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[cleolinda]

Depression: Can't tell if I would just feel bad no matter what--I think there was a legitimate, cyclical hormone dip late last week, which is partly why I felt so horrible--and (whichever topic) is the one I have chosen to gnaw on, or if (whichever topic) is making me feel bad, and if that's the case, if a strong attempt to redirect my thoughts would help. I mean, it probably couldn't hurt anyway, but I guess I'm curious as to whether redirecting my thoughts would make the situation better, or if I'd just settle into some new fixation. Because it's a hopeless topic. It's not something I can fix, it's not something I can do anything to improve, and it's doing a number on my self-esteem, which is leaking out all over everything else.

(Sometimes I think that it might be too late for so many of the things I wanted to accomplish, even though I'm only thirty. To late to catch a trend, too late to be a child prodigy, too late for young love. Well, if that's the case--fuck it, I might as well just have fun, right?)

So. If the sun comes out tomorrow, I'm going to go outside on that photo safari I meant to take a few weeks ago. Take some more pictures of flowers and foliage, basically--I can get some camera practice in, now that I've started thinking of photography as a minor hobby. I've just got to stop angsting and get on with living.

Linkspam and housekeeping:

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The Lede: Portrait of Shakespeare Unveiled, 399 Years Late.

3 Renaissance Rascals Exposed!

‘Swiss gigolo’ jailed for defrauding heiress. Man, I could so use a Swiss gigolo right now.

Salvador Dali's rotary dial cosmetics compact.

Man beats up kangaroo home invader.

Flight of the Conchords Experiment With Hair Product [If You're Into It].

'Bones' star David Boreanaz brought in for PopWatch reader questioning!

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Trailers and clips: Exclusive 'Haunting in Connecticut' TV Spot; Exclusive Clip from 'Bart Got A Room'; Sita Sings the Blues is finally free!; Exclusive Red Band Clip: 'I Love You, Man'; Exclusive 'Role Models' DVD Blooper Reel; Download Now: ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ 1978 Lucas and Spielberg Story Conference Transcript.

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Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stormthesea/]

I thought you might be interested in this cocktail (http://theeatenpath.com/2009/03/07/dr-manhattan-the-cocktail/) I saw on TasteSpotting- it's a Dr. Manhattan.

And as for being too late for things: well, fuck that jive. You're thirty, you're still young, and even if you can't be a child prodigy, as long as you're having fun and being happy, then what does that matter?

[moogleybacon.livejournal.com]

Oh, god. I must try that drink ASAP. As soon as I talk my over-twenty one friends into buying all of it for me... hehe

[http://users.livejournal.com/__marcelo/]

(Sometimes I think that it might be too late for so many of the things I wanted to accomplish, even though I'm only thirty. To late to catch a trend, too late to be a child prodigy, too late for young love. Well, if that's the case--fuck it, I might as well just have fun, right?)

Thirty and very much feeling the same over here.

[insomniacafe547.livejournal.com]

Hell, SIXTEEN and feeling the same over here. There is too much focus on really young people who do amazing things.

I feel lied to!!

[dives.livejournal.com]

My favorite Firefly companion was Alan Tudyk.

Re: I feel lied to!!

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

What about Jayne?? ;)

[etod.livejournal.com]

Boo. I have been dying to see Phillip Morris. :(

[diddakoi.livejournal.com]

What do they mean Morena Baccarin is *now* an evil alien? She was the big bad in the final Stargate season.

[aidenlane.livejournal.com]

This.

It was great, my sci-fi fandoms colliding into one.

(and an excuse to use one of my many icons)

[tristantrakand.livejournal.com]

Cliche and all, but like this totally hot guy once told me: "It's never too late for anything."

[orca-girl.livejournal.com]

Wow! First, am ecstatic about "Sita Sings theBlues"! Second: okay, the Shakespeare portrait kind of blows me away. That is an incredibly big deal... in those circles, I mean.

[smirkdoctor.livejournal.com]

George Lucas must be stopped. Really, TV? Really?

Also, I'm going to have a nightmare about a kangaroo tonight, I'm pretty sure.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean: I think everyone occasionally wonders about the "too late" kind of thing as they get older. But I try to remember that good things can happen at any time and sometimes when you're not expecting them. Like my sister winning that poetry contest recently. I mean, she's been writing for years, and it would have been great if it happened earlier; but maybe now was the right time for it to happen. Or my getting involved in the Discworld Convention - it's a great experience that I certainly never thought about before it happened. You know? Not that reminding myself of that helps all the time, but it does sometimes.

...

Replace Christian Bale as Batman? Chyah! Riiight.

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

Star Wars the TV series, huh? Uncle! UNCLE!

As for being 'too late' for things - didn't you write a book? I'm 25, and I'm aiming for that goal still. Seriously, I envy you.

[misachan.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think that it might be too late for so many of the things I wanted to accomplish, even though I'm only thirty.

I turn thirty this summer and I'm starting to feel that coming on, like "Dear God, where did that decade go?"

Before They Were ‘Watchmen’: The Characters That Inspired Nite Owl & Rorschach

I actually had a dream last night where Rorschach showed up the DCU (in a Nightwing comic, of all things) and found his way into the Batcave. While he was going through Batman's files he found out what happened to Ted Kord and got tremendously upset, even though he couldn't explain why.

I may have seen Watchmen too many times this weekend.:)

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

He'd have some issues with the current Question being a woman as well.

[viorica8957.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or does that Shakespeare portrait look more like Marlowe than Bill?

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

Oh, gosh, it does. How reliable are Marlowe's portraits, do you know?

[corinnethewise.livejournal.com]

I think almost everyone I know has been super stressed and depressed and low self-esteemy the last two weeks/week and a half. I'm blaming the winter that won't go away personally and treating it with excessive amounts of chocolate. I'm not sure it's really helping, but it's good for a moment at least.

I hope you feel better anyway. ::sends chocolate::

[reiko18.livejournal.com]

I just inserted "nude" into "First Photo of Radcliffe on Deathly Hallows Set," and had to do a double take. And decided I had to tell you about it.

[worldforawhile.livejournal.com]

Of all those things, the only one I truly am sad and feel less full for missing is young love. I always romanticized the idea of being young lovers (not love itself or being loved, but the idea of two foolish young people who'd giddily fallen for each other). And now I'm just too old, by definition, for that--I've lived too much. Some people have lived too much by the time they're 19 for young love--for me it was really right around 29. I feel like all the other things can happen (when I start to pass JKR's age after Sorcer's Stone was published, I may feel differently--feel free not to remind me of exactly how old she was, augh, great)--but the young love one I'm sorry I missed, and I feel like it would have enriched my life, even though it surely would have ended badly.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah--there are a few experiences that, by definition, I feel I've missed out on. There are some things it'll just always be "too late" for.

[bumblebee-1983.livejournal.com]

Perhaps your depression phase will fade when the weather gets better and you're able to get out and do something different.

At any rate, I hope it's nothing serious. ::hugs and e-chocolate::

And Fantastic Four being rebooted...ALREADY?!? Oy.

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

While I loved that Jessica Alba was fan of the books and was pushing for Franklin -- I think it might be for the best.

[dragonzair.livejournal.com]

TFOTC video isn't working for me :< And it's depressing me because I keep reading comments of a Bowie-esque thing D: BAH.

LOL @ the Twitard

I would much prefer Russel Brand to Zac Efron. The latter's too baby-faced for the movie >.>

And I'd really like it if they released an image of Deadpool in costume. I already know how Reynolds looks XD I also wanna see him with a dorky face. Kinda like how I imagine Wade would look underneath the mask XD

[thelocustsing.livejournal.com]

I tend to just lurk about 'round these parts, but I saw something tonight that I figured was relevant enough to merit poking my head in. As far as I've seen, your book is not so much available to buy US-wise, but as I wandered through my local Half Price Books (http://www.halfpricebooks.com/) this evening, a curious sight caught my eye. There, in the film reference section, was a whole stack (http://pics.livejournal.com/thelocustsing/pic/0000bfqb/g12) of Movies in Fifteen Minutes. I have no idea how universal this stocking is, but I figured I'd spread the word in case anyone with an aversion to ordering online may want to seek it out as an alternate option!

[emerybored.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you might be in the last gasps of SAD for this year. Sun will help. Also lots of fan!love and good vibes. Have a romp around the yard with the doggies or something. *sends beautiful Houston weather your way*

Feel better!

[moogleybacon.livejournal.com]

hehehe Oh, Shakespeare... too bad there's speculation that that isn't even what Shakespeare really looks like. There's a line at the bottom of the neck that makes it seem like a mask, and a bunch of other little things wrong with it. There's also speculation that Shakespeare was the writers pseudonym, and it was only coincidental that there really was a William Shakspere in England at the time.
(Sorry. In a Shakespeare class right now; my teacher likes to rant and rave about that.)

And that kangaroo thing is scary. Those things will kick your ass--literally!--if they get the chance. o.O I'd be freaked out to find one in my house--especially since I don't live in Australia, but that's beside the point. lol

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

Whoo-hoo. fellow theatre buffs. I love the whole speculation about Shakespeare's true identity. Such fun if it really is a pseudonym and we've been freaking out over it for the last 400 years.

Though I have to say... perhaps the lame "there's no mystery" climax actually applies here...? If the real W. Shakespeare were a semi-anonymous theatre person, why would his brother have been buried in Southwark Cathedral, right next to John Fletcher? Even as is, it seems like it's too much to do for a relative..

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed Sita Sings the Blues.

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

too late (...) even though I'm only thirty

I feel that way all the time, and I'm 25. I work in theatre. Sometimes it feels like everyone has - quite literally - been doing this since professionally their teens (not even mentioning the actors, who all look like they've been doing it since they were minus-three-months-old). Every other night, I come home thinking about my childhood dream of being an accomplished theatre/film-person and have to face the idea that I probably won't even make any sort of leap into cinema, because I'm already too old.

... and you know what? The people I work with, young and old, just don't give a toss. I'm the person that cares most about age-related pressure in my immediate circle. So what, if I'm not the next Spielberg, or the next Elisabeth Taylor? Chances are, I would never have been one, even if I tried since I came out of the womb. I'm doing what I can with what I have, and it's not going too badly. Not brilliant, rather slow, and certainly not glamourous, but very, very fulfilling and even occasionally fun. And four years ago, I was miserable and thought my life was over because I was stuck in a world without theatre.

Sorry, I don't mean to hijack your post with ~~words of wisdom~~. Goodness knows I'm frustrated (with myself, mostly) most of the time. Sometimes it helps, though, to step out of yourself for a second and check if the world really finds you as big a failure as you think you are. It probably won't.

[cpip.livejournal.com]

I'm about to turn thirty in a few months. Admittedly, life's been a bit good to me lately.

Sorry, were I single I'd offer to be a Yankee Gigolo, at least. I used to do that, actually. But that's a story for another time.

[alierakieron.livejournal.com]

I find, when I get like that, the best therapy is Short Stories. Not the internet, because that just fuels the short attention span and random synapse firing. And not a novel, or non fiction of any length, because that's just too much to handle. But a collection of Charles deLint or Neil Gaiman short stories? (Or L.M. Montgomery, or... you name it. Anyone who does good short fiction.) Perfect.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

It's not often that I literally LOL, but that Watchmen marquee did it for me.

Epic Win.