Weekend report back
Right, one more week of me holding down the fort (cue Godsmack's I Stand Alone), so one more week of shorter blog posts... unless I can motivate myself to do some longer posts in the evenings. We'll see.
Anyway, as for this weekend's activities, Friday evening was a wine-filled braai/barbecue with twenty-something geeky types. So there was much talk of role-playing, video games, fantasy films, cult sci-fi TV series, and, of course, the 80's cartoons that defined our childhood... and how we could cast them if they were live-action today.
*Snorts in glee, rubs at glasses and takes a hit on an asthma pump*
Seriously, it was interesting to discover the one guy there was just 22, and as a result did not share in our cultural references at all. It's the amazing the difference 4 years or so makes.
The bf got back from overseas on Saturday afternoon, so apart from some World of WarCraft on Saturday morning, most of Saturday was spent listening to stories about Slovakia (yes, the chicks are as hot as they are reputed to be), Austria (Vienna is incredibly clean and its disciplined population DOES NOT even jay-walk) and France (the Eiffel Tower is waaay bigger than you think).
In the evening we gorged on KFC and watched 2 episodes of South Park Season 11, which Paul had downloaded with his access to a super-fast First World Internet connection over the past 2 weeks.
"We are Lesbos!"
I'm someone who is quite happy to wait for a TV series to be shown locally, or for a collected box set to be released, but the fact that South Africa is 2 years behind in showing South Park episodes just pisses me off - especially since South Park is so topical and needs to be screened within 6 months of the issue it's parodying for it to have any great impact.
Sunday was spent playing some more WOW and baking. Paul's got back from Europe with a Continental obsession with home baked, fresh bread.
Anyway, I also finished re-reading The Hobbit this weekend. It's going to make an awesome set of back-to-back movies. It's been years since I read the novel and I thoroughly enjoyed dipping back into the adventures of Bilbo and co.
I rounded off the weekend watching the original Alien, a recent addition to my DVD collection. It's hard to believe that next year this pioneering classic will be 30 years old. Ridley Scott's sci-fi-horror is a lot slower and more contemplative than most contemporary audiences are used to, but it's tense stuff nonetheless, and packed with creepy sexual imagery and suggestion (so much penetration!). Movies in 30 Seconds with Bunnies got the movie so right! Anyway, now to get hold of James Cameron's action-packed sequel.
Anyway, as for this weekend's activities, Friday evening was a wine-filled braai/barbecue with twenty-something geeky types. So there was much talk of role-playing, video games, fantasy films, cult sci-fi TV series, and, of course, the 80's cartoons that defined our childhood... and how we could cast them if they were live-action today.
*Snorts in glee, rubs at glasses and takes a hit on an asthma pump*
Seriously, it was interesting to discover the one guy there was just 22, and as a result did not share in our cultural references at all. It's the amazing the difference 4 years or so makes.
The bf got back from overseas on Saturday afternoon, so apart from some World of WarCraft on Saturday morning, most of Saturday was spent listening to stories about Slovakia (yes, the chicks are as hot as they are reputed to be), Austria (Vienna is incredibly clean and its disciplined population DOES NOT even jay-walk) and France (the Eiffel Tower is waaay bigger than you think).
In the evening we gorged on KFC and watched 2 episodes of South Park Season 11, which Paul had downloaded with his access to a super-fast First World Internet connection over the past 2 weeks.
"We are Lesbos!"
I'm someone who is quite happy to wait for a TV series to be shown locally, or for a collected box set to be released, but the fact that South Africa is 2 years behind in showing South Park episodes just pisses me off - especially since South Park is so topical and needs to be screened within 6 months of the issue it's parodying for it to have any great impact.
Sunday was spent playing some more WOW and baking. Paul's got back from Europe with a Continental obsession with home baked, fresh bread.
Anyway, I also finished re-reading The Hobbit this weekend. It's going to make an awesome set of back-to-back movies. It's been years since I read the novel and I thoroughly enjoyed dipping back into the adventures of Bilbo and co.
I rounded off the weekend watching the original Alien, a recent addition to my DVD collection. It's hard to believe that next year this pioneering classic will be 30 years old. Ridley Scott's sci-fi-horror is a lot slower and more contemplative than most contemporary audiences are used to, but it's tense stuff nonetheless, and packed with creepy sexual imagery and suggestion (so much penetration!). Movies in 30 Seconds with Bunnies got the movie so right! Anyway, now to get hold of James Cameron's action-packed sequel.
Comments
I wonder if they're going to put Beorn into the Hobbit movie. It seems like he and Tom Bombadil are favorites to be cut out of any adaptation that doesn't involve printed media.
However, personally I'd put Beorn in The Hobbit, primarily for the "coolness factor".
Cinematically it would be very impressive to see a massive black bear trampling over goblins and ripping them apart as he comes to the rescue of the dwarves, men and elves during the Battle of the Five Armies.