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"You Tear Men Down Like Roger Moore."
May. 7th, 2007 12:31 amAnd the boring just goes on!
Got my GST refund cheque by Friday, so I bought a couple of Olay products designed to make you feel like you’d had a facial (so I wouldn’t be tempted to, say, have a facial). I also ended up putting a fair amount of money down on new lenses, new frames and new clip-on sunglasses; that’ll come out of the actual tax refund, hopefully. Bought Amy Winehouse and the "new" Evanescence, loaded a bunch of stuff on the iPod. Realized I’d been working out six days a week for almost a month. Decided not to eat Japanese snacks anymore, because I think they may be making me bloat. Did a lot of laundry.
Tonight,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
agincourtgirl came over for dinner and ended up showing me scans of the original Classics Illustrated version of Wuthering Heights, which manages to make it both borderline incoherent and utterly boring, plus the trailer for Balls of Fury (genius!). Cal has yet another cold, which makes him snotty as hell and twice as crazy as usual; Mom had him last night, so we could go see Spiderman 3. Long story short: Yes, it sucks. (But it’s almost worth it just for the demented moment when Mr Exposition, the Osborn family’s hitherto-invisible butler, suddenly blurts out to Harry: "I’ve seen things in this house I’ve never spoken of before…I cleaned your father’s wound." Oh, and the emo-hair Travolta dance number sequence, in which Peter proves that even when he’s little-e "evil", he’s still pretty much of a complete dork.)
The TBD list for this week:
Fit up another Short Screenplay course, using old Writing for Drama sylabus; send to John. (ASAP)
Rewrite "The Room in the Tower", send to David & David. (ASAP)
First draft script "At the Poor Girl…" (May)
Send invoice to Cerebral Vortex for last 250 questions. (ASAP)
50 more trivia questions for Cerebral Vortex per week. (ASAP—800 by August—invoice after 250)
Rewrite of "The Speed of Pain". (ASAP)
"Marya Nox" for ChiZine/Leisure Short Story Contest. (June)
"Words Written Backwards" for Burning Effigy. (June)
Lilim scriptment/novel outline; Lilim query letter; fix up Lilim Chapter One. Send out whole package. (ASAP)
Fix up "Loop" (ASAP)
Send out "The Jacaranda Smile" (ASAP)
Finish "Strange Weight" (ASAP)
I’m about six pages into "The Room in the Tower", so that’s something. And like I said, at least the sudden school deadlines may be a sign of bigger and better things to come—at least, I certainly hope so, because having to put together and resend copies of everything I tend to use to teach with in class is really busting my figurative balls.
Otherwise, I’m still in the Death Note crack-zone, which was exacerbated somewhat on Thursday, when I noticed how much Jared Padalecki looks like a Western version of Light Yagami—doesn’t help that Light and Sam have so many basic crossover points in their favor, either ("So, going by these stats, we’re probably looking for somebody who’s committed, single-minded, antisocial, has great research skills, a disproportionate sense of justice and, like, public service…" "Yeah, I get it: Killer nerd. In other words, we’re lookin’ for you." "Except not. And Japanese. And—what the hell do you have to say stuff like that for, Dean? Exactly?" "Man, I don’t know. ‘Cause it freaks you out?" "…just get back on the ‘Net, okay?")
Which, in turn, made me think: Just how hard would it be to transplant Death Note to North America, anyway? Obviously, the shinigami tradition would have to be replaced with that of the Grim Reaper, and you’d have to deal with the fact that hubris, megalomania or vigilantism aren’t frowned upon in quite the same knee-jerk, "you’re challenging the established order of the universe!" way. And then there’s L, a character so Japanese it hurts—you could make his avatar like Darryl Zero, maybe, but it’d never be quite the same. Still, there’s a lot to like—and I’m getting a big kick out of "casting" Avril Lavigne as "Mia", the N.A. version of Misa Amane. It sure makes her "Girlfriend" video easier to watch, at any rate.
Okay, I need to go to sleep. Reading Week Number One ahoy.
Got my GST refund cheque by Friday, so I bought a couple of Olay products designed to make you feel like you’d had a facial (so I wouldn’t be tempted to, say, have a facial). I also ended up putting a fair amount of money down on new lenses, new frames and new clip-on sunglasses; that’ll come out of the actual tax refund, hopefully. Bought Amy Winehouse and the "new" Evanescence, loaded a bunch of stuff on the iPod. Realized I’d been working out six days a week for almost a month. Decided not to eat Japanese snacks anymore, because I think they may be making me bloat. Did a lot of laundry.
Tonight,
agincourtgirl came over for dinner and ended up showing me scans of the original Classics Illustrated version of Wuthering Heights, which manages to make it both borderline incoherent and utterly boring, plus the trailer for Balls of Fury (genius!). Cal has yet another cold, which makes him snotty as hell and twice as crazy as usual; Mom had him last night, so we could go see Spiderman 3. Long story short: Yes, it sucks. (But it’s almost worth it just for the demented moment when Mr Exposition, the Osborn family’s hitherto-invisible butler, suddenly blurts out to Harry: "I’ve seen things in this house I’ve never spoken of before…I cleaned your father’s wound." Oh, and the emo-hair Travolta dance number sequence, in which Peter proves that even when he’s little-e "evil", he’s still pretty much of a complete dork.)The TBD list for this week:
Fit up another Short Screenplay course, using old Writing for Drama sylabus; send to John. (ASAP)
Rewrite "The Room in the Tower", send to David & David. (ASAP)
First draft script "At the Poor Girl…" (May)
Send invoice to Cerebral Vortex for last 250 questions. (ASAP)
50 more trivia questions for Cerebral Vortex per week. (ASAP—800 by August—invoice after 250)
Rewrite of "The Speed of Pain". (ASAP)
"Marya Nox" for ChiZine/Leisure Short Story Contest. (June)
"Words Written Backwards" for Burning Effigy. (June)
Lilim scriptment/novel outline; Lilim query letter; fix up Lilim Chapter One. Send out whole package. (ASAP)
Fix up "Loop" (ASAP)
Send out "The Jacaranda Smile" (ASAP)
Finish "Strange Weight" (ASAP)
I’m about six pages into "The Room in the Tower", so that’s something. And like I said, at least the sudden school deadlines may be a sign of bigger and better things to come—at least, I certainly hope so, because having to put together and resend copies of everything I tend to use to teach with in class is really busting my figurative balls.
Otherwise, I’m still in the Death Note crack-zone, which was exacerbated somewhat on Thursday, when I noticed how much Jared Padalecki looks like a Western version of Light Yagami—doesn’t help that Light and Sam have so many basic crossover points in their favor, either ("So, going by these stats, we’re probably looking for somebody who’s committed, single-minded, antisocial, has great research skills, a disproportionate sense of justice and, like, public service…" "Yeah, I get it: Killer nerd. In other words, we’re lookin’ for you." "Except not. And Japanese. And—what the hell do you have to say stuff like that for, Dean? Exactly?" "Man, I don’t know. ‘Cause it freaks you out?" "…just get back on the ‘Net, okay?")
Which, in turn, made me think: Just how hard would it be to transplant Death Note to North America, anyway? Obviously, the shinigami tradition would have to be replaced with that of the Grim Reaper, and you’d have to deal with the fact that hubris, megalomania or vigilantism aren’t frowned upon in quite the same knee-jerk, "you’re challenging the established order of the universe!" way. And then there’s L, a character so Japanese it hurts—you could make his avatar like Darryl Zero, maybe, but it’d never be quite the same. Still, there’s a lot to like—and I’m getting a big kick out of "casting" Avril Lavigne as "Mia", the N.A. version of Misa Amane. It sure makes her "Girlfriend" video easier to watch, at any rate.
Okay, I need to go to sleep. Reading Week Number One ahoy.
