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burntcopper:mutter: You know when you change breakfast because you're vaguely bored with what you currently have, and go for something you haven't had in a while? And then after a couple of days of it, you remember precisely why you stopped eating it? And sadly, it being cereal, you've still got a week's worth to get through... Special K. The red berries make it nicer, but it's still way too sweet and gums up your teeth something chronic. Going back on the cheerios as soon as I can. (can't just shove it to one side as lodged at parents')
Hmmp. After having to do emergency repairs on sandal, have concluded that it's a rule that you always get a bit of superglue on your fingers. Which you know will come off in a couple of hours, but while it's there, it's bloody irritating.
Spent a large proportion of weekend asleep. Mostly due to inability to get self on decent sleeping hours during week.
Watched a bit of that eurovision dance contest thingy. Vaguely interesting, but kind of confusing what with it being a mix of pros and amateurs. But it did live up to the finest tradition of Eurovision with some very dodgy outfits (though sadly this is part and parcel of ballroom dancing rather than specially for Eurovision).
Went down the lock as is my wont on weekends (equivalent of Regents Park, the Regents Park bits originally to compensate for there being no lock) and saw that the flooding effects had pretty much dried up in the river meadows. Came home, read a bit of the latest rant in the media guide about the latest directors cut of Blade Runner. Which got me thinking. Blade Runner has an idea that you only really see as a blink and miss it design bit at the beginning, that there's been climate change which has changed the coastlines - I'll have to dig up my Blade Runner theory guide to see whether it was hotter or what. Which got me thinking about the fact that pretty much anything set in the near future in the UK would really have to make some vague acknowledgement of the flooding/bake that leads to drought leads to flooding cycle that we're in, because that's the weather conditions we're going to be pretty much stuck with for the next generation or so. It took a couple of generations to get like this, and it's not going to be settled for another couple because there is no quick fix. Either a random comment on the tv/media source or an expectation of what usual weather is for that time of year. Because we really haven't had any mid-point, and we pretty much expect floods somewhere in the country once a year.
Hmmp. After having to do emergency repairs on sandal, have concluded that it's a rule that you always get a bit of superglue on your fingers. Which you know will come off in a couple of hours, but while it's there, it's bloody irritating.
Spent a large proportion of weekend asleep. Mostly due to inability to get self on decent sleeping hours during week.
Watched a bit of that eurovision dance contest thingy. Vaguely interesting, but kind of confusing what with it being a mix of pros and amateurs. But it did live up to the finest tradition of Eurovision with some very dodgy outfits (though sadly this is part and parcel of ballroom dancing rather than specially for Eurovision).
Went down the lock as is my wont on weekends (equivalent of Regents Park, the Regents Park bits originally to compensate for there being no lock) and saw that the flooding effects had pretty much dried up in the river meadows. Came home, read a bit of the latest rant in the media guide about the latest directors cut of Blade Runner. Which got me thinking. Blade Runner has an idea that you only really see as a blink and miss it design bit at the beginning, that there's been climate change which has changed the coastlines - I'll have to dig up my Blade Runner theory guide to see whether it was hotter or what. Which got me thinking about the fact that pretty much anything set in the near future in the UK would really have to make some vague acknowledgement of the flooding/bake that leads to drought leads to flooding cycle that we're in, because that's the weather conditions we're going to be pretty much stuck with for the next generation or so. It took a couple of generations to get like this, and it's not going to be settled for another couple because there is no quick fix. Either a random comment on the tv/media source or an expectation of what usual weather is for that time of year. Because we really haven't had any mid-point, and we pretty much expect floods somewhere in the country once a year.
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Ignore me, you said 'Blade Runner' and that's always a cue for me to open my gob...
I think it was a nuclear war that started it though. If I remember the spin-off Jeter novels and the original - that's the significance of the owls and Offworld. Basically the owls were the first species wiped out and the prerequisite for moving to Offworld was not being genetically fucked up by the radiation exposure.
Re: Ignore me, you said 'Blade Runner' and that's always a cue for me to open my gob...
Date: 2007-09-03 02:53 pm (UTC)Re: Ignore me, you said 'Blade Runner' and that's always a cue for me to open my gob...
Date: 2007-09-03 09:02 pm (UTC)The climate was wetter. LA was in an almost permanent humid monsoon season. That's kept over from the book too.
Tbh, the only thing I find hilarious about Blade Runner is the way Ridley Scott's hellbent on getting Philip K. Dick's book visuals down, EXCEPT for the bit at the end. All of the gorgeous rolling woodland scapes from The Shining don't mesh with the image of a planet that everyone who's healthy has upped sticks and already left.
Re: Ignore me, you said 'Blade Runner' and that's always a cue for me to open my gob...
Date: 2007-09-03 09:10 pm (UTC)