all moved; movies
May. 9th, 2005 12:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trocheewell, not all moved: all my furniture is moved and about 90% of my other stuff. I ran out of boxen at the very last bit, and decided the remainder would be movable without a truck, so I called it good-enough-for-now.
I am grateful for the assistance of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blackwingedboy and imtboo as well as the unexpected but welcome assistance of a labmate who showed up and helped move all the big furniture out of the old house, into the truck, and up the three stories to the new apartment. imtboo and blackwingedboy and I came back with another load and -- after a few trips to the top and back down -- decided to do the whole thing bucket-brigade up one story at a time so we could (1) hang out together while we worked and (2) have a sense of accomplishment.
The new apartment is lovely. it is full of boxes and bags of stuff, completely disorganized, and lovely. I unpacked a few kitchen boxes last night, stowed comics boxes in the closet, and sat and read the last three issues of Girl Genius and the entirety of Warren Ellis' Orbiter. And then a shower and a pleasant, sleepy evening with D.
Earlier this week I saw Hitchhiker's Guide withimtboo and blackwingedboy. I liked it far more than I expected, and I'd like to see it again. The sourpuss reviews ("they've left out all the jokes", said one) were wrong: it's true to the spirit of the books although (obviously) they couldn't include all the verbal explicatory/footnote style humor, they still captured a lot of it with the Lonely-Planet-pedantic "talking to a drunk tyro" style of the Guide itself.
I also saw The Big Blue withimtboo: Besson is a heck of a director, and Jean Reno is an amazing actor. They must have had a wonderful time making this movie; and the result is sad, bittersweet, and beautiful. The underwater scenes are amazing, and one wave-hallucination scene makes the movie worth watching for that alone. Definitely worth another watching. (The imdb reviews are completely awful, and the box cover description for Americans is laughably wrong. It's difficult to describe; it's probably better to simply watch the movie and draw your own conclusions.)
I am grateful for the assistance of
blackwingedboy and imtboo as well as the unexpected but welcome assistance of a labmate who showed up and helped move all the big furniture out of the old house, into the truck, and up the three stories to the new apartment. imtboo and blackwingedboy and I came back with another load and -- after a few trips to the top and back down -- decided to do the whole thing bucket-brigade up one story at a time so we could (1) hang out together while we worked and (2) have a sense of accomplishment. The new apartment is lovely. it is full of boxes and bags of stuff, completely disorganized, and lovely. I unpacked a few kitchen boxes last night, stowed comics boxes in the closet, and sat and read the last three issues of Girl Genius and the entirety of Warren Ellis' Orbiter. And then a shower and a pleasant, sleepy evening with D.
Earlier this week I saw Hitchhiker's Guide with
imtboo and blackwingedboy. I liked it far more than I expected, and I'd like to see it again. The sourpuss reviews ("they've left out all the jokes", said one) were wrong: it's true to the spirit of the books although (obviously) they couldn't include all the verbal explicatory/footnote style humor, they still captured a lot of it with the Lonely-Planet-pedantic "talking to a drunk tyro" style of the Guide itself.I also saw The Big Blue with
imtboo: Besson is a heck of a director, and Jean Reno is an amazing actor. They must have had a wonderful time making this movie; and the result is sad, bittersweet, and beautiful. The underwater scenes are amazing, and one wave-hallucination scene makes the movie worth watching for that alone. Definitely worth another watching. (The imdb reviews are completely awful, and the box cover description for Americans is laughably wrong. It's difficult to describe; it's probably better to simply watch the movie and draw your own conclusions.)
