework because I have an assignment due tomorrow and I haven't even watched the lecture yet, let alone done the reading.
I have an Avengers ticket for the 30th, which is the Tuesday after it opens. I could have gotten a ticket for the Sunday, but that's Orthodox Easter and I am expected to chow down on lamb with the family-of-choice. I see the family-of-blood this Friday for Pesach and I'm grateful for the wine. I'm excited and not for the movie; I am three movies past being over The Tony Show and I'm not the fan they are servicing. I might be the fan they are servicing with the Falcon and Winter Soldier show, though, even if it's going to be a hard PG. I want it to be like Running Scared, the Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal movie, which I loved a lot. (Half of my favorite movies list is stuff Gregory Hines was in; the man had fine taste in projects.)
Speaking of ancient movies... NYC has internet kiosks all over the city like fire hydrants, far more of them than the phone booths they supposedly replaced. The sides are LED screens and they show NYC facts and subway info and weather and art about the city. (The NYC facts were great on 1 April because they were all bullshit.) Anyway, their latest thing is to have a very stylized scene from a movie that takes place in NYC where they don't give the film's title, but instead the date and the location inside the city. Some of them are super-obvious -- Ghostbusters, King Kong -- but I'm pleased that I was able to parse out the ones for The Highlander and The Warriors instantly because those were more challenging if you'd never seen them.
I have an Avengers ticket for the 30th, which is the Tuesday after it opens. I could have gotten a ticket for the Sunday, but that's Orthodox Easter and I am expected to chow down on lamb with the family-of-choice. I see the family-of-blood this Friday for Pesach and I'm grateful for the wine. I'm excited and not for the movie; I am three movies past being over The Tony Show and I'm not the fan they are servicing. I might be the fan they are servicing with the Falcon and Winter Soldier show, though, even if it's going to be a hard PG. I want it to be like Running Scared, the Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal movie, which I loved a lot. (Half of my favorite movies list is stuff Gregory Hines was in; the man had fine taste in projects.)
Speaking of ancient movies... NYC has internet kiosks all over the city like fire hydrants, far more of them than the phone booths they supposedly replaced. The sides are LED screens and they show NYC facts and subway info and weather and art about the city. (The NYC facts were great on 1 April because they were all bullshit.) Anyway, their latest thing is to have a very stylized scene from a movie that takes place in NYC where they don't give the film's title, but instead the date and the location inside the city. Some of them are super-obvious -- Ghostbusters, King Kong -- but I'm pleased that I was able to parse out the ones for The Highlander and The Warriors instantly because those were more challenging if you'd never seen them.
