ARGH!

I had such a nice, productive shopping day yesterday, and then I go to play one of the games I got from Game Stop, and I find it's the XBOX version despite the fact that I have the PlayStation 2 case and that that is what I handed to the stupid woman in the store. And I have to go back to that store to replace it for the proper version. Which means that I have to go all the way back down to Eighth St. in seven days--costing myself $4 on transit fare since I don't have a monthly card--to get the version I fucking paid for.

The real irony is that on the receipt they congratulate me for saving TWO WHOLE DOLLARS (ZOMG!) by buying a used game. Fuckers. This is the insult to injury after I had to wait around for fifteen minutes in the store for them to bring out the copy of the new game I bought, too. Fuckers fuckers fuckers!

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Great quote from wellgull today after seeing Children of Men. I mentioned it was time to go home and watch something with sunshine and rainbows and unicorns because they'd counterbalance the depressing stuff from the movie.

wellgull: Unicorns are rapists!

I could explain it, but why ruin it? Also, before I left him and moonlightalice on the platform, I called over my shoulder "You're a pervert!" like right into the face of a girl getting onto the train with me. Said woman kept giving me a silly grin whenever I looked over in her direction. She looked alarmingly like a hotter Princess Astra/Romana II, for reference (for the two, maybe, of you who will understand that). Oh yeah, smooooooth.

For the record, Children of Men is very good, well performed, and a bit bleak. Like Pan's Labyrinth, the violence in it was meant to shock you with both how gruesome it could be but also how real. In particular, the scene towards the end, there are people in awe of one of the heroes, and as you watch them bow and reach for the hero as divinity, there's this whole pause in the violence, but there isn't at the same time. One of the people bowing and looking on in awe is shot in the head, people go back to killing each other, only a moment for peace. Of course, the violence was intentionally referencing the situation in Iraq, both by association, homage, and just feel. As the main character runs around, the government shoots at anyone who isn't the government; factions shoot at one another and the army troops; people trying to surrender to one or another side are cut down; hiding space/cover is sparse and people bunch up cowering behind one another. Nothing makes sense. For no reason, off of no allegiance, no betrayal, people are murdered. People who determinedly stay out of it...can't. I find that more heartbreaking and compelling than the duplicated image of the prisoner from Abu Gharib standing with his arms out and a bag on his head. We get it, trust me.