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[Dec. 25th, 2009|05:03 am] |
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the dragon is patient, the demon less so- yet both are immortal. |
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| Queen of the Damned |
[Dec. 25th, 2009|05:01 am] |
Finally had time and availability to watch the movie Queen of the Damned this morning. I'm sure that will inspire the customary murmurs of surprise that a revelation of some unusual hole in my pop culture experience does. Things happen, I didn't get to see the movie Queen of the Damned til now.
I needed that, though. Perhaps it's the realization I'm finally getting to see that particular movie a decade after I was excited about it. Maybe it's the subject matter, which always puts me in a reflective and long-view frame. Perhaps it's the juxtaposition with the fevered, crisis feeling my life has blurred into with the events currently unfolding.
I suppose this is a piece of something that's been happening over the last week I've been reconnecting with parts of myself that have lain dormant for some time. Some of them warm, a predatory feeling I had forgotten about- that barely focused anger lends while it's brought to heel. Some of them fitting in this long, cold night. Many less than pleasant things which might ought to have stayed buried.
None of these things, though, lend themselves well to bonds and strictures of Christmas time. |
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| I see you |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|09:42 am] |
Went and saw Avatar with the family yesterday. Amazing and awesome movie.
It was weird when they started talking about the greeting "I see you," because it's something I picked up from my cats a few years ago, pretty much exactly in the context they used it. I never used that with other people, because I didn't figure anyone would get it. Rather like using the term "grok" with someone who hasn't read Stranger in a Strange Land... except that the "book" was even more rare- a particular relationship to cats. Somewhere, I'm sure, the Fruitcake alarm is sounding.
I'm not sure I'll get to use it with people even now, because I assume it's going to go into culture simply as an Avatar reference- a way to recognize "real" fans... then again, as long as they understand it and aren't just throwing it off as a tag line, it's still more people who get it. |
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