Today: not exactly smooth
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beccaelizabethToday was for Buddhism and Wolverine.
... because these things are mixy, yes.
Started with hunting down the Buddhist center. Helper person was Entirely Confident she could find. And eventually we did indeed find. In the 'no this looks wrong' street. After trying to take a short cut through a garden that actually went up a hill in the wrong direction. In the rain.
So that was fun.
The bloke at the Buddhist center... I feel there must have been failure to communicate. What the conversation looked like from my point of view:
Him: Hi! You could do Yoga, or Meditate!
Me: I wish to know more of Buddhism.
Him: Most people start with Meditation!
Me: I see you have many books on the subject. I have this one. And this. And these classic texts like 'the sayings of the Buddha'. And this by the Dalai Lama.
Him: You could meditate.
Me: I recognise all these Buddhas and bodhisatvas and colorful people in the pictures here. I have studied them.
Him: You could do meditation.
Me: I wish to learn more of the central debates in Buddhism.
Him: We do meditation every lunch time. And an Introduction to Buddhism course, later, sometimes.
... I wonder what it looked like from his point of view.
So, I looked at their book collection, which is interesting, and may go back if I remember and want to spend £12 on something that on a quick flick through looked kind of familiar.
I'm sure meditation is cool too. But I do that. With mantras. Mostly when I get worried rather than regular though.
Maybe it's like google and you need keywords.
So after that we went back to the mall to go to the cinema. The idea with mall parking was to avoid getting rained on. This, er, didn't work so good. We walked back, shoes were slippy, there was slow, we went to Inanna's Festival and I found some gorgeous blank paper books that just need something really cool to fill them in with... so I haven't bought one yet... or anything else this time. My hands started hurting. They do this sometimes in there. I wonder if all those crystals are set to 'send' or something.
When we got to the mall we split up so I got food and pocketed it until we were in the cinema. I bought the ticket and sat down to wait.
... she got lost. We missed the trailers. It was close.
But hey, got there, was okay.
I stank up the cinema with sandwich that was mostly onion. But as far as I can tell there were 4 of us in there, and the others were half the cinema away.
Wolverine is... a fanboy film. Things go boom. Characters turn up and do something cool and wander off. It's okay at that part. But on the way out other person said about it being racist, and, well, it had two people of color, and they both got killed messily. It also had one woman, and she got killed twice. And once was because of stupid. If you have the boss of an installation meant for *medical* experimentation in you telepathic power and you need *medical* help then is it not possible there's more interesting commands available than 'walk away'??? Even if the medical supplies went boom he's still the guy that can order up medevac. So basically she died stupid. And only existed to make Wolverine all angsty and vengeful. And how bored am I with that story? Very bored.
So it wasn't much fun.
Which is why I saw other films quicker.
In the trailers was Terminator Salvation. The ad still gives that ooooh shiny tingle.
But I tried to count number of women in the ad. Was there one?
I like Sarah Connor Chronicles. That has women.
... my recorder box has been consistent fail at recording TSCC so I'll have to wait on DVDs, but I liked what I saw.
Now I'm vaguely grumpy and still haven't done my assignment.
urgh.
... because these things are mixy, yes.
Started with hunting down the Buddhist center. Helper person was Entirely Confident she could find. And eventually we did indeed find. In the 'no this looks wrong' street. After trying to take a short cut through a garden that actually went up a hill in the wrong direction. In the rain.
So that was fun.
The bloke at the Buddhist center... I feel there must have been failure to communicate. What the conversation looked like from my point of view:
Him: Hi! You could do Yoga, or Meditate!
Me: I wish to know more of Buddhism.
Him: Most people start with Meditation!
Me: I see you have many books on the subject. I have this one. And this. And these classic texts like 'the sayings of the Buddha'. And this by the Dalai Lama.
Him: You could meditate.
Me: I recognise all these Buddhas and bodhisatvas and colorful people in the pictures here. I have studied them.
Him: You could do meditation.
Me: I wish to learn more of the central debates in Buddhism.
Him: We do meditation every lunch time. And an Introduction to Buddhism course, later, sometimes.
... I wonder what it looked like from his point of view.
So, I looked at their book collection, which is interesting, and may go back if I remember and want to spend £12 on something that on a quick flick through looked kind of familiar.
I'm sure meditation is cool too. But I do that. With mantras. Mostly when I get worried rather than regular though.
Maybe it's like google and you need keywords.
So after that we went back to the mall to go to the cinema. The idea with mall parking was to avoid getting rained on. This, er, didn't work so good. We walked back, shoes were slippy, there was slow, we went to Inanna's Festival and I found some gorgeous blank paper books that just need something really cool to fill them in with... so I haven't bought one yet... or anything else this time. My hands started hurting. They do this sometimes in there. I wonder if all those crystals are set to 'send' or something.
When we got to the mall we split up so I got food and pocketed it until we were in the cinema. I bought the ticket and sat down to wait.
... she got lost. We missed the trailers. It was close.
But hey, got there, was okay.
I stank up the cinema with sandwich that was mostly onion. But as far as I can tell there were 4 of us in there, and the others were half the cinema away.
Wolverine is... a fanboy film. Things go boom. Characters turn up and do something cool and wander off. It's okay at that part. But on the way out other person said about it being racist, and, well, it had two people of color, and they both got killed messily. It also had one woman, and she got killed twice. And once was because of stupid. If you have the boss of an installation meant for *medical* experimentation in you telepathic power and you need *medical* help then is it not possible there's more interesting commands available than 'walk away'??? Even if the medical supplies went boom he's still the guy that can order up medevac. So basically she died stupid. And only existed to make Wolverine all angsty and vengeful. And how bored am I with that story? Very bored.
So it wasn't much fun.
Which is why I saw other films quicker.
In the trailers was Terminator Salvation. The ad still gives that ooooh shiny tingle.
But I tried to count number of women in the ad. Was there one?
I like Sarah Connor Chronicles. That has women.
... my recorder box has been consistent fail at recording TSCC so I'll have to wait on DVDs, but I liked what I saw.
Now I'm vaguely grumpy and still haven't done my assignment.
urgh.
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Date: 2009-05-19 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-19 09:35 pm (UTC)He said Western Buddhism is eclectic
and they had only two leaflets, one for the meditation and one for the yoga