o/~ there were three men down and the season lost o/~

[katster]

well. I'm feeling better.

I went to see Monsters, Inc. today. Good movie. Pixar has fun making their movies, and you can see it in every film they've come out with. And in this one, you can tell they're a bunch of California guys (Monsters, Inc., the corporation in the movie, is a really hilarious spoof on Pacific Gas and Electricity, if you're from Northern California...if you're not, it's still funny, just you might not get some of the really in-jokes.)

Anyway, it's a typical good Pixar movie, and if you can stomach giving a few bucks to the Disney corporation, it's definitely worth it. Of course Pixar films are worth the price of admission in the short film they have traditionally stuck on the front of their feature length presentation. This one was called "To the Birds", and that's all I'll give away on it.

As for writing...I may disavow it. That doesn't mean I'll necesarily get rid of it. I just need, until I've banged enough rocks together to get back into the flow of it, not to be reminded of past obligations. Let me field enough of the easy fungo balls that are my own projects this month. To get back into the swing of things. I'm very out of practice and that's frustrating me more than anything I suspect.

So yeah, I can't get rid of it. I still need to get back into practice. We'll see what happens. Living at home is annoying for the writing pursuit, especially because everybody thinks they have carte blanche permission to interrupt. Because anything I'm doing on my computer must not be important, right?

Oh yah, and congrats to the World Champion Arizona Diamondbacks. Couldn't have been a better team. And yeah, I know, all you New Yorkers were rooting for the Yankees after this fall's disaster, and I could have gone along with that...except, three in a row were enough. But it was a good series. (Interestingly enough, the quote/song for this post are by a Yankees fan. But Paul Simon makes good music, so I can forgive him the choice of teams...)

Hanging up the spikes until next year...and hoping like hell the Giants can manage to hang on to Bonds...(doubtful, but I can wish.)

Oh yeah, and after the Cal Bears have gone 0-8, football coach Tom Holmoe has announced his resignation, effective the end of the season. We only need to lose to USC, Stanfurd, and Rutgers to complete the "perfect" season...so yeah, it's good being a Cal fan right now, even though the team sucks. :)

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And Stanford's pretty good this year, so there's probably not much chance of redeeming the season with the Axe. Three in a row may have been enough, but four in a row would've perfectly emphasized just how boring and pointless a sport baseball is. ;)

I probably won't get to see Monsters, Inc until it rents, I never get to go to the theater. I finally recently saw a good chunk of Toy Story 2 and wasn't actually that impressed. I dunno, maybe the first one's better, I liked A Bug's Life a lot more. My big problem with movies like that (and among my problems with Disney in general) is that they reinforce the idea that animation and cartoons are synonymous and that animation must be for chidren, so things like Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within are never given much of a fair chance (which if you haven't seen, I recommend, I finally got to see it on DVD and it was awesome).

I understand where you are with writing, my inability to consistantly follow ideas through into full-fledged stories is one of the major reasons I got out of Jihad writing for the most part. My current one is stalled because I can't quite figure a way to write a suicidal character without going way too heavily into melodrama, suicide being an inherently melodramatic act. Don't feel bad about the novel thing, I don't think I say that many words in a month. ;)

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the FF:Spirits DVD kicks ass... have you seen the Thriller video? Sean just showed it to me. Go to the second disk, second page of extras, and click on the little video icon in the lower right hand corner. %)

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Actually, I rented it and only got the first disc, haven't had a chance to buy my own copy yet. That's the one problem with netflix, everything like that is a seperate rental.

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Ahhh. Yeah, I managed to get it for C$30 here, with tax. What's netflix?

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That's about the price I expect to pay for it, should I ever manage a ride to Sam's. Netflix (netflix.com) is a mail order dvd rental service, $20 a month for as many rentals as you want, with a limit of three out at once. Works well for me because it's based in San Jose and I get mail from there quickly, depending on mail delays might not be worth it to you though, but if you want I'll give you a free trial number.

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And then you mail it back? Neat concept... I'm pretty much set up with Blockbuster in town, though.

wrt Monsters, Inc...

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I had the opportunity to see John Kahrs speak on animation and Monsters Inc. on Friday... somehow the multimedia department at this school managed to book him to give a special lecture the day it opened.

Oh, John Kahrs?

He's the lead animator for Sully. Cool guy. Impressed the hell out of me. Unfortunately, I can't say we impressed him. For some reason the department felt it unnecessary to give him an escort or a liason of any kind while he was on campus, with the result that he ended up in my computer lab wondering where he was supposed to be going. On the plus side, I got to meet him up close as a result. =)

I'll probably go in a few days, after the theaters have calmed down and I don't have to deal with screaming kidlets...