So about a month (or longer) ago my dad got me an external hard drive. Yay and shit like that, right?
Wrong. Out of the box it didn't work. The programming for it kept telling me I needed to partition it.
Ok. Whatever. I got one of my more computer literate friends (
) to come over and look at it. After about two hours and a phone call to her father, she had it running. Angel from heaven. Then it started getting funky. It would only appear in My Computer for a short time - if my computer ran too long it went away. I said ok, my computer is ten years old. Shit like this happens. I can handle it.
So then I loaded on all 7 gigabites of my itunes library onto it. Thought we were good. Deleted files from computer.
iTunes freaked out and made me reupload. About three hundred were missing but I figured I could handle it. Next time I checked the computer, all the music was gone off the external hard drive. WTF. Took some pictures off my computer and put them on the external drive. Restarted computer. Files were still there. Ok, I thought, I'll just restart my computer each time this happens. The files I originally put on the drive are still there, I bet this will work.
So I booted up ol' Music Rescue. Plugged in my iPod and set all my music to copy over to the external hard drive. It got maybe 8 albums and some podcasts on when Music Rescue quit. I tried to reopen it. It made horrible thinking noises and told me I didn't have an iPod connected. Disconnected and reconnected iPod. Nothing worked.
Well shit son.
In other news I saw Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street tonight. I have been an avid fan of the musical and was excited for the movie. (See
, my other account, for STD BFS lol stuff. Yeah, btw, STD BFS. It's a real disease. I've most definitely got it.)
Overall. If you want Sweeney Todd the Tim Burton film, that's what you get. It's a good movie, cut down to the right length, with cool effects and excellent acting (although several times I wondered why Capt Sparrow was saying those things, and where in the hell Harry was). It's slasher at its classiest, and gory to say the least. Those unfamiliar with the plot and story and music will enjoy it.
Those vaguely aware of the plot and music will enjoy it.
Those freakishly obsessed with the musical will be ... amused by it. The producers were very clear that this was a movie, not the musical.
And yet the musical was all I wanted to see. And now I miss it. The acting fell flat for me, the characters (especially Lovett) were the other extreme of their Broadway counterparts. No longer were the ridiculous, dark satirical stage actors, they were professional, soft spoken, film actors who emoted with their facial expressions and eyes (and the lighting, or lack there of) in the scene.
Am I disappointed? Uhm. To some extent. As much as one can be disappointed with something they love. It's not an I'm angry disappointment, it's a I wish I could see what I had seen disappointment. Am I making sense? No? Good.
Antony is the pretty boy. Joanna is Loopy Luna Lovegood. So much older looking its freaking WEIRD.
I have a Secret Santa gift to post tonight, packing to do, and college stuff to send. I leave for Pittsburgh in the morning.
Happy Holidays!
Rae
btw
Artistic
Christmas Spirited
Wow!
Stupefied
