I'll be back as soon as I ditch the cop!

[candyland]

First off--msbbt? I joined avatar_icons and found that icon that we were giggling over so much last night *points to icon for this entry* See? HAPPY!! :D

Soooooo...how 'bout those Colts? I'm one of those people who watches the Superbowl for the commercials ^^;; But there really weren't any good ones this year, which made me very sad. There were two that stick out as especially funny in my mind, but that's it. The two were the Blockbuster one with the mouse, and the Budweiser one with the wedding and the auctioneer. But nothing as good as last year's "magic beer fridge." That one was just love. Still, was a damn good game, though--and I don't really care about football, either.

Last night, I went with Mommy and Daddy to this silent film thing at the Orpheum. And msbbt was there with her Mommy (who I do call Mom, because I can remember when she was our Brownie troop leader--we go waaaaay back, her and I ^_^), so we got to sit together. The movie was called Safety Last. Wonderful, wonderful movie...except I'm one of those people who gets embarrassed for the characters on screen, so I was kinda twitching for a good part of the movie ^^;;

But if you've ever seen a documentary or anything about silent movies or old movies, and they show a clip of a guy hanging from a clock-face at the top of a building? That's from this movie. The most amazing part of it is that he was actually climbing a building...with only eight fingers. See, the actor (Harold Lloyd) had once been handed what they thought was a prop bomb. Turned out it was real, and it exploded and blew off two of his fingers--this thumb and forefinger. Well, he got himself patched up after spending a YEAR in the hospital, and went back to making movies.

So yeah...this guy climbed up a freakin' building with five fingers on one hand and THREE fingers on the other. And he was doing some dangerous stuff, too--msbbt and I were clinging to each other at one point because we knew it would be okay, but still...yikes o.O The subject line of this entry is a reference to the movie :D

Then we talked our parents into taking us to Perkin's for ice cream. The parents talked about grown-up things, and msbbt and I sat and fangirled about Avatar for forty-five minutes. Talk about your great evenings :D

And then I crawled into bed around eleven, after pretty much everyone seemed determined to run me off the internet (I'm looking at you, magic_truth. I'm pretty sure I was out like a light and didn't move until eight-thirty this morning, when I woke up hacking. I hate having colds and sore throats...they are blechy D:

Tomorrow, I can sleep a little bit later, too--instead of going to school, I'm going to see the high schoolers in an honor choir. I'm still driving an hour, but instead of being there at eight AM, I'm supposed to meet my coop at a quarter to nine. Translation: I have an extra forty-five minutes! WHOO!! *resets alarm for lovely sleeping*

Comments

[lightbird777.livejournal.com]

_{*points to own beautiful nabbed icon from avatar_icons* :D}

Safety Last is a classic! You're lucky you had a chance to see it. Harold Lloyd was a great talent.

And hurrah for an extra forty-five minutes of sleep!

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

YAY FOR avatar_icons!! :D

The best part of it (which I totally forgot to include in the entry, wtf...) was that the accompanying music/sound effects? They were live on the Mighty Wurlitzer organ :D It was AMAZING ♥

Hmmm...sleep...sleep makes Candy-chan a very happy girl... :D

[lightbird777.livejournal.com]

Cool! It is an amazing experience to watch a silent film with excellently-played live accompanying music.

One halloween I had the pleasure of seeing the silent Nosferato (I don't think I spelled that right) at St. John the Divine, accompanied on their huge church organ by their music director. He was dressed as a vampire and when it was time to come out to play for the film he came sliding down a rope from the ceiling (and it's a REALLY high ceiling). Landed on his feet and took his place at the organ (and he was NOT a young man).

That movie is definitely worth seeing with live accompaniment also if you ever have the chance.

[gomath02.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous. I want extra sleep. :P And to hear the organ.

[anrean.livejournal.com]

Yeah I watched the Superbowl. I was disappointed in the commercials this year too. The game was fun (although I think I spent most of my time going 'is that a good thing or a bad thing? O.o Do I cheer?' lol.

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

Hee hee, Avatar Icons is fun. I see you also took that Cabbage Man one that I'm still debating on using ^^.

I'm really amused that we both picked the same line from the movie to be our subjects XDD.