http://ice-princess.net/words Serious commentary on frivolous things Thu, 22 May 2008 05:55:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This past March, on Sunday morning at Norwescon, as we were packing up to check out of our room, I saw the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I'd been deliberately avoiding the trailer for this movie. Despite how often I ran across it posted ... http://ice-princess.net/words/2008/05/21/the-age-of-a-fangirl/ This was originally written four years ago. The summer-evening nostalgia mentioned in it has been powerful this year, and caused me to revisit it, and I decided it was worth sharing and adding to, since I have four more summers now to speak of. It's officially summer. Style Council is ... http://ice-princess.net/words/2007/07/02/someone-somewhere-in-summertime/ When an item popped up in a local weekly a few weeks ago talking about a special tasting evening at a local business, all I had to say to my husband was "port and chocolate" and he said "Make a reservation." And thus we signed ourselves up for a tasting ... http://ice-princess.net/words/2007/05/13/port-and-chocolate/ Anyone who has ever been the "weird kid" or felt out of place in a community probably has some affinity for the works of Tim Burton, and most especially for his 1990 film Edward Scissorhands, a sweet, melancholy fable about a gentle but undeniably freakish creature who attempts to live ... http://ice-princess.net/words/2007/04/26/edward-scissorhands-a-musical-play-without-words/ I really and truly had no intent of letting this lie fallow for seven months.  Life got complicated enough that I could use it as a good excuse to not write, but really, it was more about having set up this obligation to myself to write, and suddenly finding the ... http://ice-princess.net/words/2007/04/16/not-dead-yet/ Yesterday, we went to Leavenworth. There were a couple of reasons for this. The first reason is that my husband is from Florida, and though he's lived here for the better part of three years now, he hasn't had much chance to really explore the area. And while I'm a ... http://ice-princess.net/words/2006/09/17/wine-and-pines/ (Note: There are some things in here that could be considered mildly spoiler-ish if one knows nothing about the film.) I loved the first PotC movie. I loved it enough to see it multiple times, something that's become increasingly rare for me with mainstrem Hollywood releases. I loved it in ... http://ice-princess.net/words/2006/08/07/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest/ I invited my mother to dinner on less than 24 hours' notice. This is distinctly uncommon for me, as entertaining of any sort is usually a massive production that requires several days, if not weeks, of preparation. To add to the uncommonness, I didn't really have time to go shopping ... http://ice-princess.net/words/2006/08/04/pantry-adventures/ Yoji Yamada's latest film is a follow-up to his previous film, The Twilight Samurai, and hits the same themes: the changing of the feudal system with Japan's opening to the West, the decline of the samurai, conflicts of class, love, and honor. Munezo (Masatoshi Nagase), a minor samurai, ... http://ice-princess.net/words/2006/07/21/the-hidden-blade/ The Last Communist Malaysia This novel approach to documentary filmmaking delightfully relates the tale of the exiled leader of Malaysia’s banned communist party, not through fact and fiction but through testimony and song, without benefit of footage of the central character, and in a way that most musicals would be proud of! There ... http://ice-princess.net/words/2006/06/16/siff-day-21/