Not Ready

Giovanni di Paolo, Five Angels Dancing Before the Sun

I am SO not ready to jump back to light speed today—you know, regular life. I want another day of time-out-of-LIFE Festlichkeit and divertissement.  Granted, today is Saturday. No work, no doc appointments, no bills to pay (YET!) and I don’t have to drive anywhere—not even the cat food store. Huh. Unusual.

So yeah, I can have another fun day. Sure. First, once the sun comes up, I’ll go for a mind and sinus clearing ride It’ll be a chilly one compared to the 60+º enjoyed yesterday but hey, at least there's no snow. I’ll do my stretching exercises afterward and then see if Jen and Oni want to catch a flick. We’ve been talking about hitting the IMAX theater in Reading for a 3D (!!!) showing of the new Star Wars. Oh man, that sounds awesome plus!

Yesterday The Amazing Bob and I watched Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home. You know, that’s the one where Kirk, Spock and crew go back in time to 1980s San Francisco to whalenap a couple leviathans because…em…because….dunno. We couldn’t get the closed captioning feature to work. TAB translated here and there but mostly, I was fine with just watching and lipreading what I could. Besides, I’ve seen this a few times or so before—if anything, beyond the Save the Whales message, was desperately important it’d come back to me.

Here’s the thing that stood out to me that, perhaps, I hadn’t noticed in past viewings—the crew looks OLD! They’re all, ‘cept Uhuru, rockin’ some serious turkey neck and the hair dye is wicked obvs. Here’s the thing though—when this flick was made, Shatner and Nimoy were both just 55. TWO years younger than me! Christ on Oil of Olay, I think I feel old now.

The other thing that popped up strong to me—the performer who played Kirk’s chaste love interest? Oowie, what a crap actress!  She played her part as though she was a 15 year old cheerleader-ish ingenue—all wide eyed, foot stamping, girly-girlness and this was her first time on stage. Also too, with Kirks wattle, the all too uniformly dark hair color AND the obvious girdle under his uni, the 20+ year age difference was kind of nasty.

Still and all, the movie has some spectacularly funny bits. Like:

When Spock Vulcan coma-pinches the asshat on the bus who’s playing his music too loud.

When Doctor Babe in the Woods snortingly (in a flirtatious way of course) says to Kirk: Don't tell me! You're from outer space. He charmingly (of course) deadpans: No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space.

And, my fav line, when they’re walking away from their borrowed Klingon ship that they’ve just landed in the middle of Golden Gate Park (cloaking it first of course), Kirk admonishes: Everybody, remember where we parked.

This might be the funniest of the whole damn series. I really prefer humor with my space ships.

OK, maybe we can get Oni (who knows all about these fiddly remote control thingies) to fix us up so I can watch the movie again but, this time, with captions.