Good weekend

[athene]

Had a really good weekend (and then a busy beginning of the week...which is why I'm only getting a chance to write about it now).

On Friday night I decided to go to the UU Pagan's Imbolc ritual. I'm really glad I did. Although it was not very highly attended, it was very nice. Short and sweet without any silly pretense that these things can sometimes have. I got introduced to the idea of Storytelling Paganism, which is really nifty.

On Saturday I had work (which was boring) and then had a whole bunch of people over to my house to play Guitar Hero I & II, in an attempt to cheer up crabes (even though not everyone knew that was the reason). Including lordaerith and me, there were 11 people (crabes, cjovalle & qyandri, W & K, RJ, apryl_knight, oracle_tx, & T ) and 2 cats at my house. Hurray for lots of people. It makes my little Libra heart happy. After we were Guitar Hero'd out, we did the only obvious thing to do: hook Elektra up to the tv and show each other videos on YouTube and other places. There were lots of great things shown, but the best was College Saga, a 41min RL acting out of a Final Fantasy type game. I didn't think we'd watch the whole thing, but we were all laughing so hard that all of a sudden they were fighting the final form of the boss. I think people left around 1:30am or so.

Sunday we got up late and then I did homework and kept track of the Superbowl scores over the internet. Hurray for Payton Manning!!

Yesterday my Digital Libraries class got to see some of the Gone with the Wind collection at the HRC. They have so much stuff there, from pre-production paintings and drawings to actor call sheets to movie stills to post-production criticisms. It was really amazing. Unfortunately, the dresses (including the curtain dress) are on loan to Florida. (ok, so that wasn't part of the weekend, but it was still cool). One of these days I will watch the movie!

Comments

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

It's definitely worth sitting through at least once, if only for the production porn, cause DAMN. Really the best technicolor movies really were the first few - GWTW and The Wizard of Oz still get high marks from me just from their lavish use of color. The actual movie itself? Four hour soap opera. With slaves. :)

[athene.livejournal.com]

You know, they even have documents about disagreements with the onsite technicolor experts about the curtain dress. The technicolor people were worried about the way it would look on screen and the producer was like, "look, it says it's green velvet in the book, so we're going to make it green velvet. so there."

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

that curtain dress really is the best damn costume in any movie ever. WE WANTS IT.

followed, at a very distant second either by Scarletts black and white stripey dress or Anna Leonowens' buster brown schoolteacher dress she wears during "getting to know you" in the king and I.

...I have a thing for hoop skirts...

[athene.livejournal.com]

they made the actors wear period underwear.

[litch.livejournal.com]

my ex-wife argued that it was revolutionary in that it was the first war story told from a woman's perspective

[in-quinecorners.livejournal.com]

I know we've only met once or twice (which you might not even remember, but apryl_knight will vouch for me, I think!), but I should let you know that there are strict rules against having Guitar Hero parties without me. :)

Seriously, I am a GH fiend, so keep me in mind for next time... Hopefully soon our house will be presentable enough for own GH party.