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dolariLow Key Everything. I did Closetspace on Saturday, from scratch with time to spare. Ah, those were the days.
Sunday was originally going to be Move Erin from her House, until I realized I was a week early and suddenly had the day to myself. So, Jenn goes into full geek mode, sits down, and watched the Star Wars Trilogy, from Star Wars (excuse me, A New Hope) to Jedi.
I'm not the biggest critic of the Special Editions. Lucas has to right to revisit his work, although I'm more of a believer that he tinkers just to tinker and not to "fix" his movies (listen to the ILM guys in the commentary track of Episode 2, and you'll hear how Elian Sleazebaggano was a victim of the Lucas Tinkering). He'll be making changes to the movies till they pry the negative from his cold dead hands.
Only a few of the changes majorly sucked. The Jabba scene in ANH just feels off because Solo and Jabba just don't seem to be connecting (har har). They're talking at each other, not to each other, anbd not in a good way. The new Jabba looks good, but that wierd talking-at-each-other thing is still there.
And that stupid "Hi, I'm Boba Fett, hope your enjoying the movie!" shot pisses me off.
In all, though, nothing "destroyed" the movies for me.
The documentary is AMAZING for seeing just what has changed over the drafts and years since he first came up with the stuff, but it also seems to suffer from the Lucas Rewrite of History. A lot of what's said doesn't jibe with the drafts I've read of the early scripts.
If you ever get a chance, read the Rough Draft of Star Wars - this is the "All three movies in one" draft. It's not a bad movie, a bit much, but you can definately see that there were just WAY too much stuff (Escape from Desert Planet #1, Escape from Desert Planet #2 with Princess, R2 and 3PO on the Death Star, Rescue Princess from Traders on Jungle Planet, Rescue Princess from Floating City, Train Wookies to fly ships and attack Death Star.)
Monday...not much to monday....got groceries, got EMail saying "Yeah, I'll write your surgery letter" (::POING!::) encoded the original versions of Star Wars to DivX (1 GB each!)
The rest of the night was pondering...
I never actually THOUGHT I'd get that letter. I was with my psychiatrist as a patient for four years, but never really got anywhere with it...we made a lot of progress at the beginning, but once I started looking for hormones and failing, the sessions kinda got stuck in a rut of waiting.
But whala! Here's the letter.
Now...what do I do with it? The whole thing behind the letter is "permission" to do the surgery. All the doctor's in America won't do the surgery without it. Thinking I'd never get it, I aimed at a July 2005 date with the knife in Thailand. But now I can get it done here in America. At roughly triple the cost, but it could be done.
But now I'm pondering. I had just recently budgeted that I could get all my money together and succesfully make Trinoc 2005, and then run off to Thailand for the snip by 2005.
Now, though, I don't think I'll be able to afford an American Surgery in that time...although now I can actually GET that surgery here in the States.
So, what do I so? Run to Thailand next year for the snip? Or wait another two years and get it in 2006?
My biggest fear is that in two years something will wipe my savings out, and I'll not be able to get ANYTHING done. If I go to Thailand, I not only get it done, but IT CAN'T BE TAKEN AWAY FROM ME. Wait for a US doctor, and something my wipe out my savings and there goes Thailand on top of THAT.
What to do, what to do....
Never read about Alien Abduction Stories in the middle of the night. :)
Sunday was originally going to be Move Erin from her House, until I realized I was a week early and suddenly had the day to myself. So, Jenn goes into full geek mode, sits down, and watched the Star Wars Trilogy, from Star Wars (excuse me, A New Hope) to Jedi.
I'm not the biggest critic of the Special Editions. Lucas has to right to revisit his work, although I'm more of a believer that he tinkers just to tinker and not to "fix" his movies (listen to the ILM guys in the commentary track of Episode 2, and you'll hear how Elian Sleazebaggano was a victim of the Lucas Tinkering). He'll be making changes to the movies till they pry the negative from his cold dead hands.
Only a few of the changes majorly sucked. The Jabba scene in ANH just feels off because Solo and Jabba just don't seem to be connecting (har har). They're talking at each other, not to each other, anbd not in a good way. The new Jabba looks good, but that wierd talking-at-each-other thing is still there.
And that stupid "Hi, I'm Boba Fett, hope your enjoying the movie!" shot pisses me off.
In all, though, nothing "destroyed" the movies for me.
The documentary is AMAZING for seeing just what has changed over the drafts and years since he first came up with the stuff, but it also seems to suffer from the Lucas Rewrite of History. A lot of what's said doesn't jibe with the drafts I've read of the early scripts.
If you ever get a chance, read the Rough Draft of Star Wars - this is the "All three movies in one" draft. It's not a bad movie, a bit much, but you can definately see that there were just WAY too much stuff (Escape from Desert Planet #1, Escape from Desert Planet #2 with Princess, R2 and 3PO on the Death Star, Rescue Princess from Traders on Jungle Planet, Rescue Princess from Floating City, Train Wookies to fly ships and attack Death Star.)
Monday...not much to monday....got groceries, got EMail saying "Yeah, I'll write your surgery letter" (::POING!::) encoded the original versions of Star Wars to DivX (1 GB each!)
The rest of the night was pondering...
I never actually THOUGHT I'd get that letter. I was with my psychiatrist as a patient for four years, but never really got anywhere with it...we made a lot of progress at the beginning, but once I started looking for hormones and failing, the sessions kinda got stuck in a rut of waiting.
But whala! Here's the letter.
Now...what do I do with it? The whole thing behind the letter is "permission" to do the surgery. All the doctor's in America won't do the surgery without it. Thinking I'd never get it, I aimed at a July 2005 date with the knife in Thailand. But now I can get it done here in America. At roughly triple the cost, but it could be done.
But now I'm pondering. I had just recently budgeted that I could get all my money together and succesfully make Trinoc 2005, and then run off to Thailand for the snip by 2005.
Now, though, I don't think I'll be able to afford an American Surgery in that time...although now I can actually GET that surgery here in the States.
So, what do I so? Run to Thailand next year for the snip? Or wait another two years and get it in 2006?
My biggest fear is that in two years something will wipe my savings out, and I'll not be able to get ANYTHING done. If I go to Thailand, I not only get it done, but IT CAN'T BE TAKEN AWAY FROM ME. Wait for a US doctor, and something my wipe out my savings and there goes Thailand on top of THAT.
What to do, what to do....
Never read about Alien Abduction Stories in the middle of the night. :)
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Date: 2004-09-28 09:32 am (UTC)Just watch out for that tall bald guy with the eye patch and scar across his chest. :)