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new hampshire, new home
Jun. 25th, 2023 01:42 pmearlier this month my partner and i managed a cross-country move - driving three days with three cats.... really do not recommend doing this unless you have to lol. but we all made it to our new apartment in one piece. my first week at my new job was really hectic but i'm enjoying it so far. from the sound of it this next week will be more normal now that a big site event is over with - they wanted me to start at the beginning of the month but that timing just wouldn't work for me.
i haven't been able to engage in my hobbies much with all the packing/driving/unpacking/new job orientation stuff but yesterday i finally got my pc unpacked and set up with a fancy new monitor to replace the one i had to leave behind. everything seems to be in good shape so far! and while i was in the middle of a move i got an email response from the PR person for the organization that runs what used to be known as the genie awards - they're willing to give me reproduction permission for award ceremony footage where the LAC description makes it sound like dane gave a presentation. this is exciting for me since i've yet to see video footage of him just being himself. i do also have permission from the CBC to get a copy of a brief sit-down interview he did with a local tv station in the 1980s but i haven't put in a request for that yet with the moving and everything. now i have my new mailing address and things seem to be arriving here with no problems so i'll act on that soon.
i'm stll catching up on a lot, including dreamwidth, but the more things we manage to unpack the more time i have to just chill and do my thing. i'm enjoying new hampshire so far, partly because i really missed being around mountains and also because it is not going to be nearly as hot here as it was in the midwest. even with climate change it's not as bad. the cats like it here too. we're using a projector instead of a TV now and one of them keeps wanting to climb on the platform, so we'll have to figure out a way to stop him....
the other night we watched "magic" - the 1978 film with anthony hopkins - and it was an interesting experience. i had more fun watching "the italian connection" from 1972 with my father when he was here to help us move in, even though the structure of that one was a little confusing to me at first. the hopkins movie had some great performances but a weak script imo - mostly hamstrung by the fact that the female character didn't really have any kind of interiority. an example of the male gaze in the original sense of the theory, where she's just there for the men to act their desires upon. a bit disappointing with the pedigree of the screenwriter but it was still fun to see hopkins so young when i only know him from his more recent work, and again the performances from hopkins and the supporting cast were quite strong. (i was very excited to recognize david ogden stiers in a brief appearance lol, and burgess meredith was a pleasure to watch.) i also dug the aesthetic, of course. "the italian connection" was an engaging character study and it had a couple truly nuts chase sequences - i can totally understand how it's a cult favorite. it was kinda funny tho since the female characters in that are also pretty limited development-wise (one's dialogue was mostly about how she's a "whore") but they're still given more to do than ann-margret in "magic". all in all a movie i could see myself rewatching.
baked some beer bread earlier with a local ale even though it's hot today and it turned out nicely so i'm gonna kick back with something cold and play some eso until the place cools down haha. hoping that soon i'll have the mental energy to write prose again!
i haven't been able to engage in my hobbies much with all the packing/driving/unpacking/new job orientation stuff but yesterday i finally got my pc unpacked and set up with a fancy new monitor to replace the one i had to leave behind. everything seems to be in good shape so far! and while i was in the middle of a move i got an email response from the PR person for the organization that runs what used to be known as the genie awards - they're willing to give me reproduction permission for award ceremony footage where the LAC description makes it sound like dane gave a presentation. this is exciting for me since i've yet to see video footage of him just being himself. i do also have permission from the CBC to get a copy of a brief sit-down interview he did with a local tv station in the 1980s but i haven't put in a request for that yet with the moving and everything. now i have my new mailing address and things seem to be arriving here with no problems so i'll act on that soon.
i'm stll catching up on a lot, including dreamwidth, but the more things we manage to unpack the more time i have to just chill and do my thing. i'm enjoying new hampshire so far, partly because i really missed being around mountains and also because it is not going to be nearly as hot here as it was in the midwest. even with climate change it's not as bad. the cats like it here too. we're using a projector instead of a TV now and one of them keeps wanting to climb on the platform, so we'll have to figure out a way to stop him....
the other night we watched "magic" - the 1978 film with anthony hopkins - and it was an interesting experience. i had more fun watching "the italian connection" from 1972 with my father when he was here to help us move in, even though the structure of that one was a little confusing to me at first. the hopkins movie had some great performances but a weak script imo - mostly hamstrung by the fact that the female character didn't really have any kind of interiority. an example of the male gaze in the original sense of the theory, where she's just there for the men to act their desires upon. a bit disappointing with the pedigree of the screenwriter but it was still fun to see hopkins so young when i only know him from his more recent work, and again the performances from hopkins and the supporting cast were quite strong. (i was very excited to recognize david ogden stiers in a brief appearance lol, and burgess meredith was a pleasure to watch.) i also dug the aesthetic, of course. "the italian connection" was an engaging character study and it had a couple truly nuts chase sequences - i can totally understand how it's a cult favorite. it was kinda funny tho since the female characters in that are also pretty limited development-wise (one's dialogue was mostly about how she's a "whore") but they're still given more to do than ann-margret in "magic". all in all a movie i could see myself rewatching.
baked some beer bread earlier with a local ale even though it's hot today and it turned out nicely so i'm gonna kick back with something cold and play some eso until the place cools down haha. hoping that soon i'll have the mental energy to write prose again!
