Hall of Memories

So, the rumors are flying about the remake of the Black Hole. I loved that movie. Still do. Watched it this week. For a movie that's now over 30 years old, it's still fairly decent. If they're keeping the same characters, there's some definite people I'd love to see in those roles.

Dr. Hans Reinhart: Sam Niell.
Cpt. Dan Holland: Nathan Fillion
Lt. Charles Pizer: Michael Angarano
Dr. Alex Durant: Brendan Hines
Kate McCray: Claudia Christian
Harry Booth: Joe Pantoliano
V.I.N.CENT: Paul Bettany
Old B.O.B.: Shaun Taub

Sam Niell plays an overconfident scientist very well. Just pulling from Event Horizon and Jurassic Park puts him as a great actor for that role. Nathan Fillion's portrayal of Mal from Firefly combined with the charismatic Castle could really shine in that role. For Pizer, it's a bit hard. I chose Michael Angarano because he's the right age, and played well in Sky High and Forbidden Kingdom as someone who wants to be more. That's the one character I just can't nail. Brendan Hines' character in Lie To Me as the understudy just really begs to take the role of Dr. Durant. For Claudia Christian, she's done very well as a "telepath" in Babylon 5, and I think she'd bring some real emotion to the character that just wasn't in the original film. Joe Pantoliano did so well in Matrix and Daredevil, and the parts he played in both fall right into the role of Harry Booth. The last two would just be voice actors, and Paul Bettany did very well as Jarvis in Iron Man, and Shaun Taub (again in Iron Man, as well as Last Airbender) does very well in a "mentor" positon. While Old B.O.B wasn't a mentor, the character should have been.

Of course, that's just my thoughts. Your thoughts?

Weekend was uneventful, overall. Friday night we went to see Despicable Me. It was, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the funniest CGI I've seen. I haven't left a theater with a sore stomach from laughing since Rat Race. I may have to go see it again just to get a good laugh again.

Saturday, Selena had a girl party. I ran about getting things for that, and stayed scarce during the little shindig. Got some cleaning in the office done and played a little CoH.

Today, shopping, cleaning, cooking, and some CoH.

Tomorrow, work. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Figured I'd take a moment to update.

The good:

The weekend before last, Tim took me to go see the Star Wars Concert. Anthony Daniels did the narration, which I have to say, having seen him once before discussing his role as C-3PO, he is a phenomenal orator. It was a real treat that I appreciate.

Last weekend, I took Selena to the Grand Floridian. On the way, I took her to the Cheesecake Factory. Tim suggested it the previous week after the concert, and it was the first time I'd gone there. Well, I should say to a full restaurant CF. The other one I had been to was just a desert stand in Disney's Disney Quest. The restaurant itself has way too many options. Their Shepherd's Pie is excellent. Moving on... Selena and I checked into the Grand Floridian. The following morning, we ate breakfast then went to pick up Becky. Upon returning, we chatted for a bit, grabbed lunch, then went to their salon to get hair done. The ladies both had similar haircuts, done up in curls. Very fetching. Our second destination was swedish massages. The ladies then were taken for manicures and pedicures while I waited in the lobby. We went back to the room, then went to Victoria and Alberts for dinner. Again, I can't stress enough how incredible their food is. At $125 a plate, it's still worth it at a higher price. We went back to the room afterwards, got into bathing suits, and spent a good nearly two hours soaking in the hot tub. We headed back to the room, talked for another hour or so, and called it a night come 3:30am. Next morning, we went to Amigo's for brunch, and stopped by PetSmart, dropped Becky back off, went to the Florida Mall, then headed home.

The bad:

We had a few repairs to do at home that were just updated. The rest of that will appear under the next section. I guess my biggest "bad" right now is just that I, overall, am discontent. I'm having more and more problem with my communication. Sometimes (like now) words are coming to me easily. Other times, I couldn't even find the word I'm looking for with a thesaurus because I can't think of any way to put the idea into language. It could be something as simple as a ruler, but I just couldn't think of what the name of it is. Couldn't say it's like a foot long tape measure. Couldn't say it's one of those things you measure with. Instead, I'm pantomiming like some idiot playing charades. It's caused me not to like talking to people, even though I'd somewhat want to. I'm not one to talk a whole lot in conversations, just throw in a few things here and there. I don't talk on the phone often. Here lately, I haven't much done anything with others because because I'm just too backed up on things I should be taking care of, but I'm running out of steam so fast that it's not getting done. I need to just do it, regardless. I think that's tonight's agenda.

The ugly:

We had a leak inside the walls. They went under the recently laid floors. Guess what all needs to be redone? Well, we got the plumbing and walls fixed. Now it's the floors and baseboards. Fun fun.

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TSO concert was awesome. Glad I got to see this one as they had the other troup in Florida. Glad to see casualmuse and ladyofdarkstar tonight before the concert. Looks like we'll have to get more than just the slats for the blinds, but that's just how it goes.

Oi. Tired. Excellent concert.

Over the weekend, we had to put our family pet down. The rabbit, Boomie, had either some sort of blockage or tumor in his intestines. He was, quite frankly, in too much pain for us to take him back home.

The worst part of it, for me, was having it trigger the memory of me holding Mom's hand as she died. I still haven't been able to properly greive that, either. We're still in moving hell, trying to get what was Mom's house to become mine.

Guess it's just one of*those* years.