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I felt all bumbly and rough edged as I made it through my evening last night. I went out to the loop and saw matrix revolutions last night with jesiah_blanche and dougansf. Not the greatest film by any means but amusing to watch.

Elfich47 felt the need to ponder myths in stories a la Joseph Campbell after he saw it and posted a bit on this to LJ. I can understand the desire. It tried so hard to be an epic movie. It didn't quite make it.

The battles were good but lacking in marshal foo, the scenes were pretty but the design of the machines started to grate on me. Form follows function. It's a basic engineering principle. The machines were designed to look overly complicated, with a certain aesthetic appeal to them but they didn't look functional. I looked at them and went...huh, that's not balanced well, that's gonna be a b*tch if it isn't kept lubed, and that part is just waiting to get caught on something. Even if some of these machines had their form for specific functions it was hard to determine what that function would be (which may have been the point) but I mean who/what needs a combination cheese grater/ toothbrush? It only makes sense in a world with the matrix that machines would have their own mechanical darwinism...but i didn't buy the results.

Also I did not care about any of the characters. Maybe it's that the idea of their reality was tinkered with too much in the 2nd movie. Maybe it's the iterative power of the matrix. All I know is they fell down a lot and this didn't bother me.

Happily, my head seems to be back to normal. *sighs*

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Aragorn

Putting your appointed path ahead of any inner conflicts, you make your own rules for the benefit of all.

If my life or death I can protect you, I will.

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Just as a note, I hate the following question.

In a criminal justice system, it would be preferable to:

-convict an innocent person.
-let a guilty person go free.

I've seen different versions of it but the idea is basically the same. I guess my favorite nuance on this is it better to have system with no mercy or a system with mercy that may convict the innocent.

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first real kiss: Pat, actually at college. I used to be quite shy.
first job: cashier at drug emporium. the place had 4 isles of just hair care products.
first screen name: redfishie or swardk if you count my rpi id.
first self-purchased album: first record - Cyndi Lauper but I think that was bought for me. first album may have been Nelson *cringe*
first funeral: The first funeral I attended was Rob Svensson's 2 years ago.
first pets: Lipton - wonderful dog
first piercing: ears at age 12
first true love: poetry, writing...if you mean a person...that's another story and could start a post on the nature of love ;)
first big trip: Florida (road trip to grandparents at age 5 or so)
last big car ride: going to DC/VA for kraftus and pepper's wedding
last kiss: dougansf :)
last good cry: last Madrigal event....seasonal depression kicked in.
last movie seen: Matrix: Revolutions
last beverage: 7-UP
last food consumed: Giant Goldfish sandwich crackers with peanut butter and some caramels
last phone call: dougansf yesterday about movie plans
last TV show watched: Angel
last shoes worn: Rockport black shoes...work shoes
last CD played: Dar Williams
last item bought: food last night
last disappointment: not seeing someone on tuesday...or maybe that the matrix wasn't a better movie
last soda drank: 7-UP (actually in progress)
last ice cream eaten: not great tasting pumpkin flavored Edy's ice cream
last shirt worn: purple short sleeved turtle neck

definitely a silly quiz

You are Galadriel's Happy look. You're light and
bright and the opposite of Galadriel's Sad
look. It's good to see you laugh and smile once
in a while, since no one can be serious all the
time.


LOTR - Which Galadriel Facial Expression Are You?
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