new years weekend....

and there is SO MUCH TO TELL YOU ABOUT! i think, perhaps, that a list right away might help us {me} from digressing too badly. here goes.

*tron

*party

*light show

i think that those are all the high points that i wanna hit here tonight. it's been a really long weekend, and it feels like it lasted about a thousand years, but it was tooooootally awesome. so....lets start at the beginning i guess.

this freakin' movie was off. the. chain. me and two of my besties went to see this at the boeing imax in 3d because i got passes and it seemed like a totally awesome way to spend our new years eve day. at the very least i expected to have a good two hours of quiet heckling and even quieter judgment, punctuated by the occasional 'ooh, aaah' but i didn't expect anything terribly spectacular because, well, the first tron movie was ridiculous. {we don't need to argue, it's just my opinion, love it if you want to, i'm not sayin' you shouldn't} Anyway, so we go, and we sit, and we wait, and then, holy shit. TRON. not only were the effects as incredible as i thought they would be, but i was completely into the story, which was far better developed than i could have ever anticipated, especially because i was anticipating absolute crap. the only, and i mean only issue i had was young jeff bridges {no spoilers}. so, young jeff bridges, as well as clu, are computer animated but like, live mapped characters. basically, he looks like a perfect, young jeff bridges with one teeeeny tiny detail. 

he is fucking. creepy. 

so, if you don't know what the uncanny valley is, then i suggest you click that link. it is something that has always freaked me out to the point of nausea and makes my very skin crawl. there is simply nothing that a computer can do to make those eyes come alive, and there is nothing that a computer can do that will remove that instinctive knowledge that the thing i am looking at is not really human, but is pretending to be, which makes it dangerous. 

for. realz.

see?! you can tell there is just something fucking wrong there, and i can totally concede the point that clu is a program and maybe he is supposed to look like that, but the young kevin flynn at the beginning was just as fucked up and frightening. basically, computers are totally awesome and brilliant, but they just can't change that gut feeling that something is human or isn't. 

and if it isn't, it's scary.

however, if you look beyond freaky pretend 'the dude,' then tron was fantastic and i would totally go see it again, and even pay. 

yea.

high praise.

anyway, at the movie, we were told that the daft punk laser light show was returning to the science center laser dome. so the three of us, after watching the movie and hearing all the awesome music that daft punk did for the soundtrack we were totally all about going to that laser show. which is an adventure i shall return to in moments.

second thing:

new years eve party! it was super fun and we got to watch the fireworks from the balcony of where we were. there were a bunch of people there that i hadn't seen since college and it was really great to get a chance to let loose {and get blasted} and catch up with them. i don't really have much to report except that i drank a lot of tequila but made it out a-ok.

like a champ.

who's awesome? you're awesome!

also, got to sleep on the comfiest recliner on the planet, and sleep in a little too. which i suppose only reeeally counts if you weren't up until four a.m. 

whatever.

so now, on to thing three!

oh. sweet. lord.

this was probably one of the coolest things i have ever seen. fun fact? there is a live laser artist {totally bitchin' title btw} who does the show every time and this show was SO. RAD. it had some awesome classic daft punk and the new stuff from tron and it was just so freaking amazing. i don't remember the last time i went to a laser light show, but now that i know what i've been missing:

i want to go to them all the time. 

so basically, hangin' with the ladies and seeing old friends made for a pretty freakin' sweet new years weekend. i am now exhausted because i worked a LOT of hours in the last few days, and i'm really glad to have a couple of days with no commute. but, since i still have to go to work tomorrow at a different job, i really do have to go now. because it's late. and i am sleepysaurus. 

so for now, i guess i'll just say:

'Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls if you'd be so kind.'

cheers!

~*~

DFTBA