Accomplishments and Narnia
Accomplished so far today:
-Woke up early. Finally, the sleep schedule is back on track.
-Just avoided burning the lentil soup, which brought back memories of almost being killed by a pot of beans left cooking on the stove (most embarrassing way of meeting one’s maker ever). Luckily I had just started dating my charming companion at the time, who rushed in to the house and got me out of the smoke (who knew burning beans would create such a pall of black, choking smoke? Everyone but me? Oh.) It was the time of my life when I was wandering around with a whopping case of undiagnosed mono, which made me fall asleep on the living room couch every few hours, cleverly ignoring whatever I had put on the stove. The doctor would later say that she’d never seen such a bad case of the illness, outside of her textbooks at medical school. Grrreat. Anyways, I didn’t burn down the house and die. Unburned lentil soup is tasty and non-deadly.
-Got the recycling out. Kept watch to make sure that Sketchy Joe the Personal Information Miner didn’t riffle through the paper recycling box again, looking for discarded credit card info to sell.
-Looked over my thesis work and mapped out what I want to do with it.
-Cawed at a crow outside the window. I know it’s a weird thing to do, but when you have a gift, you have to use it. It just so happens that cawing convincingly like a crow is my main talent. What am I doing in grad school?
-Fed the beast. A walk is imminent.
The weekend was chill but good. Watched Narnia with assorted troublemakers. Unfortunately chose to go at the same time as half of North America’s preteens. Dude behind us was showing off by making stupid comments. The whole time. The stare-at-them-until-they-get-uncomfortable trick only worked briefly. The movie was actually pretty good, preteens aside. The visuals, by the folks who brought us Lord of the Rings, were awesome and Tilda Swinton kicks all kinds of ass as the White Witch. I never read the books as a kid, and didn’t *gasp* really like them when I read them recently. I also didn’t catch on to the Christian themes, because, yes, I am that dense sometimes. You can see it in the film though, which truly has elements of a passion play for the younger set. What I think is a little subversive about this Christian message is that it strikes against the prevailing type of mainstream right wing Christianity that has come to dominate public discourse in America. Evangelical fundies will find themselves getting very uncomfortable at the tacit acceptance of “deep magic” throughout the film. The movie is being marketed to rightist Christians in the US, but makes a hypocrisy of the rejection of the Harry Potter phenomenon on the grounds that magic is “satanic”. Zing!
-Woke up early. Finally, the sleep schedule is back on track.
-Just avoided burning the lentil soup, which brought back memories of almost being killed by a pot of beans left cooking on the stove (most embarrassing way of meeting one’s maker ever). Luckily I had just started dating my charming companion at the time, who rushed in to the house and got me out of the smoke (who knew burning beans would create such a pall of black, choking smoke? Everyone but me? Oh.) It was the time of my life when I was wandering around with a whopping case of undiagnosed mono, which made me fall asleep on the living room couch every few hours, cleverly ignoring whatever I had put on the stove. The doctor would later say that she’d never seen such a bad case of the illness, outside of her textbooks at medical school. Grrreat. Anyways, I didn’t burn down the house and die. Unburned lentil soup is tasty and non-deadly.
-Got the recycling out. Kept watch to make sure that Sketchy Joe the Personal Information Miner didn’t riffle through the paper recycling box again, looking for discarded credit card info to sell.
-Looked over my thesis work and mapped out what I want to do with it.
-Cawed at a crow outside the window. I know it’s a weird thing to do, but when you have a gift, you have to use it. It just so happens that cawing convincingly like a crow is my main talent. What am I doing in grad school?
-Fed the beast. A walk is imminent.
The weekend was chill but good. Watched Narnia with assorted troublemakers. Unfortunately chose to go at the same time as half of North America’s preteens. Dude behind us was showing off by making stupid comments. The whole time. The stare-at-them-until-they-get-uncomfortable trick only worked briefly. The movie was actually pretty good, preteens aside. The visuals, by the folks who brought us Lord of the Rings, were awesome and Tilda Swinton kicks all kinds of ass as the White Witch. I never read the books as a kid, and didn’t *gasp* really like them when I read them recently. I also didn’t catch on to the Christian themes, because, yes, I am that dense sometimes. You can see it in the film though, which truly has elements of a passion play for the younger set. What I think is a little subversive about this Christian message is that it strikes against the prevailing type of mainstream right wing Christianity that has come to dominate public discourse in America. Evangelical fundies will find themselves getting very uncomfortable at the tacit acceptance of “deep magic” throughout the film. The movie is being marketed to rightist Christians in the US, but makes a hypocrisy of the rejection of the Harry Potter phenomenon on the grounds that magic is “satanic”. Zing!
posted by grad student hack at 10:50 AM
2 Comments:
Oh, good to hear you liked the movie. And I'm very interested in the magic/religion thing. I read the books as a young young girl and totally didn't get the God parts. At all. So now I'm interested in how that all plays out to my new improved expensive brain.
*snort*
yeah right.
On the Narnia film and its subversiveness -- well said!
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