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I managed to remember to register for Dragon*Con before the rates went up. Now I'm all signed up and ready to go! There's a whole host of SG1 and BSG actors to be there. I'm hoping a few SGA folks will be signed up, too, as we get closer to the date.

Wow, TBS has been showing a whole host of cheesy period movies tonight. First Knight is on now and A Knight's Tale was on before that. Boy, was that a strange movie. In the first jousting scene, properly set in feudal period, all the spectators are pounding in time, singing 'We Will Rock You'. The whole movie was like that, with weird anachronist bits thrown into what would otherwise have been a fairly standard story. I'm not sure it made it better, but it at least made some of the peripheral scenes less predictable. And hey, Alan Tudyk was there, with his tunic artfully draped to show plenty of chest in every scene, so I didn't much care about anything else. *bg*

Tomorrow (today, technically, I suppose) I have to go to the library and get stuff done. I have a short paper, a project and a quiz this week, all for Gracy. And I'm supposed to go out with D in the evening tomorrow and then spend most of Sunday with him. That plan may change, depending on how much I get done tomorrow.

Speaking of D, we went out last night - purportedly to go Salsa dancing. We did eventually make it to the club but we only danced a little. Not that I minded. Salsa dancing is fun, but I really don't have the first clue what I'm doing and it's frustrating because he doesn't seem to believe in letting me figure one thing out at a time, so he's always spinning me around in really complicated and confusing ways until I get dizzy and fall over (even though I didn't have anything to drink this time). I think he does it just so he can catch me when I lose my balance, the evil man.

Okay, enough with the stream of consciousness post. I'm off to bed.

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Oooh I LOVE A Knights Tale. Paul Bettany is awesome in it, and it introduced me to Alan Tudky.

It was an easy to watch movie, in that it didn't actually require me to pay any actual attention to it and I was still able to follow it on the occasions when I looked over at the tv and noticed it was still on.

A Knights Tale is a strange movie, indeed. I like it, but the soundtrack completely changes the tone of the movie. With a straight symphonic soundtrack, it would've been a very different film.

I'm not sure if it would be better or worse with a more traditional soundtrack, but it would certainly have a different feel.

Stepdaughter's fiance lent us A Knight's Tale on video about 2 years ago - we started watching it, but didn't get very far. Hubby just couldn't adapt to the anachronism of modern music in a medieval flick. For all that he loves time travel stories.

PS - It's still sitting beside the VCR - one of these days, I'll watch it on a sick day. The trouble with that plan, is that on sick days I usually just sleep all day.

The anachronisms didn't turn me off so much as jar me. They made the movie seem a bit lightweight, informing right off the bat that nothing too terribly deep or bad was going to happen.