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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.

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[cbreakr.livejournal.com]

If it weren't for the fact that I finally watched Jin-Roh a couple of days ago, Pan's Labyrinth would have been the most depressing film I'd seen in a long, long time. Went out drinking with some old Fed people, saw the film at Sunshine, left completely sober and just wanting to go home. Stunning, but too harsh to get me enthused (and yeah, that first guy who died really set the mood).

Now, as for Children of Men... visually/technically amazing, the single-shot action sequences are unbelievable, Michael Caine is great. Something about the film just didn't click for me, though. It felt too clinical sometimes, like the story was told impersonally. The first half was plodding, but the second half made up for it by being really intense. It was good, but I don't know how I feel about it.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The comment I made about Pan's to some folks last night was that it felt real--as in they studied in depth the actual horrible things people do to one another and put that onscreen. The way the first guy died? There were things that could be done to him, things you could do with the weapon used, but I hadn't counted on them doing it without either using the blunt end or breaking the glass for the purpose. Boy, howdy.

And I do want to see Children of Men still, just I think I need to watch Totoro or something else ridiculously adorable and nonthreatening on repeat if I ddo.