Watcher: Buffy Ranger...
Dec. 25th, 2001 01:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changelingFor the last two years, I have spent Christmas day in the Royal Botanical Gardens with Rosemary and family. In my family, that practically constitutes a tradition. I've been friends with Rosemary since about grade four (that's over nine years), and my sister Nyssa has been friends with Rosemary's sister Virginia for slightly longer. That leaves my youngest sister Kara somewhat out of the loop, but then, she usually is. (The Marshalls, our other family-friends also only have two children.)
Rosemary and I spent hours of time in grade four (and possibly later) playing "adventure games" (as she termed them). Usually they were recreations (at least in part) of whatever literary masterpiece had taken her fancy. I remember we did Carrie's War and Picnic At Hanging Rock. The strongest memory I have of our interpretation of Carrie's War is the scene right at the beginning when grown-up Carrie takes her children back to the town where she spent (most? of) WWII. With Picnic, it's the girls crawling on elbows through a tiny tunnel. Possibly that scene is from the final chapter, which I found in my high school library last year. It was published separately from the book, and explains all the seemingly unexplainable from the book. I keep meaning to read Picnic, but haven't got around to it yet. I don't even think I finished watching the movie. To me, the Theme from Picnic at Hanging Rock (as played by Yon on his flute on the Tripod album) is the Theme from a Barely Remembered Series of Coffee Ads About the Developing Relationship Between A Blonde Woman And A Man Who I Think Was A Brunette And Sold Her The Coffee.
I told you that story to tell you this:
Went to Rosemary's tonight as she and her family are going to Leonie's sister's place or something for Christmas. That does leave us in a bit of a quandary as to what to do tomorrow. The rest of my family were originally planning to simply go to the gardens anyway and have a picnic just us, but the fact that the forecast predicts rain tomorrow means that is unlikely to happen. I'm not particularly in the mood to go and sit with my family in a park. I'm just afraid it will be boring... Still, the alternative of sitting at home for Christmas dinner isn't particularly appealing either.
I'm excited about Christmas. I've already received a new book from Rosemary & co, and with any luck I'll get the three new Pratchetts I haven't gotten around to buying yet: Thief of Time, The Last Hero & The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. I'm also looking forward to giving Nyssa and Kara their gifts. If all else fails, they should enjoy the lollies I wrapped with their respective presents.
Amusingly enough, I was just considering posting this entry when I realised I'd forgotten the real reason why I was writing. For some warped reason, Rosemary decided we would watch Walker: Texas Ranger tonight. She has a bit of a soft spot for B-grade films, I think. And I must admit, it was amusing. We (the Coffee Group and I) watched the Original Buffy movie last week as part of Liam's birthday celebrations, and that was a similar thrill.
Perhaps it was my slash background, but I saw a hellava lot of undertones in W:TR (in between laughing hysterically at how bad the whole thing was). I really missed not having Nat there to point this out to so we could both have a bit of a giggle. For those of you who have seen the benighted thing (I'm talking about the one where Walker and his pal Trivette stop a bank holdup of four banks simultaneously), I want to draw your attention to two scenes in particular. The first is Walker's first meeting with Trivette; the second is Trivette's interrogation of a character called Cobalt.
Walker first meets Trivette as the latter finishes his workout in a pool. Trivette wears a small pair of (probably) Speedos (or whatever the American equivalent of y-front type swimmers are; I'm talking about the ones that aren't boxer-shorty things) with a fluorescent design across the front. This design (if my memory serves me) is vaguely arch shaped; and I think we all get the significance of rainbows here. I know that if Nat, Cairnsy, or Sandra had been there, they would have supported me wholeheartedly. I mean come on, people! Couldn't you see the sexual tension whizzing through the air? Particularly on Trivette's part. He was so checking out Walker.
The second scene concerned a minor character called Cobalt. What I found most interesting about this scene was Cobalt's facial expressions. Talk about High Camp! Simply watch Jack from Will and Grace and you'll know exactly what I mean.
Anyway, it's been Christmas here for one and a quarter hours, so I think I'm going to go to bed.
Dani, signing off.
Bringing slashy goodness to you since some time in the past that's completely unverifiable.
By the way, can all those Aussie fans of Neil Gaiman do me (and yourselves) a big favour, and write to the ABC at: http://www.abc.net.au/contact/default.htm
Make sure you address the note to ABC TV. Hopefully if enough of us lean on them, we'll see Neverwhere on the ABC before this time next year. Here's hoping...
Rosemary and I spent hours of time in grade four (and possibly later) playing "adventure games" (as she termed them). Usually they were recreations (at least in part) of whatever literary masterpiece had taken her fancy. I remember we did Carrie's War and Picnic At Hanging Rock. The strongest memory I have of our interpretation of Carrie's War is the scene right at the beginning when grown-up Carrie takes her children back to the town where she spent (most? of) WWII. With Picnic, it's the girls crawling on elbows through a tiny tunnel. Possibly that scene is from the final chapter, which I found in my high school library last year. It was published separately from the book, and explains all the seemingly unexplainable from the book. I keep meaning to read Picnic, but haven't got around to it yet. I don't even think I finished watching the movie. To me, the Theme from Picnic at Hanging Rock (as played by Yon on his flute on the Tripod album) is the Theme from a Barely Remembered Series of Coffee Ads About the Developing Relationship Between A Blonde Woman And A Man Who I Think Was A Brunette And Sold Her The Coffee.
I told you that story to tell you this:
Went to Rosemary's tonight as she and her family are going to Leonie's sister's place or something for Christmas. That does leave us in a bit of a quandary as to what to do tomorrow. The rest of my family were originally planning to simply go to the gardens anyway and have a picnic just us, but the fact that the forecast predicts rain tomorrow means that is unlikely to happen. I'm not particularly in the mood to go and sit with my family in a park. I'm just afraid it will be boring... Still, the alternative of sitting at home for Christmas dinner isn't particularly appealing either.
I'm excited about Christmas. I've already received a new book from Rosemary & co, and with any luck I'll get the three new Pratchetts I haven't gotten around to buying yet: Thief of Time, The Last Hero & The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. I'm also looking forward to giving Nyssa and Kara their gifts. If all else fails, they should enjoy the lollies I wrapped with their respective presents.
Amusingly enough, I was just considering posting this entry when I realised I'd forgotten the real reason why I was writing. For some warped reason, Rosemary decided we would watch Walker: Texas Ranger tonight. She has a bit of a soft spot for B-grade films, I think. And I must admit, it was amusing. We (the Coffee Group and I) watched the Original Buffy movie last week as part of Liam's birthday celebrations, and that was a similar thrill.
Perhaps it was my slash background, but I saw a hellava lot of undertones in W:TR (in between laughing hysterically at how bad the whole thing was). I really missed not having Nat there to point this out to so we could both have a bit of a giggle. For those of you who have seen the benighted thing (I'm talking about the one where Walker and his pal Trivette stop a bank holdup of four banks simultaneously), I want to draw your attention to two scenes in particular. The first is Walker's first meeting with Trivette; the second is Trivette's interrogation of a character called Cobalt.
Walker first meets Trivette as the latter finishes his workout in a pool. Trivette wears a small pair of (probably) Speedos (or whatever the American equivalent of y-front type swimmers are; I'm talking about the ones that aren't boxer-shorty things) with a fluorescent design across the front. This design (if my memory serves me) is vaguely arch shaped; and I think we all get the significance of rainbows here. I know that if Nat, Cairnsy, or Sandra had been there, they would have supported me wholeheartedly. I mean come on, people! Couldn't you see the sexual tension whizzing through the air? Particularly on Trivette's part. He was so checking out Walker.
The second scene concerned a minor character called Cobalt. What I found most interesting about this scene was Cobalt's facial expressions. Talk about High Camp! Simply watch Jack from Will and Grace and you'll know exactly what I mean.
Anyway, it's been Christmas here for one and a quarter hours, so I think I'm going to go to bed.
Dani, signing off.
Bringing slashy goodness to you since some time in the past that's completely unverifiable.
By the way, can all those Aussie fans of Neil Gaiman do me (and yourselves) a big favour, and write to the ABC at: http://www.abc.net.au/contact/default.htm
Make sure you address the note to ABC TV. Hopefully if enough of us lean on them, we'll see Neverwhere on the ABC before this time next year. Here's hoping...