short day / long day
Dec. 21st, 2012 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hafitalYesterday at work felt like the longest day, as days tend to be before holiday vacation when the office feels vacant and you're wondering why you bothered at all. And I said to my co-worker, omg this is the longest day. But tomorrow is the shortest day! And it's also the last day. haha.
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Somehow, it is fitting that the supposed "last day" on Earth is also Duncan MacLeod's birthday. :) There's a story in there somewhere.
I'm sure all Highlander fans on my f-list are probably already aware, but the Highlander Holiday Shortcuts stories are now being posted, 5 a day. So do yourself a favor and check them out. I'm hoping to do so as soon as I clock out.
I'll be driving down to see my father for the holidays tomorrow. My mom's in Europe visting with sister girl, so it's just me and my dad this year. I'm hoping for a stress free drive!! Unlike last time. My car has been working perfectly, so I don't anticipate any problems. (After a $1000 bucks, one should hope so.)
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In other completely non-Highlander news, I too have marveled at the new Star Trek film trailer that was made available not long ago. So shiny!
Mostly, it looks like fun. I'm looking forward to it. However, it feels amazingly un-Trek like to me. The parts of the trailer where recognizable Trek scenery or uniforms were shown served as a reminder that yes indeed this is a Trek film, but otherwise I would just have thought I was watching a trailer for any other fancy new sci-fi film with lots of fantabulous effects.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I knew no spoilers prior to watching the trailer, but as I was watching it and watching Cumberbatch's character I thought he might be Gary Mitchell, which would be AWESOME. I'm holding out for that. A reboot of Gary Mitchell would be fun. I am less interested in reboot of Khan, so I hope that's a red herring.
I love Star Trek, but I am not at all attached to these new reboots. And in recent years, I have become more attached to Next Gen and Voyager than TOS, although I admit I am fascinated by Chris Pine's Kirk.
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Quick movie rec that relates to Star Trek --
If you like Chris Pine and Denzel Washington and haven't seen the film Unstoppable, I highly recommend it. I don't know of any other action film where the stakes are super high and I'm on the edge of my seat, nail biting and then jumping up with arms raised, but at the same time there are no gun fights, no fight sequences, no conspiracies, nor aliens or monsters or bad guys out to kill you at all, nor anything that you would relate to your typical thriller action film.
This was also Tony Scott's last film before he died, and for that it's worth a watch, too.
~~
Somehow, it is fitting that the supposed "last day" on Earth is also Duncan MacLeod's birthday. :) There's a story in there somewhere.
I'm sure all Highlander fans on my f-list are probably already aware, but the Highlander Holiday Shortcuts stories are now being posted, 5 a day. So do yourself a favor and check them out. I'm hoping to do so as soon as I clock out.
I'll be driving down to see my father for the holidays tomorrow. My mom's in Europe visting with sister girl, so it's just me and my dad this year. I'm hoping for a stress free drive!! Unlike last time. My car has been working perfectly, so I don't anticipate any problems. (After a $1000 bucks, one should hope so.)
~~~~
In other completely non-Highlander news, I too have marveled at the new Star Trek film trailer that was made available not long ago. So shiny!
Mostly, it looks like fun. I'm looking forward to it. However, it feels amazingly un-Trek like to me. The parts of the trailer where recognizable Trek scenery or uniforms were shown served as a reminder that yes indeed this is a Trek film, but otherwise I would just have thought I was watching a trailer for any other fancy new sci-fi film with lots of fantabulous effects.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I knew no spoilers prior to watching the trailer, but as I was watching it and watching Cumberbatch's character I thought he might be Gary Mitchell, which would be AWESOME. I'm holding out for that. A reboot of Gary Mitchell would be fun. I am less interested in reboot of Khan, so I hope that's a red herring.
I love Star Trek, but I am not at all attached to these new reboots. And in recent years, I have become more attached to Next Gen and Voyager than TOS, although I admit I am fascinated by Chris Pine's Kirk.
~~~
Quick movie rec that relates to Star Trek --
If you like Chris Pine and Denzel Washington and haven't seen the film Unstoppable, I highly recommend it. I don't know of any other action film where the stakes are super high and I'm on the edge of my seat, nail biting and then jumping up with arms raised, but at the same time there are no gun fights, no fight sequences, no conspiracies, nor aliens or monsters or bad guys out to kill you at all, nor anything that you would relate to your typical thriller action film.
This was also Tony Scott's last film before he died, and for that it's worth a watch, too.
