Things I've Been Up To

[c9]

Here I go with the bullets. I hope they don't go out of style -- I won't know what to do!

• Saw a movie called "Maria Full of Grace," which was very enjoyable.  Moving and (surprisingly for a crusty moviegoer like me) unpredictable.
• Saw the Cannes 2003 Best Commercials. Lots of fun, as always, especially when comparing what different countries find funny. Violence seems to be pretty universal.
• We've been getting together with friends to watch Survivor each Thursday. "Friends?" you're probably thinking. Yes, though half of them we knew in Halifax, so it's a bit odd. No gays. :-)
• I've been doing the final cleanup and layout of Wayves each month. Kinda less fun than I'd imagined, since I don't get the comraderie of the month layout sessions in Halifax. I'm finishing November tonight. Anybody have a copy of InDesign I can (ahem) borrow?
  
• Work has me going flat out, but not traveling. Kinda nice. But I'm so busy (having two bosses with specific percentages of my time to use is not, in fact, less work than having one boss who thinks I have 26 hours per day.
• For Thanksgiving the gang (well, portions thereof:_kissyfur_, leapfish, simplisticton, and purplemartini were all there.) hit my cottage in PEI. Great time with great friends, but unfortunately we live too far from PEI for it to be a reasonable weekend destination anymore. Sad.
• There will be pictures posted from PEI soon. I just need to catch my breath. I have breathing pencilled in for April 2005. Are you free?

Comments

[bartok.livejournal.com]

I went to the commercial festival one year in Winnipeg with Phil. I found it strangely disturbing. At first the commercials were amusing, but watching one after the other started to make me uneasy. It really seemed to be seeing the other people laughing at the "proper" times and reacting to the ads as expected that really got to me. Maybe it was just the rampant display of consumerism, or recognizing the manipulations of the images worked. Everyone was just consuming, not questioning what was in front of them, and that really got to me. Gives me shivers still. Can't explain it beyond that.

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

You could say that same thing about most movies.

[bartok.livejournal.com]

very true, I guess it was the repetitive nature of the commercials that got to me, like all of the pandering and manipulations found in bad cinema brought down to its essence. Essence of crap.

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

Isn't that Liz Taylor's new scent?

[bartok.livejournal.com]

hers or Britney Spears'

Best of commercials

[iambic-cub.livejournal.com]

I went to one of those best-of commercials shows at the Bytowne theatre a couple of years ago. I enjoyed most of it, but it was kind of annoying - it could have used much better 'editing'.

The problem was that 95% of the ads were laugh-your-ass-off hilarious, but the other 5% were slit-your-wrists depressing, and they were all mixed up together. You'd get so used to laughing that it'd only be once an ad was over that you'd realize "that person I laughed at had cancer - they're probably dead by now", and you'd be so thrown off that soon you'd have no idea what to feel. A giant anvil would drop on someone and you'd end up thinking "that poor man". (Well maybe not that - giant anvils are always funny. If a giant anvil fell on Oscar at the end of "Schindler's List", I'd be rewinding it to watch it over and over.)

Re: Best of commercials

[c9.livejournal.com]

It's true, you would. I still can't watch "A Fish Called Wanda" without thinking of your laughing fits.

Re: Best of commercials

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

I remember a fit during "Fargo". But I don't remember what scene it was.

[lifeofprad.livejournal.com]

Hey, where'd you catch the Cannes 2003 Best Commercials thing? It seems cool and something i'd be interested in. Glad Thanksgiving was fun, but it's true.. PEI isn't exactly next door anymore. You have boston to look forward to next, so that should be fun.

Chillax, man!

[c9.livejournal.com]

Watched the Cannes Commercials at the Princess in Waterloo. We've been going weekly since late September, tons o' fun!

[strainednoodles.livejournal.com]

I have InDesign. Email me about it.

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the weekend in PEI went well.

Re: Survivor: Who's your pick at this point?

[c9.livejournal.com]

I still don't even know their names!! We're voting for the winner each week, but I'm still spreading my votes around until I really have an opinion...

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

Who ever knows their names?

There's "Fake Leg Guy", "Fat Black Guy", "Hot Guy", "Long Hair Guy", "Bitchy Girl", "Old Dyke", "Young Dyke", "Butch-Lady-Not-a-Dyke" ...

We're going for Hot Guy.

[-kissyfur-.livejournal.com]

That's so funny...when I read that...I could picture each person you are talking about in my head...LMAO!!! Nice....:)

[c9.livejournal.com]

It's totally about the hot guy. I may have to boycott if hot guy gets the boot.