more weekendy goodness

[phosfate]

Saturday night I had to go out for...I forget, milk or tampons or power steering fluid or something. At Target I muddled over the Harry Lego sets, my greedy little id whining for the full Hogwarts set, or at least Hagrid's Hut, but mollified by the l'il Harry and Quirrel set, and a Steven Spielberg cameraman to film them. Quirrel is adorable, with a bonus feature that I won't describe in case you've never read the books or seen the movie. Put the bits together during a docu on spree killings, then hunted up my small cache of Lego day players, and managed to cobble together a couple of Weasleys (Charlie and Bill), a Dementor, most of a Centaur (he needs a torso brick), and a couple of Hogwarts ghosts. The best ghost is a little skeleton (from an Egyptian set) wearing a helmet and goggles. Cameraman got the head of one of the girl Rock Raiders and is now a camerawoman.

Then got a lovely surprise, when our PBS station ran a Firesign Theater concert - followed by Blackadder Back and Forth! Le contented sigh.

Sunday was chock full of weather so nice you could hit it with a stick, and an accumulation of really nice decorated paper. Sunday night I got to see most of Prince of Egypt, which is a story about a little Hebrew orphan baby who grows up to star in two animated movies simultaneously, one really good and cool and scary with some neat songs, the other a retarded musical featuring the modern equivalent of "Where There's A Whip There's A Way" from Rankin/Bass' The Return of the King. Eventually the cool movie wins, and the Jewish people are saved from anything bad ever happening to them again. It was also a bit like Akira and X, except that instead of every other line being "KANEDA!!!" or "KAMUI!!!" it was "MOSES!!!"

Two lessons to take away from this movie: God is a serious badass whom you really shouldn't fuck with, and nobody likes a crappy song.

Comments

[weirdpixie.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Back and Forth is so cool. :) I love the female doctor played by Lumley; she's hilarious. I have never seen Firesign before, though. My dad has albums and that's all I ever knew them as. Am I missing a lot?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Firesign are lurvly - rather like the Pythons, in that their stuff moves into your brain and stays there. Eat or Be Eaten or The Giant Rat of Sumatra are good starting points, if your Dad has 'em. Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers is brill.