Greetings from Diamond Bar!
Dec. 31st, 2006 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arkratirmaI hate this keyboard so much it's not even funny. =P
Although I have my laptop with me, all set up in another room, we cannot get it to work with my grandparents' cable. I'm using their Mac right now. Macs are WEIRD. WEEEEEIRDUH.
Yesterday's trip was our fastest yet to Diamond Bar: six and a half hours, approximately. ZOOOOOM. I napped quite a bit.
Brenna, it's funny you mention your grandma having a boyfriend, because my Grandma Ruthie has one, too. Lou is very friendly, and he does make funny jokes. They've decided they're in love, but will not go so far as marriage. Papa Bob is probably happy for them.
Okay. My second day visiting my grandparents, and I AM COMPLETELY OBSESSED with seeing a certain movie. It's Guillermo del Toro's newest film, Pan's Labyrinth, a dark, violent fantasy that has received fabulous reviews. It's in Spanish with English subtitles, but that doesn't bother me. I WANT TO SEE IT. Doug Jones plays two characters in it (he was Abe Sapien in Hellboy and a giant, humanoid cockroach in Mimic, which I haven't seen): Pan and the Pale Man. I read an article about Jones in the paper. The man is 6'4" and weighs only 140 pounds. JESUS. (He could almost be Mr. Doering's older brother.)
Pan's Labyrinth takes place in 1944 Spain, then under the rule of Francisco Franco's fascist regime. A ten-year-old girl, Ofelia, stumbles upon a gateway to another world behind a mill. In this strange world, she meets Pan, a decrepit faun, and Pale Man, a monster with eyes in his hands who has a penchant for devouring children.... ARGH VISIT THE FREAKING SITE!!!
http://www.panslabyrinth.com/
We might go see some movies tomorrow, but Pan's Labyrinth hasn't opened at Puente Hills yet. I imagine I'll be seeing Happy Feet (!!!) with Mom and maybe Grandma Ruthie.
I WANT TO SEE PAN'S LABYRINTH SOOOOO BADLY. It's rated R - I'm old enough to see it alone, but the problem with that is that I don't have any ID. Poooo. AND HOLY CRAP, there's an official contest on the site to have your work transformed into an interactive sketchbook, such as del Toro's interactive sketchbook. It ends February 17.... I think I might try it out. Five winners will be selected. I need to see the movie first!
AUGH MOVIE GEEK OVERLOAD.
It looks fantastic.... I can't stress this enough. ;_________;
OH, one more thing: I have Dean Koontz's latest novel, Brother Odd, the third book in the Odd Thomas series. HUZZAH! I need to begin reading it. (...And I need to read the sixteen other Koontz books I have at home.)
Although I have my laptop with me, all set up in another room, we cannot get it to work with my grandparents' cable. I'm using their Mac right now. Macs are WEIRD. WEEEEEIRDUH.
Yesterday's trip was our fastest yet to Diamond Bar: six and a half hours, approximately. ZOOOOOM. I napped quite a bit.
Brenna, it's funny you mention your grandma having a boyfriend, because my Grandma Ruthie has one, too. Lou is very friendly, and he does make funny jokes. They've decided they're in love, but will not go so far as marriage. Papa Bob is probably happy for them.
Okay. My second day visiting my grandparents, and I AM COMPLETELY OBSESSED with seeing a certain movie. It's Guillermo del Toro's newest film, Pan's Labyrinth, a dark, violent fantasy that has received fabulous reviews. It's in Spanish with English subtitles, but that doesn't bother me. I WANT TO SEE IT. Doug Jones plays two characters in it (he was Abe Sapien in Hellboy and a giant, humanoid cockroach in Mimic, which I haven't seen): Pan and the Pale Man. I read an article about Jones in the paper. The man is 6'4" and weighs only 140 pounds. JESUS. (He could almost be Mr. Doering's older brother.)
Pan's Labyrinth takes place in 1944 Spain, then under the rule of Francisco Franco's fascist regime. A ten-year-old girl, Ofelia, stumbles upon a gateway to another world behind a mill. In this strange world, she meets Pan, a decrepit faun, and Pale Man, a monster with eyes in his hands who has a penchant for devouring children.... ARGH VISIT THE FREAKING SITE!!!
http://www.panslabyrinth.com/
We might go see some movies tomorrow, but Pan's Labyrinth hasn't opened at Puente Hills yet. I imagine I'll be seeing Happy Feet (!!!) with Mom and maybe Grandma Ruthie.
I WANT TO SEE PAN'S LABYRINTH SOOOOO BADLY. It's rated R - I'm old enough to see it alone, but the problem with that is that I don't have any ID. Poooo. AND HOLY CRAP, there's an official contest on the site to have your work transformed into an interactive sketchbook, such as del Toro's interactive sketchbook. It ends February 17.... I think I might try it out. Five winners will be selected. I need to see the movie first!
AUGH MOVIE GEEK OVERLOAD.
It looks fantastic.... I can't stress this enough. ;_________;
OH, one more thing: I have Dean Koontz's latest novel, Brother Odd, the third book in the Odd Thomas series. HUZZAH! I need to begin reading it. (...And I need to read the sixteen other Koontz books I have at home.)
