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logansrogueI've been trying to have interesting gluten-free foods lately. I decided to make myself some satay sauce to go over the top of my rice noodles, which are essentially tasteless. I didn't have any onion, so I thought that if I used dried onion and garlic, that my satay sauce would still work. I then proceeded to put twice as much peanut butter in than was needed, and... well... it was a sad, sad sauce. The onion ended up burnt and crunchy and the peanut butter was all sweet and unflavoured and BLAH. Had to be thrown out. Next time - fresh ingredients, less peanut butter. Or I could just buy some, but I can't be assured of there being no gluten in the mix.
What I ended up doing was frying up egg and noodles in ketjap manis (Indonesian for THE BEST SOY SAUCE EVER). The noodles was soaked in vegeta-steeped water and it managed to add some taste to them. But I think I'll go easy on the vegeta next time!
All the while I'm doing this, my Mum is watching Monster Ark. That's a serious title. I have to wonder if Renee O'Connor has the ability to play a role that doesn't make me want to stab her in the face. Don't get me wrong, I loved Gabrielle, but she could be SUCH a sanctimonious, self-rightous little twat, and I wanted to slap her SO MANY TIMES!
Get every self-serving so-called 'spiritual' moment that Gabrielle ever had and concentrate it into a two-hour movie, and you have this character, 'Eva' in this movie. GOD. She's such a stupid bitch. I swear this script was written by a full-on creationist cause the 'atheist professor' stock character is there, (married to the virtuous and faithful Eva).
Now, this movie harps on and on about 'faith'. I use the quote marks because it's that brand of faith that a special brand of Christian has... it's the type that forwards saccharine "Mathematicians helping out astronauts discovered that one day is missing in history!!!" sort of mails, it's the kind that want to prove to skeptics and atheists that they're right and the skeptics are wrong.
I have a very very hard time being comfortable with that sort of behaviour for the following reasons:
- Faith is exactly that... believing without proof or evidence. Faith is believing in something more than proving yourself right to other people.
- I have a very deep belief not to intefere with the spiritual progress of fellow human beings. Everyone is at a certain spot in their spiritual evolution, whether they're believers of a particular idea or faith or not. I believe that people need to come to spiritual awakenings in their own time - you can't force it on them. They need to figure it out on their own, they need to be open to it. You can't force a religion on *anybody*. I think when people try to prove things, they're doing their faith a HUGE disservice.
This movie is basically an embodiment of that "Prove I'm Right" way of thinking. It's a Chick Tract made into film. And Renee O'Connor's acting is attrocious. She had some really good moments in Xena because I think she was stretched and challenged to the point in some episodes where she kind of forgot to overthink things. That woman needs to be rushed through a script because it's too premeditated otherwise. I liked a lot of her comedy episodes with Ted because her acting was really off-the-cuff and vital and real (In season five, anyway). But ugh, this movie is shite.
I hadn't planned to rant this long about it but you know, it's a really bad, irritating, fundie-flavoured movie.
What I ended up doing was frying up egg and noodles in ketjap manis (Indonesian for THE BEST SOY SAUCE EVER). The noodles was soaked in vegeta-steeped water and it managed to add some taste to them. But I think I'll go easy on the vegeta next time!
All the while I'm doing this, my Mum is watching Monster Ark. That's a serious title. I have to wonder if Renee O'Connor has the ability to play a role that doesn't make me want to stab her in the face. Don't get me wrong, I loved Gabrielle, but she could be SUCH a sanctimonious, self-rightous little twat, and I wanted to slap her SO MANY TIMES!
Get every self-serving so-called 'spiritual' moment that Gabrielle ever had and concentrate it into a two-hour movie, and you have this character, 'Eva' in this movie. GOD. She's such a stupid bitch. I swear this script was written by a full-on creationist cause the 'atheist professor' stock character is there, (married to the virtuous and faithful Eva).
Now, this movie harps on and on about 'faith'. I use the quote marks because it's that brand of faith that a special brand of Christian has... it's the type that forwards saccharine "Mathematicians helping out astronauts discovered that one day is missing in history!!!" sort of mails, it's the kind that want to prove to skeptics and atheists that they're right and the skeptics are wrong.
I have a very very hard time being comfortable with that sort of behaviour for the following reasons:
- Faith is exactly that... believing without proof or evidence. Faith is believing in something more than proving yourself right to other people.
- I have a very deep belief not to intefere with the spiritual progress of fellow human beings. Everyone is at a certain spot in their spiritual evolution, whether they're believers of a particular idea or faith or not. I believe that people need to come to spiritual awakenings in their own time - you can't force it on them. They need to figure it out on their own, they need to be open to it. You can't force a religion on *anybody*. I think when people try to prove things, they're doing their faith a HUGE disservice.
This movie is basically an embodiment of that "Prove I'm Right" way of thinking. It's a Chick Tract made into film. And Renee O'Connor's acting is attrocious. She had some really good moments in Xena because I think she was stretched and challenged to the point in some episodes where she kind of forgot to overthink things. That woman needs to be rushed through a script because it's too premeditated otherwise. I liked a lot of her comedy episodes with Ted because her acting was really off-the-cuff and vital and real (In season five, anyway). But ugh, this movie is shite.
I hadn't planned to rant this long about it but you know, it's a really bad, irritating, fundie-flavoured movie.
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Date: 2008-09-17 10:49 am (UTC)ooh... I bet I can do you some great recipes, if you've ever got some random ingredients and don't know how to throw them together into something delicious, just prod me XD
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Date: 2008-09-17 12:19 pm (UTC)In all seriousness, though, you've written about my biggest issue with ROC's acting outside of Xena - and even what I found was a problem in her dramatic episodes. SHE OVERTHINKS EVERYTHING - AND IT SHOWS! It cripples her as an actor, IMHO, and even though she's managed to get a mainstream role or two, she will be held back until she learns how to relax and just let it flow, rather than perform psychological analysis of where her character is going to sit down and why the character would do it.
Right. Moving on... Because now I'm ranting, LOL! See, this is what happens when we don't chat, LOLOL!
I don't like it when movies try too hard to 'preach' to you, and although I haven't seen "Monster Ark" yet, I probably wouldn't like it too much. I've read similar reactions to yours with the "fundie" feeling, however. When I see movies like that, I just cringe, because like you said, movies like this do people who have faith a huge disservice.
*edited for spelling boo-boos! Me and my fast typing, LOL!*
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Date: 2008-09-17 12:35 pm (UTC)PEANUT BASED SATAY SAUCE (as opposed to a tomato based satay sauce, which is more Chinese):
peanut oil, peanuts (roasted or fried), two cloves of garlic, five or six chillies, kaffir lime leaves, palm sugar, tamarind juice. grind and pound.
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Date: 2008-09-17 12:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-09-17 03:47 pm (UTC)*hugs* We need to chat! I have my chat running.
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Date: 2008-09-17 03:48 pm (UTC)Thanks for the tips, darl. I got the recipe I used off a stupid Australian site. Not again! (My Mum has a kaffir lime tree if you ever want fresh leaves!)
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Date: 2008-09-17 03:49 pm (UTC)