The Dark Crystal

A movie review.
I watched the Dark Crystal recently. So I thought I'd write about it.
It is a puppet movie. By Jim Henson, I think. He did the puppets. BUt they're really good puppets. It's a fun movie. It takes place on a different planet with strange creatures.
Let me try to fish up some pictures. Ah, there don't seem to be too many. Either way, this picture has the 2 main characters Jen and Kira, and Kira's pet Fizgig.
Either way, it doesn't look like my brain is in the mood to write a good review. Because I just got out of class for winter break, At LAST!! But it's a good movie.

Andy Goldsworthy

OK, so I've been meaning to put up some of his pictures. He does this stuff by hand, and a lot of it ends up getting swept away by wind or water or melting. It's amazing.
You should look up more of his stuff. ANd he has a movie too. Andy Goldsworthy is his name.

To Disappear

So, a few days ago on TV, I saw the end of a documentary about what would happen if every human on Earth suddenly disappeared.
Now, in movies, you get characters who want to get rid of humans because they're destroying the planet. The character that comes to mind is Fujimoto-Ponyo's dad. He wants all humans to disappear because they're polluting the oceans. And the first time I saw Ponyo, I couldn't bring myself to think badly of him when he said that. I can completely understand why someone would want to get rid of humans, though some humans are fighting tooth and claw to protect the planet.
But as I was watching that documentary, I started thinking how lonely the planet would seem without humans. All the other animals would thrive, and according to the documentary, most of humans' mess would be cleaned up in about a hundred years. Global warming, nuclear waste, ex (That's only if all humans completely vanish now. That doesn't count if we keep pumping more toxins into the air).
But one thing they didn't address (unless it was in the beginning of the show that I didn't see-but I doubt that) was invasive species. Humans have introduced all of these non-native species into their non-natural habitats and some of them are completely taking over and destroying the native species and the habitats. There's cane toads, zebra mussels, and hundreds of plants, bugs, and other animals. What would happen with them if all humans vanished? Would they take over the planet, or would they eat themselves out of house and home? Or would something else take care of them?
Sigh.

WHAM!

There's a few things things that get very tiring about some movies. Some movies can be very good (or very bad) and have very annoying parts with long annoying fist fights. They get so OLD after a while! Especially when they're really long. There are some good movies that have these bad moments because of drawn-out fist fights. Fist fights wouldn't be so bad if there weren't so many of them in so many movies that last too long.

Clouds

You know, clouds are underrated. I was watching a movie a couple nights ago and this guy was saying something about how people should take the time to look up every now and then to see the clouds. So as I was driving home today, I had to agree with him. The clouds were BEAUTIFUL. There was rain last night and this evening the clouds were breaking up. And before and during the sunset the clouds were so pretty. Most people notice the clouds during the sunset or sunrise when there are all the bright colors. And I agree that they can be BEAUTIFUL. But even in the middl of the day or at night, clouds can still be amazing to look at.
So, take the time to look up every now and then.

Shadow Split

I'm almost done with Shadow Split!!
I haven't been working on it too much, but now that I'm almost done I'll probably accelerate my writing.
The climax still bugs me. It doesn't seem like it's quite exciting enough.
Well... maybe I"ll think of something eventually.
And also there's a lot of characters. Just when you think you know them all, another shows up. Then another and another... So I'm not sure if that's too absurd. Or if that many characters will be too confusing...
Ah. Well, either way, I'm almost done.

Research

I'm still doing research on the "secret" I posted about a few days ago. I won't know if it'll work until I can talk to them, which is difficult because I'm gone during most business hours and they're in a slightly later time zone so when I DO get home, it's later there...
Yeah. But I have tomorrow morning off so I'll call then.
Jeez... and I'm already trying to keep my nerves from fraying with bits of string tied up around them...
Ah ah ah...