Happy Thursday!

[shadesong]

Hello to new friend milath, who seems to have arrived via sunyata__! *wave*

The SARK Page-A-Day Calendar says: "Life is messy." Welll, duh, yeah. :) Oh, I found out they're not doing any SARK calendars next year! I'm shaken. Not really, but still. I've had the SARK page-a-day and wall calendars for three years. I need to find a new page-a-day calendar. *mope* They're doing them again for 2004. Dunno why not 2003.

So last night... went home, got Elayna to finish her homework. She likes to be lazy about this.... last night's was that she had to read a short essay about the Navajo people and answer five questions. Kept asking me the answers. The extent of the help I felt was appropriate was glancing at the essay and saying, "reread the third paragraph". She's perfectly capable, and she's not going to really learn anything if I outright give her answers...

So. Did that, talked to the luscious mightywombat on AIM, and cuddled up with Miss Kid to watch "The Princess Diaries", which surprised me by actually being good. Anyone else out there seen this? Based on a YA series, an average goofy dorky teenage girl finds out that she's really the princess of an obscure European nation. And surprisingly, the kid can act. Everyone in the movie can act. And it's funny, and I *want* this kid's house, I so seriously do, it's so cool and funky. I actually wanted to keep watching after Elayna went to bed. We'll finish watching it tonight or tomorrow. And then got to talk to murnkay, which was nifty in that familiar way. He confirmed for me that yes, Marc Hempel is an asshole, which no one tends to agree with me on, but really, it's true. I then hopped on AIM again to see if mightywombat was back from his writer's group... he wasn't there, but I saw stronae there for the first time ever, and talked to him til yendi came home from playing Blood Bowl at rloveking-and-voltbang's place all day.

So. Day got better. Which is good.

Song lyric in my head: "Lately, I'm/into circuitry/what it means to be/made of you but not enough of you"... Bliss, by Tori.

Comments

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Princess Diaries is a big hit at my house. We have three little girls, my six-year-old and mnfiddledragon's 6 and 8 year olds.

I was pleasantly surprised, also. I've been pleasantly surprised by several kids' movies the last year or so. Even the made for TV Disney ones. Ring of Endless Light was quite good, too.

As in the M. L'Engle book?

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

I love that book! I've reread it enough times that pages are falling out of my paperback. They made it into a movie for the Disney channel? That's pretty cool.

Re: As in the M. L'Engle book?

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Yep - it was quite entertaining. I also saw some news that they're planning on making a Wrinkle in Time miniseries.

Wow.

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

That is just too cool. Are they live-action or drawn? Will they be just on the Disney channel or otherwise available for the rest of us? I own the trilogy (actually 4 with Many Waters), seeing what they do with it would be pretty interesting.

Princess Diaries

[fiddledragon]

We saw it in the theater - we're Disney channel - addicts, so had seen the previews and Movie-Surfer's snippets for weeks if not months, so we went to see it I think even opening day. And loved it immediately - I think we even pre-ordered the DVD so that it would arrive for Christmas last year - or was that the soundtrack that we gave to Kritter.

The girls adored it and it was the subject of much of their play for several months.

*laugh* I didn't realize that the lead actress could act, Heck, I just wanted to see Julie Andrews, but was even more impressed by the rest of the movie once we saw it...

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

I rented Princess Diaries for myself, no kids involved. I *like* teenage movies. Forced Chris to watch it with me, as I often do, but he admitted it was better than he expected. So you're not the only one who was surprised by it being good. I liked it a lot, but I expected to like it. :D

[amokk]

we rented that the week after my wife's sinus surgeries, and she said it was about the only thing she remembers from that week. we bought it, she loves it. i liked it, thought it was typical pro-geeky-teen predictable but not bad because of it. also, my mom informed me that a girl i went to school with is in one of the music videos as a dancer at the end of the tape, so i've been meaning to watch that but never remember when i have the time.

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

I saw Princess Diaries in the theatre, and loved it. Of course, I was a Girl Geek, the opposite of cool, and this really resonated with me.

I suppose I'm still a Girl Geek at that.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Girl Geeks are the coolest. :)

Ut!

[jathomas.livejournal.com]

I've heard you say that about Hempel before. Man, I hate to hear it...

Charles Vess isn't a barrel of laughs, either...

Re: Ut!

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Really? I've never had a bad experience with Vess...

[crackerbob.livejournal.com]

It appears I am nowhere near the loop today...

Who is Marc Hempel?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Writer/artist of Gregory and Tug & Buster. Also artist for the "Kindly Ones" arc of Sandman.

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[crackerbob.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh.... k then

[ariadnesthread.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen the movie yet, though it looked pretty good from the ads. I do have one gripe--why is it that making a geeky girl glamorous and "prettier" always involved straightening out naturally curly hair? It may seem petty with all the other biases out there about looks (height, weight, skin color, etc.), but it bugs me a lot. I have naturally ringletted hair. Many people seem to like it (I always get the "Is that a perm?" question, boys like to play with it, and so on), but there seems to be this media bias against it. And it bugs me when actresses with lovely curls get them straightened into oblivion--Nicole Kidman, Minnie Driver, Salma Hayek, I'm looking at you!