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mistressofmuses) wrote2025-12-25 07:02 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2025-12-25 07:02 pm
Merry Christmas!
I hope that everyone who celebrates has had (and is still having) a merry Christmas! (And if you don't celebrate... I hope it was a great Thursday!)
Maybe it's our record-breaking heat (71° today!), but it really hasn't felt terribly Christmas-y. Last year I got hit with the Christmas spirit atypically hard, but not so much this year. Not feeling un-Christmas-y or anything, just... not feeling a ton of hype.
Even so, I had a lovely day. I never sleep well the night before Christmas (or the night before any big event, like vacation, or a big show we're going to, etc.), even though I'm well beyond the "kid at Christmas" excitement phase, haha. I especially can't say I sleep well on my mom's tiny loveseat, though Jaspurr was a pleasant sleeping buddy, and even let us sleep in until there was light in the sky!
Mom and Taylor and I exchanged gifts: I mostly got books, haha. (I also mostly gave books.)
Alex came and joined us a few hours later, and we all hung out for a while. He made some delicious chocolate crinkle cookies and a pan of gingerbread blondies, which are SO GOOD.
Alex and I then came home and exchanged our gifts. Then I fairly quickly fell asleep. Just as I was waking up from my nap, Alex fell asleep, haha.
Highlights of my received gifts. <3
I got lots of books from my mom and Taylor! All are books I'm very excited to read. What Moves the Dead (which I did have an ebook of, but wanted a physical copy), What Feasts at Night and What Stalks the Deep. The Scholomance trilogy. Hell Bent. The Strange Bird. The Ballad of Black Tom.
From Alex, I got Sinners and Late Night With the Devil, which were two of my favorite horror movies from the last couple years, and that I wanted copies of. He also got me a couple nice blank notebooks. (I'll have to psych myself up to use the nicer of the two, haha.) He also got me some candy, the cute spider plush keychain, and the fluffy blanket that everything is sitting on.
Not pictured: A shirt, some hot chocolate, and some bubble bath stuff from Alex. My mom bought us a seat cover for the truck.
And of course, Bella got a million treats, haha.
Our remaining plans for the evening are eating a frozen pizza (er... we will bake it first), since we're both very tired of making food, and then maybe some sort of holiday movie. We meant to try and watch a few before today, but never got around to it. My vote is for The Muppet Christmas Carol, but Christams Twister (sic) is truly our longest movie tradition, and he's more likely to vote for A Christmas Story or It's a Wonderful Life. So we'll see which one we land on!
ETA:
Christams Twister is the winner again! A misspelled title card is truly the best indicator of quality that I can imagine.
Maybe it's our record-breaking heat (71° today!), but it really hasn't felt terribly Christmas-y. Last year I got hit with the Christmas spirit atypically hard, but not so much this year. Not feeling un-Christmas-y or anything, just... not feeling a ton of hype.
Even so, I had a lovely day. I never sleep well the night before Christmas (or the night before any big event, like vacation, or a big show we're going to, etc.), even though I'm well beyond the "kid at Christmas" excitement phase, haha. I especially can't say I sleep well on my mom's tiny loveseat, though Jaspurr was a pleasant sleeping buddy, and even let us sleep in until there was light in the sky!
Mom and Taylor and I exchanged gifts: I mostly got books, haha. (I also mostly gave books.)
Alex came and joined us a few hours later, and we all hung out for a while. He made some delicious chocolate crinkle cookies and a pan of gingerbread blondies, which are SO GOOD.
Alex and I then came home and exchanged our gifts. Then I fairly quickly fell asleep. Just as I was waking up from my nap, Alex fell asleep, haha.
Highlights of my received gifts. <3
I got lots of books from my mom and Taylor! All are books I'm very excited to read. What Moves the Dead (which I did have an ebook of, but wanted a physical copy), What Feasts at Night and What Stalks the Deep. The Scholomance trilogy. Hell Bent. The Strange Bird. The Ballad of Black Tom.
From Alex, I got Sinners and Late Night With the Devil, which were two of my favorite horror movies from the last couple years, and that I wanted copies of. He also got me a couple nice blank notebooks. (I'll have to psych myself up to use the nicer of the two, haha.) He also got me some candy, the cute spider plush keychain, and the fluffy blanket that everything is sitting on.
Not pictured: A shirt, some hot chocolate, and some bubble bath stuff from Alex. My mom bought us a seat cover for the truck.
And of course, Bella got a million treats, haha.
Our remaining plans for the evening are eating a frozen pizza (er... we will bake it first), since we're both very tired of making food, and then maybe some sort of holiday movie. We meant to try and watch a few before today, but never got around to it. My vote is for The Muppet Christmas Carol, but Christams Twister (sic) is truly our longest movie tradition, and he's more likely to vote for A Christmas Story or It's a Wonderful Life. So we'll see which one we land on!
ETA:
Christams Twister is the winner again! A misspelled title card is truly the best indicator of quality that I can imagine.
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I'm excited about the books (even though I have way, way too many.)
HOW is Muppet Christmas Carol the most accurate adaptation?? But it is, haha. I love it.
Christams Twister is truly just awful. It's made-for-syfy-channel level disaster movie, with frequent made-for-TV action star Casper Van Dien starring. There's a ton of misapplied meteorology words to make things sound dire, terrible tornado effects, deeply stupid and contrived interpersonal drama, so much that makes no sense. It's very bad and very funny.
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In truth and thinking about it a bit further, I don't actually know if it is *the* most accurate adaptation (sources vary on this in my not so thorough research on the matter haha), but, from what I remember it certainly is and/or it's just downright amazing. Muppets, Charles Dickens, a musical, a dead serious Michael Caine yelling at puppets, like, what's not to positively adore? xD
I... have so many questions, the least of which is just, "why"? I genuinely wish I could be a fly on the wall of some writers or producers meetings where such movies come to fruition. That, or I feel like there ought to be a mandatory artist's statement explaining what on earth they were thinking when these erm, "masterpieces," make it to the movie Nuremberg trials equivalent for subjecting humanity to such hilarious travesties...
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To be fair, I certainly haven't seen every Christmas Carol adaptation out there, and I know that there are some excellent ones. But... A Muppet Christmas Carol *is* surprisingly accurate for something that's inherently skewed toward some comedy. Michael Caine playing the role completely straight despite it being a muppet movie is perfect. And I do recall seeing someone go into a lot of detail about the set designs and costuming and how accurate a lot of that was for the time period. It was very impressive to see some of those details pointed out by someone who knows more about them than I do!
There are so many absolutely ridiculous movies in that bizarre little disaster movie subgenre. Like many of them, this one has a dramatic moment where they gasp and say "what, but that would make this tornado... an F6!!!" which kills me every time because THAT IS NOT HOW THE SCALE WORKS. But seriously, I would love to know WHERE the demand for these movies comes from that they need to keep just making more.
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Oh wow, you've unlocked a deep, ancient archive-level memory haha! I too remember seeing something similar on a YouTube review ages ago about the surprising Muppet set/costume accuracy but that was a good eternity ago! To all your points above, I positively love the Muppet version and it holds a near and dear place in my heart. Regardless of accuracy, they just absolutely nailed it on so many cinematic levels in my most humble opinion haha. xD
There's got to be an XKCD comic mocking the lack of log scale comprehension skills for tornados/hurricane classification, decibels, etc. haha. Because, yay, an F10 or 1000 db level explosion = a black hole? xD Who finances these things anyhow? And what is it like to be an actor on one of those sets? Do they take themselves seriously or is it widely regarded as a joke the entire time? Again, I have soooooo many questions. xD
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I love how much detail goes into so many of the Muppet productions... It would be so easy for those details to be ignored because "it's just puppets!" but instead that kind of detail really does so much for it. Similar to Michael Caine choosing to take the role perfectly seriously, it just adds a lot of depth that makes it hold up as more than just like... a passing novelty. The comedy of it is better for the contrast.
There's gotta be an xkcd comic for it... there's an xkcd for everything! But for real... science literacy is tragically low anyway, but is on such emphatic display in these sorts of movies. I *think* most of the actors are aware of how ridiculous it is, and chew the scenery appropriately. I HOPE they do, haha.