Sunday, March 25, 2007

I did see the final Spider-Man 3 trailer (<-see below for details concerning this link) on Friday, this one concentrating on Venom & Harry Osbourne while the previous trailer concentrated on Sandman. The 3rd film in the trilogy looks to be the best, which is as it should be. Though I didn't love the previous entries, I grew to enjoy them more. This is the first Spider that I'm actually somewhat excited about seeing. If you click on the link in this section, it takes you to the largest trailer, which may take a while to load, and may also overwhelm your screen! To avoid the latter, just select "view" in the upper left hand corner, then half size, then using the control in the bottom right corner adjust the trailer to your personal preference.

In other entertainment news, it was widely revealed on Friday that Emma Watson, Rupert Grint & Daniel Radcliffe have now all signed on to appear as Hermione, Ron & Harry in the final 2 Harry Potter films! I know they're far too old for the roles now, but I don't care about that; the movies already differe enough from the books, and I'd much rather see these actors through until the end. The other bit of good news, that I'd already heard the grapevine, was that Doctor Who has already been renewed for a 4th Season; the 3rd begins airing 6 days from now, in the United Kingdom. Hopefully I'll be watching it next weekend as well ;-0)

I tried out a new phone on Friday. I talked to my grandmother on the phone while waiting for Mark to pick me up. She had the flu for a few days, but she sounded a lot better now. It's always good to hear that she's doing well.

I was early to work on Friday, and late to leave. I worked with Bryan, Michael, Nate, Joe, & Meg. I let Bryan borrow the final seasons of JLU & Batman Beyond, + Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (Uncut). Work was mostly fun. Michael and I had a brief conversation about the Indiana Jones movies, and about River Phoenix, which led to some strange dreams later that night. Bryan's son Robert came into the store, dressed kind of snazzy, and we hugged, and talked for awhile. He asked me when I was going to visit next, and we later decided I'd visit Saturday night. We both talked about how my visits would be different without Mollie around. Mollie & I loved to visit Bryan, Robert, Chris (Bryan's fiance) and Diana (Bryan's mother). We'd watch Firefly, or play Euchre, sometimes drinking, and always laughing. It was always such a fun time. Ugh. I miss her so much.

I got a message from Corey while I was at work, and left him one in return. I later called him again while I was waiting for Mark to get out of work and we talked for a bit, and then he asked if he could call me back in awhile. When I got home, I got some more mail, and then got ready for bed. I was exhausted, and just wanted to do some reading and then get some sleep. Corey did call me back, and we were both tired, so we didn't chat for very long, but we did chat long enough to make plans for him to visit me at the condo Wednesday night - Thursday afternoon. I work today, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday.

I tried picking a random Star Wars book to read, but decided I'd just go ahead and read the final installment of the first Mirror Universe volume. I read more than half of this one ("The Worst of Both Worlds") which is a Next Generation Mirror story, but I'm not enjoying it very much. It doesn't seem to have a lot of story to it; I have less than 50 pages to go, and nothing has happened. Also, while the other Mirror Universe stories we've seen have shown that universe's side of parallel events, or been completely different, this story keeps throwing in stuff from different eras of Next Gen's run, which feels wrong somehow. Oh, and another minor annoyance, is that Klingon blood keeps getting referenced as purple. The only appearance of Klingon blood as purple was in Star Trek VI, and that was only to avoid an R rating. All other instances of Klingons bleeding has featured red blood. Usually when I have 50 pages left in a book I won't stop for anything... This one I put down to begin Harry Potter 4.

When I started reading Harry Potter 4, I was a bit worried that the beginning of the film, which I've seen 3 times, and covered the opening chapter, would spoil the reading for me. It hasn't. There's plenty in this book which never made it to the screen, and didn't need to. The film is a fantastic adaptation; indeed, it is the best adaptation in the series of films so far, because it's both a great adaptation and a great movie. Harry Potter 3 (the movie) is a great movie, but a reprehensible adaptation. I think that the 2nd film actually does a fairly good job at being both as well, though the source material just isn't as compelling as book 4.

I slept well Friday night. I had dreams about River Phoenix, and woke up thinking about my conversation with Michael. He had told me that he didn't love Temple of Doom because of the people still being alive after having their hearts ripped out. But it would appear that he didn't mind the lost arc melting the nazis to mush, or the holy grail doing it's thing...so I'm not real sure what prevents him from liking the first chronological film.

Either way, I reread a poem that I'd written about the night I heard that Phoenix had died. I remember that moment well. It was November 1, 1993, and I was at the Clark gas station in Saline, having a serious discussing with my then boyfriend Jeff Rodriquez, and the news was on the radio. That same night, there was a huge fire in Saline, and you could see the flames & smoke if you just stepped outside the station. River Phoenix was born on August 23, 1970. That's the same day & year that my older sister Janice was born. That's the same day (not year) that our father was born. That's the same day (not year) that I was supposed to be born on, but I was born early, on August 12. I mostly knew about River from interviews I'd read, and from "My Own Private Idaho", which was one of the first gay themed films that I ever sought out, after reading an article about the film; I clipped that article and saved it until I could find the movie. I owned it on VHS, and now own the beautiful Criterion Collection version on DVD. That was a very personal film for me. In the new "Shortbus" movie, which I realize I've already discussed endlessly here, one of the key characters talks about the River Phoenix movie and how it affected his character.

Michael had said that River appeared in the Young Indiana Jones chronicles, but I was pretty sure he was just confusing the series with River's appearance as a young Indiana Jones in The Last Crusade. I decided I'd check to see who was right on wikipedia. I was right. But while I was there I found all these songs by different artists that had been written about, for, or dedicated to River. I got a bunch of them, and I'm thinking about putting them on a cd, with my poetry reading on it, some memories and facts, with some of his dialogue mixed in. I think that would be cool. ;-0)

I got 5 or 6 new, really cool mashups Saturday morning, and tracked down some of the songs that I didn't know. I watched "Angels & Insects" & "Late Marriage". I enjoyed both. I worked at Bitserve. I ate & showered. I read the news. I worked on some cds, and I slept at random intervals. I played a video game. I made a point of not reading, as I thought a break would be nice. I was supposed to hang out with Bryan & his family but we all sort of forgot about our plans, so I was off the hook. We agreed that we'd make better plans as soon as possible. And I slept on...

I woke up around 3:30am. Got some stuff done and then wrote this.

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