Aug. 18th, 2007

Stardust

Aug. 18th, 2007 05:52 pm
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[livejournal.com profile] nanashi_jones described Stardust as a mix between Pirates of the Caribbean and Princess Bride. That's actually a good characterization, although it is more than a sum of those parts. It's a traditional fairytale with humor and a fundamentally good nature. I also really enjoyed it, and than everyone for recommending it. (This, incidentally, is exactly the kind of movie that reminds me of [livejournal.com profile] moonwolf and her mom.)

Oh Florida

Aug. 18th, 2007 06:08 pm
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Why is there a separate tag on various community sites for Florida events? Why did most of the cooky X-files episodes take place in Florida?

Maybe because of stuff like this.
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I saw Stardust at Westshore mall, which has stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue, and the audience had girls wearing $500 cargo pants. I always feel like I'm a few classes below the folks shopping there.

On the way home, I stopped at the corner gas store to see what it's like. There were a bunch of shirtless teenagers smoking on the table outside, and teenage girl talking about her pregnancy and attempts to stop smoking inside (together with prepackaged gizzards and whatnot) and people in beat-up pick-up trucks came to buy their six-packs.

Maybe I'm imagining, but living in Finland I never encountered such gulfs of wealth. Surely the jet-set in Helsinki has an entirely different lifestyle, language and value system than the rural poor, but the rural poor don't live in dilapidated single-wides, and the groups don't coexist in such close proximity as they do here. It really is pretty remarkable, when I stop to think about it, just as is realizing that I'm taking this all for granted.
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Firefly in High Definition.

[Edit]: and understanding a phrase of Chinese in the show thanks to the crash course into the language Dr. Peng gave us last semester ;-)

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