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dwfiction existed! I looked at the comm, and other than trobadora's fic and scifirenegade's fic last month, there'd been no traffic since July. I guess DW fanfic on Dreamwidth is mostly dead?
I've decided that I really need to clean my desk today. I went looking for my brush pens and they are nowhere to be seen... but you can't really see anything on my desk because of the piles of CRAP on it.
Thus, I am cleaning my desk and wow, this is an ecletic mix of stuff. Paint pens (which I've never used), compression socks, tax forms, a book about the Bayeux Tapestry, a newsletter from the local calligraphy guild, a ball of twine, a bunch of sheet music, a whistle, a bottle of rotor oil, a stick of glue, at least two Christmas cards (no, wait, there's a third under there), a small bottle of calvados, a drumstick (not the food; the kind you hit drums with, except there's only one, not two of them), two watches (one wrist, one pocket, neither running), and seventeen pens/pencils -- well, seventeen that I can see that are not in a pencil cup (there are tons more in the pencil cups). And that's just counting the stuff that normally shouldn't be on the desk.
One of the other slightly-longer term tasks that I've set myself is to catalog the media that we own, basically all the DVDs and blu-rays, so that we know what we have and can figure out what to get rid of. Over the decades, we've been collecting stuff, and now that we've entered the streaming age, we've modified our attitude to watching things on streaming and getting the blu-rays of things that are really important to us, so that we don't lose access to it if it gets removed from streaming. (You know, like if you want to watch Spider-Man: No Way Home, you have to buy the media because Disney+ removed it from their service due to rights issues.)
I've gone through the larger pile and need to finish off the smaller pile. One benefit of this is that we're being reminded of what we do have and are getting excited about watching it. So, we've designated Friday nights as Movie Night, and are making ourselves watch a movie once a week. (Otherwise, we don't watch anything ever. We never do. We're just not a media-watching household in general.)
So far, we've watched the following movies, which are some of our favorites, and I just want to recommend them.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: To be honest, when this came out, we really only watched it because Karen Gillan is in it, but it's one of the most fun movies ever. Four teenagers are transported into a video game, where they are now their characters. For example, the asthmatic nerd is now Indiana Jones, if Indiana Jones was also Mr. Universe. (Played by Dwayne Johnson, of course.) One of the things we loved was that it played off all the video game tropes (it really is a LitRPG rather than an adventure movie), but the story is good and the performances are amazing, especially Jack Black as the high school popular girl trapped in a middle-aged man's body.
Live, Die, Repeat: Great sci-fi. I'm not going to summarize the movie, because part of the brilliance here is figuring out what's going on alongside the characters, but the feel of it made me think it was based on something by Phillip K. Dick. (It's not - it's based on a Japanese young adult novel.) Yes, it's a violent movie (it's about an alien war, after all), but it's not bloody, mostly. There's a lot of implied violence and a lot of alien guts.
The A-Team: I was a big fan of The A-Team back in the 80s. (How could I not? The Greatest American Hero was my life back then, so when Stephen J. Cannell came out with his next show, I had to see it. And then it had Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica. But my favorite was (and still is) Howling Mad Murdock.) So of course, I had to see this movie, and I wasn't expecting much, but it's actually really good. It manages to combine an interesting plot of action and intrigue with the over-the-top escapades that the original show was known for. No, the details don't make a lot of sense if you think about them too much, but overall, it's just fun. Best line: "Are they trying to shoot down the drone?" "No, they're trying to fly the tank."
Next Movie Night will be Knives Out. But, I better get back to either cleaning my desk or finishing the media catalog.
dwfiction existed! I looked at the comm, and other than trobadora's fic and scifirenegade's fic last month, there'd been no traffic since July. I guess DW fanfic on Dreamwidth is mostly dead?I've decided that I really need to clean my desk today. I went looking for my brush pens and they are nowhere to be seen... but you can't really see anything on my desk because of the piles of CRAP on it.
Thus, I am cleaning my desk and wow, this is an ecletic mix of stuff. Paint pens (which I've never used), compression socks, tax forms, a book about the Bayeux Tapestry, a newsletter from the local calligraphy guild, a ball of twine, a bunch of sheet music, a whistle, a bottle of rotor oil, a stick of glue, at least two Christmas cards (no, wait, there's a third under there), a small bottle of calvados, a drumstick (not the food; the kind you hit drums with, except there's only one, not two of them), two watches (one wrist, one pocket, neither running), and seventeen pens/pencils -- well, seventeen that I can see that are not in a pencil cup (there are tons more in the pencil cups). And that's just counting the stuff that normally shouldn't be on the desk.
One of the other slightly-longer term tasks that I've set myself is to catalog the media that we own, basically all the DVDs and blu-rays, so that we know what we have and can figure out what to get rid of. Over the decades, we've been collecting stuff, and now that we've entered the streaming age, we've modified our attitude to watching things on streaming and getting the blu-rays of things that are really important to us, so that we don't lose access to it if it gets removed from streaming. (You know, like if you want to watch Spider-Man: No Way Home, you have to buy the media because Disney+ removed it from their service due to rights issues.)
I've gone through the larger pile and need to finish off the smaller pile. One benefit of this is that we're being reminded of what we do have and are getting excited about watching it. So, we've designated Friday nights as Movie Night, and are making ourselves watch a movie once a week. (Otherwise, we don't watch anything ever. We never do. We're just not a media-watching household in general.)
So far, we've watched the following movies, which are some of our favorites, and I just want to recommend them.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: To be honest, when this came out, we really only watched it because Karen Gillan is in it, but it's one of the most fun movies ever. Four teenagers are transported into a video game, where they are now their characters. For example, the asthmatic nerd is now Indiana Jones, if Indiana Jones was also Mr. Universe. (Played by Dwayne Johnson, of course.) One of the things we loved was that it played off all the video game tropes (it really is a LitRPG rather than an adventure movie), but the story is good and the performances are amazing, especially Jack Black as the high school popular girl trapped in a middle-aged man's body.
Live, Die, Repeat: Great sci-fi. I'm not going to summarize the movie, because part of the brilliance here is figuring out what's going on alongside the characters, but the feel of it made me think it was based on something by Phillip K. Dick. (It's not - it's based on a Japanese young adult novel.) Yes, it's a violent movie (it's about an alien war, after all), but it's not bloody, mostly. There's a lot of implied violence and a lot of alien guts.
The A-Team: I was a big fan of The A-Team back in the 80s. (How could I not? The Greatest American Hero was my life back then, so when Stephen J. Cannell came out with his next show, I had to see it. And then it had Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica. But my favorite was (and still is) Howling Mad Murdock.) So of course, I had to see this movie, and I wasn't expecting much, but it's actually really good. It manages to combine an interesting plot of action and intrigue with the over-the-top escapades that the original show was known for. No, the details don't make a lot of sense if you think about them too much, but overall, it's just fun. Best line: "Are they trying to shoot down the drone?" "No, they're trying to fly the tank."
Next Movie Night will be Knives Out. But, I better get back to either cleaning my desk or finishing the media catalog.
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Date: 2025-02-10 10:31 pm (UTC)My main knowledge of Jumanji comes from vaguely remembering reading the original book in school, the hype that surrounded the 90s film ( it got a cartoon too iirc because of course it did :)) , and this pretty awesome mood board someone made on Tumblr recently.
The KG film does sound fun!
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Date: 2025-02-11 10:53 am (UTC)I also have a tip on how to make the list less painful to make. I opened a doc on my phone and used voice to text to just read off the titles where they sat on a self. Even correcting errors was much easier than having to type it all to begin with. YMMV.