Parents, People, and Footmen Frenzy

Currently in Earphones: "Absurd" (Whitewash Mix?) by Fluke, from the Sin City Soundtrack, "Battle of the Heroes" by John Williams, from the Star Wars Episode III Soundtrack.

Hello All.

What a weekend.

So, first off, hung out with Toes, Sascha, Lisa and Preston Fri. Night. Watched Equilibrium and socialized. I joked with Preston that I'd rip the line "We've been watching you, Preston." from the sound track of the DVD and play it in odd places to freak him out. Lamented missing a swim with Toes and Sascha, but I think I'll be able to make it up later. Went to bed late.

Woke up at 11 am Sat. Morning and got ready quickly to meet my parents for lunch. Missed breakfast at the DC. Joined with the parents around 12:30 with much rejoicing. Drove downtown to futz with the bank and ended up finally getting a taste of what Murder Burger had to offer. Came back to start laundry and walked to the MU with mum and dad. Pointed out a thing or two that I wouldn't mind having, and dad gladly took care of the bill. Came back to finish up laundry and got some help folding. Final small trip to Rite Aid to pick up some amenities, the bill once again picked up by the Father unit. Bade the parents goodbye and set out downtown again.

Picked up the Star Wars Ep. II Soundtrack (Now I've got all 6, wowzers!) and the Sin City soundtrack. Got a ticket for the 10:30 pm showing of Ep. III and swung by the bike shops to see if I could pick up some new pedals. Realized that sun stays in the sky longer during the summer and that the stores hours hadn't compensated for it. Returned to eat, only to find that I'd missed the insanely early dinner hours at the DC. Ventured to Subway at the U-Mall and picked up a sandwich instead. Headed out on foot around 9:20 pm to the theater in order to get a good place in line.

Met up, by coincidence, with Beck from Paloma and her boyfriend. Chatted amiably until we were let in. The crowd was still in the "OH DEAR CHRIST" level of people and geeks, and were appreciative of the new "Narnia" trailer, as well as the now familiar "A Long Time ago..." opening and crawl. I thought the crawl rather odd, phrase-wise (It starts out with "War!" and when trying to be all weighty and dark like Empire, it felt too light).

I will say this, the Lightsaber fights are twice as fast and furious as anything you've seen before. Though it seemed that for the final Anaken/Obi-Wan fight Nick Gillard, the fight co-ordinater, thought "Spinny moves and attacks are cool, so it should be really cool if I make the fight consist of nothing but spinning, whirling moves." It follows the same geek logic as "If Ninjas are cool, and Pirates are cool, then what could be cooler than a Ninja Pirate?!?!" There is a section of the fight where both combatants whirl their sabers around in an impressive display of prowess, but don't actually hit anything, only to finally reel back and whack their blades together really hard in the classic "Frowing-at-each-other-over-clenched-blades" cliche. The Fencer in me was goin' "If it looks cool and it doesn't work...."

Got up late and ate breakfast with Andrea and Troy. Played Star Wars Battlefront with Troy for an hour or two and did some reading. Watched a little Naruto and then dragged myself over to play IM Ultimate Frisbee. Now, tossing a Frisbee around is fun, and I originally thought that Ultimate Frisbee would be the same. And it is, to a certain extent. But for me it was too much competition and not enough fun. I'm glad it's over. Got back and ate with the crew at the DC.

Had a really horrid moment when I was doing my Psych. reading and realized I had TOTALLY blanked at the Baroque Ensemble thing I was supposed to go to earlier on. It was a recital for Teresa Tam, who we backed up for a Bach Cantata. I was so set for it a few days ago after rehearsal. "Alrighty! 3 pm at the music building on Sunday! Got it!" And when the heck do I remember it? 7 freaking pm on Sunday evening! Too much other crap going on and pushed it right outta my head. Goddamn, that's the second recital I've missed. I guess it's a good thing then that I missed the deadline to add it as a class and get my measly one credit for it: at this rate I'll need to drive spikes under my nails to make sure I remember the final concert. Yeeeeesh....

On a final, more happy note, I'm starting to get into playing Warcraft III online with Will and co. Footman Frenzy is the name of the game, and man is it fun. Games take up just enough time to fill in gaps between finishing one thing and waiting for class or some such: about 15 min to half an hour. A nice time killer.

Enough. More Later.
- James