Weekend Update

After a really whacked out sleep schedule freakout on Friday (Ei-Nyung went to sleep at 8:30 and I went to sleep at 2), we had a pretty reasonable evening. Cooked more Korean food, which is always nice, and I made a batch of Japanese curry for later in the week and a drop-off for the extended Team.

Sunday, we went to Klay & Nana’s for brunch per tradition and we caught a matinee screening of Iron Man. Holy crap, it was awesome. Best superhero movie next to Batman Begins, and honestly, if I saw it again, I could see changing my mind. Whoever did the mechanical design for the suit is a genius.

The movie is surprisingly character driven, to the point where it’s almost disappointing when it turns into a (still pretty damn good) action piece. After the movie, we came home – we’d bought stuff Saturday for some temaki sushi, so we cooked up the rice and turned a once-frozen slab o’ tuna from the Korean store ($10 for a pound of sushi-grade tuna!) into half spicy tuna (Japanese mayo, sriracha, sesame oil, green onion, and for laughs, a finely diced jalapeno) and half a randomly concocted poki-style thing (garlic, shallot, ginger, green onion, soy sauce, sesame oil). Some unagi, avocado, cucumber, takuan, ume, and home-grown shiso rounded out the mix, as well as some shrimp ceviche and (strangely) macaroni salad that Eric, Christy and their guest (whose name I can’t remember how to properly spell) brought over.

After that, as all our social gatherings seem to devolve into, Rock Band, which lasted about two hours. Good times.

Definitely need to catch Iron Man again when it’s at the Parkway.

What’s interesting about that movies is that when it’s all said and done, you *really* want to be in the suit. It’s sort of the perfect situation to have a good videogame adaptation, because it’s as close as you’d get to fulfilling that fantasy, short of (gasp) using your imagination. But it’s strange – obviously, flying around in the Iron Man suit would be incredibly awesome – but more, I think I just want to have a dream and pursue it with that sort of single-mindedness and have some hope of success. It’s not like that’s not possible – as always, the problem is with my inability to self-motivate in this regard – I feel like I stick to the status quo because it keeps the potential dream (of success) alive, instead of producing the potential reality of failure.

Seems like a really lame position to take, but there it is. I just need to convince myself that other options are possible too.

4 comments

  1. perlick says:

    Oof. Your characterization of wanting to keep the dream of potential success alive rather than face potential failure is something I totally struggle with. It always nags at the back of mind – “what if I go all-out and commit everything I have to this venture… and fail?” I know this is something I need to face (as do all my friends, based on the New Year’s resolution y’all came up with for me), but it scares the bejeebers out of me.

  2. s says:

    I wanted to see it on sunday but couldn’t cause the dryer was getting installed…

    oh btw thing #1 that I noticed at harmonix was how much better organized all the information is. A good sign.

  3. hapacheese says:

    The other thing that allows Stark to pursue his vision is the UNGODLY AMOUNTS OF MONEY that he has at his disposal. That seems to help a bit 🙂

    Sucked that the sound was all jacked up at the beginning of the movie and sorta muffled throughout, but it still couldn’t stop the movie from kicking ass and taking names 🙂

  4. Andre Alforque says:

    Rock Band is a great party game — now I just need to throw a party. I honestly thought you guys had two wireless guitars, but looking through pictures it would seem that they were both wired.

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