Art! And movie talk!

[crantz]

Behold... Thonk, Esquire. Grave orc. Barrister. Animist ghost summoning guy. 42 years old and spending time with beautiful anime boys, a loot goblin*, and a giant talking bear.

I finally got to say the 'my ghosts don't know shit' line last night after absolutely failing a perception roll while listening to ghosts of the many many dead in the castle we're in last night.





School news: In the course I've gotten a grade back for, A+ which is a nice surprise because I thought I'd completely muffed the project! I got 30/30 on it though, weirdly.

Movie news: Saw

- Miracle Mile (whoa nelly)
- Starship Troopers (viewing it as in-universe fiction from another universe was a great idea. I really liked it as that)
- Live and Die In LA (Grissom no! I know what his penis looks like now so I guess I get some of Sara's ideas)
- Princess Arete (A solid fairytale with pretty low affect for an anime)
- Appointment with Death (decent Poirot, had Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, and Hayley Mills but some really out of the blue added classism)
- Masters of the Universe (NOT an origin movie, basically went 'MY NAME IS HE-MAN AND I'M NOT EXPLAINING SHIT. HERE'S A GUN'. Loved it)
- Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Solid, not sure why Mycroft was played by Christopher Lee but he did a good job, source of me discovering that Queen Victoria was a little person)
- Look Back (50 minute movie that needed the final 30 minutes desperately)
- RoboCop (another fascist movie with co-ed sexless showering scenes from the same director. Also really liked, but experienced minor alarm when I couldn't tell when the sci-fi dystopia was starting)
- Blow Out (I made a horrible joke that immediately came true in the last scene. Moss says I am the lathe of heaven)
- The Wicker Man (it's a fucking musical! I loved seeing Christopher Lee skipping merrily along)
- Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop (Very cozy mystery movie, in the old sense of cozy for books not the new sense, and surprised it never got more in the series like it clearly intended. But basically Batman if he'd gone into academia instead and also Alfred was the American)
- Fargo (That Escalated: The movie)
- She Done Him Wrong (Mae West had a lot in common, behaviour wise, with the portrayal of Sherlock in Private Life of Sherlock Holmes)
- Independence Day ("They'll never let you go to space if you marry a stripper" I'm glad he married her anyway.)
- The Blair Witch Project (oh my god this list got long. Uh uh. Well, it filled in some cultural holes and I absolutely love that they visibly cheered up once Josh died, despite still being stuck in the woods)

Okay! That was my much longer than expected movie list! I was going through my 'watch again?' list on prime. There were more like Poseidon Adventure, Josie and the Pussycats, Girlbusters, Moonstruck, MIB, Christine, etc, but I'm out of will.


ALSO Christine the movie about the car what kills inspired me to create some sequels. Which upon posting these to a chat, someone started ranting about Hollywood being creatively bankrupt until I went 'these are clearly made up. By me' and he went 'oh'. I need paid to be in chatrooms sometimes, I swear.




*bird person.

Comments

[tainry]

<3

[crantz]

Hidey ho, lil Tainry!

[verpine]

I love Thonk. Congrats on the A+ project!

[crantz]

Thank you very much to both!

[ashenmote]

Thonk has the profile of a Rapa Nui stone head. Very regal!

I quite enjoyed Private Life of Holmes too! From that list I further know Fargo and Independence Day, but the latter primarily from Cleolinda's book and only secondarily from seeing the movie too, many years later.

I sure hope there will be a Christine vs Herbie sequel too!

[crantz]

I'm not wholly sure what pathfinder orcs look like - whenever I did a wee google only half orcs showed up so I did my best. Otherwise I would have drawn a World of Warcraft orc and the GM would have been onto me.

He was so sassy! Just walking around making a catty one-liner and posing and it was a delight. I think that movie may have done a lot of damage to the cultural reputation of Watson though.

Oh man, I should reread Cleolinda's book. It's on the bookshelf and easy to access and everything. I loved it back in the day.

The Christine vs Herbie crossover was critically panned, but has a cult following especially for the extended car love scenes which were described as 'groundbreaking' and 'oh god the sound of scraping metal my ears my ears'

[ashenmote]

I only just figured out that Pathfinder is actually a RPG and not a online RPG version of Zoom, so I'm far far behind.

I also had an ancient peculiar beekeeping uncle like that, but he wasn't Sherlock Holmes and the place also had cats and a ditch and legless lizards and a canopy swing so I didn't have spare time to bother him and was happy to stay away from the bee-owned parts of the compound as told.

It is very rereadable! And my fondness for the George Ryan Pitch Meetings these days, that rests pretty much on the two legs Mad Movie parodies and Movies in 15 Minutes, it's not so difficult to connect the dots.

I mean yeah, the ground actually breaks a lot.

[crantz]

Apparently it's not just another word for DnD, but god knows what's different. Dark (the gm) just tells me what dice button to push and I push it. My Cthulhu stuff works under a system I made up myself because I correctly guessed no one would read the rule book so this is my first 'structured' game, truthfully.

That sounds magical. My weird uncle had a farm where everywhere I dug, I dug up teeth. He yelled at me to stop digging holes.

Took me a moment for that wordplay, then I had a nice chuckle.

[ashenmote]

Even more magical, they had an estranged adoptive daughter who was like a Disney princess raised by hobbits. She looked all different to them and was tall and pale and beautiful and 'difficult' in some unspeakable drug-related way hinted at during meal times. She had the most wonderful speaking voice and a gig as guest singer with a semi famous prog rock band with cool album covers that she owned! She was rarely around, but she was so kind to me that I decided to develop very positive views both towards adoption (whatever that was) and drugs (same), in spite of my schools best efforts. Somehow I didn't also turn into a crusader for prog rock.

Oh no, teeth?!

I found a picture with a Tibetan Fox and a Pallas Cat in it but the cat is just a grey blob.

[crantz]

Oh she sounds neat but maybe less drugs for baby 'mote.

TEETH. I have no idea what kind of teeth, the memory is too fuzzy now.

Pallas cats r grate. I have a zoo making game that has them in it, I should make a pallas kit exhibit next time I play.

[ashenmote]

Oh I didn't join the war on drugs on the side of drugs for my own sake. I just felt very supportive about it.

[ashenmote]

Oh it was as I thought! I confused "Mr. Holmes" and "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes", so if you were wondering why we were talking bees all of a sudden, that's why. My movie had bees.