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Tower Snicket Angels
Dec. 15th, 2003 10:53 amBusy weekend. Saturday night, we had my brother and his wife over to watch the extended version of The Two Towers, and we were MST3K-ing all over that baby. Biggest laughs were when Wormtongue asked Eowyn what she feared most ("30 and single!") and when Gandalf called for his white horse Shadowfax, who galloped up in slow motion (and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
qbear started singing Styx's "Lady").
Sunday we were off to the San Francisco Symphony Youth orchestra's version of perennial holiday classic for kids, Peter and the Wolf read by local author Lemony Snicket, who writes the popular children's books A Series of Unfortunate Events. He rewrote the story to make it morbid and gruesome, until it finally reached a fever pitch and he screamed and ran off the stage. All good fun.
Snicket:: "Grandfather called for Peter to come into the house, to take out the trash, and recycling. But Peter was a nasty, greedy boy, the kind who never did what his grandfather wanted. Hence, the current administration."
After that, we headed up tocthelarger's lovely, nearby home for a viewing of the second part of Angels in America with chriskomater, arkanjil and baraksf. The moving drama on the wall-size TV was most enjoyable, as was the company and conversation, and the yummy dinner afterwards. It was good to finally meet and get to know Chris.
After dinner, we trekked the half mile to home and caught the Survivor finale on Tivo, and were pleased to see that our favorite (the feisty Latina) beat out the weepy neurotic and the devious backstabber. We didn;'t get to bed until close to midnight, on a "school night", which is unusual for us.
qbear started singing Styx's "Lady").Sunday we were off to the San Francisco Symphony Youth orchestra's version of perennial holiday classic for kids, Peter and the Wolf read by local author Lemony Snicket, who writes the popular children's books A Series of Unfortunate Events. He rewrote the story to make it morbid and gruesome, until it finally reached a fever pitch and he screamed and ran off the stage. All good fun.
Snicket:: "Grandfather called for Peter to come into the house, to take out the trash, and recycling. But Peter was a nasty, greedy boy, the kind who never did what his grandfather wanted. Hence, the current administration."
After that, we headed up to
cthelarger's lovely, nearby home for a viewing of the second part of Angels in America with chriskomater, arkanjil and baraksf. The moving drama on the wall-size TV was most enjoyable, as was the company and conversation, and the yummy dinner afterwards. It was good to finally meet and get to know Chris.After dinner, we trekked the half mile to home and caught the Survivor finale on Tivo, and were pleased to see that our favorite (the feisty Latina) beat out the weepy neurotic and the devious backstabber. We didn;'t get to bed until close to midnight, on a "school night", which is unusual for us.
