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[trinityvixen]

I dreamt last night that some problem closed the browser I was using at work, thus losing all the artists at DeviantArt that I'd found and not yet gone through. I woke up in the middle of the night really annoyed and yet relieved by this--I was free! Free of the elf pictures and goth characters! Nope, browser working just fine when I got in.

I also dreamt that I was back at my sister and brother-in-law's place for Christmas, and that his joke gift had been a GIGANTIC Hawai'i shirt from my sister. It was yellow with black and white and gray flowers, the typical print, but had a lovely brown bottom piece that I liked a lot. Unforutunately, it looked like you could have put two sumo wrestlers into it and they would still be swimming in fabric. It might have worked as a sheet for their bed, which is a California King, and even then, I'm not sure you'd be able to find the bed through it. I have this distinct image of Jotham holding it up and it just expaaaaanding until it was floor-to-ceiling between collar and hem. My brother-in-law is 6'5" and not tiny. He vanished behind the thing.

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Saw Pan's Labyrinth last night with a whole host of people. It started out as moonlightalice and I and escalated from there. She brought wellgull, I brought my former roommate. She brought two more people, I brought two more. Her friend balanced out former roommate's friend's boyfriend, and the match was a draw.

Oh, and the movie was good. Sad, horrific in ways that few reviews I'd read had mentioned (though feiran kindly warned me when she saw it Friday), and, okay, so I was a little clueless about the politics (I turned to moonlightalice for an explanation of specifics and began with, "Okay, so I know nothing about Spain, uh, when did this happen?") but it was a fairy tale so it was easy to figure baddies from goodies, even when the goodies were a little scary, too (uh, maybe it's just me, but I would have preferred the fairies stay bugs--just saying). Enjoyable, but I'm not raving about it. Maybe that's being saved for Children of Men.

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Enjoyable throughout, a bit slow on the pacing, but pretty harsh and gritty in a realistic (versus "noir"-ish) sense. You'd probably really like it, but yeah, lots of grossness, too.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Bah. If there's grossness I'll definitely have to watch it on my own. Maybe I will anyway, though, if I'm not busy every weekend from now til it closes.