Movies.

[green_dreams]

Just saw Strangeland, and was almost impressed. Fairly pretty movie, and it failed to adequately address a much more interesting and in-depth range of ideas than your average slasher movie fails to address, but you can see it trying. Pacing felt peculiar, but worked out alright; I think I've gotten too used to either the straight-up intro/struggle/complication/climax/resolution thing. It felt like a short story and its sequel more than anything else.

Acquired copy of Brotherhood of the Wolf. Bliss. Also found out that the director will be doing the Silent Hill movie due to come out next year. It'll be so nice to see a video-game movie that doesn't involve Uwe Boll.

So very, very nice.

Anyway.

I need a hobby. Specifically, I need a hobby that doesn't relate to art or comics. It must also be a hobby that interests me, is enjoyable, is highly affordable, can successfully be practiced in fifteen- or thirty-minute segments, and doesn't require any noticeable time to load on the computer. (Not that it has to involve the computer, you understand. But if it does, it can't take any noticeable time to load. So ADOM works, but nothing else I can think of does.)

Suggestions are welcome: at the moment, it looks like I'm going to be resurrecting my love of puzzles.

Comments

[harald387.livejournal.com]

I recommend PopCap's word games - Bookworm is frighteningly addictive, for instance, and can be downloaded for free or bought for a nominal fee and the sale of your soul to spammers (avoidable by not giving them a valid email addy).

Sex is also highly affordable, but perhaps impractical as a hobby. Besides, fifteen-to-thirty-minute segments of sex are kind of weak.

-K

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Having played Bookworm, I agree that it's fun, but the addictive bit is a problem. Still, might give it a shot.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

If you're willing to aquire the rocks, knapping could be interesting.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

*blinks* What's knapping?

[zenten.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintknapping

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Hm. Possibly workable, actually, though I'd be a little worried about my hands cramping up or something (no good when I'd be looking to do it as a break from art sometimes).

[zenten.livejournal.com]

I think you hold the rocks differently than you would when doing art, but I might be wrong.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

You probably do; it's more that you're holding rocks and whacking them against each other hard enough to chip them, and trying to be precise at the same time (which, even leaving aside the option of missing and whacking my own hand because I am not exactly the most coordinated of souls, always causes me to tense up) that I think might make me work knots into my hands. It's still interesting, I'm just paranoid.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

I've been searching out a good book of logic puzzles, the ones you have to solve with a matrix. I love puzzles...

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I love those, second only to the Cross Sums (Dell makes them; it's a crossboard like grid, with numbers to the left of rows and the top of colums. You have to fill in the blanks with the numbers from 1 to 9 so that the total of the row/column is equal to the number next to it, and no number can appear more than once per row/column.). Dell's actually not bad; check out a magazine shop, they might have a collection you can pick up.