The Furious Spinner

Watched King Kong last night. I was very skeptical, but since I'd seen the other two versions I thought I'd watch this one. In the other two movies, I never understood what on Earth the big ape wanted with the woman. It made no sense to me. All the sniggering about Kong's sexual desires aside, the big guy wouldn't have survived so long in the jungle if he was stupid enough to think he could get it on with a woman as big as his hand. In this version, the ape and the woman developed a friendship: both lonely and finding love in the oddest of places. In fact their relationship was so interesting I really wished that Pianist guy would have one drop on his head (a piano, I mean), so he'd stop interrupting the big ape and the little woman. Anyway, I liked the movie. Cried a whole bunch. Wish I'd seen it on the big screen.

Peter Jackson knows how to find rich source material and convert that material into good movies. (Even if I may quibble with the need for some of the scenes in King Kong: I felt like I was watching Jurassic Park a couple of times.) I'm not a Tolkien fan, couldn't even get through the Hobbit. (Hey, if a story ain't got girls in it, it'll take close to a miracle for me to care. All right, all right, yes I liked the Lord of the Flies. But the lack of girls was necessary for the plot. Put a girl in there—maybe Paris Geller from the Gilmore Girls—and she would have bitch-slapped some sense into those boys, so there would have been no Lord of the Flies...well, you get the idea.) But I liked the Lord of the Rings films—maybe because I saw the first two at home and I fast-forwarded through those long dreary battle scenes. (I suddenly feel like I'm channelling Barbara Bush, "Why should I waste my beautiful mind on that.") Maybe I liked the movies because I imagined the Emperor and his fashionistas were the bad guys, so I was rooting for Frodo and his band with enthusiasm. Anyway, I'm babbling...

I wanted to get the TV series Beauty & the Beast through netflix.com to watch as I recovered from surgery, but apparently it's not out, or something. I was surprised. I remember really liking that show, at least the first season. If I watched it now, would I be embarrassed? When I was a kid I LOVED Lost in Space. I remember crying once when my parents made me go to Mass on Ash Wednesday and I had to miss it. When I saw some episodes again as an adult, I decided my only excuse for liking it was that I had been a child—and I craved the bizarre. Or wished my family was lost in space.

I've been watching way too many movies lately. There are a LOT of bad movies out there. Mario and I decided we'll go back to reading. Not that we ever stopped...

Tomorrow I have two acupuncture appointments and another CAT scan scheduled. I hope I don't get cancer from all these freaking X-rays. The surgery is scheduled for April 25. I hope to spend this week relaxing and finishing up a library book order and this rewrite of Church of the Old Mermaids.

Today we went out to Falling Creek. I don't know if I've mentioned that we've been out several times since it opened. I even walked to the falls once by myself. Today we had to drive and walk through snow! Pretty amazing. We did not have the right shoes, and as the day got warmer, the snow got slippery. Something felt odd in the woods today. I heard that voice in my head saying, "Danger, Will Robinson." I looked around the woods, wondering if a bear or mountain lion was about, but we kept going. Then as we were coming back down, I said to Mario, "We better be careful here because if we fell, we'd go into the ravine and then into the river." I turned back around and kept walking, and Mario fell. Fortunately, he kept himself from tumbling over, down, and in. We made it back safely.

The following pics were taken by Mario Milosevic and myself. I took the falls pics, but he did all of the others, I believe. Enjoy!

Stepping onto the path to the falls


And across the bridge




Forces of Nature peeled this tree as though it were a banana






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2 Comments:

Where are these falls?
Kittin

By  Kittin, at 8:54 PM  

Hey, Kitten!!! Happy Ostara...a little late. The falls are in the Giff. I'll tell you later if you promise not to tell absolutely anyone you know...and you know who I mean. I kid the Kittin. (We're old friends. And I emphasize "old.")

Mar says hi.

By  Kim Antieau, at 9:05 PM  

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