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Not the most productive day I've ever had
Sep. 11th, 2008 02:29 pmLet's go ahead and get two days of linkspam out of the way, shall we? ( We need to cut a bitch on Roger Ebert's behalf )
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Monday night, eating Peeps
Apr. 16th, 2007 07:32 pmOkay, I'm hugely behind on the linkspam because I spent all of last week either 1) puppying, 2) hand-writing and editing 300 in Fifteen Minutes (now with many icons), or 3) sleeping for dear life. Moreover, I kind of don't care. I have a huge list of starred links on my Google Reader, and I'll probably cherry-pick the very best (and no longer hopelessly outdated) ones for this week. But really, I feel like I'm too dependent on linkspam these days anyway.
So: I saw two movies last week--300, obviously, and I pretty much started laughing when Marching Flute Guy showed up and didn't stop from there. If there had been any doubt, the Guitars of War pretty much sealed my fate. I totally want this on DVD and spent my week in the Comedy Mines listening to the soundtrack. I feel like the Fifteen Minutes turned out pretty well--it actually beats Van Helsing by about 100 words in terms of Shortest Parody Ever, although... well, if you've seen the movie, you'll understand how it's a pound of plot in a ten-pound sack. Still, I worked pretty hard at tightening it as much as possible, if only as practice for the second book (which I hope will have shorter parodies--but more of them), so 2300ish words is like beating the four-minute mile for me.
The other one I saw was The Namesake, which ( more; mild spoilers )
April 23, 2007 is International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day! Have you heard about this? One of the Grand Poobahs at the SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) has decided that, in his opinion, professional writer who posts his/her work online free of charge is a "webscab" (leading to the question, "Who's on strike, exactly?") and, moreover, a "pixel-stained technopeasant." Many technopeasants, myself included, claimed that title (rather gleefully) for our own. So![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
papersky's idea is to have next Monday be, in essence, Give Your Work Away Free Day: ( Whee! )
( Crème de la linkspam )
So: I saw two movies last week--300, obviously, and I pretty much started laughing when Marching Flute Guy showed up and didn't stop from there. If there had been any doubt, the Guitars of War pretty much sealed my fate. I totally want this on DVD and spent my week in the Comedy Mines listening to the soundtrack. I feel like the Fifteen Minutes turned out pretty well--it actually beats Van Helsing by about 100 words in terms of Shortest Parody Ever, although... well, if you've seen the movie, you'll understand how it's a pound of plot in a ten-pound sack. Still, I worked pretty hard at tightening it as much as possible, if only as practice for the second book (which I hope will have shorter parodies--but more of them), so 2300ish words is like beating the four-minute mile for me.
The other one I saw was The Namesake, which ( more; mild spoilers )
April 23, 2007 is International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day! Have you heard about this? One of the Grand Poobahs at the SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) has decided that, in his opinion, professional writer who posts his/her work online free of charge is a "webscab" (leading to the question, "Who's on strike, exactly?") and, moreover, a "pixel-stained technopeasant." Many technopeasants, myself included, claimed that title (rather gleefully) for our own. So
papersky's idea is to have next Monday be, in essence, Give Your Work Away Free Day: ( Whee! )( Crème de la linkspam )
Slightly less frozen today
Jan. 17th, 2007 02:18 pmQuick update on my hand (deep cat bite, for those of you just now joining us): ( Read more... )
Linkspam: ( Read more... )
Unique Blood and Chocolate advertising on Livejournal. I think it's a great idea. Livejournal had announced a while back that they wanted to do corporated-sponsored communities), but they wanted companies to find a way to be creative about it. So the B&C studio approached them:
Linkspam: ( Read more... )
Unique Blood and Chocolate advertising on Livejournal. I think it's a great idea. Livejournal had announced a while back that they wanted to do corporated-sponsored communities), but they wanted companies to find a way to be creative about it. So the B&C studio approached them:
So instead I said: hey, why don't we do it this way. Let's make the community be the LJ entries of Vivian, the main character, during the early parts of the movie. Getting behind the scenes on her thoughts and fears, that kind of thing. That's nothing new; hell, the official website has a few pages of Vivian's "journal" on it. Nothing revolutionary. So, where's the uniquely LJ "feel" to that? Or, as Joy (our sales manager) asked, "Where's the community interaction?" (Which is what the entire point of a sponsored comm on LJ is.) "Easy," I said. "We'll let people play along. Comment as though they're talking to her, like it's any LJ account ever -- and she'll comment back."See, I love this kind of thing. It's that whole alternate-reality gaming/unfiction thing that we saw with the A.I. Cloudmakers game and the Dionaea House story. I would absolutely love to do this kind of thing, but I haven't been able to come up with a story, and planned out far enough in advance, that would work. (I don't want to use the Black Ribbon world because it's not published yet; I'd rather get something like that going with the cooperation of a publisher.) I'm at a point where I'd even love to contribute to someone else's ARG, although at this point I'd like to get paid for it if it's going to advertise something; God knows I could use some gainful employment (Will Pretend for Food). And I did go and check out the comm, and it's very thoroughly up front about being an advertisement for Blood and Chocolate--almost more so than I would like; there's no real mystery to it. It's more of an RPG than unfiction, which at least has that is it/isn't it gloss over it. But perhaps that transparency is more important to preserve LJ users' trust. Anyway, if this works, I expect you could see more--and bigger--movie marketing teams getting in on it.
Re: Children of Men
Jan. 5th, 2007 11:21 pmWow, so... Children of Men. That was... wow. "Intense" might be the best, non-spoilery word to describe it. I would definitely say go see it; it's one of the best "visions of the future,” as they always say in the Movies Set in a Dystopian Future trailers (“FROM THE DIRECTOR OF [BLAH] COMES A VISION OF THE FUTURE LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE”), that I think I've ever seen in a movie--precisely because it looks like the present. Alfonso Cuarón takes images from today, the kind of chaos you see happening on CNN in someone else's country, and says it's happening now, but it's happening to you. It's 2027, but there's no lasers, no robots, no flying cars. Just 24-hour news channels and Starbucks and flip-flops. There's a few bits of "future" technology here and there, but they're mostly glossed over; the movie is mostly about the way the things we're doing right now, as nations, as people, is going to bite us in the ass if we don't open our eyes to what we're doing to each other. It's almost like there's two movies going on--a movie about a man drawn against his will into a journey to get a pregnant woman, perhaps the last pregnant woman, to safety, and a movie in the background, in the periphery and the corner of your eye, about human rights injustices--the shit that we're doing to each other--today. And in that respect, the movie pretty much doesn't pull any punches--Cuarón signals about half an hour in (and I'll get to that behind the cut) that this may be a movie but it's not going to play by the rules--the safe clichés and formulas we’re used to. No one is safe, because that's life. In conclusion: Go see it.
( SPOILERRRRRS )
Also, I can’t get rid of this nagging feeling that “children of men” is a famous phrase or a quotation of some sort, but I can’t place it, and searches aren’t turning anything up. Anyone? ETA: Ahhhh, Psalm 90. There we go. ETA: Okay, folks are coming up with multiple Biblical references. Interesting.
( SPOILERRRRRS )
Also, I can’t get rid of this nagging feeling that “children of men” is a famous phrase or a quotation of some sort, but I can’t place it, and searches aren’t turning anything up. Anyone? ETA: Ahhhh, Psalm 90. There we go. ETA: Okay, folks are coming up with multiple Biblical references. Interesting.
Linky-Link: The Return
Aug. 25th, 2006 03:48 pmFrom blinkliz: The Daily Show's coverage of Macacagate, confirming what was basically lurking in my mind the whole time: it kinda sounds like something a toddler would say ("OH NO MOMMY, MACACA!"). Rob Corddry concludes (edda, brace yourself), "It sure as [bleep] sounds racist, but here in Virginia... I'm not sure if that helps or hurts a guy." I like the "OHHHHHHHHH" from the audience after that part.
William H. Macy: Lateness Doesn't Become Lohan. More to the point, "There is not an apology big enough in the world to have to make 150 people scramble. It's nothing but disrespect. And Lindsay Lohan is not the only one. A lot of actors show up late as if they're God's gift to the film. It's inexcusable. They should have their asses kicked."
NYC Officials Want New 'Survivor' Pulled. Meanwhile...
The show's host, Jeff Probst, said the network was aware this season's race ploy might offend viewers. "It's very risky because you're bringing up a topic that is a hot button," he told asap, The Associated Press service for younger readers. "There's a history of segregation you can't ignore. It is part of our history. For that, it's much safer to say, 'No, let's just stick with things the way they are. Let's don't be the network to rock the boat. Let's not have "Survivor" try something new,'" he said. "But the biases from home can't affect you. This is an equal opportunity game."Probst, what the hell are you talking about?
(I'll tell you what--Phil would never stand for this shit.)
Applebee's taps celeb chef for new menu items. Well, good, because I had takeout from there last weekend and it was awful. The chicken was squeaky, and their idea of salad is lonely lettuce.
Kittens of Darkness motivational posters. (Plus, an answer to our question as to whether pirates beat ninjas or vice versa.) (Hee, "Cosplay.")
Posters: Children of Men (they're mostly text, but the second one creeps me the hell out), Haven (oh, Orlando, you're so butch), and Bridge to Terabithia.
Pictures of movie!Transformers, and apparently people are not happy about them.
Re: John Mark Karr: What's creepier, a man who killed a very young girl, or a man who wishes he had been the one who killed a very young girl?
Austrian girl, held captive for eight years, escapes; captor throws himself in front of train. I don't know why, but I'm slightly fascinated by this story. Why did the door get left open in the first place? Was the guy at all surprised that eight years of (I assume) brainwashing didn't stop the girl from making a break for it the first chance she got? (An example of a similar captive who was allowed to have an outside job and only escaped after the man's wife said, "Hey, you can go.") Did he come down the stairs, see the open door, realize the girl was gone, and go "Oh, shit"? Why did he throw himself in front of the train (which did, in fact, kill him)? I mean, I can think of a lot of very compelling reasons; I'm just wondering what his exact train of logic was.
ETA: Oh my God, "train of logic." That was seriously unintended and horrible. Now I understand why everyone's making stupid puns in the comments.
