Much excitement in Cleoland
Sep. 17th, 2006 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaSo I get this email last night:
Dear Cleolinda,Exciting! I haven't watched any of them yet, and it might be challenging to do anything with something that short (movies in fifteen seconds? On the other hand, I might do it more in a recap style), but at least the films are short enough that you could do it in a task-oriented fashion and knock off two or three at a time.
In the spirit of the "short attention span" era, might you consider reviewing/commenting on one minute films and sharing your thoughts with your audiences? FILMINUTE is the international one-minute film festival launched this September 1st and running until September 30. The FILMINUTE 2006 collection of one-minute films (shortlist of 27) has accumulated a quarter of a million page views in 15 days.
Best part: Talk Like a Pirate Day is on Tuesday. Theoretically, I may be writing some of these up in piratespeak.
And then, my mother comes upstairs and says that we've won best yard in the neighborhood, as decided by a council of florists or something. They sent us a pot of sunflowers and everything (which I totally took as a sign, as the story I'm working on has sunflowers as a major plot point). You may not understand how hilarious this is, however, until you realize that we've put off re-landscaping the yard for two or three years because it was the yard or the pool, and we chose the pool. So the front yard, as it stands, has some crepe myrtles and low-lying juniper ground cover around the edges, but is chiefly dominated by two raised circles, surrounded by rocks, front and center. Each circle used to have a tree. And then, in the great storm of 2004 while I was off in New Orleans, one of the trees was smote...n, yea verily. (It just doesn't seem right to say that the tree was smitten, you know? It wasn't in love with the oak across the street or anything.) So we ended up chopping down that tree and... the other tree, which was perfectly fine; I don't know what was up with that, but one day my stepfather went out there with a chainsaw and that was the end of that. Maybe the trees really were smitten and the other one couldn't face life alone or something. Anyway, two years later, here the yard stands: two tree stumps, except that the plants that used to sit in neat rings around them have since gone feral and exploded into jungly masses. I think I saw some baby oak saplings in there, a swath of poison ivy, at least one stout succulent weed that I thought was a milkweed, but it doesn't have any kind of flowers, so probably not, and some tenacious hostas clinging to the territory that was rightfully theirs.
The florists' council apparently loved that. Specifically, they mentioned it. I don't know, y'all.
Meanwhile, I asked my mother if she'd seen my Van Helsing DVD (the one time we opened it, some two years ago, we were downstairs). "No, I don't know where it is," she says. "Why, do you want to watch it?" No, I thought I'd bronze it. You know, as a symbol of my shame.
(Are you sure you still want me to write about your short films, FILMINUTE? This is the kind of taste we're talking about here.)
Also, hair: still fantastic.
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Date: 2006-09-17 05:27 pm (UTC)And, once again, as always, you rock.
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Date: 2006-09-17 05:39 pm (UTC)So now my icon needs to be, "you rock."
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Date: 2006-09-17 05:40 pm (UTC)Is it so wrong to get more excited about TLAPD than, say, Christmas?
And yay for the innate superiority of your yard! OMGWTFYARD!
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Date: 2006-09-17 05:52 pm (UTC)And then, my mother comes upstairs and says that we've won best yard in the neighborhood, as decided by a council of florists or something.
They weed. And they are always here. [/The Floramaska; Anne Rice]
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Date: 2006-09-17 06:13 pm (UTC)Angie
PS -- I liked Van Helsing! Much silliness, yes, but it's fun and there's eye candy. :D
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Date: 2006-09-17 06:29 pm (UTC)(So much silly, cheesy pretty in that movie. So much.)
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Date: 2006-09-17 06:27 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2006-09-17 06:27 pm (UTC)I am not sure if you're legally allowed to watch this, but the Reduced Shakespeare Company (a London-based acting company that perform "reduced" plays) did a version of the Star Wars movies, all six of them: The new ones here (http://youtube.com/watch?v=s6zv1HADbII) and the old ones here (http://youtube.com/watch?v=couCxHkDHkk). I was lucky enough to see them in person perform all of Shakespeare's plays in an hour and a half (including Hamlet in eight seconds, backwards), and they were absolutely fabulous. If you have time, motivatin, and legality, you might want to look into them -- they're hilarious. =)
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Date: 2006-09-17 07:50 pm (UTC)We're using them for the Shakespeare part in my Intro to Theatre class. I'm extremely excited over this.
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Date: 2006-09-17 07:28 pm (UTC)(I'm...mainly in it because I spent most of that movie convinced Van Helsing and Dracula were thisclose to making out. But then, I have a couple issues.)
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Date: 2006-09-17 11:43 pm (UTC)Also, I read some theory somewhere that VH can't remember who he is because he's actually... the archangel Gabriel? Which at least explains why he's not allowed to get any. I haven't been that mad about the way a romantic plotline ended since Oscar and Lucinda. They're pretty! They have chemistry! Sure if they make a sequel there'll be a new replacement babe, but since there won't be a sequel now (God, I would think not), we could have pretended VH and Anna were togetha 4eva! PEOPLE!
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Date: 2006-09-18 02:50 am (UTC)I've heard the archangel theory as well, but I've heard just as much to refute that, and, really? The men are pretty. I want them to make out. Stop getting your silly plot in the way.
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Date: 2006-09-17 07:32 pm (UTC)What does the fantastic hair look like?
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Date: 2006-09-17 10:08 pm (UTC)Yarha, Timesaving Modern Technology
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Date: 2006-09-17 08:52 pm (UTC)I swear, a Japanese anime has stolen your plot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_champloo).
I thought it was a pretty neat anime, anyway. (Then I suppose yours will be fantastic. =P)
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Date: 2006-09-17 09:32 pm (UTC)Life is totally random.
Yarha, Unintelligent Design
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Date: 2006-09-17 10:23 pm (UTC)-From I was a Curious Soylent Green
Yarha, Making the Noise Usually Written 'Tch-Tch'
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Date: 2006-09-18 01:21 pm (UTC)hawk her new booktell us something about Marie Antoinette's life. A novelist, Sena Jeter Naslund Offer, was also on. Have you heard of Offer?The Misunderstood Marie Antoinette? (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6095949)
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Date: 2006-09-18 03:00 pm (UTC)and I were the new creative writing professor's pets, he introduced us especially to her
That's how a met Benoit Mandelbrot (http://www.isepp.org/Pages/02-03%20Pages/Mandelbrot.html), who all but invented fractals. My math teacher knew him (she was a total fangirl, it was very funny) and she took me and another student out to Yale to meet him and see a lecture. Fun times.
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Date: 2006-09-18 03:06 pm (UTC)http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/hawk_2
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Date: 2006-09-18 03:54 pm (UTC)But then, I liked the first Tin Machine album, too, so maybe I'm just a weirdo. *wry grin*
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Date: 2006-09-18 09:08 pm (UTC)Hope that helps someone.