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May. 17th, 2003 11:32 amThursday was class (which went well), and a late showing of Matrix 2 on opening night. Ugh, never again. We got crappy seats and I was pleased that I didn't end up neck-wonked or nauseous. The movie was... okay; it was pretty and all, but I guess my biggest complaint was that it tried too hard. It's suffering from it's own need to be cool, I guess. But I'd still recommend it as a great diversion. Best of all (I know some of you will kill me for saying this), there is a remix of a Dave Matthews Band song while the credits are rolling. It's overflowing with wonderfulness, along with a piano version of #41 some fellow named Jay Wood did and that was posted on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dancing_nancies that is just fucking beautiful.
I missed the lunar eclipse by going to see said movie, but it turns out the whole thing was mostly invisible from here anyway due to clouds and Mexican smoke haze. So last night, Moon and I made up for it. Kirby was wonderful enough to call me and alert me... we were playing D&D, and the phone rang at 11pm (Kirby usually goes to bed around 9) and she said 'go outside and look east!' Actually, she said 'look east' and I said 'there is the staircase', so then she mentioned going outside. I saw it, and climbed on the roof for a better look. My. God.
A storm was about 30 miles away. It filled up a quarter of the horizon from side to side and about a third of the sky from top to bottom. Lightning was flashing through the clouds faster than I've ever seen it- they were constantly lit up from different angles. Some of the lightning was deep in the clouds so you couldn't see it, but the clouds were lit up briefly in golds and purples. Often you'd see the bolts jumping from cloud to cloud. The tops of the clouds came just below the rising Moon. I may need to paint this someday, and I sure wish I'd had a camera that would have taken a picture of it. The dark blue-black sky, the bright Moon, and the lead-gray cloud beneath, lit up with silvery light. Antares was sparkling just a few degrees away. I turned away from the Moon briefly to watch the lightning again, and Gordon said 'Look!' in time for me to see the top of the storm cloud just beneath the Moon billow up to cover it. I knew it was that as opposed to the storm moving nearer, because the top of the cloud was so crisply defined in the way only new-formed clouds appear. So the Moon was covered completely in a manner of about 30 seconds, leaving the top-most bit of black cloud outlined in bright silver, looking almost exactly like a lightning bolt. As the Moon was being covered up, you could see the rays of light narrow in a cone-shape, and finally as the Moon was totally obscured, the light still hovered over where the disk used to be visible in a vague, faint lense shape. This eventually narrowed down to a cone again, as either the Moon rose or the storm receded (it was moving away from us) and once again, a bead of white light appeared soon followed by the full face of the Moon. Soundless lightning was flashing the entire time this was going on. It had to be one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my life.
dancing_nancies that is just fucking beautiful. I missed the lunar eclipse by going to see said movie, but it turns out the whole thing was mostly invisible from here anyway due to clouds and Mexican smoke haze. So last night, Moon and I made up for it. Kirby was wonderful enough to call me and alert me... we were playing D&D, and the phone rang at 11pm (Kirby usually goes to bed around 9) and she said 'go outside and look east!' Actually, she said 'look east' and I said 'there is the staircase', so then she mentioned going outside. I saw it, and climbed on the roof for a better look. My. God.
A storm was about 30 miles away. It filled up a quarter of the horizon from side to side and about a third of the sky from top to bottom. Lightning was flashing through the clouds faster than I've ever seen it- they were constantly lit up from different angles. Some of the lightning was deep in the clouds so you couldn't see it, but the clouds were lit up briefly in golds and purples. Often you'd see the bolts jumping from cloud to cloud. The tops of the clouds came just below the rising Moon. I may need to paint this someday, and I sure wish I'd had a camera that would have taken a picture of it. The dark blue-black sky, the bright Moon, and the lead-gray cloud beneath, lit up with silvery light. Antares was sparkling just a few degrees away. I turned away from the Moon briefly to watch the lightning again, and Gordon said 'Look!' in time for me to see the top of the storm cloud just beneath the Moon billow up to cover it. I knew it was that as opposed to the storm moving nearer, because the top of the cloud was so crisply defined in the way only new-formed clouds appear. So the Moon was covered completely in a manner of about 30 seconds, leaving the top-most bit of black cloud outlined in bright silver, looking almost exactly like a lightning bolt. As the Moon was being covered up, you could see the rays of light narrow in a cone-shape, and finally as the Moon was totally obscured, the light still hovered over where the disk used to be visible in a vague, faint lense shape. This eventually narrowed down to a cone again, as either the Moon rose or the storm receded (it was moving away from us) and once again, a bead of white light appeared soon followed by the full face of the Moon. Soundless lightning was flashing the entire time this was going on. It had to be one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my life.
