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Festival Begins
A good beginning makes a good end.
-- English Proverb
Saturday, May 20, 2000
One year ago: Lucy's Revenge
Two years ago: Public Speaking
Three years ago: A Bridge to the Moon
My mission this morning: get to the U-district street fair and make purchases. I had success with this last year. This year, not so much. I found the Zen Tropic booth, but they've changed their line! So the baby-doll style of dress (which is a perfect length for my short legs) isn't being made any more. I only found one! This isn't tragic, since I have about twenty from them, but in the future perhaps I'll have to take one apart and make a pattern, then sew my own. The owner said that if I come to the Fremont Fair in June, she'll dig the remainder out of the warehouse and bring them.
I also made my stop at the booth operated by the Soap Box, a store that sells, what else, soap! I usually don't think their stuff is worth the high prices, but they bring out a lot of discontinued scents or special buys at the street fair. I bought three or four bars of soap, and a small bottle of shower gel. They let you go into the shop and pick your own scent; I ended up with Kashmir -- middle eastern spicy.
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I got myself down to Pacific Place theater downtown, for my first movie of the festival. A---, and C--- and Y---, are already there. It felt so right for us all to be there together!
- Kirikou and the Sorceress
(IMDB page for this film) This was an animated film, based on an African folktale (but it was made in France). Kirikou is a magical child, speaking to his mother from the womb. When he learns that the village is threatened by a mysterious sorceress, he runs down the lane to help his uncle, the last warrior left! This was lots of fun, and had beautiful imagery throughout! I highly recommend it, and not just for kids.
- Nowhere to Hide
(IMDB Page for this film) This was a gritty Korean police drama, with some humor and a lot of violence. I liked it, but it was a bit too long at the end. I guess when the story drew to a climax it lost the sharp pace of the beginning. The style changed with every sequence, so no two fights were alike.
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I took the bus home. Jack and his daughter H---- were waiting in his car for me. (I need to get Jack a key, I think! but the front door key is marked "do not duplicate" so I'll need to cover that up.) His idea is to get food and cook dinner at home, then go out to, what else, a movie!
We all walked to the grocery store and brought home various low-fat foods. A lower-fat diet won't do any harm to H---- or me, and it's critical for Jack right now, as he waits for his gall bladder operation. The shopping was fun! And somehow the three of us got dinner fixed in my small kitchen. The chicken enchiladas turned out very well.
I drove us all downtown to the movie: Dinosaur. When I first saw a preview for this, there hadn't been any talking, so I'd been disappointed to see the second trailer with snappy dialog. But it wasn't that bad! It was mammal-centric, though. The story went in a different direction than I'd been expecting. When I realized that the orphan dino was going to be raised by the primates, I thought the rest of the movie would be about him learning to fit in with his own kind! But a volcano explosion (or was it a meteroite?) turned the story into a "land before time" direction. When he met up with dinosaurs again, he didn't have any learning to do at all, just teaching.
The gorgeous visuals carried me away. With the current level of CGI, almost any science fiction story could be carried out. C.J. Cherryh, anyone?
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