Tuesday Night
Nov. 29th, 2006 05:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
handful_ofdustThird Tuesday in a row on which nothing hit Rogers that I found msyelf even vaguely interesting in renting. Again, this is probably good, on some level. When I have to make my own fun, I tend to get far more creative.
So. Otherwise:
A) Casino Royale is great. In terms of establishing how a partial bastard became a complete bastard (and settled into feeling like it was cool to be so), it's truly the shit: TOTAL BASTARD THEATRE! Unfortunately, I don't see how any sequels can possibly compare, because you've already so efficiently put proto-Bond through his rough-edges-filing-off paces...I mean, who really gives a damn about BondTM? It's not like he has anything left to lose. Nevertheless, I definitely want to own this one, if only for the moment in which M deftly defuses the gall of Bond's original final line from the book by delicately pointing out all the very valid reasons he doesn't even get to retroactively hate/dismiss the person who's just broken his heart. Ah, Dame Judy!
B) And in other news...well, I did it. My query letter about a BFI Modern Classics series book on Gangs of New York has been sent. Now I just have to finalize that friggin' Canadian Film History book outline, and send it off.
C) As per Lilim, meanwhile, I talked about it to a fellow TFS teacher (always dangerous--especially so since also he's a former student [from Trebas]), and he's interested. Says he already knows a producer and a star, someone who I both know of and could see in the relevant part, who might want to get attached. So that makes the personal deadline for a full treatment all the more impending, which is why I'm going to hammer hard over Wednesday aand Thursday. I also already came up with one Lifetime TVM pitch, so go me.
D) Cal went to Daycare for the first time on Monday. I took him there, Mom came to meet us and spent the rest of the day watching over him, then took him back to Steve. She's not too impressed, but says she's "reserving judgement". I think he's going to have to go to Daycare somewhere, and would have the same problems no matter where that way: He's younger, still in diapers, barely talks, doesn't interact well with strangers. But none of that's gonna improve if he just stays at home with me and Steve all day, and it was bloody hard enough getting him in, so I think we're going to be sticking with the program until otherwise indicated by real problems, as opposed to benign neglect and scatterbrainedness on the part of caregivers. This may make me Bad Mommy, or maybe just Mean Mommy, but there ya go: Take a look at what I write. Did you really expect anything different?;)
And...scene.
So. Otherwise:
A) Casino Royale is great. In terms of establishing how a partial bastard became a complete bastard (and settled into feeling like it was cool to be so), it's truly the shit: TOTAL BASTARD THEATRE! Unfortunately, I don't see how any sequels can possibly compare, because you've already so efficiently put proto-Bond through his rough-edges-filing-off paces...I mean, who really gives a damn about BondTM? It's not like he has anything left to lose. Nevertheless, I definitely want to own this one, if only for the moment in which M deftly defuses the gall of Bond's original final line from the book by delicately pointing out all the very valid reasons he doesn't even get to retroactively hate/dismiss the person who's just broken his heart. Ah, Dame Judy!
B) And in other news...well, I did it. My query letter about a BFI Modern Classics series book on Gangs of New York has been sent. Now I just have to finalize that friggin' Canadian Film History book outline, and send it off.
C) As per Lilim, meanwhile, I talked about it to a fellow TFS teacher (always dangerous--especially so since also he's a former student [from Trebas]), and he's interested. Says he already knows a producer and a star, someone who I both know of and could see in the relevant part, who might want to get attached. So that makes the personal deadline for a full treatment all the more impending, which is why I'm going to hammer hard over Wednesday aand Thursday. I also already came up with one Lifetime TVM pitch, so go me.
D) Cal went to Daycare for the first time on Monday. I took him there, Mom came to meet us and spent the rest of the day watching over him, then took him back to Steve. She's not too impressed, but says she's "reserving judgement". I think he's going to have to go to Daycare somewhere, and would have the same problems no matter where that way: He's younger, still in diapers, barely talks, doesn't interact well with strangers. But none of that's gonna improve if he just stays at home with me and Steve all day, and it was bloody hard enough getting him in, so I think we're going to be sticking with the program until otherwise indicated by real problems, as opposed to benign neglect and scatterbrainedness on the part of caregivers. This may make me Bad Mommy, or maybe just Mean Mommy, but there ya go: Take a look at what I write. Did you really expect anything different?;)
And...scene.
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Date: 2006-11-29 03:34 pm (UTC)Also Judy Dench is fantastic.
(Still haven't figured out what she was even doing in Chronicles of Riddick, though.)
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Date: 2006-11-29 03:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-29 05:10 pm (UTC)no subject
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