Fannish weekend
Jul. 25th, 2004 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynIt seems like lately life conspires to make my weekends more about real life and less and less about fannishness. Once I got into media fandom, back in the 12th century, it seemed as if all my weekends were fannishly spent for the majority of hours. Now it's a rare occasion. Friday night ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
feochadn and movies_michelle came over for our semi regular Friday night TV watching, and brought good Indian food and Deadwood, which I am now officially addicted to. Being as it was a tandoori oven in my house with our freakish 95 degree weather (mid westerners and east coasters and southerners laugh, but seriously, up here, it's unbearable, especially as most of us don't have A/C).
Then yesterday I went out with seemingly everyone in Seattle to a theatre for guaranteed air conditioning as the thermometer topped 95 again, to see King Arthur before he vanishes from the multiplexes. Thank god, though, that apparently everyone else was seeing Bourne and Spiderman. I actually enjoyed it much more the second time around -- I knew when the really great shots of Clive and Ioan were coming, and I knew where all the great Gawain/Tristan/Gallahad stuff was, and when the camera would lovingly focus on Clive's incredible eyes... and all the historical crap had already been found out, so I could just kick back and enjoy the view even more.
Thenmlyn came over to watch bonus features on The Fast and The Furious and see the sequel, 2 Fast, 2 Furious, which was awful but in a fun kind of way and didn't have half the style or unironic substance of the first one. But there were some nice shots I can steal for a vid and use in a constructed reality. We laughed muchly, and mlyn also kindly fixed my vid song problem by playing me her Depeche Mode albums (my DP education is strangely hole-filled in certain places, and so one perfect song I had never heard before, and turns out to work quite nicely). You will be happy to know, mlyn, that I am actualy already editing the music and have plunked the song file in iMovie, and may try to capture some clips from 2F2F as well. As I descend into summer madness with this silly but monumentally hot fandom, it's nice to have someone on the ride down to hell with me. (*And* who can give great story feedback!)
Then today some of us locals had a brunch get together forkatallison who is in town for a few days. Despite annoyingly awful service and a staff who were weirdly freaked out by a large group of well behaved women, I think a lot of fun was had, though sherrold and her camera scare all the photo-phobic folks in the group. ;-) Here's hoping Kat can join us out in the pacific NW soon, and grow Japanese maples and rosemary bushes! Later, trollchild is joining me for Sunday Nikita ep night, and now we can watch season 2 on my illegally obtained unreleased dvds! Yay! It's fun to have suddenly, after years of ineffectually trying to pimp people into my fandoms, people joining me in my strange obsessional interests. Makes this whole experience so much better, and makes for a real honest to god fannish weekend the likes of which I haven't had for a long time.
Only, now I have to return to staining the deck. I suppose a few dark spots must still occur somewhere.
feochadn and movies_michelle came over for our semi regular Friday night TV watching, and brought good Indian food and Deadwood, which I am now officially addicted to. Being as it was a tandoori oven in my house with our freakish 95 degree weather (mid westerners and east coasters and southerners laugh, but seriously, up here, it's unbearable, especially as most of us don't have A/C).Then yesterday I went out with seemingly everyone in Seattle to a theatre for guaranteed air conditioning as the thermometer topped 95 again, to see King Arthur before he vanishes from the multiplexes. Thank god, though, that apparently everyone else was seeing Bourne and Spiderman. I actually enjoyed it much more the second time around -- I knew when the really great shots of Clive and Ioan were coming, and I knew where all the great Gawain/Tristan/Gallahad stuff was, and when the camera would lovingly focus on Clive's incredible eyes... and all the historical crap had already been found out, so I could just kick back and enjoy the view even more.
Then
mlyn came over to watch bonus features on The Fast and The Furious and see the sequel, 2 Fast, 2 Furious, which was awful but in a fun kind of way and didn't have half the style or unironic substance of the first one. But there were some nice shots I can steal for a vid and use in a constructed reality. We laughed muchly, and mlyn also kindly fixed my vid song problem by playing me her Depeche Mode albums (my DP education is strangely hole-filled in certain places, and so one perfect song I had never heard before, and turns out to work quite nicely). You will be happy to know, mlyn, that I am actualy already editing the music and have plunked the song file in iMovie, and may try to capture some clips from 2F2F as well. As I descend into summer madness with this silly but monumentally hot fandom, it's nice to have someone on the ride down to hell with me. (*And* who can give great story feedback!)Then today some of us locals had a brunch get together for
katallison who is in town for a few days. Despite annoyingly awful service and a staff who were weirdly freaked out by a large group of well behaved women, I think a lot of fun was had, though sherrold and her camera scare all the photo-phobic folks in the group. ;-) Here's hoping Kat can join us out in the pacific NW soon, and grow Japanese maples and rosemary bushes! Later, trollchild is joining me for Sunday Nikita ep night, and now we can watch season 2 on my illegally obtained unreleased dvds! Yay! It's fun to have suddenly, after years of ineffectually trying to pimp people into my fandoms, people joining me in my strange obsessional interests. Makes this whole experience so much better, and makes for a real honest to god fannish weekend the likes of which I haven't had for a long time.Only, now I have to return to staining the deck. I suppose a few dark spots must still occur somewhere.
