Super Cats and Supercuts
Aug. 6th, 2018 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatI miss having the cats around, but they couldn't stay with us where we're currently living, so they're at Beth's mom's house. I saw them this past weekend for the first time in about a month, and they were pretty aloof.
Reagan, who used to want attention from me all the time, wouldn't even come out from under the bed the first night, and that made me sad. Later, however, she got up on the bed and wanted me to pet and scratch her for quite a while.
I wonder if she doesn't fully trust me now. I'm not sure I blame her if she doesn't. She has a habit of rubbing her face against things, and while that's normal for a cat, she does so frantically and urgently that I think she's hurting herself. The area above her eyes looks kind of scratched up, and we thought it might have been from fighting with Wally, but we're pretty sure now she does it to herself. They both spend most of their time upstairs in the room where I sleep when I'm there (Beth and I sleep apart there, not for reasons of modesty, but because the beds aren't very big), probably because it's less noisy and the dogs don't come up there. I don't think they have anything against the dogs, but they like to have their own space. While we were down there, we also went to a birthday party for Beth's aunt's friend, although the aunt in question didn't attend.
I never said anything about Kevin Geeks Out on the week before last. It was a night of supercuts, which are basically a movie or television episode trimmed down to its most significant parts. They show one at each of his shows, but this particular show was nothing else. The cut-down movies included a kung-fu wizard film, a made-for-TV Tobe Hooper movie with a particular focus on Hooper's hatred of neckties (his bad guys, including the psychotic redneck Leatherface, pretty much always wear them), and Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster. I haven't seen any of the Godzilla movies, but that title always stuck with me. It apparently was one of the least successful films in the series, but what struck me was how everyone basically seemed to take a gigantic atomic reptile at face value by this point. Well, that, and how over-the-top the acting was for the English dub of the main kid, who was a total Godzilla fanboy. There was also a video essay on monsters leering at human women. One thing I'm kind of sorry we didn't see was Wonder Woman fighting a Nazi gorilla, but that was an audience choice up against Jeff Goldblum as the Big Bad Wolf on Fairy Tale Theatre, and how could you not vote for the latter?
I've already written about how I couldn't beat Rhapthorne in Dragon Quest VIII, so I switched to Kirby Triple Deluxe for a little while. Maybe I'll write about that this week, if I get the chance. I also checked out where I'd left off in Dragon Quest VI, but while I remembered what I had to do next, I couldn't quite recall how I'd gotten there. From what I recall, it's one of the more convoluted games in the series. And OzCon is coming up later this week, so I'm excited for that and nervous about the trip there.
Reagan, who used to want attention from me all the time, wouldn't even come out from under the bed the first night, and that made me sad. Later, however, she got up on the bed and wanted me to pet and scratch her for quite a while.
I wonder if she doesn't fully trust me now. I'm not sure I blame her if she doesn't. She has a habit of rubbing her face against things, and while that's normal for a cat, she does so frantically and urgently that I think she's hurting herself. The area above her eyes looks kind of scratched up, and we thought it might have been from fighting with Wally, but we're pretty sure now she does it to herself. They both spend most of their time upstairs in the room where I sleep when I'm there (Beth and I sleep apart there, not for reasons of modesty, but because the beds aren't very big), probably because it's less noisy and the dogs don't come up there. I don't think they have anything against the dogs, but they like to have their own space. While we were down there, we also went to a birthday party for Beth's aunt's friend, although the aunt in question didn't attend.
I never said anything about Kevin Geeks Out on the week before last. It was a night of supercuts, which are basically a movie or television episode trimmed down to its most significant parts. They show one at each of his shows, but this particular show was nothing else. The cut-down movies included a kung-fu wizard film, a made-for-TV Tobe Hooper movie with a particular focus on Hooper's hatred of neckties (his bad guys, including the psychotic redneck Leatherface, pretty much always wear them), and Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster. I haven't seen any of the Godzilla movies, but that title always stuck with me. It apparently was one of the least successful films in the series, but what struck me was how everyone basically seemed to take a gigantic atomic reptile at face value by this point. Well, that, and how over-the-top the acting was for the English dub of the main kid, who was a total Godzilla fanboy. There was also a video essay on monsters leering at human women. One thing I'm kind of sorry we didn't see was Wonder Woman fighting a Nazi gorilla, but that was an audience choice up against Jeff Goldblum as the Big Bad Wolf on Fairy Tale Theatre, and how could you not vote for the latter?
I've already written about how I couldn't beat Rhapthorne in Dragon Quest VIII, so I switched to Kirby Triple Deluxe for a little while. Maybe I'll write about that this week, if I get the chance. I also checked out where I'd left off in Dragon Quest VI, but while I remembered what I had to do next, I couldn't quite recall how I'd gotten there. From what I recall, it's one of the more convoluted games in the series. And OzCon is coming up later this week, so I'm excited for that and nervous about the trip there.
