{"id":362,"date":"2006-06-06T03:53:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T03:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2006-06-06T03:53:12","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T03:53:12","slug":"silly-movie-road-trip-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Silly Movie, Road Trip, Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Went to see X-Men 3 over the weekend. Don’t know what possessed me. (Actually I do – a good friend I don’t see often enough invited me.) It surprised me by being surprisingly entertaining with a wealth of nice moments. It didn’t surprise me by being utterly incoherent, by featuring some jaw-droppingly odd storylining (let’s kill off major character from first two movies off-screen! And only refer to it in passing later on!), and by completely failing to dramatically or thematically resolve any of the numerous interesting issues at the core of the film. It felt akin to those movies where misfit kids save their summer camp from a nasty developer by pushing the developer in the lake during an exciting canoe challenge – action (a) somehow delivers result (b) despite there being no conceivable reason that it should.
\nMan, I remember after I saw X2 I was so stoked I went out again the next day and watched it again. Sometimes the movies get it right. X-Men 3 is not one of those times. Skip it.
\n—
\nWent on a Queen’s Birthday Weekend road trip yesterday, up the coast. It was a nice day for a drive. Our road trip posse visited the controversial Market Gardener statue in Levin and the windmill in Foxton, and conducted a scientific experiment on Foxton Beach. We also did some balancing.
\nPosse included a the very stylish big geek<\/a>, plus three new arrivals in the land of blog: Mr<\/a> & Mrs<\/a> Hall-Hall and !(Kate)<\/a>. Also Anna, who still survives blogless. These three are now on the growing list at right, along with old-friend-rediscovered Matt Wong (stick<\/a>) – who was, incidentally, the primary motivation guy behind those Aliens weekends<\/a>, for those of you who remember them.
\nI was pleased to note that my Edinburgh family went on their own road trip. They, being classier and more organised than I, and also being determined like bastards to make me miss them terribly, have a short film of it up on the web<\/a>. I love the bit where the Scottish invade.
\n—
\nToday’s lesson in the realities of freelancing:
\nThis morning I visited the dentist to have the work done identified at the other week’s checkup. This morning I also received notification of my first royalties from my first sole-credit project.
\nDental bill = royalty check x 40
\n*sigh*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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