Days of Wine and Random Shit

[gridlore]

• My neighbor is shouting into his phone again.


• Inside his apartment.


• I wouldn't complain, but I can't hear the power metal I'm listening to right now.


• Yes, he's that loud.


• Accomplished quite a bit in the last two days.


• Yesterday I got my delayed blood draw done, and did some dishes.


• Today, I took in all the recycling from home and Earthbaby and picked up a book on Napoleon III at the library.


• I was going to get my haircut, but my Nice Asian Ladies are closed Tuesdays.


• Napoleon III? Think of using his life as the basis for a novel/series.


• He's a very interesting guy, and the reason Germany and Italy were able to become nations.


• I've figured out why things like NaNoWrMo don't work for me.


• It's the whole "write now! meet an arbitrary schedule!" aspect.


• I actually felt guilty when I got pneumonia at the start of the month because I couldn't write.


• That's seriously fucked up.


• If I ever get to the point when I'm writing seriously, then I can see enforcing a schedule for writing.


• But I'm still at the "doing it for my personal enjoyment stage."


• I have discovered iTunes radio.


• Some of the metal stations are quite good.


• Watched Captain America: The First Avenger last night.


• Good, but not great. I never saw the charisma that Cap possesses. He's supposed to be a natural leader.


• Also the love story really felt tacked on.


• Hugo Weaving, as the Red Skull, was as awesome as ever.


• But the film was filled with a ton of great in-jokes.


• My favorite was the Red Skull gloating that he had found true power while Hitler was "digging in the desert for trinkets."


• Also, did y'all notice the original Human Torch in the glass tube in the fair scene?


• I may have over=pushed myself in the last couple of days; so I'm taking the rest of the day to crash.

Comments

[gil-liant.livejournal.com]

Good, but not great. I never saw the charisma that Cap possesses. He's supposed to be a natural leader.

I saw it -- but not right away. In his early stages, Cap is bewildered, distracted, and generally 'out of his element'. We see flashes of his aptitude for leadership in the boot camp sequences, but leadership is also a skill that needs to be developed and it comes from an inner core of confidence. At the beginning, Cap just doesn't have that.

After he makes the decision to save his friend, his course becomes clear, his confidence firms up, and his leadership becomes much more pronounced. It is only then obscured by the truly execrable writing/performances of the various "Howling Commandoes".

On the whole, I liked it better than most others of my acquaintance, so maybe it's just me. ^_^

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