maybe not today, maybe not tommorow

Saw Frozen with my sister, who is an animator and so a particular mix of extremely tolerant and incredibly nitpicky when it comes to animated movies. We did not love it much at all. It's not terrible, but it's quite messy, somewhat lazy and awfully oddly paced.

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...yes, so maybe i'm watching it because I never have and it's a plot point in next week's Big Bang Theory.

- Where did she pick up a very Ukrainian vyshyvanka (embroidered shirt) between Tibet and Cairo? Seriously, I have one exactly like that.

- Other than that, that's like one of the funnest ways I can recall ever being introduced to a female character. Totally badass without any sexualization.

- It's a Nazi monkey?

That is all.

Neither enjoyable enough nor irritating enough for more than bullet points.
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So today was another day wasted miserably. I have to get out of the house, I just can't study here. Well, I can, but I fail. Ambitious new plan for tommorow: go to community center and study at the library. When utterly bored from studying, do down the stairs to the gym or the pool. Come back to the library. Go to Zumba or Spinning or whatever the hell they have on Mondays. (I've never been. I'm willing to try anything at this point.) If bored of all, bring along kindle and just read for a while. Maybe outside, in the park, in that place where there's air and sun, (I've heard rumors.) Under no circumstances watch tv, write fanfic, spend hours on tumblr or try to come up with excessively complex readings of sitcoms and be upset when no one will take you up on, say, tracing BDSM elements in Sheldon/Amy on the Big Bang Theory. STUDY. MACROECONOMICS IS AWESOME, LIKE TOTALLY. AND SO IS ZUMBA. Drink water, that too.

 The Hunchback of Notre Dame vs. the Prague Cemetery for more intense depiction of tortured brew of religion, racism and depraved sublimated lust in Paris? Disney. 

Damn, I love that movie. It was my favorite Disney movie even as a kid, (I know I loved it when I was 9, though I don't know what I made of it) and it so totally holds up. 

4.05 - Forged Steele - There are issues and they are about trust and it is complicated...so they talk about it. Straight away. Like adults. And it's intelligent and interesting. And hot. Also, the hole in the floor was fabulous. Great plot.  

4.06 - Corn Fed Steele - Did this have something to do with Reaganism? I dunno. Nevermind, I was distracted by collarbones and barnyard puns anyway. 

Gradually, fashionwise, one can begin to see echoes of what will one day be known as the 90's. It's not precisely attractive, per say, but nevertheless kind of a relief. 

Watched Brave last night, and must confess to being a teensy bit underwhelmed. It worked best for me on the humor level - I laughed quite a bit. Alas, I was also a little bit bored quite a bit. The plot was just slightly too thin, with too few characters being given any development to go on that long. It needed a subplot or something. It's also very, very pretty, but nothing quite made me go wow visually either. Still, unusual subject matter dealing with mother-daughter relashionships in a way that isn't awful is welcome.