random notes from the week

::sigh:: Another weekend, another scramble to catch up with posting. (And laundry. I just cleaned up this mess! Can’t the laundry just *stay* clean?)

Here’s some random stuff from this week:

1. Interesting thing I learned I can’t do reverse-handed: wash dishes. Apparently I always hold the sponge in my right hand and the dish in my left, because when I tried to switch at work this week, I was all discombobulated. Couldn’t do it at all.

2. Sound effect I wish I could imitate without sounding crazy: the inception brrrrrrmmm.

3. Is it possible that my body is naturally exceedingly slow, and that caffeine merely speeds me up to a normal functioning level? Over the past two days I’ve slept almost 20 hours, and I’m 1) sleepy, 2) freezing, and 3) headache-y. This is my normal state (and was long before I ever drank caffeinated beverages). Which all leads to this: I think I should start drinking coffee (or something) on the weekends.

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Movie Review: Inception

1. I gave this movie a pass in theaters because it looked too scary for me. Now I think they played up that aspect in the previews, because it was 1) not scary, and 2) not scary *even to me* who is scared of, well, everything.

2. I can see why so much fanfic actually covers the events of the movie, skimming over the actual dreaming parts. What *was* Arthur doing at the warehouse that whole time? How *did* everyone meet / know each other from before? Why *is* Eames so awesome at everything?

3. I have no idea how anyone watching the movie could pick up on the wedding ring — I think I caught a glimpse of Cobb’s left hand once, *maybe* twice, but certainly not consistently enough to form an opinion. Still, I am v.impressed by this interpretation of Cobb’s totem.

4. Re: totems, and Eames in general. Fanon seems to know four things about Eames: his totem is a poker chip, he’s a bad dresser, also a bad speller, and has gambling debts. I saw no evidence of any of these in the movie itself. (Except for Cobb telling him his spelling hadn’t improved, which — since we didn’t see any words — could equally indicate that Cobb is a poor speller. I’m just saying.)

5. So, Ariadne said she designed the third level as a hospital, right? I would seriously love to know what kind of hospital she was thinking of, since ‘snow bunker labyrinth’ doesn’t really seem to me to be indicative of ‘quality medical care.’

6. Possibly because I have read eight million fanfics about the movie, I did not find it confusing or hard to follow. On the other hand, I knew exactly what was going to happen going in, which is how I like it. Thing I was not expecting but liked: Yusuf’s cat.

7. Nifty musical thing that made me enjoy the (highly repetitive) music more. Way down right before the comments is a comparison of the Inception brrrmmmm brrrrrrrmmmm and the Edith Piaf kick song.

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weird things I dreamed about after watching Inception

This has got to be a common theme, right? Anyway, starandrea and I watched the movie right before I went to bed last night, and then I woke up a couple times during the night, so I had a chance to be all ‘lol, what a weird dream!’

See post title re: weird things I dreamed about:

1. Jenny from Doctor Who. Woke up after this one with a horrible headache. Took Advil, went back to bed.

2. Billy and Jeffy from Family Circus. (I know, wtf, right?) Woke up when the cat shut the door instead of opening it, and then wanted to get out of the room. Grumbled at him for the demand for attention in the middle of the night (he’s perfectly capable of opening the door again if he really wants to), went back to bed again.

3. ALIENS. And storm windows, which, thanks for all that weather-related imagery, Inception.

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saw Tron Legacy again, have more questions

So… starandrea and I went to see Tron Legacy again, this time in IMAX 3D. 3D glasses were subpar, movie was still interesting the second time through. Still do *not get* the purring thing.

Inquiring minds want to know:

1. Re: Dillinger Jr. Why doesn’t he clap at the meeting? Who is he calling when he walks out? Where does he go? Is he the Mike of his team the movie? (A: Yes.)

2. Re: Carl (the police impound lot guy). How well do he and Sam know each other? Best understated ‘this is the only character development you’re going to get, so enjoy it’ moment of the movie.

3. Re: Alan. How much does he know? Does he have a key to Sam’s apartment, or did he just break in? Did he go to the grid to search for Kevin after he disappeared? Who currently owns the arcade?

4. Re: Kevin’s office. The clock/timer screensaver thing. What was it counting? Time since last activation? The leftmost number was 20, which would match the number of years since Kevin’s disappearance — maybe it was a reminder of how much ‘real world’ time had passed for when Kevin came back from working on the grid?

5. Re: the grid, specifically the portal. So, you *appear* in the replica of the arcade, somewhere in the city. But you have to *leave* through the portal, which is out in the middle of nowhere? How does that even work?

6. Re: Kevin Flynn. Crazy like a fox, or just sheer crazypants crazy?

7. Re: Sam. (Who apparently inherited his dad’s propensity for changing his shirt at socially awkward times.) Why did he never do anything cool with the second lightcycle wand he picked up? (I was waiting and *waiting,* and nothing. It was easier to watch the second time.)

8. Re: disks. Identity disks are to programs as… *what* is to humans? Because Tron had one, but then he nabbed a second, and then as Rinzler he had two, and then he lost them both, and then he (sort of?) rebooted as Tron, so… Also, Zuse talked about forged identity disks, and Sam obvs. didn’t have one when he was picked up in the beginning, which seemed to be a punishable offense but not exactly ‘oh horror of horrors a program with no disk how can he function?’ And of course Quorra and Kevin swapped disks, which seemed totally weird.

9. Re: ISOs. They’re going to change the world how? Because they’re programs that self-generated? How does that translate to eliminating disease? I’m confused.

10. Re: Quorra in particular. ‘Hey, it’s obvious that I’m an ISO b/c of this nifty thing on my arm. You know what would be smart? Wearing an outfit that makes it *super easy* to spot!’ Yeah.

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