Another check in the win column

[jchrisobrien]

A good (and victorious) game was had against Keith's beast army.    I had to rush, but I got in a workout, dinner, and time to hang out with Heatray and Tegin before the club.  He had the new Buffy comic (essentially season 8, written by Joss Whedon).  There is a big gap between the end of the series and the start of this one, and lots has happened.  It's a little jarring.  I want to give it a good read before I comment too much on it, but they got Xander's character right on.  I love his new look!

S-o-M was great.  I reconnected with the Providence Trio, there will be more fun times to be had once the weather gets warmer.  There was a good ratio of drinking to dancing, and a number of familiar faces I don't normally see at Machine.  I got all my passengers home safe, and had a little Journey sing along before bed. 

Sunday was tiring, but we pressed on through a perilous battle in our DND game.  Next week we'll jump into the thick of it.  I ended the evening with Perihelion, watching Howl's Moving Castle over a few drinks.  Perihelion is a fantastically generous and amazing guy, and I'm quite honored to be his friend.  How's Moving Castle was chock full of cuteness.  I was a bit confused about the curse on the main character.  It seemed to fade in and out over time, I think it was because the closer she got to figuring out to break it, the more she would change.  It was still a little confusing, but a treat to watch. 

 

Comments

[talesinsdaughtr.livejournal.com]

I thought the same thing about Howl's Moving Castle. But firstly, I usually assume I'm missing something due to translation or context and secondly, I just end up enjoying his stories in a very simple way and don't pay much attention to the inconsistencies: "Look! Cute things! Pay no attention to that dangling plot hook!" :)

[silas7.livejournal.com]

It's like they have a competition of cuteness, kinda like American Ido, and all the top cute things get their place in the movie.

It was chock full o' cute! (turnip head, the apprentic and his beard, and the dog were the cutest)

[silentq.livejournal.com]

There's at least one thing that's more clear in the book than the movie, but I don't think the fading in and out of the curse was part of the book. I thought that it faded while she slept, and one fade was a dream sequence.

[silas7.livejournal.com]

I noticed that while she was sleeping. Maybe I'll just chock up all the fading sequences to the dream sequence.

I was getting very sleepy near the end of it, so perhaps I was having my own dream sequence :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_perihelion_/]

thanks for coming over. it was fun. maybe next time we can try and figure out how to get my PS2 to play 2 person games and kill some little electronic blips. :)

[silas7.livejournal.com]

I'm probably very bad at it, but I'm willing to learn!