and the kitty cats yell at clouds

[donutsweeper]

I've been meaning to post for absolutely ages but somehow never get around to it and I finally decided today that that's going to change. So voilà! A post!

We finally saw Star Wars this weekend! I somehow managed to remain mostly unspoiled, but it didn't matter much as nothing seemed shocking or surprising to me. Kid liked the movie, Hubby *hated* it (he will rant for hours and hours as to why, it's hilarious) and I walked away thinking the two hours were enjoyably enough spent but that was it. I'm not going to harsh anyone's squee (I hate people who do that) but I will say I am starting to get frustrated by JJ Abrams' friendship with Greg Grunberg- his popping up in everything JJ Abrams directs is starting to get distracting. (I know it's a time honored tradition and Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell do it all time time, but still...)

It's been insanely warm here. The snow cover is completely gone and we've even had the windows open a bunch- it hit 68°F yesterday!! The average temp should be about 35°. (That's 20°C instead of 1.66 if the F to C conversion chart is to be believed). The cats are, not surprisingly, loving it. Open windows FTW!!!

How's everyone on my flist doing?

Comments

[jadesfire.livejournal.com]

Good heavens, that's incredibly warm! Like to send some of that our way? I had trouble sleeping last night, I was so cold.

This was my first JJ Abrams film, so I can only say that the cameo wasn't jarring to newbies (I had to go and look the guy up on IMDB). A few weeks on from my slightly traumatic Lost Star Wars Weekend, I'm still feeling good about the film. Perfect? Hell, no. Fun? Absolutely.

Nice to see you :)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I'd definitely send it your way, but then you have to take some of our stupidly hot summer weather as well. Deal? :)

JJ Abrams also does a lot of tv and Greg had cameos (or starred) in a bunch of that as well. There's nothing wrong with him, he's a fine actor, but distinctive enough I guess that when I see him I'm at that point where I'm like 'oh hey, it's that Greg guy' as opposed to 'and here's character X' if that makes sense. I am glad you liked the movie, especially enough to get fannish about most people I know did.

[jadesfire.livejournal.com]

Deal ;) even in summer, my office is chilly.

That makes sense about the actor, and it can get really annoying if it's an actual actor-actor rather than a speedy cameo-in-passing.

I have a complicated relationship with the Star Wars Universe, including that the Extended Universe - which I lived in for several years - is no longer canon, although I still loved the movie. It's brought me back to fandom and LJ, though, which is a Very Good Thing :)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I read some of the extended universe books way back when, it's got to be super frustrating that they've been erased from canon/made into an alternate canon/whatver. But, even so, it's great it brought you back to fandom!