Went and saw Underworld last night afterall. We saw it in a theater we've never been to because it's way on the other side of the area. But we wanted to see it with our friend Tommy and his wife and they live down there so we went that way instead of making them come up by us.
The theater itself is really nice. It's in a mall that I don't know how it's still open. There haven't been stores there in years. It's 90% empty. The area is kinda...hickish/redneckish, but the theater was only built a couple years ago. It was actually really nice. The seats reclined back so you're not stuck stiff straight the entire movie (something that I hate because it kills my neck). The sound was crazy! It was really excellent but wow, it was so loud that my ears were ringing afterwards. I wrote up a quickie review earlier and I'm going to paste it here instead of writing one again.
I went and saw it last night with some friends. Overall, I enjoyed it. There isn't a lot of actual plot, but the action doesn't stop and there's no moment were I felt like the movie was dragging or anything. There are a few Matrix slow moments, but it's not overdone and each time it occurrs, you "ooh" because they do something cool.
The vampires seemed really wussy in most of the film - they could jump of buildings and shoot really well (while wearing corsets and skin-tight vinal catsuits), but that was about it. The werewolves on the other hand were HUGE, could run as fast as a car, climb walls with their claws, etc. They also took a massive beating and kept coming.
They didn't get into the details, but the vampires in this storyline weren't "dead" in the traditional way, because they make mention that one vampire had a daughter and his daughter was pregnant with child. So, it seems some are "born" that way and others made that way. (though again, they didn't get into the details)
The sound in the theater we saw it was VERY intense and VERY dynamic. Bullets flying, shells hitting the ground, the THUD of the werewolves as they pounded across floors, etc. So loud in fact, my ears were ringing at the end.
The entire movie is blue-tinted as it all takes place at night in dark settings, but I found it didn't bother me. There wasn't too much "dizzy cam" as I call it - when a director cuts uber fast in a fight scene so you can't tell what's going on and it makes you dizzy and there wasn't any other visual annoyances like strobes or such.
The movie was pretty straight-forward. Vampires and werewolves battling each other with the one lead woman trying to find out what was so special about this human the werewolves were after. The movie is predominately her with snippits of supporting cast scattered throughout, but she does well. I enjoyed it and wasn't disappointed (though I was really concerned I might be). I would recommend anyone with an interest in a dark, gothic, vamp vs. were movie to see it. Those who don't like the genre wouldn't like the movie. (Hense why the reviews for it are pretty much love or hate. People say they love it because it's a dark vamp/were movie or they say they hate it because it's a dark vamp/were movie). So if you like the theme, then you'll enjoy the flick.
So yeah, I liked it. It wasn't some Oscar winner for depth of plot, but it was good and it wasn't boring at all. It carried you along for two hours and you weren't waiting impatiently for it to end. There is some gore and some EWWW! moments, but they're not that common. There is a lot of shooting and guns and violence though - this definately isn't one for the kiddies.
Alright, going to go get ready. We're going to go do something today though I'm not sure what yet. :) Ta.
Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!
So Jef came over yesterday and Karii came by on her way home from work. Jef had gotten some new Xbox game (he had lent us his Xboxfor a couple day so my Love could play the Buffy: Chaos Bleeds game) and wanted us all to play it. It's called Dungeon's & Dragons' Heroes. All four of us played at the same time and sheesh, I ended up being an elf wizard (who of course was wearing nothing but a leather bra and "skirt" so I named her ELFBITCH) and I died like a million times. They all kept assuring me that (if I ever lived long enough to go up in levels) I'd be kick ass, but, really, all I saw was this side of reloading after dying. *lol* My Love was a fighter dude (named "BIGPAPPA" - yeah, we use silly names), Jef was a Halfling Rogue and Karii was a dwarf cleric. We ended up playing the game - and making silly RPG jokes a la the Summoner game's hidden video of them playing D&D (I kept saying "I cast Magic Missle!" because, well, I did.) It was really silly and the monsters were the same exact color of the background no matter what level we were in prompting us to all move much closer to the tv but we had fun. We played it for a couple hours in fact.
Tonight we may or may not be going to see Underworld. One of our friends is seeing it tonight, but another can't. If we don't see it tonight, we'll probably go see it tomorrow.
Next Thursday we're probably going to use our last day of the Play Four Disney pass. We're taking Jef and possibly Rand with us. (Jef's never been and we knew he'd love it). The ironic thing is that the 25th-27th is our anniversary. In fact, this year makes it five years. The reason that there's a couple days involved is an interesting story. Five years ago now, there was a hurricane heading directly for us. So directly in fact that everything closed down and we had an evacuation order where were we living at the time. So we packed up and headed out. We ended up driving to Georgia. Yeah I don't know, we didn't plan to, we just did. We went to a place called Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Ga. He had been there as a child and remembered it was very pretty. We ended up spending the next couple days there before coming home. So we call that our official anniversary. We had known each other for a few months before that and we had become friends and were interested in each other, but that was the first time we really were together just the two of us. It was romantic and it was spontaneous and it was paid for on my now defunct Discover card. The really funny thing of the story is that the storm turned at the very last moment and there wasn't even much of a rainy day from it afterall.
I'm sad though that we can't do anything special for our anniversary. I'm sadder still that I can't even really get him anything - I've got no money and we've got bills to pay. It seems like we really should do something after five years, but unfortunately, I don't think much of anything can happen without some extra funds. :( Oh well... I can't believe though that it's been this long.
Alrighty well I'm going to go take a shower in the event we do end up seeing Underworld tonight. Out for now.
Real Men of Genius You know those hysterical Bud Light radio commercials? Where they salute Mr. Male Football Cheerleader and Mr. Silent Killer Gas Passer? They're all gathered together on this site. There's 28 "Real American Heroes" and 26 "Real Men of Genius" here and you can listen to them or download them. Very funny.
Let's see.... I put two of the necklaces I made up for auction on Ebay: *** Go Here To See Them *** I did it because I am behind on both of my domain hosting fees. (because of a nice friend, I now have one of them paid for, but I still need to pay for this domain - $28.50) Problem is that I'm overdue and I simply don't have the money. So anyone who wants a kick-ass, handmade, one-of-a-kind necklace made by me, please go put a bid on it. You get a way cool necklace and I get to catch up on my hosting fees. In the event you don't want a necklace made by me (and why not? I do nice work!) but want to help out, you could nudge a buck or two in the giveneyestosee support fund (It's one of those things that while I don't have $30 at the moment, perhaps if a few people each had a couple bucks I could get the damned thing taken care of for the next three months). *sigh*
Still haven't heard anything from the bookstores I've given my ap too. Nice hu? I finally decide to get back into the world for 15-25 hours a week, try to hold down a schedule and really face the concept of getting out of my depression and hermitness and I can't even find someone willing to give me a damned retail job. So much for my self-esteem, hu? Sheesh. It's for things like this that I need the extra couple bucks. I just don't have any money this week - there's $9 in the checking until Friday - and even $6/hour right now would help take some edge off. And yet, no one's calling me.
Answered a bunch of my overdue emails tonight and damn are my fingers hurting now. I swear I have a minor arthritis in them which totally blows. On top of it, I'm crampy and my neck is absurdly killing me. One of those if I even stop to consider it seriously for a second sort of things I'm going to cry. There's also a migraine lurking because of the neck which is evidant by my annoying hyper light sensitivity at the moment. I swear, I get so light sensitive when I get migraines it should be a world record. Ugh. Not like it does me any good, it just means that the little green lights on my cable modem are the sun to me.
Um....some friends are over playing Soul Caliber II in the living room right now but I've just not been feeling really great so I've not been hanging out there with them. I feel really anti-social but it's not a lot of fun to sit there and not participate - especially when the horrid bright light is on out there - and I don't really feel like playing the video game. Eh.
I finished my book a couple days ago and I'm going stir crazy. I ALWAYS have a novel I'm reading at any given time and right now, I don't. I've already read cover-to-cover three magazines in the last like day but it's not the same. I need a book but with $9 in my checking account, it will be another three days before I can hope to get a novel. Arg. To add insult to injury, there's even a new novel out by my favorite writer, Charles DeLint called, Spirit in the Wires *whimpers* Damned hardcovers costing $29 these days. *sighs*
Alright, enough bitching, I'm out for now. (besides my damned fingers are yelling at me to stop typing anyway.)
Photography Fans, take note! I got a neat email tonight about a site I'd not yet heard of. The owner of the site, David emailed me after coming across a photo I had submitted to the Mirror Project. His site is called A Picture's Worth and it's a site to display not only photos, but the story and the inspiration behind it. To quote the site, In line with the idea that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, visitors are invited to share the memories, emotions or creative stories triggered by a photograph of personal significance. So it's both the photo and the meaing of the photo which are displayed.
Very neat concept and I will be going through my photos to look for a submission. I suggest you do the same. I'm setting up a permanent link under the "cool stuff" over in the navigation.
Spent the day yesterday hanging out with our friend Rand at his house and running some general errands. Today we're going to look at some apartments because we're thinking about seriously moving. It's a heated discussion though because right now, we're in a two bedroom/two bath apartment and getting a good deal. Everything in the price range we're at is only like a 1/1. We like having two bathrooms and you only get those with two bedrooms and we need a second room because we have his computer also (mine's in the master bedroom) and his drafting table where he draws. There's no way we'd be able to fit that in either a living room or a master bedroom again. Ugh. He wants to move because our neighbors at this building are terrible. Like we're in the ghetto. They stomp, slam, yell (full-on Jerry Springer moments), leave their trash out on the walkway, riddle the entire buidling with cigerette butts, leave peices of furnature and appliances outside their door, etc. It's terrible. And when they slam things around down there - which happens so much you can't even keep count - it literally shakes our walls and floors. That's just wrong. So...he wants to move no matter what, even if we have to give up everything and get some dinky 1/1. I say that since there's zero guarentee that our next neighbors will be any quieter (because that's just something you won't know until you actually commit and move in there) that we shouldn't move unless we can improve on our situation somehow - like get a newer apartment, or nicer amenities, etc. So, it's a bit of disagreement here and so we've got to pound some pavement and see what we can find that's nice, has what we want (like there's no way I'm going to give up having a washer and dryer in the apartment itself) and what's in our price range. *sigh*
I utterly completely and passionately HATE moving.
