More stuff

[lillian13]

The Austin Craft Riot show was nice. Load-in was easy, we had a lot of feet on the ground, and there was air conditioning! Sales were OK, nothing spectacular. I hope we do this again next year as it's nice to have an indoor show in August. They do need to redo the layout slightly to give us folks selling from tables some more room and a couple of escape corridors. I spoke to a couple of the committee members and they'll bring it up at the post-show meeting.
 
My neighbor was someone I vaguely remembered from my days running art shows at the Dallas Fantasy Fair/Fests. (We had a lot of fun making whispered comments, especially about the new trend in trashy clothing: Daisy Dukes--short-shorts--and cowboy boots.) And since she makes Tarot decks we did a trade for one of my necklaces and I scored a birthday present for a friend.

Got a lot of little things taken care of with the car and made an appointment to leave it with my mechanic while I'm at Dragon*Con to get the motor mounts replaced. Lucky I have that check for the pins, right?

When I was getting a ride to pick up my car at the shop we saw a police car pulled over but no other car. As we got closer the officer was talking to a guy. I turned and said "I bet he's walking around in his underwear and he's completely baked." Sure enough, as we got closer,. all he was wearing was a saggy sad pair of boxer-briefs and some Vans. And a really dazed expression. I now have another friend who thinks I'm a witch!

Only a couple more weeks until Knee Surgery #2. It can't come too soon. I can no longer extend my left leg all the way out, and now my lower back is giving me hell since I'm lurching again. Going through the airport for Dragon*Con is going to be So Much Fun.

I finally saw The Dark Knight Rises. It was interesting, when I could understand what the Hell Hardy was saying through the damned mask. It made me want two things: the Jonathan Gordon Levitt  Batman movie right now!, and to reread the Confessor arc in Astro City.

I also saw the Bourne Legacy.I have some theories/questions: I think the woman the Alaska agent was in love with was Marta. Why did Aaron have IDs ready for June Monroe? Why was he "off the grid" for 4 days? He was planning on running; his actions in Alaska made that clear. I think Marta was always a backup plan, since he knew exactly where to find her. The flashback to his intake interview was heartwrenching.  As always, it's the little things I loved about the Bourne movies--the shout-out in the opening scene, the wolves smelling "non-human" and freaking the fuck out, using everyday things to alter IDs, stealing the Rolex from the plant manager, and man did I want to know more about the other agents.

Comments

[tehomet]

Jonathan Gordon Levitt Batman movie right now!

Agreed.

Your theories re: Marta make me want to watch it again.

The flashback to his intake interview was heartwrenching.

Totally. *sigh* That scene is the hinge on which my love of that film turns.

The whole Aaron was off-grid was kinda confusing to me.

I did like that the plot of TBL runs parallel in time to the last Bourne movies. I thought that was clever.