Currents of Time

DISCLAIMER: I’m not even trying to claim this was a quality film. It’s not artistic and it doesn’t have some deeper meaning. But I enjoy it, anyway! I know it has problems, but I think it’s a fun film! You are fully welcome to disagree with me! You can even inform me of that, and you are, of course, free to ask me to explain anything in this post (or not in this post) that you want. But kindly don’t tell me I’m an idiot for enjoying it.

And. I’m sick or something (headache verging on migraine yesterday, my throat is ruined today…), so I’m really not sure if this is half as coherent as it seems to me. Sorry!

( Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen )

And this is where I’m stopping, because this is way too long as is and it’s late and I’m tired and not feeling well (and a little bit loopy on decongestants). SO THERE.

OKAY SO OMG IT WAS AWESOME SHUT UP THAT IS NOT A SPOILER IT IS AN OPINION

DUDE.


OKAY.


The cinema I went to - not the only one doing a midnight opening in this state - was not only sold out. It was sold out FOUR TIMES. FOUR TIMES! They sold out their first showing and opened another, and then another, and then another, and they had all sold out. I had not been aware they had four screenings! (I WAS IN THE ONE THAT ACTUALLY STARTED AT MIDNIGHT, but there were 12:05, 12:10, and 12:15 showings, as well.)

WTF HOW AM I IN A POPULAR FANDOM. WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN. I AM SO CONFUSED I seriously spent the thirty minutes I sat waiting for the movie to start going "What the hell how are there so many people here?"

Because the midnight screening of the first movie had like... twenty people at it, tops. (And six of them where there because I dragged them there. Well, okay, five. One of them was me. Though I suppose technically I dragged myself there, as well.)


They showed the trailer for 9 which made me go YAY and the trailer for Avatar which made me go "eeeerg" and start whispering things to my mother, and then they showed a disaster flick trailer and the G.I. Joe one. And then they showed us the movie and I was FULL OF GLEE FOR TWO AND A HALF HOURS AND NOW I AM SUPPOSED TO SLEEP? THAT IS PROBABLY NOT HAPPENING!

THANK GOD I DO NOT HAVE TO GET UP AND GO BOATING TOMORROW OR I WOULD PROBABLY DIE.

Instead I can go see it again or something, or maybe I'll be able to pass out before the sun rises I don't know I AM SO WOUND RIGHT NOW AREN'T YOU GLAD IN 2007 THAT I WAS IN PROVIDENCE AND NOT ANYWHERE NEAR A COMPUTER OR INTERNET ACCESS AFTER THEY SHOWED US THE MOVIE EARLY? I literally sat on my cot in the hotel room grinning and unable to calm down for like an hour and it was so much worse than this because of convention buzz and the first time I'd ever seen them on the big screen at all and because it was the best movie-watching experience of my life and and and I AM SORRY I LOVE MY FANDOM SO MUCH OKAY? I KNOW NONE OF YOU CARE ABOUT IT BUT I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR NOT CARING.



Oh. I'm talking about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (the new movie), in case you, you know, didn't know that. Seeing as how I've not actually mentioned that yet.


And yes of course it had its problems and places where I was going 'dear lord enough already' and everything but... oh for god's sake i shouldnt feel like i have to defend my liking something on my own damn journal SO I AM NOT GOING TO RIGHT NOW



(GLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE)


AND WHILE I'M HERE SQUEEING OVER TRANSFORMERS, yesterday Amazon sent me an e-mail telling me they'd shipped my copy of the score, so it could be here as early as tomorrow! er. Today! Which is a week and a half sooner than they'd estimated shipping it which is, while not entirely surprising, still pretty awesome.

I just wrote up a massively passive-aggressive post because I am feeling very angry right now and needed to get it out of my system, but now I have deleted it, because I'm reasonable enough to know that actually putting it up would've been a bad idea. Instead, I am going to try and continue behaving like a reasonable person and talk it out. Or something.

I still want to throw things and scream, though. (Which means I should probably act on this sooner rather than later, because this level of aggravation is the first step towards me snapping, and that never ends well for anyone.)

Of course, posting just these few paragraphs probably counts as passive-aggressive behaviour but OH GOD I NEED TO GET IT OUT OF MY SYSTEM I AM ANNOYED OKAY? OKAY.


So, let's change the subject before I start typing in a furious rage again! The new Transformers movie came out in some parts of the world today! Not here, obviously! This will be an exciting test of my ability to continue to dodge spoilers without full-out evacuating the fandom (and the internet in general). Nostalgia for 2007 is also setting in. Man! An initial (early, in that case) viewing in a room / entire cinema full of pretty much nothing but other Transformers fans was just the best thing ever.


I AM GOING BACK TO PLAYING FFXII NOW. Or I would be if there weren't a million other things I have to do first. AAAAND WE'RE BACK TO BEING BITTER THAT WAS FAST.

... Maybe I will find something to read first. That could be a nice distraction. Please let there be something new - and decent - to read. Somewhere. Anywhere.

This entry is the biggest waste of time ever, dear lord.


.... The more I think about it, the angrier I get, and the angrier I get, the more I think about it. DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF DOOM.

So I am not dead. Hooray! Actually, it went far better than I was expecting it to! Also, I was given a really nice letter after the meeting that was supposed to have been mailed but obviously never was. It's been a while since I've received a real letter, and this one was really... heartfelt, I guess.

It was fairly touching, but at the same time, a bit upsetting. A lot of it was apologies for behavior from three years ago, and none of it was even anything I'd held a grudge against. It is a very... strange situation, but not one I can be at all upset about. I suspect at least one person would be upset at me, knowing I was associating with her again, but honestly I'd be hard pressed to care less. It was also a bit disconcerting to discover she seemed to have been under the impression that I may have been angry with her (similar to what I'd been thinking in regards to her).


My brother likes to play Grand Theft Auto. He also likes to mod his games, and in one of them - San Andreas, perhaps - he's started to go in and replace all the old and boring cars he never uses with sports cars and super cars. He's thrown in, among other things, some model of Porsche (he couldn't remember what) and the Lamborghini Gallardo (and perhaps the Murciélago? Maybe he only considered that one). He's also got the Toyota Supra in there. He has also modified those mods.

Mostly the Lambo, though. He wanted faster, so he went in and changed the top speed to 2000 kph with 150 acceleration. He then went to take it to the airport to test it out, but discovered that the car couldn't keep up with the acceleration. So then he altered the traction - only in the wrong direction! So the car barely moved at all.

Because obviously the solution to too much acceleration is not to cut the acceleration but to boost the traction.

He got it right eventually, with maxed out traction... and so of course he then bumped the acceleration up to 300 because obviously what else would you do? He went on about the insane speed and power he had in that car, and I told him he was starting to remind me a bit of Jeremy Clarkson and asked him if he'd considered getting a Ford GT mod, or perhaps a Bugatti Veyron.


Saw Transformers again this evening while Dad went to the new Harry Potter (he was unimpressed). I hadn't noticed before, but when Jazz goes to revert to vehicle mode, it struck me as another G1 throwback, with him diving at the pavement and folding his arms under. Not sure, though, might've been making it up in my head. Also, I am still oddly enamoured with the little whirly-clicky sound Ratchet makes as he transformers. I couldn't tell you why even if my life depended on it.

Tickets for the Transformers movie have gone on sale, so I took inventory tonight on who wants to go with me for the midnight showing. I'll pick the tickets up tomorrow after work. The real question here is, "Jecca, you're going to be seeing the movie at Botcon, so do you really need to see it again on opening night?" and the answer is, of course, yes.


Also, store managers? Please either get the bakery a new oven or a second oven, because the one we've got? Isn't cutting it. In the nine-or-so months I've been there, we've had to get it repaired four times or so, for the same reason! It randomly decides it doesn't want to work, cools down and refuses to heat back up, and then refuses to light.

Then we are stuck with racks of things that need to be refrozen and empty shelves, and no one likes that.