Words

I really don't have much to say right now, but I've been wanting to use this icon. Originally, I was going to ramble for a while about Battlestar Galactica (which is kind of madness right now, in my opinion Madness? This is Galactica!) but I'm scatterbrained and don't have anything terribly worthwhile to say, other than ( spoilers )

And that was even more scatterbrained and useless than I thought. But, erm, maybe I'll edit it in the morning when my brain's closer to working. There was something else I was going to write about...

Oh! I saw 300 at the IMAX at Navy Pier today. It was indeed pretty, and I honestly don't see all the subversiveness people think is in it, since it was pretty obviously made to look arty and cool and not... whatever the heck people think is going on. It's scary to think that other people have a harder time turning off the unnecessary analysis part of their brain. And, yes, 300 was great in terms of looking cool. Which is exactly what I expect from a film that has probably 15 lines total (not counting the narration). Many of which are some kind of wolf howl. And all of which are rather predictable. Which still doesn't take away from the fact that it's a fun movie to watch. No huge moral, no political subversion... just entertainment. At least as far as I could see, and I'll admit I wasn't looking hard for a hidden message, because clouds of arrows and walls of people are more interesting in their pure, non-allegorical form. (And if I were the sort to really like mostly-naked very buff men, it would've been a very, very awesome movie.)

And, as a general note, I'm still alive, so I'm going to do everything I can to not complain about Friday and Saturday being goshawful evil.

On a far less emo note...

Since I'm over my whinging and weeping for now (for now), here is a random public service announcement about how I've been awful lately about actually uploading my photos, and how I've gone and decided to join flickr in order to remedy that problem. See? Though that one's sort of in the middle (so the easiest thing might be for me to use this link but, ah, oh well). Right now, all it's got is some random old stuff, and a lot of pictures I took today. But it's a start. I took like, 2000 pictures last year. I'm falling behind already for this year, so I've got to get back on top of things. And it's going to get green out soon. Green outside is awesome.

And, if you're into less landscapey things, you should take a look at my lovely friend Daichan and his flickr, too. (Oddly, one of the few random internetly things for which I am a sometimes-photographer and not a writer at all. Wee.)