But no popcorn

So what have I been doing for the past two weeks?

• Studying
• Worrying about my final project
• Short bursts of Minecraft
• More studying
• Enjoying the heat
• Drama-free roller derby for us retired folks
• A small amount of D&D
• Watching movies
• Not missing cable TV
• Introducing Lily to Blue’s Clues

Not having cable satellite TV has been fantastic.  We don’t have broadcast TV either because I just can’t be arsed to hook up the antennas to the TVs and they don’t work very well anyway since we’re directly under a flight path.  So it’s just us and our Netflix account.  I’ve been getting caught up on some things I’ve been meaning to watch for... well, decades.

Battlestar Galactica

So far we’ve only watched the first part of the miniseries.  I can see myself watching this whole series, but it didn’t hook me emotionally like other shows have (ST:TNG, Primeval, Stargate Universe).

Iron Man 2

Sweet holy cats on a rowboat, I can’t stop being attracted to Robert Downy Jr. in this movie.  I’m not normally a screaming fangirl of his, but the way he plays Tony Stark, a character I’ve always loathed, just gets me all riled up.  It’s that loveable asshole thing again.  The movie itself was pretty good – not great – and I really hope they can talk everyone into a third movie.

Rock-A-Doodle

I had never seen this before.  The animation is absolutely fantastic but it had the typical Don Bluth plot hole problems.

Rubber

Just... go watch this movie.  Everyone.  Tell everyone you know to watch this movie.

The Color of Magic

Another series for us to watch.  The casting for Rincewind and the Tourist was PERFECT.  I’m really excited to keep going with this one.  This was Husband’s first introduction to Discworld.  I’ve read four or five of the books.  Terry Pratchett is a very close second behind Douglas Adams in my mind.

The Business of Being Born

I was pretty sure I was going to do a home birth on the next kid before, but now I can’t imagine doing anything else.  Knowledge is power.

Wallace & Gromit: Loaf and Death

What can I say?  It’s Wallace & Gromit.

Cool World

Seriously, I’ve been meaning to see this movie since it came out.  I loves me some some Ralph Bakshi.  You wanna talk about Wizards?  Fritz the Cat?  Love that stuff.  And then there’s this movie.  Brad Pitt was really young and doing a half-animated-half-live-action movie is hard, but it really could have been better.  Everyone compares this to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the gold standard of the genre, and Cool World absolutely flops in comparison.  The live-action parts aren’t terrible, especially in the beginning of the movie.  The animated parts are amazing.  But when the two meet it just gets, well, bad.  It really seems like a bunch of important plot points were left out.  Like, why can’t Doodles and Noids have sex?  Where did Whiskers go and why?  What, exactly, did the sex-having do to threaten anything, and how did it tie into the spike?  Where did Jack’s “destiny” come from?  Was this pre-ordained?  Why and how did he become a Doodle and stay that way when Holly couldn’t stay a Noid?  What the fuck?  And why did Frank stay in Cool World?  Why is he a cop?  What would a real gun do to a Doodle anyway, and where did he get it in the first place?  What did he eat in Cool World?  Why was he immortal?  What the fuck?  The end was bad.  Really, really bad.  It helps to know that this movie was originally intended for a much younger audience but underwent a bunch of patchy re-writes.  So it went from serious to bizarre to campy to sexy to confusing to stupid and sappy.

Archer

Yep, this show is as funny as everyone says it is.  I play D&D with a guy who almost exclusively communicates via Archer quotes, so it’s nice to know what the hell he’s talking about sometimes.

Re-watches: Blade Runner, Fooly Cooly, Muppets from Space