I Am Groot

Hello my dearies and welcome, once again, to the blurb of my life.

I've recently come to the realisation that I'm not very communicative. This is, considering I'm supposed to keep up the blogging, something of a problem. A busy summer, work problems, an annoyingly perky Mr Muse who likes to play peek-a-boo (which he probably learned from my goddaughter, the rascal)(or maybe he taught her, who knows), and me still struggling with the whole celiac thing do not add up to a particularly happy Tessa. A not so happy Tessa equals a Tessa who does not communicate well.

Hence, I Am Groot. Without the cool voice, or the green-thumb-superpowers (I have something of a black thumb, in fact - any plant given to me invariably dies, unless it happens to be basil. Basil likes me) (is there a basil-groot?).

Do you have your Groot moments, too?


ps. I only saw the movie today (it came out reaaaally late in my corner of the world) and LOVED it. If you haven't seen it yet, GO NOW!

Friday Fiction - or, in this case, a movie

I've just been to see Gravity, the new Sandra Bullock and George Clooney movie. Have you seen it? It's about this team of astronauts doing repairs to the Hubble telescope and then there's a whole lot of space junk..... *shudder*

It's a very scary subject. Lost in space, alone in the wide, empty universe - empty of air, of sound, of people, of help... very, very scary. But I digress. 

What I wanted to say was that this is a movie worth watching if you want to see some beautiful pictures of earth from space. I'd love to know whether those are actual ones or if they're totally computer-made or somewhere in between. Other than that the movie has some pretty hairy situations, and some really overly hollywood-soppy moments (including violins in the background...). The no-gravity scenes are pretty cool, as is the realism of the inside of those space stations. But then Hollywood has always been good at that sort of thing. 

I do think they overdid the violin moments, though. The flying around in space without a safety line bit was hair-raisingly scary, yes. A bit of relief from all the tension is necessary, and with only one character involved in a scene any sort of dialogue is going to be internal, but still... 

Have you seen this movie? What do you think?