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Perhaps You Wonder What Is Up With Me
Aug. 19th, 2014 10:20 am...and if so, the low-down goes like this:
Steve came home on Friday, and the weekend went okay. By Sunday he felt like he was getting a cold, and by Monday boy howdy, he had one. Monday night was pretty craptastic. I slept on the couch, watching Only Lovers Left Alive on BluRay in slow increments and enjoying the hell out of it, though I fell asleep before the end. Will catch up with it tonight, maybe, and I expect to watch it many times in future.
The other thing that happened, surprisingly enough, is that I started roughing out a sequel to "This Old Death," set probably five years in the future, with lots of flashbacks to how we got from there to here. Same basic structure, in that Chapter One will flash-forward to a highly loaded confrontation between the Governor, Rick and Negan, the current big bad of the comics-'verse. This means research, because I've avoided getting up to speed on the comics thus far, given I noped out of that narrative somewhere around the time that I read "Made to Suffer" standing up in the store, and realized: holy SHIT, Robert Kirkman has a serious rape and torture problem. Left to his own devices, his impulse is always to go to the grossest genital trauma in the world, though I think I've noted before that part of what I like about the transition from comic to TV show is that I feel like once he actually meets the actors he's been contemplating putting through this crap, he tends to back down: "Naw, man, I don't want to see Danai get raped for three days, any more than I want to make David have to act that out! They're nice people!"
That said, the comics did at least give us one awesome gay character thus far (Paul "Jesus" Monroe, who may be the person Daryl gets with in Season Five), and Negan can be genuinely funny, in and between the baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire beatings. He's absolutely a person who would cause even Philip to go: "Hoss, you got issues," though, which is exciting in itself.
Okay, I need to get some stuff done around here, then go run an errand or two before finally getting my hair cut. There's a new interview with me here (http://stephengeigenmiller.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/breaking-in-interview-with-gemma-files/), if you're interested. And please check out Sonya Taaffe's brilliant "In Winter," up now at Lackington's (http://lackingtons.com/2014/08/18/in-winter-by-sonya-taaffe/), which transposes "The Snow Queen"'s Robber Girl to World War 2. Now, that's how you do transformative!
Steve came home on Friday, and the weekend went okay. By Sunday he felt like he was getting a cold, and by Monday boy howdy, he had one. Monday night was pretty craptastic. I slept on the couch, watching Only Lovers Left Alive on BluRay in slow increments and enjoying the hell out of it, though I fell asleep before the end. Will catch up with it tonight, maybe, and I expect to watch it many times in future.
The other thing that happened, surprisingly enough, is that I started roughing out a sequel to "This Old Death," set probably five years in the future, with lots of flashbacks to how we got from there to here. Same basic structure, in that Chapter One will flash-forward to a highly loaded confrontation between the Governor, Rick and Negan, the current big bad of the comics-'verse. This means research, because I've avoided getting up to speed on the comics thus far, given I noped out of that narrative somewhere around the time that I read "Made to Suffer" standing up in the store, and realized: holy SHIT, Robert Kirkman has a serious rape and torture problem. Left to his own devices, his impulse is always to go to the grossest genital trauma in the world, though I think I've noted before that part of what I like about the transition from comic to TV show is that I feel like once he actually meets the actors he's been contemplating putting through this crap, he tends to back down: "Naw, man, I don't want to see Danai get raped for three days, any more than I want to make David have to act that out! They're nice people!"
That said, the comics did at least give us one awesome gay character thus far (Paul "Jesus" Monroe, who may be the person Daryl gets with in Season Five), and Negan can be genuinely funny, in and between the baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire beatings. He's absolutely a person who would cause even Philip to go: "Hoss, you got issues," though, which is exciting in itself.
Okay, I need to get some stuff done around here, then go run an errand or two before finally getting my hair cut. There's a new interview with me here (http://stephengeigenmiller.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/breaking-in-interview-with-gemma-files/), if you're interested. And please check out Sonya Taaffe's brilliant "In Winter," up now at Lackington's (http://lackingtons.com/2014/08/18/in-winter-by-sonya-taaffe/), which transposes "The Snow Queen"'s Robber Girl to World War 2. Now, that's how you do transformative!
