Weekend so far

[stellar_muddle]

Fri evening: Good Barbarian party. Not as many as had said they would turn up (not exactly a rare thing in Canberra), but an interesting mix of medievalists, astronomers and linguists. Some very interesting costumes, which I may put photos up for later. Z's barbarian game worked well. Picts (?), Huns (K), Libyans (C), Goths (P), and Parthians (me) swept in and beat up on the Romans (Z) and the decline and fall of the Roman empire was accomplished with much battles and bribery. The setup involved a map of Dark Age Europe and surrounds, lots of 1:72 scale Dark age figurines, dice (for deciding who drowned or not), and M&Ms (for bribery and corpse compensation). Battles were decided via full on scissors, paper, stone, often to the death or a large enough Danegeld/bribe. Wound down around 1:30am, with the last people crashing around 3am. Was fun:)

Today, went and saw Arcadia on stage. Was very good, and if you get the chance, I thoroughly reccommend it. Very cool Regency era costumes. Definite advantage in following things, having seen the play before, although that was about 8 years ago.

Pictures of Shirt sewing progress can be seen here. As can be seen, there is still a fair amount to go. But managing to stick to pure linen fabric, white linen and black silk thread.

I should stop waffling and get ready to head off to Film Club: Underworld: Evolution. Should be good and brainless. Yay vampires, werewolves and corsetry. Fluff fluff fluff:)

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Re: Underworld Devolution

[stellar-muddle.livejournal.com]

I didn't think it was a waste of 2 hours of my life, but would have if I had paid actual money to get in.* I went in expecting fluff and got exactly what I anticipated, only with a slightly more cohearant storyline than last time. It was same old, same old wrt the corset, but the military jackets Derek Jacobi was wearing were nice. More military frogging on jackets all round...

*ANU Film club charges $30 for a half year or $50 for a full year membership and that gots you free entry to all the movies they show. So far seen: Howls Moving Castle, Corpse Bride, The Legend of Zorro, Night Watch, Pride and Prejudice, The Proposition, Casanova, Gallipoli, Memoirs of a Geisha, as well as Underworld. And still a number of good ones to go.

Re: Underworld Devolution

[alpha-angel.livejournal.com]

You expected her to change corset? The movie setting starts only hours after the previous one. Why spend more on costume than you have to?

Re: Underworld Devolution

[stellar-muddle.livejournal.com]

She's a vampire, silly. It's in their metacontract to have a change of outfit every twenty-five minutes to thirty minutes, unless they're Nosferatu, in which case grave dirt and what you died in is mandatory. Whereas the werewolves are just allowed to have a bare chest and set of jeans, because too much shape changing just rips the shirts off. (how they never rip their trousers and underwear off too escapes me.)

Also, the typical good guy sex vs bad guy sex dichotomy was there - good guy/girl sex looks neat, clean, just out of the shower (despite the previous multiple hours of bad guy killing and getting all sweaty, and no shower for miles) and always missionary position, no foreplay, whereas bad guy/girl sex looks messy, sweaty, tousled, and seems to have foreplay. Makes one want to be a bad guy/girl, they seem to have more fun.

Re: Underworld Devolution

[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

Ooops, that was me

Re: Underworld Devolution

[alpha-angel.livejournal.com]

Super atomic wedgie...

Re: Underworld Devolution

[(Anonymous)]

That's a jolly good deal!
And you are quite right on the frogging front... :-)

Re: Underworld Devolution

[lacedwaist.livejournal.com]

...and that was me.