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Just finished watching the wonderfuly How to Train Your Dragon - if you haven't seen it yet?
I heartily recommend. It's what I like to call a "happy film" and there are so few of these.
Although apparently Vikings speak with a Scottish accent, who knew? Outside of that...a pleasure.
Made me smile throughout.
At the comic book store, while I was picking up the latest Buffy comic (yes, I know, masochist, but I want to know how the story ends...and unlike a book, I can't simply skip ahead and read the ending before I waste $2.99 on the thing) - anywho...the comic book store folks were watching a flick. I asked what it was. And one said "How to Fight Your Dragon" and I said, "what? wait...you mean How to Train Your Dragon..." and then, "is it any good?" To which comic store gal stated - "actually it's really good. Fun and everything. The dragon actually reminds me a great deal of my cat, Ipkis." Having watched it - she's sort of right. It's almost as if the animators used a cat to draw the dragon.
What's lovely about the flick - is it really is all about the relationship between a boy and a dragon, a platonic love story of sorts. And has a gentle self-deprecating wit. So, if you need a happy movie? Go after this one. Oh and it's based on a kid's book. With America Ferrar voicing a Viking girl. Hee.
In other news...did the apartment hunting, saw two places, neither a go. Tomorrow will see four more - or three more. Sigh. Sorangel - my agent - asked me, mid-babble, if I write. Which took me by surprise. "Do you write?" Me:"Huh?" Sorangel:"Do you write scripts?" Me:" No, I mean I do write, I blog, and I've written a book, and I write a lot at work...why?" Sorangel:" The way you talk, I can tell you are creative - what you are saying is interesting and witty." I sort of talk the same way I write in this thing, generally speaking. And most of my snark is directed at myself.
Anyhow - I did make it to the Haiti Forum or Forum on Haiti at my church. 40-50 people, about fifteen white people, everyone else Haitians or ex-pat Haitians. Learned quite a bit. And felt sort of depressed and frustrated...because how do you help? NOG - or non-gov's don't work, particularly the foreign funded ones, and Bill Clinton is hurting more than helping, with the misallocation of funds to foreign experts, hotels, travel, and only 10% to actual aid. The speakers stated the best way to help was through non-conventional means - such as through Haitian groups, UNO (educational fund/union), Haitian Solidarity efforts, and political action committees to push for immigration reform.
( ramble about Haiti Forum, Immigration and what I learned... )
I heartily recommend. It's what I like to call a "happy film" and there are so few of these.
Although apparently Vikings speak with a Scottish accent, who knew? Outside of that...a pleasure.
Made me smile throughout.
At the comic book store, while I was picking up the latest Buffy comic (yes, I know, masochist, but I want to know how the story ends...and unlike a book, I can't simply skip ahead and read the ending before I waste $2.99 on the thing) - anywho...the comic book store folks were watching a flick. I asked what it was. And one said "How to Fight Your Dragon" and I said, "what? wait...you mean How to Train Your Dragon..." and then, "is it any good?" To which comic store gal stated - "actually it's really good. Fun and everything. The dragon actually reminds me a great deal of my cat, Ipkis." Having watched it - she's sort of right. It's almost as if the animators used a cat to draw the dragon.
What's lovely about the flick - is it really is all about the relationship between a boy and a dragon, a platonic love story of sorts. And has a gentle self-deprecating wit. So, if you need a happy movie? Go after this one. Oh and it's based on a kid's book. With America Ferrar voicing a Viking girl. Hee.
In other news...did the apartment hunting, saw two places, neither a go. Tomorrow will see four more - or three more. Sigh. Sorangel - my agent - asked me, mid-babble, if I write. Which took me by surprise. "Do you write?" Me:"Huh?" Sorangel:"Do you write scripts?" Me:" No, I mean I do write, I blog, and I've written a book, and I write a lot at work...why?" Sorangel:" The way you talk, I can tell you are creative - what you are saying is interesting and witty." I sort of talk the same way I write in this thing, generally speaking. And most of my snark is directed at myself.
Anyhow - I did make it to the Haiti Forum or Forum on Haiti at my church. 40-50 people, about fifteen white people, everyone else Haitians or ex-pat Haitians. Learned quite a bit. And felt sort of depressed and frustrated...because how do you help? NOG - or non-gov's don't work, particularly the foreign funded ones, and Bill Clinton is hurting more than helping, with the misallocation of funds to foreign experts, hotels, travel, and only 10% to actual aid. The speakers stated the best way to help was through non-conventional means - such as through Haitian groups, UNO (educational fund/union), Haitian Solidarity efforts, and political action committees to push for immigration reform.
( ramble about Haiti Forum, Immigration and what I learned... )