Shout Outs
Oct. 26th, 2004 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
itsallovernowFirst of all, Happy Birthday to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
infinitemonkeys! May the year bring everything you've been hoping for.
And I'm so very far behind on birthday wishes for some of my friends list, and am sure that I've still forgotten people, but I know that bothscrubschick and double_helix have had birthdays relatively recently, so confetti and flowers and whoo hoos to them and to whomever else I've missed recently as well.
I offer up drabbles as penance, and gifts, so if you've got a yen, drop a fandom and a pairing in the old inbox:)
My best friend Sh. had her baby last night. 9 lbs of baby girl from a 120 pound blond ballerina. When I talked to Sh, at 3 a.m. she sounded proud and giddy and her baby was wearing a little hat. I'm so excited to be an Auntie again.
Someone must come clean my house before my mother gets here tomorrow. I'm wondering how exactly that's going to happen.
Crosses and Naughts got recced at Bright Shiny Objects, which made me stammer and blush like a kid. And I'm proud of that story, so it makes me doubly pleased. It's in some fine company there. It helped to balance out the sucky ass karma I've had going on lately. I mean really, I can't imagine that in a past life I kicked someone's dog, or burned down a barn, right?
Go forth toshaye's LJ, and let her know how ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
farscapefriday has changed your life. Hee, no really, go forth and answer her question. And whitelight1's looking for your most frightening movie moment.
mesascaper linked to a comparison between the Harvey death scene and the end of 2001, and I had to laugh at the comparison, in part because it just shows how wild it is when your life comes full circle. My dad took me to see 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Cinema 70 when I was about 5. It was a re-release, and I can't quite imagine what possessed him, but aside from Star Wars and Rocky at the drive-in, it's one of my clearest memories of that age. The Cinema 70 is no longer there, which breaks my heart. I saw Lawrence of Arabia there, Casablanca, the Black Stallion, so many movies.
(On a completely different note, I have no memory of going to see The Turning Point there with my parents at the same age, but apparently, we caused quite a scene. I had a small ring that I kept putting in my mouth, and my dad finally took it and threw it across the theater, causing me to erupt in a fit of screaming which wouldn't be stopped until the usher came and helped my dad find the ring. It's certainly a moment my mother has never forgotten).
Anyway, 2001, and the things I remember are the apes and the bone, and HAL losing it slowly. The look on Dave's face, and that ending. The white room and the monolith - age and death, resurresection and the things beyond our understanding.
And it comes back full circle, comes back to Farscape which I started watching because my father hassled me into it, and we'd talk on Saturday mornings, rehashing the plot (and I had to swallow, finding it oddly amusing that my dad and I both had a crush on Aeryn Sun), and then, after the stroke, he wanted to know what had happened to Crais, if I thought he'd really died. It's just funny, how these things meet and tie, that image that I've had with me - that I realize so many people of a certain age carry around with them of death and a newborn- tying into somehing else that's new, that's come full circle. Something that's kept my connection with my dad, something that's brought me these new people, and this inspiration to write again, and to read and think. Amazing. It's just amazing. Full of stars, yeah.
infinitemonkeys! May the year bring everything you've been hoping for.And I'm so very far behind on birthday wishes for some of my friends list, and am sure that I've still forgotten people, but I know that both
scrubschick and double_helix have had birthdays relatively recently, so confetti and flowers and whoo hoos to them and to whomever else I've missed recently as well.I offer up drabbles as penance, and gifts, so if you've got a yen, drop a fandom and a pairing in the old inbox:)
My best friend Sh. had her baby last night. 9 lbs of baby girl from a 120 pound blond ballerina. When I talked to Sh, at 3 a.m. she sounded proud and giddy and her baby was wearing a little hat. I'm so excited to be an Auntie again.
Someone must come clean my house before my mother gets here tomorrow. I'm wondering how exactly that's going to happen.
Crosses and Naughts got recced at Bright Shiny Objects, which made me stammer and blush like a kid. And I'm proud of that story, so it makes me doubly pleased. It's in some fine company there. It helped to balance out the sucky ass karma I've had going on lately. I mean really, I can't imagine that in a past life I kicked someone's dog, or burned down a barn, right?
Go forth to
shaye's LJ, and let her know how farscapefriday has changed your life. Hee, no really, go forth and answer her question. And whitelight1's looking for your most frightening movie moment.mesascaper linked to a comparison between the Harvey death scene and the end of 2001, and I had to laugh at the comparison, in part because it just shows how wild it is when your life comes full circle. My dad took me to see 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Cinema 70 when I was about 5. It was a re-release, and I can't quite imagine what possessed him, but aside from Star Wars and Rocky at the drive-in, it's one of my clearest memories of that age. The Cinema 70 is no longer there, which breaks my heart. I saw Lawrence of Arabia there, Casablanca, the Black Stallion, so many movies.(On a completely different note, I have no memory of going to see The Turning Point there with my parents at the same age, but apparently, we caused quite a scene. I had a small ring that I kept putting in my mouth, and my dad finally took it and threw it across the theater, causing me to erupt in a fit of screaming which wouldn't be stopped until the usher came and helped my dad find the ring. It's certainly a moment my mother has never forgotten).
Anyway, 2001, and the things I remember are the apes and the bone, and HAL losing it slowly. The look on Dave's face, and that ending. The white room and the monolith - age and death, resurresection and the things beyond our understanding.
And it comes back full circle, comes back to Farscape which I started watching because my father hassled me into it, and we'd talk on Saturday mornings, rehashing the plot (and I had to swallow, finding it oddly amusing that my dad and I both had a crush on Aeryn Sun), and then, after the stroke, he wanted to know what had happened to Crais, if I thought he'd really died. It's just funny, how these things meet and tie, that image that I've had with me - that I realize so many people of a certain age carry around with them of death and a newborn- tying into somehing else that's new, that's come full circle. Something that's kept my connection with my dad, something that's brought me these new people, and this inspiration to write again, and to read and think. Amazing. It's just amazing. Full of stars, yeah.
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Date: 2004-10-26 06:17 pm (UTC)*Willpower*
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Date: 2004-10-26 11:36 pm (UTC)i remember seeing 2001 in when it came out and being mesmerized by so much of it. it felt like a movie that lasted forever (well, just about after all).
"open the pod bay doors hal" became a catch line for several friends some time back...turning it into an existential commentary of sorts. *veg*
congratulations on your rec at shiny objects. well deserved. :)
ps. sorry, i don't even vacume my house. although i really should soon i suppose. heh.
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Date: 2004-10-26 11:50 pm (UTC)And dude, it's blatantly embarrassing that I'm willing to pay someone to come clean my house, but right now, I just cannot deal with it. It's not in my arsenal of abilities;)
So, I figure it's a good investment, and will give me a few days of joy before M. returns from hunting pheasant.
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Date: 2004-10-27 02:21 am (UTC)enjoy, and yes, the red sox are winning. i'm never going to get to sleep on time tonight ;)
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Date: 2004-10-27 01:14 am (UTC)I have no real preferences. Anything that floats into your pretty, clever head is fine by me, unless it spoils for the second half of the mini which I *still have not seen*, due to ongoing taping issues. Grr.
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