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“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune --- I rapidly discovered why we seldom go to theaters anymore when I went to see Dune 2. We ordered the tickets online but the email was wrong so we paid the money but didn't get the tickets so after arriving we had to speak to the management and show them the receipt on a cell phone. It took an hour to work out how to pay for parking online, we needed photo I.D so we needed to drive back home and to the theater again and when we left a MINUTE late there was already a ticket on the car. At least the staff was friendly and the seats reasonably comfortable. SPOILERS The problem is Dune 2 wasn't really worth all that money and time. I thought Dune 1 was okay, verging on good. The visuals were spectacular and unique, I love good 'used future' science fiction and I recognized enough of the story to tell someone involved in making the film had actually

"Happiness is continuing to desire what you already possess." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Part of the attraction of The (Lord of the Rings) . is, I think, due to the glimpses of a large history in the background: an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvisited island, or seeing the towers of a distant city gleaming in a sunlit mist. To go there is to destroy the magic, unless new unattainable vistas are again revealed.” - J.R.R Tolkien --- First off, sorry I've been hard to find for the few still interested in my page here! I'm mostly taking care of my ailing parents and looking for a job. But I did find a little section of time to write, and these quotes finally woke up my slumbering muse. --- I dreaded watching the original Star Wars again after all these years. Partially because I was concerned the somewhat janky early effects would looks silly and take me out of the experience...and then of course there's the fact that nowadays going back to Star Wars is like visiting

'...and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.' - J.R.R Tolkien : The Hobbit “Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. For them are the catacombs of Ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries. They climb to the moonlit towers of ruined Rhine castles, and falter down black cobwebbed steps beneath the scattered stones of forgotten cities in Asia. The haunted wood and the desolate mountain are their shrines, and they linger around the sinister monoliths on uninhabited islands." - H.P Lovecraft : The Picture in the House -- There's a meme going around (way to date THIS entry) in which men are asked how often they think about The Roman Empire...and woman are startled to discover the answer tends to be more than 0%. Usually this is used as some kind of 'gotcha' about male minds obsessing about the past or supremacy or harboring secret