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[sovay]

This has been a much better day than expected. I'm burned out, but in a far more pleasant way than I have been for the last couple of weeks.

Late this morning, my brother and I set out into the wilds of Cambridge to see if we could find him a frock coat. And we did, at Keezer's; but he turned out to prefer a black morning coat from 1938 that we shall pick up on Tuesday, when he gets off work. I will have to take photographs. With a good shirt on and his hands leisurely in his pockets, he looks like the lead from an Oscar Wilde play.

In the course of this quest, the power of the apotropaic umbrella was proven once more,* I was tempted by a many-pocketed leather jacket at the Garment District,** and we had an excellent lunch at Legal Sea Foods. I don't usually order drinks, but this one was made out of rum and ginger beer, with a slice of lime and a stick of sugar cane stuck in it. It was awesome.***

And we returned home, and collapsed on the couch, and watched The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). Which I liked, particularly Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent and the bits of the Guide as narrated by Stephen Fry. And Bill Nighy, because. He's gone on my list.

I think I should be able to sleep tonight.

*We were half-drowned crossing the street from the subway station, but the thunderstorm stopped as soon as we bought an umbrella from the MIT Coop. It hasn't started up again, either. But it is lowering hot.

**I might return for it, but if I'm to spend money on clothes I don't strictly need, I'd rather they were more anachronistic. Besides, I can fit half a dozen clementines into my current coat's pockets; that takes care of all my basic winter needs.

***It was duly noted why the rum was gone.

Comments

[kraada.livejournal.com]

I actually quite liked Marvin. Especially with the Point-Of-View gun . . . oh and the whale. But then, that was great in the book, too.

Also: You would almost certainly look very good in a multipocketed leather jacket. For whatever that's worth.

[sovay]

I actually quite liked Marvin. Especially with the Point-Of-View gun . . .

God, I'm so tired, I overlooked Marvin. I loved him. He was voiced by Alan Rickman; come on.

[kraada.livejournal.com]

[marvin voice]Just fitting. Nobody remembers me. I've been running for 8 times the lifespan of the Universe, but ho hum, just another robot . . .[/marvin voice]

Honestly I thought Marvin made the movie. Without him it would've been . . . maybe passable at best. With him, I'm quite glad I saw it. But it's okay, even if Marvin-voice doesn't forgive you for forgetting about him, I do :)

[sovay]

[/marvin voice]

*snerk*

(I hadn't looked at the cast list. I think my initial reaction to Marvin was, "He sounds like Alan Rickman with a killing hangover," and my mother said, "Yep.")

Without him it would've been . . . maybe passable at best.

See, I found it better than I'd been prepared for. Even with the added subplots and the romance, I thought it worked; and so far as I could tell, they preserved a fair amount of Douglas Adams' original text.

[kraada.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree that it was much better than expected. I just thought he was the only character that really sang, at least for me. Sure the others weren't bad to varying degrees, but nobody else was "Yes! That's exactly what I would've expected!" except for him.

And the movie was definitely best when they were preserving original text. Because really.