panda ate my 'puter

And other tales of woe....

Yesterday my computer was acting out in a weird way and I finally managed to fit it with rahalia_cat's help. Then we decided I should do some anti virus stuff too, and that's when all hell broke lose. There were about ten hours between late last night and today involved in being able to get online. I don't thin kthe core issue is solved, but at least I can back my crap up now and try to fix it. It's been exhausting, and like only I can, I managed to hurt myself in the clambering around after wires and what not to switch online stuff from one computer to the other. Meanwhile, my laptop smells like cat piss, and I'm tired, dirty and annoyed.

Read a lovely King Arthur fic last night by guede_mazaka -- it's sort of a film noir AU, which is fun for that alone. I find I consistently enjoy her work, eventhough she generally writes relatively short (maybe four part) stories where I want epics. She is interested in loss and recognition mainly, in a way that the subjects or fannishness of the pieces don't really matter to me. I connect to her stories, and they quiet my mind for a little bit.

I think I will go see A Very Long Engagement tonight. I'm less interested in it as a romance than I am with the weird stort of steampunk meets WWI things Jeneut seems to have going on it. And while I don't like a lot of what French cinema is, I do like seeing films in French, because it's about the only time I still feel like I've got the skills.

Finding Neverland

I wanted this to be a much bigger movie than it is -- because when it went big it was so so deliciously done. That said, it is a small and lovely drama, that captures very effectively the strangeness I think some, but not all writers feel, in the constant wandering of vague borders. Lovely, and highly recommended, but there's really only about five minutes of it that's "must see on the big screen" and most of that is in the trailer. There's this camera work when the children fly out the window in the theater production that is just the most wonderful delightful little thing.

All the kids in it are such marvellous actors, and I must give tremendous kudos to everyone along the way who was involved with how the kids were portrayed, the movie captures really perfectly the way in which children flirt (for lack of a better word, I don't mean it sexually) with adults in order to form interactions that put them on more equal footing. It's what we mean when we say a child's charmed us... they've brought us into their world and we're eager to go. This film handled that quite nicely.

In other news, I might have to soon rescind all my whining about Leonardo DiCaprio. If The Aviator is even half as good as its trailer, it's going to be astounding.

Meanwhile the trailers as a whole struck me in a strange and fractured way -- because in addition we had Bride and Prejudice (looks bad), and Phantom of the Opera (also looks bad, but is clearly going to have some really cool moments too).