SkunkBoy gave Rob a couple of DVDs while we were at the convention. Rob and I went to see Star Wars in the theater before he would watch the DVD. A sort of twisted honor system, that :-) We want to see the movie digitally, but the Cinerama has been showing movies from the Seattle International Film Festival. Fingers crossed, SW will return to the Cinerama and we can go digital.
I've seen the movie three times so far. I like it much better than Episode I. It's by no means a perfect movie, but the acting and the story are much more realistic this time around.
This afternoon I sit down with a new attorney and go over the forms I have and what I need to do next. This is so overwhelming, so big. I've spent so long as someone who tries to make peace that going to battle is painful to my spirit.
Breathe. Breathe.
One nice thing about living up here is that we get the Canadian channel, CBC. It's interesting to see different commercials and different values for what makes prime time entertainment. Last night wasn't quite so bad as it can be, but generally, the American channels have sexual innuendo, violence, drugs and other assorted mayhem on the menu. Normally, CBC has something that you can actually watch with your cherubs and don't have to blush explaining what it means. Last night, they had a repeat of one of their Anne of Green Gables miniseries. So I watched it again.
Frankly, the first time they aired Anne of Green Gables, I was slightly dismayed at how they had reinterpreted my childhood favorite. There were parts of it cribbed from "Little Women" and other facets were also tweaked a bit too much for my liking. But, they got the essential feel of it right and there's no denying that the production is lovely to behold. The sets and costumes are absolutely divine; I'd love to go shopping in their wardrobe department! Megan Follows did a good job as Anne as a child, but as an adult, she puts Anne in a different light. Megan's Anne is feisty and stubborn. The Anne I loved grew up to be a bit more dream-filled and persuasive by the art of her personality, not the force of her nature. Still, it's not a bad series. And I like that its popularity brought about the reissue of several of the lesser known books by L.M. Montgomery so that I could read them instead of only knowing they existed because they were listed on the "other titles by" page. It also spawned the long-running CBC series, "The Road to Avonlea" which is set in the same town and features characters both from the Anne series and from other Montgomery books.
Anyway, it was a nice evening's entertainment. CBC starts prime time at 8PM, so that it's finished by a reasonable 10PM. I like that. I wish everyone had the chance to catch this station.
I've seen the movie three times so far. I like it much better than Episode I. It's by no means a perfect movie, but the acting and the story are much more realistic this time around.
This afternoon I sit down with a new attorney and go over the forms I have and what I need to do next. This is so overwhelming, so big. I've spent so long as someone who tries to make peace that going to battle is painful to my spirit.
Breathe. Breathe.
One nice thing about living up here is that we get the Canadian channel, CBC. It's interesting to see different commercials and different values for what makes prime time entertainment. Last night wasn't quite so bad as it can be, but generally, the American channels have sexual innuendo, violence, drugs and other assorted mayhem on the menu. Normally, CBC has something that you can actually watch with your cherubs and don't have to blush explaining what it means. Last night, they had a repeat of one of their Anne of Green Gables miniseries. So I watched it again.
Frankly, the first time they aired Anne of Green Gables, I was slightly dismayed at how they had reinterpreted my childhood favorite. There were parts of it cribbed from "Little Women" and other facets were also tweaked a bit too much for my liking. But, they got the essential feel of it right and there's no denying that the production is lovely to behold. The sets and costumes are absolutely divine; I'd love to go shopping in their wardrobe department! Megan Follows did a good job as Anne as a child, but as an adult, she puts Anne in a different light. Megan's Anne is feisty and stubborn. The Anne I loved grew up to be a bit more dream-filled and persuasive by the art of her personality, not the force of her nature. Still, it's not a bad series. And I like that its popularity brought about the reissue of several of the lesser known books by L.M. Montgomery so that I could read them instead of only knowing they existed because they were listed on the "other titles by" page. It also spawned the long-running CBC series, "The Road to Avonlea" which is set in the same town and features characters both from the Anne series and from other Montgomery books.
Anyway, it was a nice evening's entertainment. CBC starts prime time at 8PM, so that it's finished by a reasonable 10PM. I like that. I wish everyone had the chance to catch this station.
posted by Owl Chick at 6/18/2002 09:47:00 AM
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