Not Enough Hours in the Day....
Jan. 29th, 2006 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
revidI spent way too much time that I didn't have the last couple of days on two things recommended by LJ friends:
1) Saw Brokeback Mountain. (That was only 2 hrs.)
2) Got completely sucked in to reading the Billie/Mike storylines in The Establishment RPG on JournalFen. (Many, many hours!)
I've been meaning to see BBM since before it came out, but I hadn't gotten around to it. I read the short story many months ago when I first heard about the movie, so I was curious how it would translate to the big screen, since it's a very interior story featuring mostly inarticulate characters. But Ang Lee and Larry McMurtry did an amazing job of conveying the nuances of the story. (If you haven't read it, you can download it here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/17c74p ) Interestingly, the movie that it brought to my mind was The Crying Game, because they are both movies that make you sit there afterwards and think "Well, what exactly is love anyway? How do you define it? What do you do about it?" And although the movie doesn't take place long ago, it struck me how different it would have been had they been in LA or SF or NY at the exact same time, instead of Wyoming. I like movies that make me think about them when they're over.
And my other project for the last few days: The Establishment RPG. It started from this entry in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tasyfa's journal. As I mentioned, I had no clue about RPGs, but heh...anything with Billie Joe/Mike is OK with me. So I took Tas's advice and started at the beginning, going chronologically through Billie Joe's, Mike's and Tré's journals and now cover your ears because I am going to shout:
HOLY CHRIST! THAT IS SOME OF THE MOST FRICKIN' AMAZING STUFF I HAVE EVER READ!!!!!!!
And I'm just finishing December. I don't think I've ever read a book, fiction or non-, where I felt like I so completely understood what the relationship between two people is. The depth of the characterizations is just stunning. And the sex is easily some of the best written I have come across. I kept meaning to stop and take care of things having to do with, ya know, my life, but it was OK, just one more entry...oh wait it's a 2-parter...OK, I'll stop after this one...oh, but this one is short..... I'm going to finish it up tonight if I'm up until 3AM! Thanks Tas!
Next on my list: Watch Julie Taymor's Titus.
Some Green Day stuff:
This is Billie Joe Armstrong being interviewed by Larry Livermore about 5 years ago. It may be old news to some of you, but I had never seen it before. It has some amazing information about the circumstances of John Kiffmeyer's leaving the group. Worth a read if you haven't seen it before. I'd also love to know how BJA might answer some of these questions today.
http://www.greenday.net/hitlistinterviewbj.html
I made a 700 MB XviD of an audience video bootleg of Green Day's 15 April 2005 Miami concert. If you have the bandwidth and the hard drive it's here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0mxi6y
1) Saw Brokeback Mountain. (That was only 2 hrs.)
2) Got completely sucked in to reading the Billie/Mike storylines in The Establishment RPG on JournalFen. (Many, many hours!)
I've been meaning to see BBM since before it came out, but I hadn't gotten around to it. I read the short story many months ago when I first heard about the movie, so I was curious how it would translate to the big screen, since it's a very interior story featuring mostly inarticulate characters. But Ang Lee and Larry McMurtry did an amazing job of conveying the nuances of the story. (If you haven't read it, you can download it here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/17c74p ) Interestingly, the movie that it brought to my mind was The Crying Game, because they are both movies that make you sit there afterwards and think "Well, what exactly is love anyway? How do you define it? What do you do about it?" And although the movie doesn't take place long ago, it struck me how different it would have been had they been in LA or SF or NY at the exact same time, instead of Wyoming. I like movies that make me think about them when they're over.
And my other project for the last few days: The Establishment RPG. It started from this entry in
tasyfa's journal. As I mentioned, I had no clue about RPGs, but heh...anything with Billie Joe/Mike is OK with me. So I took Tas's advice and started at the beginning, going chronologically through Billie Joe's, Mike's and Tré's journals and now cover your ears because I am going to shout:HOLY CHRIST! THAT IS SOME OF THE MOST FRICKIN' AMAZING STUFF I HAVE EVER READ!!!!!!!
And I'm just finishing December. I don't think I've ever read a book, fiction or non-, where I felt like I so completely understood what the relationship between two people is. The depth of the characterizations is just stunning. And the sex is easily some of the best written I have come across. I kept meaning to stop and take care of things having to do with, ya know, my life, but it was OK, just one more entry...oh wait it's a 2-parter...OK, I'll stop after this one...oh, but this one is short..... I'm going to finish it up tonight if I'm up until 3AM! Thanks Tas!
Next on my list: Watch Julie Taymor's Titus.
Some Green Day stuff:
This is Billie Joe Armstrong being interviewed by Larry Livermore about 5 years ago. It may be old news to some of you, but I had never seen it before. It has some amazing information about the circumstances of John Kiffmeyer's leaving the group. Worth a read if you haven't seen it before. I'd also love to know how BJA might answer some of these questions today.
http://www.greenday.net/hitlistinterviewbj.html
I made a 700 MB XviD of an audience video bootleg of Green Day's 15 April 2005 Miami concert. If you have the bandwidth and the hard drive it's here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0mxi6y
