Halloween, Yarn and Star Wars...

[neotoma]

Well, the weekend went pretty well. tricksterquinn came by, dithered over her costume, drove up to Comus for heirloom apples, some squashes, and a blue pumpkin, went home, took a nap, and then went to penknife and artaxastra's Halloween Party. It was fun and just enough people for me.

Then on Sunday, we had breakfast -- Irish steel-cut oatmeal with creamed honey, fresh cream and pears with bacon for her and a perfectly done onion and balsamic vinegar omelet for me -- watched BATMAN BEGINS (Christian Bale! Cillian Murphy! Liam Neeson! Gary Oldman! squee!) and then went down to Woolwinders. The main purpose was to meet up with Marla from the Guild and retrieve my umbrella, but also to see what yarns tricksterquinn can tolerate and if there are any colors of Kureyon that would do for a winter sweater for penknife and artaxastra's munchkin.

We wound up sorting all the Kureyon like a pair of OCD yarn geeks, and found only a few colorways that were interesting and had enough balls for a kid's sweater. But while we were doing this, we overheard a guy talking about Star Wars while waiting for his Significant Other to pick out yarn.

Thus, we met starfallz and iii_demon and two of their friends. They were quite fun people to spend an hour or two with, talking Star Wars and rollercoasters and knitting. Maybe we'll run into them again.

Comments

[gwendolyngrace.livejournal.com]

I just saw Batman Begins on Halloween night.... I was really impressed with a lot of things they did. Will be adding it to the library eventually. I loved the way it focused on the *how* as well as the *why*. And OMG, seeing the beginnings of Scarecrow, Falcone, the rivalry with Ras-al-Ghul, and just the barest hint of the Joker.... Well, well done. This version I think caught the duality of Bruce Wayne/Batman better than the others, I think. Michael Keaton was great, but the script failed to show the playboy side very well. Of course, I really like the idea that Bruce is just two steps short of deserving a cell in Arkham, himself, but I think this film captured touches of that. The one thing I didn't care for was Alfred as lower-class. Sorry, Michael, you missed the boat there.

Also, Rutger Hauer has not aged well. But Morgan Freeman! Woot.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

The extras on the second disk are a lot of fun too. It's quite fun to hear the actors speak about their roles; though Chrisitian Bale's American accent gets away from him and Gary Oldman's native accent combined with the Jim Gordon costume doesn't say 'cop' to me, it says 'small-time British bookie'...

[gwendolyngrace.livejournal.com]

Blockbuster did not provide the second disk. Another reason to eventually purchase.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

They were probably too cheap to get the Deluxe edition.