the Dalaverse

Mmmm Sunday morning. Vanessa goes to church and I have the room to myself for a couple hours. I believe somebody slept on the futon last night, but I've no idea who. Lauren's boyfriend came down from New York, so maybe Alexis came back last night and wanted to give them some privacy. In any case, lucky them. The futon is comfy.

I'm never going to see a late-night movie at the campus center by myself again. It is just too damn far from LQ. Sure, the path is lit well enough, and I don't really feel unsafe -- like, I didn't see or hear or encounter anybody/thing suspicious -- but I managed to creepy myself out so fully that even the Michelle Branch I was listening to began to sound creepy. First there was the fact that we pretty much go to school in the middle of the fucking woods, at least this stretch of campus, and then I started thinking about the Rumored Sex Offender in Suite 8. Who for all I know could be totally made up, because Kristen lives in that suite, and Class President Gary, and why the hell would they want to live wtih a RSO? I don't even remember where Stephanie said she heard the rumor. Anyway, logic aside, I was still freaking out a little while walking through the DARK all by MYSELF. It's not like I go to a giant school or one in the city that is genuinely unsafe -- we don't even lock our dorms except at night (and except for QA, the Virgin Vault, and it's only locked 24/7 because it's right on a main road). Still. STILL. Not fun.

Watching the movie was a different experience having just finished doing the Iliad in Richardson's class, although some things never change. Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, and Sean Bean are still hot sweaty sex in a leather skirt. James Horner still sucks zombie monkey balls. Still thought Briseis and Andromache were both prettier than Helen, and Hector's baby has the biggest head ever. However, Brad Pitt was worse than I remembered, and Orlando Bloom was not as bad (which doesn't mean Paris isn't still my least favorite character in anything ever and I didn't roll my eyes everytime he appeared onscreen). What really struck me this time around was the bad characterization of Hector. They didn't include his flaws and thus what makes him my favorite hero in the epic -- his humanity. This was basically a Hector who could do no wrong, except for killing Patroclus, which isn't really wrong -- what's wrong is the way Hector taunts him as he's dying and refuses to pull back from the ships, and also maybe running the hell around Troy three times before Apollo tricks him into standing before Achilles. That is why he dies, no matter that Achilles would say differently. It also suffers from the lack of the gods, because where they fall in the battle is really important according to the things they represent/personify. And I missed Diomedes, because Diomedes sticks his sword in both Ares and Aphrodite, and is thus awesome.

...I swore last night that I was going to save the rant for when it comes out on video and I can sit down, pause it, and write my list as I go along. Clearly I was lying.