under water

[intjonathan]

I tried really hard to relax today because I'm going to be super busy the rest of the week. For some reason it's hard to relax when you're just tired.

Some combination of stress and isolation seems to add up to fatigue. Go figure!

I bought a filing cabinet for $3 and tried to organize, but ran out of manila and hanging folders. Ironically, the organizing supplies will end up costing many times more than the cabinet.

Tomorrow is mother's day! I'm going bowling and will try not to hork up my arm like I did last week.

Tuesday is 24, on a different night because

Wednesday I'm going up to Bellingham to see Loreena McKennitt, yes that artist I'm far too young and male to like, at Mount Baker Theater.

Thursday I'm apparantly going to a Mariners game for the first time in probably a decade. It'll be the second time I've been to Safeco field and the first time for an actual game. The first visit was to see the Rolling Requiem event on 11 September 2002. This will be a very different event, I think.

Next Wednesday I'm going allllll the way up to Vancouver to see Bjork in Deer Lake Park! That'll make two concert trips up north in as many weeks! I think it'll be worth it but man, this better be worth it.

Also, I should mention for Deb that I finished Nausicaä and it was fantastic, if super-preachy by the end. But hey, if environmentalist grandstanding bothers the potential reader, he should avoid Miyazaki anyway. There was a ton of great stuff about leadership and diplomacy and wars in there though, material typically omitted from his movies. It was great to see him address on such a grand scale the myriad ways people use their loyalty as a weapon.

Comments

[small-rini-lady.livejournal.com]

at dear lake park?
that place is um rather small for a international superstar concert
maybe big enough for a local band


warning: do not swim in the water there

[niralisse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Bjork likes her tiny venues. It's general admission too, so it should be interesting to say the least. Frankly I'm surprised there were still tickets available.

And I have no intention of swimming there, eww city park lake.

[fieria.livejournal.com]

It's heresey, but as an epic story I liked Nausicaä better than Lord of the Rings. Tolkien drags me down with his elaborate scene descriptions (one of the reasons the series translated so well to film), whereas Miyazaki's graphic novel format frees him from such tedium and enables him to focus his words on developing the plot.

Glad you liked it, next time I run across a fabulous series I'll send you a note; so far, most of the manga I'm reading is entertaining but doesn't really feed my brain.

[niralisse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is heresy. Miyazaki was definitely trying for something of that scale though, with the maps and the great wars and the chosen one. I can easily see how one could displace the other in the reader's heart, especially since Tolkien really just wrote his books as an excuse to make languages rather than tell a ripping tale.

I'm not looking forward to watching the movie, though. :(