Weekly reading/watching meme
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petroniaWhat are you reading/watching now?
The Great Gatsby (fiction) and Bentham on Torture (non-fiction, French translation - Allia edition). The latter because of Zero Dark Thirty. So, yanno. MOVIES.
Didn't actually manage Beasts of the Southern Wild last week, but did re-watch quite a lot of the LotR extended edition featurettes -- and am still not done. Somehow I managed to miss all this time that the Lorien elves' lament for Mithrandir was sung by Liz Fraser??? This... makes a lot of sense tbh...
Also watched the Youtube compendium of all the cut scenes from the LEGO Lord of the Rings video game, which I can promise you is a profitable use of 90 minutes. (In fact I watched various dudes play through 2/3 of the game on Youtube. Mostly for 1) Gimli being picked up and thrown repeatedly, 2) Sam setting fire to stuff. It's a puzzle platformer for 8-year-olds in which you can't die, i.e. I can almost imagine playing it myself successfully.)
What did you just finish reading/watching?
Started but didn't finish any books this week. Watched Zero Dark Thirty.
What will you read/watch next?
Kon-Tiki! Picked it up along with the Bentham.** I have always sort of wanted to read this, since my childhood days poring over stacks of old National Geographics. XD I swear until just now I hadn't realized there was a movie and it's nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar.
** By which I mean: along with the Bentham, a collection of Anna de Noailles' poetry, the first tankoubon of Tezuka's MW, and two volumes of essays and commentaries on Bertrand Russell.
The Great Gatsby (fiction) and Bentham on Torture (non-fiction, French translation - Allia edition). The latter because of Zero Dark Thirty. So, yanno. MOVIES.
Didn't actually manage Beasts of the Southern Wild last week, but did re-watch quite a lot of the LotR extended edition featurettes -- and am still not done. Somehow I managed to miss all this time that the Lorien elves' lament for Mithrandir was sung by Liz Fraser??? This... makes a lot of sense tbh...
Also watched the Youtube compendium of all the cut scenes from the LEGO Lord of the Rings video game, which I can promise you is a profitable use of 90 minutes. (In fact I watched various dudes play through 2/3 of the game on Youtube. Mostly for 1) Gimli being picked up and thrown repeatedly, 2) Sam setting fire to stuff. It's a puzzle platformer for 8-year-olds in which you can't die, i.e. I can almost imagine playing it myself successfully.)
What did you just finish reading/watching?
Started but didn't finish any books this week. Watched Zero Dark Thirty.
What will you read/watch next?
Kon-Tiki! Picked it up along with the Bentham.** I have always sort of wanted to read this, since my childhood days poring over stacks of old National Geographics. XD I swear until just now I hadn't realized there was a movie and it's nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar.
** By which I mean: along with the Bentham, a collection of Anna de Noailles' poetry, the first tankoubon of Tezuka's MW, and two volumes of essays and commentaries on Bertrand Russell.
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Date: 2013-01-28 11:58 pm (UTC)And ahhh, Kon-Tiki, I must've read that about 6 times through when I was a wee thing - archeology aside, I was in it for the animals, and it doesn't disappoint on strange sea life...
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Date: 2013-01-29 02:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-29 02:40 am (UTC)Also, I keep on meaning to tell you, I got your card and loved it. And then I want to send you one but I never get around to it. Come back to visit anytime you want, I'm in a far better place than I was last time! No more bursting into tears while out and about!
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Date: 2013-01-29 02:53 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-01-30 05:15 pm (UTC)Actually one thing I've been thinking all along my rewatch is that Peter Jackson has the mindset of a video game level designer, and so it's interesting to see how the actual level designers interpret what they get given by the movies. Moria basically only gets a puzzle layer transparently placed over the action; then something like the Dead Marshes, where you have to create the level from scratch; or Caradhras, where you actually end up with something more like the Hobbit (movie and book)'s concept of the Misty Mountains than LotR's; or Osgiliath, where the game brings out the side-scrolling quality to the movie set that the art direction was actually trying hard to disguise.
Also, Celeborn as Galadriel's pool boy. XD;
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Date: 2013-01-31 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-06 01:58 am (UTC)