Misc. Thoughts- The sick edition
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thehefner1.) For the past five days it's been feeling like my muscles have been steadily stiffening, each day getting worse and worse, until by last night I started to break out in bad chills and I realized- crap, tomorrow I'm gonna feel like shiiiiiiiiiit. And lo, here I am! Cold and sweating, congested, sore and stiff all throughout my body, and my head feels like it's been used as a nuclear testing site.
2.) George Romero has FINALLY got backing for his fourth film in the "Night of the Living Dead" series, and it's about goddamn time. Fans of the "Dawn of the Dead" remake, check this out to see zombies done right. Entitled "Land of the Dead" (too bad they didn't go with the original title, Dusk of the Dead), zombies have completely taken over the world and the last humans live in small fortresses, Road-Warrior-style. Awww yeah.
3.)" Green Lantern Ring Boxed Set. Set phasers on drool.
4.) Someone sent this in to CHUD.com.
As CHUD's Nick Nunziata said, "If that's real, Avery just became my favorite label company ever.
5.) I need a new computer monitor. My mother is giving me her old computer, but not the old monitor, and the only other monitor in the house is ten years old and the screen is purple, so I must needs get a new one. Though, by fall semester I'm just going to probably have to get another laptop, and although I'm not the hugest fan of macs, the pressure to get an iBook is increasing. So we'll see.
6.) From the Onion: "Why No One Want to Make Hulk 2?" by The Hulk. And not only is it damn funny, but you can tell it's sincere! I agree, the Hulk may have been flawed, but damn it, for better or for worse you aren't likely to see a film like that coming out of a big budget studio. I wish more films, especially the superhero films, would take chances like this for their first movies. A fundamental flaw of doing these movies is that, when you get right down to it, the origin story of a superhero is all kind of the same. As proven by the success of X2 and Spider-Man 2, it's the stories AFTER the origins that matter. Thus, I'd think a Hulk 2, Punisher 2, or Daredevil 2 might actually work. And I don't care what everybody says, damn it, I LOVED the Daredevil movie. So suck it.
7.) Twin Peaks rules. God, I miss it so.
8.) Seeing Cyrano again tonight, this time with my mother. I am determined to convert her. She only saw the Gerard whats-his-name version and didn't like it for the same reasons that, I found out recently, she doesn't like The Idiot (even my adaptation!): she cannot find any of the characters sympathetic. I can already feel![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tazira and tomperdue wince. She has no sympathy for, as I think she percieves it, stupid people who stay in their stupid sitations with no one to blame but themselves when things go bad. She sees Roxanne as a superficial bitch. She sees Cyrano as an unsympathetic fool. I am determined to convert her.
But that she finds Myshkin, the Idiot, unsympathetic... it blows my mind. She doesn't see the kind, selfless, idealist who sees the good in people, even someone like Nastassya. She sees a naive fool who falls for an evil woman who always was a cold-hearted bitch, no matter what he thinks. She doesn't believe, as Myshkin does, that there is a sad soul in there, begging for redemption and salvation, even as she rejects it. Of course, it didn't take her too long to liken Myshkin to myself. And that's really the point of why I wrote the script, isn't it?
9.) Being friends with a writer is good. Being friends with a best-selling author is cool. Being friends with a best-selling author who's now writing one of the single greatest explorations of DC Comics Superheroes... ok, now I'm majorly jealous. It was bad enough when he was asked to take over writing a comic from KEVIN *FUCKING* SMITH, but now, oh yeah, I'm jealous. I really, really, really wanna write superhero comics, even if they're not my original creations.disc_sophist once told me that fanfiction gets read more than the published work, but 1.) I dunno if the audience for superhero fanfic is as huge or popular as, say, HP slash fic (why do I have this sickening feeling that more people read HP slash than actual comics?), and 2.) fanfic just doesn't seem as real, y'know? Sigh. Must become famous as a novelist so I can write these characters.
2.) George Romero has FINALLY got backing for his fourth film in the "Night of the Living Dead" series, and it's about goddamn time. Fans of the "Dawn of the Dead" remake, check this out to see zombies done right. Entitled "Land of the Dead" (too bad they didn't go with the original title, Dusk of the Dead), zombies have completely taken over the world and the last humans live in small fortresses, Road-Warrior-style. Awww yeah.
3.)" Green Lantern Ring Boxed Set. Set phasers on drool.
4.) Someone sent this in to CHUD.com.
As CHUD's Nick Nunziata said, "If that's real, Avery just became my favorite label company ever.
5.) I need a new computer monitor. My mother is giving me her old computer, but not the old monitor, and the only other monitor in the house is ten years old and the screen is purple, so I must needs get a new one. Though, by fall semester I'm just going to probably have to get another laptop, and although I'm not the hugest fan of macs, the pressure to get an iBook is increasing. So we'll see.
6.) From the Onion: "Why No One Want to Make Hulk 2?" by The Hulk. And not only is it damn funny, but you can tell it's sincere! I agree, the Hulk may have been flawed, but damn it, for better or for worse you aren't likely to see a film like that coming out of a big budget studio. I wish more films, especially the superhero films, would take chances like this for their first movies. A fundamental flaw of doing these movies is that, when you get right down to it, the origin story of a superhero is all kind of the same. As proven by the success of X2 and Spider-Man 2, it's the stories AFTER the origins that matter. Thus, I'd think a Hulk 2, Punisher 2, or Daredevil 2 might actually work. And I don't care what everybody says, damn it, I LOVED the Daredevil movie. So suck it.
7.) Twin Peaks rules. God, I miss it so.
8.) Seeing Cyrano again tonight, this time with my mother. I am determined to convert her. She only saw the Gerard whats-his-name version and didn't like it for the same reasons that, I found out recently, she doesn't like The Idiot (even my adaptation!): she cannot find any of the characters sympathetic. I can already feel
tazira and tomperdue wince. She has no sympathy for, as I think she percieves it, stupid people who stay in their stupid sitations with no one to blame but themselves when things go bad. She sees Roxanne as a superficial bitch. She sees Cyrano as an unsympathetic fool. I am determined to convert her.But that she finds Myshkin, the Idiot, unsympathetic... it blows my mind. She doesn't see the kind, selfless, idealist who sees the good in people, even someone like Nastassya. She sees a naive fool who falls for an evil woman who always was a cold-hearted bitch, no matter what he thinks. She doesn't believe, as Myshkin does, that there is a sad soul in there, begging for redemption and salvation, even as she rejects it. Of course, it didn't take her too long to liken Myshkin to myself. And that's really the point of why I wrote the script, isn't it?
9.) Being friends with a writer is good. Being friends with a best-selling author is cool. Being friends with a best-selling author who's now writing one of the single greatest explorations of DC Comics Superheroes... ok, now I'm majorly jealous. It was bad enough when he was asked to take over writing a comic from KEVIN *FUCKING* SMITH, but now, oh yeah, I'm jealous. I really, really, really wanna write superhero comics, even if they're not my original creations.
disc_sophist once told me that fanfiction gets read more than the published work, but 1.) I dunno if the audience for superhero fanfic is as huge or popular as, say, HP slash fic (why do I have this sickening feeling that more people read HP slash than actual comics?), and 2.) fanfic just doesn't seem as real, y'know? Sigh. Must become famous as a novelist so I can write these characters.
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Date: 2004-07-15 12:10 pm (UTC)Re: 5
Date: 2004-07-15 12:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-15 02:50 pm (UTC)On the other hand, Brochette's Roxanne seems to be what I've been looking for: sweet and smart. I haven't seen Act III yet, so I can't be sure. Act III is the hard part for Roxanne, because the text makes her kind of a bitch: "You don't bring me flowers [read me poetry] anymore!" She takes and takes but she doesn't give; her beauty is supposed to be her gift.
The Shakespeare Theater's Roxanne didn't quite go where I wanted her to go, but she was better than the usual round of whiny blonde bitch.
I, too, have very little sympathy for "stupid people who stay in their stupid sitations with no one to blame but themselves when things go bad". Romeo and Juliet pissed me off for years, until tazira helped me find ways to appreciate them for making the same sorts of mistakes I would have made if I ever got laid in high school. Even so, it was still hard for me to find a sympathetic portrayal of Romeo.
The Depardieu Cyrano has a lot of really ugly men in it. The French seem to get off on really ugly men in sympathetic positions. It never works for me. Cyrano keeps talking about how ugly he is, but all he's got is a big nose. Rageuneau, Le Bret, Ligniere: now THOSE are some ugly men.
I thought Kahn's Cyrano was funny and then sad, which is what I want out of a Cyrano. I hope your mother can forgive some of the weaker elements, because some of them are done as well as I ever hope to see them, particularly the lead.
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Date: 2004-07-15 07:03 pm (UTC)Nope. "Dead Reckoning" had been the tentative title for ages before the project was axed... 'Dusk' would make sense, based on the other titles, but "dusk" also represents the end of an era, when really quite the opposite would be going on in the movie.