Late night ramblings

Well, I should be in bed, but I'm totally not sleepy.

Yesterday (Saturday) night, Ryan made me go with him and Robert to see The Simpsons Movie, even though I didn't want to go out. They seemed to have had an extra ticket and they didn't want to waste it (at $10.25 each!). Robert bought this absolutely enormous bucket of popcorn, but by the end of the movie, he and Ryan had only eaten maybe as much of a fourth of it.

The movie was funny and entertaining, though it had several questionable "PG-13" moments. There's a scene where Homer dares his son, Bart, to skateboard downtown and back naked (including a pedophilic moment displaying the boy's cartoon genitalia), and one where Marge interrupts Homer in what was implied to be a possible moment of beastiality. There is another scene where Homer is cared for by a buxom Indian medicine woman and the movie engages in a somewhat racist making fun of Indian culture and vision quests.

The movie did have some interesting explorations, including examination of Homer and Marge's marriage and the relationship between Homer and Bart. Lisa, meanwhile, was somewhat sidelined in this show, though she does get a mysterious, new boyfriend. Some of the humor in the show is very topical; it's really funny today in July 2007, but in five or ten years, will anybody get the joke? A few things are very esoteric—I caught a couple of things my compadres apparently missed. This is definitely a movie that will require multiple viewings for full appreciation.

Today (Sunday) has been rather an uneventful day. It rained much of the afternoon, so I spent a bunch of time trying to learn the accompaniment to Haydn's The Creation. I'm too out of practice; my fingers keep getting tangled up on all those runs of parallel thirds.