That Weekend Groove
Jun. 23rd, 2008 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aseLast week was trying and unsettled without breaking into a crisis at any point, so I am glad my weekend's greatest irritants were a misread movie schedule and my wholly elective act of watching Into the Wild on DVD. Today was wacky bus shenanigans day, which was a timely reminder to be infinitely grateful for friends and roommates with cars. I am also very glad I keep an umbrella at work.
Notes toward an understanding of Into the Wild: After reading the book, I had no respect for McCandless. Get a map, man! Stop breaking your parents' and sister's hearts, unless they were physically, verbally or emotionally abusive! And get a map! So the movie's ability to move me to some degree of sympathy makes it worth mentioning. The movie's origin is Jon Krakauer's book of the same title. Krakauer emphasized the exhilaration of man surviving in the backcountry, and compared McCandless' path to his own experiences with nature; the movie uses McCandless's sister as a narrator to emphasize his confusion about his family, and speculates on McCandless's relationships on the road. It's worth noting that the sister talks about everyone's emotional reactions to Chris's absence, but doesn't say what she was doing during all of this. She's pretty exclusively a vessel for Chris's story, and a reflection of his relationship with his parents.
Other weekend highlights: hitting the tiny Bethesda farmer's market and Montgomery Market Farm Woman's Co-Op on Saturday; hitting the Bethesda library on the same trip; inheriting two gigs of memory for Moya from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ashcomp's dead desktop (double the RAM, double the fun!); seeing Prince Caspian with LS from WSFA on Sunday. Nailed one of the closing songs as a Regina Spektor number and nearly combusted from shocking spontaneous pop culture recognition. Asking LS to haul me to Micro Center and geeking out over the tons of computer parts; getting a cheap bluetooth adapter (instead of the wireless adapter or bluetooth headset I should have been shopping for). Installing said bluetooth and making my computer talk to my phone, oohhh. Geekout! Also now I can get 1.3 mpix pictures off my incredibly lame cell phone camera. Next up: linux fun and games, European semi-finals, GRE studying, and life in general.
BTW, I will be in Boston from July 3rd to the 6th. If people want to do something while I'm there, drop a line. If people have suggestions for things I should do, hit me: all I've got are three guide books I haven't even peeked at since pulling them off the library shelves and a freewheeling schedule.
Notes toward an understanding of Into the Wild: After reading the book, I had no respect for McCandless. Get a map, man! Stop breaking your parents' and sister's hearts, unless they were physically, verbally or emotionally abusive! And get a map! So the movie's ability to move me to some degree of sympathy makes it worth mentioning. The movie's origin is Jon Krakauer's book of the same title. Krakauer emphasized the exhilaration of man surviving in the backcountry, and compared McCandless' path to his own experiences with nature; the movie uses McCandless's sister as a narrator to emphasize his confusion about his family, and speculates on McCandless's relationships on the road. It's worth noting that the sister talks about everyone's emotional reactions to Chris's absence, but doesn't say what she was doing during all of this. She's pretty exclusively a vessel for Chris's story, and a reflection of his relationship with his parents.
Other weekend highlights: hitting the tiny Bethesda farmer's market and Montgomery Market Farm Woman's Co-Op on Saturday; hitting the Bethesda library on the same trip; inheriting two gigs of memory for Moya from
ashcomp's dead desktop (double the RAM, double the fun!); seeing Prince Caspian with LS from WSFA on Sunday. Nailed one of the closing songs as a Regina Spektor number and nearly combusted from shocking spontaneous pop culture recognition. Asking LS to haul me to Micro Center and geeking out over the tons of computer parts; getting a cheap bluetooth adapter (instead of the wireless adapter or bluetooth headset I should have been shopping for). Installing said bluetooth and making my computer talk to my phone, oohhh. Geekout! Also now I can get 1.3 mpix pictures off my incredibly lame cell phone camera. Next up: linux fun and games, European semi-finals, GRE studying, and life in general. BTW, I will be in Boston from July 3rd to the 6th. If people want to do something while I'm there, drop a line. If people have suggestions for things I should do, hit me: all I've got are three guide books I haven't even peeked at since pulling them off the library shelves and a freewheeling schedule.
