To be blogged about Past two days have been a bit nuts. But tomorrow, we should see blog entries on the following:
- Henry Jenkins
- One of the many exciting short film projects I'm working on
- Molly Ivins
One of these things makes me happy, one of these things makes me tired, and one of these things makes me grieve. It shouldn't be hard to figure out which is which.
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{ Tuesday, January 30, 2007 }This gave me a nice little chuckleLabels: great britain
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{ Monday, January 29, 2007 }RSS/Livejournal Feeds Hey, if you want to syndicate my ass, it's now super-easy! RSS Feed is here. And if you're on Livejournal, you can subscribe to the feed here.Labels: technical support
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I don't want to be the only one who feels like a pervert Which is why I'm posting this link to Daniel Radcliffe promo pics for Equus. posted by Liz # 4:40 PM 0 Comments
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The softer, screechier side of Hillary When I was seventeen, I proclaimed loudly that if a woman ever ran for President, she would automatically have my vote; but that was before I started tracking Hillary Clinton's cunning scramble for power. She officially lost me with her co-sponsorship of theanti-free-speechanti-flag-burning amendment, but her other actions as senator have convinced me that she is nothing resembling a candidate I actually want to vote for, let alone a likeable human being.
And now that her campaign's officially begun, we're starting to see all the little touches indicating what direction she's going to take. "Let the Conversation Begin" is so nauseautingly passive and nonconfrontational, calculated to offend no one. And the feminist in me can't help but cringe at her rebranding herself as "Hillary" (because she's a woman, not a man, and let's treat her differently! Just like in poker!).
Fortunately, she still seems to shellack her hair into a bulletproof helmet (seriously, when she was elected senator, I saw confetti bounce off it), so it's not too much change, all at once. And the human touches slip through, now and again. Check it:
As Belize says in Angels in America: "The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me." Sing it, sister.Labels: not quite like the west wing, sisters doing it for themselves
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{ Friday, January 26, 2007 }Nifty blog du jour This girl is IN ANTARTICA. Doing CARTWHEELS. Some things are just plain cool. No pun intended.Labels: other people are nifty
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Fun fact about some folk music I'm totally able to listen to it on earphones while having a conversation with officemates.
Along those lines, allow me to recommend Terra Naomi to you, while I struggle to carve a six page interview transcript into a 300 word piece. Sweet folk-guitar stuff. We ranked her somewhere between Joan Osborne and Sarah McLachlan on the sliding scale of girl-emo, and that's never a bad place to be.Labels: sweet soul music
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{ Thursday, January 25, 2007 }My Name Is Meta For when you think TV show creators aren't quite done pandering to the online audience... posted by Liz # 10:06 PM 0 Comments
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Fear not, West Hollywood... ...For everyone's favorite gay porn theater, the Tomkat, lives again!
I've been jogging past the Tomkat for the past several months, more frequently since plotting a nice two-mile route that runs right down Santa Monica Blvd. But it'd been a sad shut-down shell since at least November, I think, and I can't remember the last time I saw a delightful title posted on the marquee. And a few weeks before Christmas, most tragically, the Tomkat sign itself disappeared. Alas. It seemed all was lost...
...Until a few weeks ago, when I noticed a ball-capped gentlemen sneaking in through one of the tinted doors, looking decidedly uncomfortable. Could it be? Had the Tomkat found new life? Turns out the answer was a proud proud YES, as announced by the subsequent new signage. Gay porn is here to stay! Oh, sweet delight!
Now it is known as the Pussycat Studs theater. This is not as good a name as the Tomkat. But the new signs are enough to make up for it.
"You are welcome to enter and experience the dark caverns of our historic and erotic motion picture theater." The Tomkat was never so friendly.
Was it also so expensive? I have no idea. It's not like I've ever BEEN. I'm strictly a voyeur of voyeurs.
It's not much of a life, I admit.Labels: city of angels
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{ Wednesday, January 24, 2007 }"War is a sin..." "...but sometimes a necessary one." So says one of the Virgin Queen's advisors in Elizabeth, at any rate, which I am half-watching now for the EIGHTH time in the past few years. (I have a hard time getting through this movie, even though I do like it in concept.)
After watching a bunch of State of the Union YouTube clips this afternoon in preparation for this piece, it was a line that stuck in my head. Is that actual Biblical sin we're talking about? A real philosophical truth? Or just a throw-away line in a 90s costume drama? You decide.Labels: not quite like the west wing
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{ Tuesday, January 23, 2007 }LiFE ON MARS, Claymation and otherwise Life On Mars, everyone's favorite British time-travel cop show, is due to start its second and final season next month, and here's a lovely article about it, complete with a preview of a Claymation tie-in piece that I have no idea how to explain. Claymation Sam Tyler is adorable, for the record. As is Claymation DCI Hunt, but only when he's punching people.
Through various means, I recently got to read the pilot script for the American adaptation, which is a nearly word-for-word transfer of character and story, but without much of its charm. I'm also not a big fan of making the female lead, previously on the level of a meter maid, a full-on detective -- most of what I enjoy about Life on Mars is how rough and honest it was about the 1970s, in all its un-PC glory, and Det. Annie Cartwright is just the first of several red flags indicating that the US might not be able to go as far as the UK did.
Wow, the American version of a series not living up to the British? Sorry. I'll try and be less predictable in the future.Labels: tv:life on mars
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Wot's All This, Then? So I'm sure the question of why I need a new blog/site has come up, maybe somewhere in the back of your mind. So, just so we're all clear, here are some of the things I'll be doing here:
- Having a nice, vaguely-professional mindspace. Part of getting older is taking yourself seriously, after all, and I like blogging enough to give it a serious go.
- Tracking projects. I'm currently trying to start and/or finish a few shorts, and there are other longer things in the works. Logging certain details about the process interests me, and maybe it'll interest you. I'll leave out things like waiting on hold with the Bureau of State Parks to get redirected to the office that just transferred me there just to ask one lousy question about getting a film permit. Because absolutely no one is interested in that.
- More reviews and media analysis, because I need to start forming opinions again beyond "cool, baby, cool."
- More politics, but nothing preachy.
- More linking to other people.
- And if there is any interest, I might potentially do a semi-weekly feature, in which you pick a random movie, and I attempt to break down and critique its three act structure. This will probably only interest the most emotionally stunted of screenplay nerds. I expect it to go like hotcakes.
So that's what I want to do. Is there anything YOU want me to do? Here's the time to say so. You can use these snazzy new Blogger comments, with (thank the lord) spam protection.
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Welcome to a shiny new year, shiny new life. Shiny new site.
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{ Monday, January 22, 2007 }This first incredibly trivial post... ...brought to you by Rod Stewart's "Maggie May", which has the most delightfully random mandolin opener. What the hell, Faces? Why you gotta Medieval Times it so hard?
This is me pretending that this blog is totally operational. Six hours until new Heroes airs!Labels: sweet soul music
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{ Monday, January 1, 2007 }Some random facts about people I've never met. (Famous and otherwise.) This post originally appeared at greenfireburning.
- He can run a half-marathon in an hour and forty minutes.
- She was the first female member of the royal family to serve in the armed forces, serving as a mechanic during the war.
- He's an actor, but you can sit with him at a bar and never once talk about show business.
- He threatened to kill Julie Schwartz if Schwartz let anyone write that story but him.
- When the girl he liked agreed to go to that New Year's party with that other man, he made sure that everyone at the party was holding a cup of hot coffee when the clock struck midnight, so no one, including her, got a kiss.
- Her twin lives the polar opposite of her life, but might just know her better than anyone else.
- His portrayal of Romeo is considered the most romantic of any put up by the RSC.
- Spend five minutes with her, and she'll tell you everything there is to know about the current state of her love life, which is how you know she's not dating that football player anymore.
- He lives on a plot of rural Virginian land, in a house he built himself, is getting remarried at the age of 60, and enjoys yoga and motorbikes. (Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a favorite.)
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There is too much. Let me sum up. This post originally appeared at greenfireburning.
So 2006 was good. I persist in my opinion that every year, my life gets increasingly better -- maybe not quantifiably, but I go new places, meet new people, try new things. New replaces old, goals crumble with achievement or neglect, but no matter what they're replaced by new dreams and ideas. It was yet another year, 365 different chances to make an idiot of myself and, along the way, stumble backwards into some semblance of happiness. I took more chances this year than the last, and the same the year before. Maybe that's the way in which life improves.
New Year's is my favorite holiday. It's shiny and sweet and full of a whole year's promise of good and bad. It's also the only holiday that is traditionally celebrated with slutty clothes and booze. My tube top this year is red. May it be a sign of things to come.
Be safe, y'alls, and have a delightful night. A delightful new year. We all fall down.Labels: in which our heroine
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