Distractions and announcement

[sabotabby]

Some recent things I've seen:

• Oleanna (thanks to human_loser for dragging me out when I otherwise would have just gone to sleep!). It's a great production of a play that's hard as hell to do properly, so if you live in Toronto, get out there and go see it. (The director is this dude, who is awesome, and Melyssa Ade is playing Carol.) It's at Palmerston Library (at Palmerston and Bloor) every night at 8 PM until Saturday, and it's PWYC on Sunday.

• Brokeback Mountain. (I know this is old meme; I didn't have a chance to see it when it was in theaters.) Sorry kids; I wanted to like it because the Leviticans hated it so much, but really, they only hated it because they didn't see it. If you've seen the trailer, you've basically seen the movie, and it's very boring for the most part. The one positive that stuck in my mind was a comment that M. made about how the movie is about concepts that can't be articulated in the language the characters speak. Which I think worked for me in the last few scenes, but pretty much nowhere else.

• Season 2 of the new Doctor Who. I'm finally caught up to where the UK people are. (Go ahead and squee some more in the comments.) Is it me, or they being even more steampunk than last year? I mean, you have the werewolf-thing trying to take over Queen Victoria so that it can accelerate history and have spaceships run on steam (why didn't they just let it do that? It'd be hardcore!) and alternate!London with frickin' zeppelins. And the clockwork robots in pre-Revolutionary France? I am a happy girl.

Quote of the Day:

From 1948 to 2005, 17 people have been killed by alligators in Florida -- about 0.30 deaths per year. In 2006, so far three alligator-related fatalities have occurred -- a tenfold increase over the trend. If this keeps up, 30 people will die next year, 300 in 2008, and so forth until in the year 2013 the United States experiences a shocking 300 million deaths by alligator. At that point, we'll be begging for immigrants.
--Matthew Yglesias

(Link.)

Finally, if you are in Toronto this Saturday, follow the cut to see what you should be doing:

Comments

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

Brokeback Mountain. (I know this is old meme; I didn't have a chance to see it when it was in theaters.) Sorry kids; I wanted to like it because the Leviticans hated it so much, but really, they only hated it because they didn't see it. If you've seen the trailer, you've basically seen the movie, and it's very boring for the most part. The one positive that stuck in my mind was a comment that M. made about how the movie is about concepts that can't be articulated in the language the characters speak. Which I think worked for me in the last few scenes, but pretty much nowhere else.

I thought it was okay. I was the sixties and I think that its a period peice and perhaps more accessible in that light, at least 40 years later....I thought that some of the characters erm...lacked any development, but not all films have to spell out each character to be acceptible. It was okay.

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

I was the sixties

It was [set in] the early sixties....

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

I felt myself empathizing with some of the closet cases I've known in my life when I saw that film. But not so much.

[sabotabby]

The thing is, I really couldn't empathize with any of the characters. They all seemed to be passive victims of circumstance, and maybe I could sympathize more if they weren't all such pricks about it.

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

Compassion for pricks seems to be a theme...

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

PS: Habby Pirthday!

[sabotabby]

Pthanks!

It's funny; I can be compassionate—or at least sympathetic—to a prickish character, but not a passive prickish character. It was the combination thereof that made me dislike all four of the main characters.

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

The wives weren't really characters, more like accessories. I found myself wanting more character development of the wives situations. Or maybe I just thought the actress was cute. Who knows.

I know a guy whose a bit like "the top" in the film.

[sonicage.livejournal.com]

(Happy Birthday)

[sabotabby]

(Thanks!)

Happy Birthday!

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

Here's a prezzie!

Brokeback, in 30 seconds, by bunnies.

Re: Happy Birthday!

[sabotabby]

That was much better than the movie because it had bunnies in it. I'll go with that version.