Work, Movies and Velma

As you can see, the Wife suddenly got motivated to finish the sketch of Velma that she did in black & white way back when we were still in Singapore. I don’t remember Velma looking quite this slinky, but I sure ain’t gonna’ complain about it.

Other than that, this was another delightfully boring Friday where we didn’t hit the town and do all kinds of urbane, cosmopolitan things. Instead, I finished up my articles for GameAxis for the month and then after that, powered through Tetsuo The Ironman, which is another Japanese WTF film that I simply cannot describe. Except to say that only the Japanese would decide to give a man a giant drill as his new genitalia, and only they would be curious to see what it would look like were he to use it on a woman.

‘Nuff said…

The other movies that were viewed were all existing ones in our collection, simply because I’m slowly going through all our films now that we can watch them in widescreen and high definition, just to see what they look like. Today was bits and pieces of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (okay, I admit it, once again, the Spock dies scene moved me to tears, dammit…) and The Matrix, which, since I hadn’t seriously looked at it in years, actually had improved. I mean, I liked it a hell of a lot before, but in light of recent “science fiction” efforts like The Island, The Matrix is a freakin’ masterpiece in that it does manage to combine some amazing action with some actual intelligence and a really, REALLY interesting idea.

And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to watch Clash of the Titans.

Tomorrow, The Last Unicorn and how you can help Peter S. Beagle…