Chat Thread: Chopsticks and teacups

[Gho the Girl]

I am beautiful and desirable.  

[Esiris]

Gho the Girl

I am beautiful and desirable.

That you are.  

[Bastemhet]

Reading "Small Gods" is making me a little bit cynical. mrgreen  

[Gho the Girl]

Bastemhet

Reading "Small Gods" is making me a little bit cynical. mrgreen

What is it about?

Also: Deadline has been given for Norm and Pete to move out>  

[Esiris]

Gho the Girl

Bastemhet

Reading "Small Gods" is making me a little bit cynical. mrgreen

What is it about?

Also: Deadline has been given for Norm and Pete to move out>

How'd it go?  

[Iron Harlot]

I don't feel so bad now. One of my closest friends from the community college days is ecstatic about me moving in with him and Albany is a city full of familiar places, friendly faces and far better job opportunities.

I really needed out of Rochester anyways. Too much bullshit I went through in this city, too many betrayals, too much stress, too much loss, too much pain. And while this is the place that I finally fought my way to my womanhood, I still think a change is needed and being homeless is as good of a time as any.

It would've been nice to live with Maur, but as far as places go, I'll be happier and less lonely in Albany. And closer to my mom, as she comes closer and closer to accepting me as her daughter.

Fingers crossed it will all go well.

And fingers crossed I find a biotech job in San Fran or in/near Seattle. The west coast and enough income to not only survive but get my surgery eventually and pay my loans is my next goal. XD

Wish me luck, lovely people. I'll prolly be hard to reach for a while. Nuri, you have my phone number right? Anyone else want it, PM me asap.  

[Bastemhet]

Gho the Girl

Bastemhet

Reading "Small Gods" is making me a little bit cynical. mrgreen

What is it about?

Also: Deadline has been given for Norm and Pete to move out>

It's kind of...set in a fictional world, but it illustrates the differences of polytheistic v. monotheistic interpretations of deities, and how this works together. I like his idea of where gods come from, that there are thousands of them, but as more people believe in them, they grow stronger. This is not too far off from what the Kemetic idea is. We believe the deities want us to give them offerings to keep them strong and in return they do favors for us, typical do ut des. There were a few that rose to state worship status, but there were literally thousands of local/regional gods that never really got popular enough to step onto the big stage.  

[Gho the Girl]

Cool, thanks Bastehmet! Very interesting theological view.

Also, Pete has been kicked out before deadline due to a repeat performance of bullshit.

I put my foot down and did what I'd warned him would happen had he done what he did again.

COMEUPPANCE UPSIDE THE HEAD

The house is a lot emptier with him and the animal gone, so that is great. I'm very happy, Norm isn't really pissed, he actually was the most noble, volunteering to be present to ensure my safety so that no police needed to be called.

So weird, I think we do much better as friendly exes than boyfriends.  

[Gho the Girl]

Iron Harlot

I don't feel so bad now. One of my closest friends from the community college days is ecstatic about me moving in with him and Albany is a city full of familiar places, friendly faces and far better job opportunities.

I really needed out of Rochester anyways. Too much bullshit I went through in this city, too many betrayals, too much stress, too much loss, too much pain. And while this is the place that I finally fought my way to my womanhood, I still think a change is needed and being homeless is as good of a time as any.

It would've been nice to live with Maur, but as far as places go, I'll be happier and less lonely in Albany. And closer to my mom, as she comes closer and closer to accepting me as her daughter.

Fingers crossed it will all go well.

And fingers crossed I find a biotech job in San Fran or in/near Seattle. The west coast and enough income to not only survive but get my surgery eventually and pay my loans is my next goal. XD

Wish me luck, lovely people. I'll prolly be hard to reach for a while. Nuri, you have my phone number right? Anyone else want it, PM me asap.

Good luck, may you find what you look for and recieve what you earn.  

[maenad nuri]

I swear, the only herbal remedy I'm proficient at using is a nice parsley tisane. I was even able to make it work faster AND taste a little less like grass clippings this time.  

[Gho the Girl]

Just finished watching "Do You Like Hitchcock?" which is a tribute film to Alfred Hitchcock by an Italian horror director. It was obviously dubbed in English and while that is one of my gripes with the film, I'd like to say some other problems that are not excusable by lazy and uninspiring Brit voicers

Going in, I'd thought there'd be cinematography nods to Alfred Hitchcock (AH) and famous and inventive style. He pioneered a lot of now modern shooting techniques, and was a master of lighting and color. He used music and sound very sparingly, if you saw anything on screen it's because AH meant it to be there. His movies are memorable not only because of the material and the characters, but because of his striking sense of pace, mood, and subtlety. AH proved that the best horror is not in shock value, but a continual, incremental and controlled building of dramatic tension broken by short bursts of intense suspense.

Unfortunately, that's not what I saw. First off, it seems they stole background music from some 80's made for TV horror movie, or maybe even "Tales From the Darkside," and spatter them across scenes which AH would have left quiet or filled only with natural sounds, say of a nearby street. AH used quiet as a tool for suspense, because it puts the viewer on the edge of the seat waiting to see what shall come next. The quaint overdone drama music just made me want to skip to the next part.

Second, what nods there are to AH are poorly implemented so as to fail at capturing the original mood or are completely decontextualized or even worse, feel completely forced and tacked on. It felt like the director had used the cliff note's versions of AH's films and tried to throw as many references to particular scenes and tropes to feel justified in using AH in the title.

For example, while the majority of the movie obviously tries to nod to "The Rear Window" by AH, what with the voyeurism, the broken foot (way too late in the film on that one if it was meant as such) and the girlfriend in trouble part, instead of reflecting the originals morbid curiousity with the daily lives of others, it comes across more like the pervy stalker that the protagonist is even accused of being by his girlfriend.

As far as decontextualisation goes, the protagonist is shallowly based on AH's trope of an everyman main character, who is drawn into a web of intrigue. However, that's as far as this bastardisation goes. Where AH's protagonists were gentlemen, sort of the noble commoner, the savvy blue collar type of man who he saw as immediately relatable and likeable. They were heroic not in their strength, smarts, or wealth, but in their charisma and their good nature, and their drive to do what was right that allowed them to overcome the evil and danger thrust upon them. The young, whiny teenager seen here, pales in comparison. The only thing more notably than his ineptitude is his annoying obsession with Sasha and the murder. What drives him to solve the mystery is not any desire to stop a murderer or right a wrong, but rather it's his sick obsession with Sasha. He complains, swears, does drugs, and throws hissy fits when he's not stalkerishly oogling the women and awkwardly trespassing.  

[Esiris]

Pizza and Ouran. heart  

[Collowrath]

I would kill for some good tempranillo. With a really good pasta dish, or a rustic homemade pizza with lots of cheese, tomato, and pršut.  

[Esiris]

Collowrath

I would kill for some good tempranillo. With a really good pasta dish, or a rustic homemade pizza with lots of cheese, tomato, and pršut.

There are a couple I like.
You can't find Red Dragon anywhere except online anymore, but Opera Prima is nice.  

[maenad nuri]

As part of my desire to obtain Domestic Merit Badges, I made cookies. 2 for the altar, and the rest to the gaming group's mouths.