This weekend kept up the "interesting" theme for me. I forgot to mention that Saturday Jack and I went out and got a new laptop!!!! The most basic little MacBook. We're part mac people now, and I think Jack is unhappy about that. But I was going to have GarageBand!! Now I'm all psyched to order a laptop bag. I have my eye on a REALLY fancy one but if you guys have cheaper favorites, let me know.
We drove north to celebrate the newly minted M.D.
zenthia yesterday (she rocks!!!), and had a fabulous crab feast despite the rain. I did manage to deeply puncture myself with a crab part, but that's not all, I also ate a Starburst and had it rip out one of my fillings. GREAT! Despite this I had a grand time.
Than Jack & I caught Pirates 3.
The plot was an indecipherable mess. But: Who cares??? It was a whole lot of rollicking fun and I enjoyed almost all of it. I had but one objection (apart from the insignificant bit about the plot, which some of you might find significant) which is that in the little post-credits moment? They could have at least weathered Kiera Knightley a LITTLE bit. Maybe just aged her a teeny, tiny tad? I know how different I look after ten years and um... yeah. Anyways, that was the only thing I didn't like. If you can let go of your need for coherence, go see the movie and enjoy.
We drove north to celebrate the newly minted M.D.
zenthia yesterday (she rocks!!!), and had a fabulous crab feast despite the rain. I did manage to deeply puncture myself with a crab part, but that's not all, I also ate a Starburst and had it rip out one of my fillings. GREAT! Despite this I had a grand time. Than Jack & I caught Pirates 3.
The plot was an indecipherable mess. But: Who cares??? It was a whole lot of rollicking fun and I enjoyed almost all of it. I had but one objection (apart from the insignificant bit about the plot, which some of you might find significant) which is that in the little post-credits moment? They could have at least weathered Kiera Knightley a LITTLE bit. Maybe just aged her a teeny, tiny tad? I know how different I look after ten years and um... yeah. Anyways, that was the only thing I didn't like. If you can let go of your need for coherence, go see the movie and enjoy.
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Although I can't figure out why she didn't just join the crew of the ... whatever that sharky ferrying-the-dead ship's called. Like Bootstrap did (once freed of his obligation). It all seems to have worked out okay given the whole fountain of youth thing but that was quite a gamble.
Gosh, this is nearly as bad as the endless variations on "Why do some of the people the vampires kill turn into new vampires while others just die?" But it does make me want to watch all three movies again, so well done to the studio there.
On the other hand Davy Jones corrupted his mission - hence the tentacles - therefore when Bootstrap was tossed overboard, he could have been shanghaid by Jones for his crew, undead condition or not.
On the gripping hand, in the first movie, Barbossa describes their undead state as creeping up on them. The curse may not have been instantaneous. If so, when they chucked Bootstrap over, he might well have drowned.
I could sort of go with it, even though "fire" doesn't seem like such a hard word to say. He had his Big Scheme and as long as everything was going according to the plan he had made, he got more evil and more powerful. But as soon as something went seriously wrong, he wasn't flexible enough to figure out what to do on the fly so he just seized up. I'm much more like that guy than I am like a free-wheeling, constantly re-planning pirate. Which is why I will never rule the seas, apparently.
I couldn't believe Elizabeth married Will. I got almost exactly no sense that she was that interested in him during this movie and don't recall much evidence from the last one either. Maybe it was just all the adrenaline from the battle.
What is the m-audio thingie? Recording drums is going to be a pain in the ass no matter what, I think.
i have an m-audio fasttrack (m-audio.com) and it's nifty. it sounds similar to the firebox your friend describes below. but yeah, drums not so easy fo' sho.
here's a handy list of freeware / shareware that can enhance your mac experience. note that windows media player is no longer available, so get the flip4mac free utility instead.
http://paulstamatiou.com/2005/12/19/10-apps-every-new-mac-user-should-download/
http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm
Also, neither does Milo Ve... Vem... whatshisface.