The Violin Is Climbing The Bookshelf
Mar. 27th, 2005 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This weekend was a pretty good one, despite the fact that I'm in withdrawal. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stickypawz didn't really have a game to run or anything on Friday, so we ended up hanging out for much of the evening instead. I also took down half a bottle of this really great zinfandel (Rabbit Ridge, natch), blathered on to a friend or two in an embarrassingly honest manner, and went to bed feeling great love and affection for people in general. No writing was done, alas.
On Saturday, I thought I would treat local job heroarlekin to a Guys' Day Out, and so we went to have lunch at the Hogs' Breath Eatery and see a movie. Lunch was actually pretty decent; I've always loved the name of the restaurant precisely because it sounds like a very painfully typical D+D tavern. It turns out it's really just a greasy spoon that specializes in customized baked potatoes. I got the burger instead this trip, because it's a good measuring stick to judge a new restaurant by; if their burger is solid, then they probably have enough culinary know-how to tackle other stuff. If they neglect their burger skills for other stuff, then who knows what else they'll be lax about? ;) But the burger was good, so no worries there. Next time I'll have to try their mutant baked potato with broccoli and cheese.
So yes, then came "Robots." I was actually a little blase about going to see the movie until I learned that William Joyce had done all the production design on the characters and the enormous city of...well, Robot City. I'm a really big fan of "Rolie Polie Olie," (and no, I'm *not* ashamed to admit it) so I was pretty stoked suddenly. :)
The writing in the movie has its clever moments; unfortunately, almost none of them belong to Robin Williams, who seems to be coasting on natural charm these days when it comes to comedy. The really good lines he had were really quick, though, and so I found myself suddenly laughing two or three beats behind this joke. It made me look a bit daft, I think. :) Anyway, the movie is very sweet if not particularly engaging, and the characters are fairly likable. I found myself strangely attracted to this Big Weld guy, even if he was a PAINFULLY OBVIOUS Walt Disney stand in, and even if Phineas T Ratchet was an EQUALLY PAINFULLY OBVIOUS Eisner stand-in. The cooler parts of the movie more than made up for the parts where the movie dragged; the mass transportation system was just incredibly awesome, the very elaborate domino scene was equally wondrous, and using Tom Waits in a children's movie to introduce the seedier aspects of society is a trend borne of genius and I sincerely hope it continues. :D (I nearly jumped up and danced when he started playing in the bar during "Shrek 2.") Arlekin and I both rejoiced heartily when we heard him.
Anyway, after that, Hastings and the Beating, where I took care of the rest of my zinfandel and spazzed to someone about the importance of gaming in preserving the power of oral storytelling. I'm at this point where I think I need to seriously start boning up on all the Campbell and Jung out there, because the more I think about the Story itself, and storytelling as an artform, the more excited I get about it.
Sunday was spent making a character for this online Eberron thing I'm going to try out. I have the first story and I think it's a neat one, but I've never run Dungeons and Dragons before in any capacity, so I'm nervous about how it'll turn out.lazarusrat is the font of all patience with me, and I doubt toob will catch too many of my goofs unless they're sickeningly obvious.
stickypawz didn't really have a game to run or anything on Friday, so we ended up hanging out for much of the evening instead. I also took down half a bottle of this really great zinfandel (Rabbit Ridge, natch), blathered on to a friend or two in an embarrassingly honest manner, and went to bed feeling great love and affection for people in general. No writing was done, alas.On Saturday, I thought I would treat local job hero
arlekin to a Guys' Day Out, and so we went to have lunch at the Hogs' Breath Eatery and see a movie. Lunch was actually pretty decent; I've always loved the name of the restaurant precisely because it sounds like a very painfully typical D+D tavern. It turns out it's really just a greasy spoon that specializes in customized baked potatoes. I got the burger instead this trip, because it's a good measuring stick to judge a new restaurant by; if their burger is solid, then they probably have enough culinary know-how to tackle other stuff. If they neglect their burger skills for other stuff, then who knows what else they'll be lax about? ;) But the burger was good, so no worries there. Next time I'll have to try their mutant baked potato with broccoli and cheese. So yes, then came "Robots." I was actually a little blase about going to see the movie until I learned that William Joyce had done all the production design on the characters and the enormous city of...well, Robot City. I'm a really big fan of "Rolie Polie Olie," (and no, I'm *not* ashamed to admit it) so I was pretty stoked suddenly. :)
The writing in the movie has its clever moments; unfortunately, almost none of them belong to Robin Williams, who seems to be coasting on natural charm these days when it comes to comedy. The really good lines he had were really quick, though, and so I found myself suddenly laughing two or three beats behind this joke. It made me look a bit daft, I think. :) Anyway, the movie is very sweet if not particularly engaging, and the characters are fairly likable. I found myself strangely attracted to this Big Weld guy, even if he was a PAINFULLY OBVIOUS Walt Disney stand in, and even if Phineas T Ratchet was an EQUALLY PAINFULLY OBVIOUS Eisner stand-in. The cooler parts of the movie more than made up for the parts where the movie dragged; the mass transportation system was just incredibly awesome, the very elaborate domino scene was equally wondrous, and using Tom Waits in a children's movie to introduce the seedier aspects of society is a trend borne of genius and I sincerely hope it continues. :D (I nearly jumped up and danced when he started playing in the bar during "Shrek 2.") Arlekin and I both rejoiced heartily when we heard him.
Anyway, after that, Hastings and the Beating, where I took care of the rest of my zinfandel and spazzed to someone about the importance of gaming in preserving the power of oral storytelling. I'm at this point where I think I need to seriously start boning up on all the Campbell and Jung out there, because the more I think about the Story itself, and storytelling as an artform, the more excited I get about it.
Sunday was spent making a character for this online Eberron thing I'm going to try out. I have the first story and I think it's a neat one, but I've never run Dungeons and Dragons before in any capacity, so I'm nervous about how it'll turn out.
lazarusrat is the font of all patience with me, and I doubt toob will catch too many of my goofs unless they're sickeningly obvious. [Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<:)>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.]
This weekend was a pretty good one, despite the fact that I'm in withdrawal. <user site="livejournal.com" user="stickypawz"> didn't really have a game to run or anything on Friday, so we ended up hanging out for much of the evening instead. I also took down half a bottle of this really great zinfandel (Rabbit Ridge, natch), blathered on to a friend or two in an embarrassingly honest manner, and went to bed feeling great love and affection for people in general. No writing was done, alas.
On Saturday, I thought I would treat local job hero <user site="livejournal.com" user="arlekin"> to a Guys' Day Out, and so we went to have lunch at the Hogs' Breath Eatery and see a movie. Lunch was actually pretty decent; I've always loved the name of the restaurant precisely because it sounds like a very painfully typical D+D tavern. It turns out it's really just a greasy spoon that specializes in customized baked potatoes. I got the burger instead this trip, because it's a good measuring stick to judge a new restaurant by; if their burger is solid, then they probably have enough culinary know-how to tackle other stuff. If they neglect their burger skills for other stuff, then who knows what else they'll be lax about? ;) But the burger was good, so no worries there. Next time I'll have to try their mutant baked potato with broccoli and cheese.
So yes, then came "Robots." I was actually a little blase about going to see the movie until I learned that <a href="http://www.harperchildrens.com/williamjoyce/homepage.htm">William Joyce</a> had done all the production design on the characters and the enormous city of...well, Robot City. I'm a really big fan of "Rolie Polie Olie," (and no, I'm *not* ashamed to admit it) so I was pretty stoked suddenly. :)
The writing in the movie has its clever moments; unfortunately, almost none of them belong to Robin Williams, who seems to be coasting on natural charm these days when it comes to comedy. The really good lines he had were really quick, though, and so I found myself suddenly laughing two or three beats behind this joke. It made me look a bit daft, I think. :) Anyway, the movie is very sweet if not particularly engaging, and the characters are fairly likable. I found myself strangely attracted to this Big Weld guy, even if he was a PAINFULLY OBVIOUS Walt Disney stand in, and even if Phineas T Ratchet was an EQUALLY PAINFULLY OBVIOUS Eisner stand-in. The cooler parts of the movie more than made up for the parts where the movie dragged; the mass transportation system was just incredibly awesome, the very elaborate domino scene was equally wondrous, and using Tom Waits in a children's movie to introduce the seedier aspects of society is a trend borne of genius and I sincerely hope it continues. :D (I nearly jumped up and danced when he started playing in the bar during "Shrek 2.") Arlekin and I both rejoiced heartily when we heard him.
Anyway, after that, Hastings and the Beating, where I took care of the rest of my zinfandel and spazzed to someone about the importance of gaming in preserving the power of oral storytelling. I'm at this point where I think I need to seriously start boning up on all the Campbell and Jung out there, because the more I think about the Story itself, and storytelling as an artform, the more excited I get about it.
Sunday was spent making a character for this online Eberron thing I'm going to try out. I have the first story and I think it's a neat one, but I've never run Dungeons and Dragons before in any capacity, so I'm nervous about how it'll turn out. <user site="livejournal.com" user="lazarusrat"> is the font of all patience with me, and I doubt <user site="livejournal.com" user="toob"> will catch too many of my goofs unless they're sickeningly obvious. <:) After that, I went in and celebrated Arlekin's new job some more, and that was well worth it. Bought some neat inscence and a holder for my altar at home. The altar is small, and I haven't quite laid it all out yet, but it's taking shape a little bit more all the time. It's nothing fancy; right now I have a meditating cat figurine, an inscence holder and a rabbit head that <user site="livejournal.com" user="reahkitty"> gave me. I'll add directional/elemental components as they feel right, but right now it's definitely feeling quite warreny for Rabbit. :)
Rabbit as a totem is pretty cemented by now, I think, and I feel a lot more comfortable with working that route than I've felt in a very long time. A bad experience or two doomed me to ever feeling really groovy with Raven, because I was letting the judgement of other folks get in the way of learning what needed to be learned. Ah well, them's the breaks.
Finally, <user site="livejournal.com" user="writerrabbit"> is up and running. Go check it out, give me feedback, tell me *why* it sucks. Thanks. :)
On Saturday, I thought I would treat local job hero <user site="livejournal.com" user="arlekin"> to a Guys' Day Out, and so we went to have lunch at the Hogs' Breath Eatery and see a movie. Lunch was actually pretty decent; I've always loved the name of the restaurant precisely because it sounds like a very painfully typical D+D tavern. It turns out it's really just a greasy spoon that specializes in customized baked potatoes. I got the burger instead this trip, because it's a good measuring stick to judge a new restaurant by; if their burger is solid, then they probably have enough culinary know-how to tackle other stuff. If they neglect their burger skills for other stuff, then who knows what else they'll be lax about? ;) But the burger was good, so no worries there. Next time I'll have to try their mutant baked potato with broccoli and cheese.
So yes, then came "Robots." I was actually a little blase about going to see the movie until I learned that <a href="http://www.harperchildrens.com/williamjoyce/homepage.htm">William Joyce</a> had done all the production design on the characters and the enormous city of...well, Robot City. I'm a really big fan of "Rolie Polie Olie," (and no, I'm *not* ashamed to admit it) so I was pretty stoked suddenly. :)
The writing in the movie has its clever moments; unfortunately, almost none of them belong to Robin Williams, who seems to be coasting on natural charm these days when it comes to comedy. The really good lines he had were really quick, though, and so I found myself suddenly laughing two or three beats behind this joke. It made me look a bit daft, I think. :) Anyway, the movie is very sweet if not particularly engaging, and the characters are fairly likable. I found myself strangely attracted to this Big Weld guy, even if he was a PAINFULLY OBVIOUS Walt Disney stand in, and even if Phineas T Ratchet was an EQUALLY PAINFULLY OBVIOUS Eisner stand-in. The cooler parts of the movie more than made up for the parts where the movie dragged; the mass transportation system was just incredibly awesome, the very elaborate domino scene was equally wondrous, and using Tom Waits in a children's movie to introduce the seedier aspects of society is a trend borne of genius and I sincerely hope it continues. :D (I nearly jumped up and danced when he started playing in the bar during "Shrek 2.") Arlekin and I both rejoiced heartily when we heard him.
Anyway, after that, Hastings and the Beating, where I took care of the rest of my zinfandel and spazzed to someone about the importance of gaming in preserving the power of oral storytelling. I'm at this point where I think I need to seriously start boning up on all the Campbell and Jung out there, because the more I think about the Story itself, and storytelling as an artform, the more excited I get about it.
Sunday was spent making a character for this online Eberron thing I'm going to try out. I have the first story and I think it's a neat one, but I've never run Dungeons and Dragons before in any capacity, so I'm nervous about how it'll turn out. <user site="livejournal.com" user="lazarusrat"> is the font of all patience with me, and I doubt <user site="livejournal.com" user="toob"> will catch too many of my goofs unless they're sickeningly obvious. <:) After that, I went in and celebrated Arlekin's new job some more, and that was well worth it. Bought some neat inscence and a holder for my altar at home. The altar is small, and I haven't quite laid it all out yet, but it's taking shape a little bit more all the time. It's nothing fancy; right now I have a meditating cat figurine, an inscence holder and a rabbit head that <user site="livejournal.com" user="reahkitty"> gave me. I'll add directional/elemental components as they feel right, but right now it's definitely feeling quite warreny for Rabbit. :)
Rabbit as a totem is pretty cemented by now, I think, and I feel a lot more comfortable with working that route than I've felt in a very long time. A bad experience or two doomed me to ever feeling really groovy with Raven, because I was letting the judgement of other folks get in the way of learning what needed to be learned. Ah well, them's the breaks.
Finally, <user site="livejournal.com" user="writerrabbit"> is up and running. Go check it out, give me feedback, tell me *why* it sucks. Thanks. :)
