I have not been keeping up with TV at all. I've been a bit busy. So,
what have I been doing? Well, Wednesday, I was out all morning (hiking
and tracking down food) and then I had a movie to watch for my Film
& Lit class and a movie I just wanted to see. Thursday, I was in
class all day and then spent over 2 hours getting home afterwards; I was
absolutely exhausted and ended up crashing just after 10. Today, I
woke up, got caught up on manga, watched a few special features on my
new DVD and then just got home from a crazy night at work (where I
discovered my least favorite co-worker is Super Woman).
Let's work our way backwards through my stories. The first: the story
of Super Woman. From about 7:05 (I know the time because my break got
cut short) until about 8:15, we were slammed. Two-people-up-front,
running-around, constant-line, run-out-of-meats-and-breads slammed. And
when we were finished, there were sink-fulls (note the plural) of empty
dishes. In the 45 minutes between the end of the rush and closing, my
co-worker washed well over 2 sink-fulls of dishes, swept and mopped the
lobby and behind the line and took out the trash. I may be Queen Beth
at Subway, but she is freaking Super Woman. I expected us to be there
until quarter till 10, or at least 9:30, but she walked out the door
with the very last bag of trash (which I usually take out) at 9:05 and I
was locking the front door 15 minutes later. She may annoy the heck
out of me most of the time, but there is no one I would rather work with
on a night like tonight than her.
For my birthday, my little brothers bought me The Avengers on Blu-Ray.
:) Okay, so I wasn't surprised (I mean, shoot, I sent Jake a text from
Wal-Mart the day it came out letting him know it was there already).
But I enjoyed it immensely. And the deleted scenes were a lot of fun,
too. A lot. Watching the movie was a great way to finish my birthday. After my third watch-through, I've made a couple of guesses about the future of the series, but I think I'll wait until the movies come out before I talk about them (or at least until I've watched the movies a few more times...)
Before that, though, I had to finally sit through Blade Runner. Okay,
I'm a sci-fi geek. My movie collection has only 3 chick flicks and 10
sci-fis (counting Firefly the TV series as 1 and not counting my
superhero movies). That's a 3:1 ratio. The only thing I have more of
is fantasy and that's only because I have several series. I watch more
science fiction on TV or in theaters than anything else (in fact, the
last two years have been odd TV-wise since I'm watching so little
sci-fi). And on the rare occasion I go to Blockbuster, I walk out with a
classic sci-fi movie. I even did a huge paper on dystopic sci-fi
movies two years ago. And yet, despite the fact that there are three
copies of Blade Runner in my house, I have never sat through it. Oh,
I've started it a few times, but I just didn't like it. If it hadn't
been for school, I probably would have never sat past the part where Roy
slowly and calmly pushes in Tyrell's eyeballs until he dies.
Uuuggghhhh! The violence in Blade Runner is done so calmly, quietly,
and by such human people despite that. When describing why I didn't
like it, I found myself referring to Alien, which has the same
director. Both movies are futuristic science fiction that have a lot to
do with humanity and robots; both are dark, almost fatalistic. But
Blade Runner has such deliberate, slow violence, while Alien, sure,
there's a part where the alien literally pops out of the one guy's
stomach, and there's blood everywhere, but then that's it. The violence
is quick and mostly in the shadows. There's no slo-mo as a woman gets
shot three times and crashes through windows, her red blood trailing
down the inside of the see-through rain jacket. I just can't handle
that. I can tell you I am probably never sitting through Blade Runner
again.
Alright. I think that's enough (especially since I want some pics when I talk about my hike, so I'll do that as a separate entry...
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