Antron Fleece, Baby Birds and Pirates
Jul. 28th, 2003 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechFirst, for Diadexxus: Antron Fleece is only available (wholesale) from one company that I know of:
Hampshire Textiles (in Vermont, I think): (603) 528-4220.
If you're not in the market for a full roll (50 yards?), you might be able to get a list of retail distributors that are local for you. You want the heavier weight fleece.
Pirates (fictional and corporate): Katzenberg blamed the public's lack of interest in cel animation for the failure of "Sinbad". What a load of crap. Why not blame a lousy story; blame ineffectual characterizations and boring character designs; blame the generally soulless and vapid heart of the film. Otherwise how would he explain the popularity of "Lilo and Stitch"? Or even "Spirit"? He has gall to blame a -medium- rather than any aspect of the film that he had control over. When "Shark Slayer" bombs (it has that feel), I wonder what he will blame...
And then there are the pirates of "Pirates of the Caribbean"! Yes, one of my favorite Disneyland rides (after the Tiki Room), I was thrilled from the first frames (that I saw...) of the movie! Everything that Dreamworks did wrong on Sinbad they did right on Pirates. VERY similar stories, too: two men from different backgrounds must work to a common end (and are hindered/complicated by a woman both have feelings for). But I LOVED the Jack Sparrow character from the beginning! One of my favorite hero entrances: Standing noble and proud, coming in to dock... as the camera pans down...hahaha! He reminded me a little of the Snake Bliskin character from "Escape From NY". Fantastic movie! Pirates! Yay!
A picture of the sparrows that built a nest under the eaves of my back porch: I didn't even notice them until the poopage on the ground started to become plentiful... and after the disaster with the mockingbird (still not back, slumming at the neighbors), I was careful to avoid looking at them. I think they've just fledged...
Hampshire Textiles (in Vermont, I think): (603) 528-4220.
If you're not in the market for a full roll (50 yards?), you might be able to get a list of retail distributors that are local for you. You want the heavier weight fleece.
Pirates (fictional and corporate): Katzenberg blamed the public's lack of interest in cel animation for the failure of "Sinbad". What a load of crap. Why not blame a lousy story; blame ineffectual characterizations and boring character designs; blame the generally soulless and vapid heart of the film. Otherwise how would he explain the popularity of "Lilo and Stitch"? Or even "Spirit"? He has gall to blame a -medium- rather than any aspect of the film that he had control over. When "Shark Slayer" bombs (it has that feel), I wonder what he will blame...
And then there are the pirates of "Pirates of the Caribbean"! Yes, one of my favorite Disneyland rides (after the Tiki Room), I was thrilled from the first frames (that I saw...) of the movie! Everything that Dreamworks did wrong on Sinbad they did right on Pirates. VERY similar stories, too: two men from different backgrounds must work to a common end (and are hindered/complicated by a woman both have feelings for). But I LOVED the Jack Sparrow character from the beginning! One of my favorite hero entrances: Standing noble and proud, coming in to dock... as the camera pans down...hahaha! He reminded me a little of the Snake Bliskin character from "Escape From NY". Fantastic movie! Pirates! Yay!
A picture of the sparrows that built a nest under the eaves of my back porch: I didn't even notice them until the poopage on the ground started to become plentiful... and after the disaster with the mockingbird (still not back, slumming at the neighbors), I was careful to avoid looking at them. I think they've just fledged...
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Date: 2003-07-28 05:50 pm (UTC)Perhaps the best setup to a character I've seen in a while.
And his interplay with the guards on the dock was some sort of wonderful Black Adder / Abbott and Costello amalgam that convinced me that this was going to be a pretty well written movie.