Today so far

[beccaelizabeth]

Watched Peter Pan film with ... 'that dude that was Amanda's boyfriend in Highlander' isn't going to be useful description to very many of you... Jason Isaacs. Pretty. Hardly seen him in anything. Looking at imdb I'm kind of wondering how. Aside from avoiding Harry Potter like the plague.
ANYway
Peter Pan: a romance. with childrens, and the creepy grown up. and I discover my tolerance for children in danger has vanished, even when I know the story full well. so all in all oddly disturbing viewing.
Hook was pretty and Mr Darling was, well, darling. nice.
Is interesting way to do things. Isn't like the vague version in my head very much.

Watched 'Hollow man', which wasn't surprising but was visually interesting at many points. Human insides are really gross, yet interesting, specially when you know they're CGI so no actual humans had to get skinned.

Started watching some version of The Odyssey, then started forwarding, then forwarded it faster. Boring. How do they make it boring? Boring and weird and wrong. So I deleted it.

Watched 'Iron Man'. Robert Downey Jr still hot and sleezy and fascinating and perfect for the character. I had many thoughts on the hotness of intelligence and invention and beating up metal. Reckon 'Smith' got so popular for a reason there. Also the Iron Man suit was really, really nice. And the plot rolled along great. And there were lots of kabooms.
Reckon I like it just as well on DVD as I did at the cinema, though it did make me briefly wish for surround sound and more bass. Sound is not my TV's strong point. I think it just assumes you're going to plug it in to something else.

Very briefly saw part of John Barrowman's TV show. He looked happy. That's nice.
... I like fantasy and science fiction and things that go boom a lot. is very far from that.

next I shall watch something else.


Today was going to be more productive but first I sleeped to the afternoon and then BT phoned and I was reasonably polite telling them to go away but I have told them repeatedly to go away and also as soon as they hung up mum phoned so clearly they had interrupted my day.

Then mum talked about all the things that were giving her stress, which is a looooooooong list that thankfully doesn't have much to do with me, except the vague possibility we'll end up at my aunt's wedding sat on the same table as someone who would make my mum react in vaguely the same way as... I'm forgetting the chemistry of poison gas right now, but, you know, like that. Silent, yes, yet not so much fun. But mum is making quite sure that won't happen, so I just have to sit through the at length report on the possibility.

Also, useful tip, Marks and Spencers size their cakes in centimeters not inches and they cost that much because they're swish not because you could possibly share them out between a hundred people. This was discovered with a month still to go, so is fixable. But it was a Thing between discovery and fixing.

... if I ever get married I'm going to just hire a room next to a convention and invite everybody and let them sort themselves out. I said I'd also get a Really Big Round Table, but mum said there'd still be Issues about who sat on the right and left and stuff. :eyeroll:
... now I'm imagining which Doctor(s) I'd end up inviting to my wedding. At the last Bad Wolf they had a wedding going on right next door. And there was a Buffy convention that doubled with a wedding. And possibly a Highlander con.
... does it count as running a convention if I just invite a whole bunch of actors to my wedding and let people buy tickets?
;-)

(wedding planning be somewhat in advance of my actual social life. *sigh*)

I understand people want to have a nice celebration, but it apparently takes a year of planning to have a sit down meal, and, well, *blinks*

On the plus side plans have been made for the part of the day when my brother decides not to participate and has a big sulk. There is a designated sulking sofa. That's planning ahead, that is.

Life: Made of complicateds.

I go watch more drama instead.

Comments

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I remember I was at a Babylon 5 con once, and a couple got married there, with the con-party being their evening do. The groom was in costume as John Sheridan and the bride was Delenn - what must have made it really special for them was that Bruce Boxleitner (John Sheridan) was a witness.

IIRC James Marsters was also a witness to a handfasting at one of the Nocurnals (I'd given up on cons by that point).

So you see, there is a precedent! It's a damn good idea.

[beccaelizabeth]

those sound very cool.