How to Train Your Dragon 2.0

I was in a rotten mood today and somehow I knew it would only get worse, regardless of what I did.  So I just slept for most of it and then showered twice. "It feel like the world is dirty and greasy. Don't ask me to be a human today," was the text I sent to General to leave me be. If I tried to cheer up, that would be a waste of good will. I know such days. I've learned to postpone any decision making until about a week later from them .. :)

But G being G, he shipped me off to a movie theater to go have some coffee and a popcake on my own (I spent an hour reading a NG article about the medical train that cruises the east of Siberia - places God's certainly forgotten and Putin doesn't know they exist.), and 200 annoying kids and I went to watch a synchronized version of HTTYD#2.. I would have opted for a non dubbed, but it wasn't a hack job, so it was lovely. Of course kids were way too young and spent first half of the movie crying, spooked by the dragons, and the other needing to pee and nagging, distracted and fucking useless, but that didn't phase me. The movie was excellent. I could watch the dragons, particularly toothless and his/hers? interaction with other for hours. It was kind of a sad story, because I expected a whole lot more of mating and a lot less dying, but that's just me. Why couldn't the big white alpha and the big black alpha just fall in love and have little 'uns? Why couldn't Stoic and Valka live happily ever after... for like a week at least? Why didn't Toothless find a mate? That made me cry. But I needed it.

Anyroads, the graphics were amazing, the dragons were amazing, the costumes and action and music, all of it was magnificent. Bit too fast paced, because I was sitting closer to the screen than I am lately used to (back row, where the smoochy is), and I had to look around the screen too much to catch everything, but never the less. It was perfect.

There was also a trailer for another interesting looking coming-soon cartoon... Book of Life, me thinks. Another one where I will have to sit far away, because there are about 60 billion colors and elements per frame.. and I've been watching very slow features lately, so am a bit out of visual practice. 

Valka's costume was RIDICULOUS! Am in love...

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Don't get it. You mean Tilda Swinton and David Bowie are NOT one and the same person? #am confused.

Concert for Ema and Vita

Two little things, adorable and talented, invited us to a concert to raise money for their trip to Portugal, where they will compete in a dance off - good for them! It was a great concert, lots of very cool people, kids prepared some really cute stuff and I've forgotten what a retinal orgasm it is to shoot under proper light. I love the theater house. I really do. I GOTSTA get myself into the rehearsals, because nothing gets you dramatic conflict portraits as quickly as professional drama. 

And also there is a man there I've been wanting to portrait for ten years and never have the guts to ask him, because he always looks at me like he would hatchet me if I spoke to him. Last time I felt this way got my life richer for one adorable little Nikolaj, so perhaps I should just stop being a fucking chicken and walk up to him and say, yo, dude, how 'bout posing naked next wednesday?

So anyways. Running between the center front row and leftside balcony, it was an excellent rehearsal in my portrait-in-setting professional elevation. And Gods know I need that lately. :P

 

Saturday - museum night

Toured the Laško museum under the custody of it's director, which was kind of amazing and am now deeply ashamed I know so little - over and over again - and much more knowledgeable. It was followed by the concert of his daughter on cello, which is an experience unique in it's own right.

Flor's ear aerobicks (and Joyce's bombing) :D

Writing about Satra, chapter about the end of the world..

“Everything that’s wrong with this world is because of my mother. Everything she designed, every invention, every one of her ideas … Everything was misinterpreted, purposefully ill implemented or just plain stolen and abused. When I was very little she told me and I don’t think she was aware that I would remember it, I was really very young – they told her that if she fails them or betrays them, they would hunt me for the rest of my life. Can you imagine that – being a scientist while your child is a hostage whilst breathing? I remember her whispering: if you get the chance, baby, burn them all down. I wonder.. I’ve always wondered if that was a real memory or just something I put in my head later to justify my attitude towards the world. I mean the world that I’ve burnt to the ground.”

Love is easy. That's just biology with some economy and some poetry slapped on it. Fucking Hitler was *loved*. But *liking* people, now that's a hard one. General likes me so much, I didn't even know I have so many positive qualities... O.o

Drej