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mangaroo

media moment

Nov 30, 2010 04:36

Amazon had a Black Friday-Cyber Monday promotional offer of $3 credit at their mp3 store...which I should have mentioned earlier. My bad. But you're probably all set for music. Me, I still have more cassettes from the 80s than CDs, and almost all of my mp3s are ripped from my cd collection. So, given just enough credit to download 3 songs, I chose ( Read more... )

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spacealien_vamp November 30 2010, 13:06:35 UTC

It was really hard for me to resist all the special offers. But I promised myself I wouldn't buy any more books (in English) or DVDs until the house issue is settled and I can see what state my finances are in.

I'm glad you found some good things to buy. Chess is one of my family's favorite musicals.

collarnojutsu November 30 2010, 13:35:35 UTC

Argh, free music!! I am ALWAYS in need of music. Always. Just FYI. Always! :D (I still have cassettes too, and they taunt me whenever I want a song I don't have on CD... which has been often given how many mix tapes were made in my younger years.) There's a PILE of songs I need to get around to buying digitally at this point, oy.

Just to clarify: were you listening to the soundtrack of How to Train Your Dragon or the movie? I could watch that movie, like, EVERY DAY.

War documentaries and seriousness are all the rage right now, as is making kid stuff more "mature" ... I guess. Fail.

mangaroo November 30 2010, 21:26:43 UTC

The movie (over and over and over...). Except, to be honest, I had to stop listening and watch the scene from the fish to the post-scribble event every single time. And the scene where the Terrors try to pilfer T's fish. And the scene where T is in Hiccup's room. (See how subtle I am, so as not to spoil Sara?)

I'm not much for soundtracks unless they're singy soundtracks. I just don't have the ear to appreciate most instrumentals.

collarnojutsu December 1 2010, 04:55:20 UTC

I can't NOT watch ANY scene. I love this movie so much. (In fact, I just watched it again tonight.) You've reminded me, though, that I DID want the soundtrack - I really liked the music. I meant to get it ages ago but I guess I forgot. Ahh well, onto the wishlist it goes. Maybe I can pad an order with it some day.

wednesday_10_00 November 30 2010, 16:06:01 UTC

But you're probably all set for music.

I am also all set for books! And DVDs! Wait, no, it's the opposite of that.

(Man, I get like 8000 e-mails from Amazon and they can't tell me the one thing that would actually be USEFUL to me? /sigh )

How could someone who enjoyed the cartoon enough to want to make it a movie miss all the charm and decide to go for a war documentary?

Doubly sad is that Shyamalon said in interviews that he took the job because his daughter loves Katara. So then he proceeded to completely wreck Katara's character? I feel bad for his daughter.

mangaroo November 30 2010, 18:25:04 UTC

Aww, thank you for blaming Amazon instead of me. I'm really feeling crappy about this. I wouldn't have known about it if a friend hadn't told me, and I should have passed on the news immediately via journal or email. I am a bad friend!

wednesday_10_00 November 30 2010, 21:01:32 UTC

Aww, I wouldn't blame you, and I certainly don't think you're a bad friend! To be honest, if I had known about it, I doubt it would've occurred to me to post about it on LJ.

sara_tanaquil November 30 2010, 17:53:48 UTC

Netflix has How to Train Your Dragon now? (Yes, I'm slow.) I never did get around to seeing that in the theater. *updates movie queue*

Re: music, my new favorite thing is Pandora streaming on my Tivo. I love Tivo so much. Even if, at the moment, I have 60 NCIS episodes and 40 Bones episodes waiting for me to watch, and that's not even counting the current seasons I'm behind on.

mangaroo November 30 2010, 18:17:05 UTC

*spoiler alert*

You are going to want a Night Fury. You are going to want a Night Fury so bad that you will forget dragons are myth.

I haven't tried streaming music through my TiVo...I'm not sure my TV's speakers could do it justice.

mangaroo November 30 2010, 18:19:11 UTC

Hey, does LJ no longer support the span tag? I color-coded that spoiler and everything!

sara_tanaquil November 30 2010, 20:48:09 UTC

Oh, hey, that's weird! It was spoiler coded originally, but then I highlighted it (I know, I'm a spoiler whore) and now it's all naked and exposed??

manga_crow December 1 2010, 00:32:51 UTC

At least you're eclectic in good taste^^

My kids (and I) all adored How to Train Your Dragon, which was cool, because I'm less fond of the books (targeted to middle school boys = lots of toilet humor :p)

The Last Airbender is proof positive that M. Night needs to stick to directing (or better yet, cinematography) and never, ever touch another script again.

(Enjoy your Wii^^)

mangaroo December 9 2010, 15:01:35 UTC

I'm less fond of the books (targeted to middle school boys = lots of toilet humor :p)

Thanks for the warning! I was thinking about picking up the books because I wanted to extend my enjoyment of the movie, but it sounds more like the books would tarnish the experience.

The Last Airbender is proof positive that M. Night needs to stick to directing (or better yet, cinematography) and never, ever touch another script again.

Agreed.