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Keggers vs Dracula
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04:38 / 04.12.07
Im still drinking the coffee but I stopped the alchohol. (ran out)
 
 
Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar
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04:39 / 04.12.07
Whoa!

Bottle City of Kandor action in the latest Legion 'toon.
 
 
Deculture Aquatripper
04:41 / 04.12.07
I'm gonna have to start watching this new Legion toon, aren't I?
 
 
Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar
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04:45 / 04.12.07
Yeah, it's pretty fun -- the second season is very "5 Year Gap Lite."
 
 
Shrug: Butcher Boy
04:49 / 04.12.07
I am writing a homo pomo intertextual film script and it is possibly the worst thing I've ever excreted for a university course.
Drink of choice: Fizzy pop and failure.
I might even post in on Barbelith.

Hey lateshifters.
 
 
Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar
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04:52 / 04.12.07
Harvey.

Homo-Pomo -- cool. Synopsis, yes/no/maybe-so?
 
 
Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar
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04:56 / 04.12.07
Whoa! Imperiex versus every resident of Kandor, yellow-sun-powered. Including Krypto the Superdog and Streaky the Supercat. Shrinking Violet kicks the crap out of Validus.

Mmn. Salmon is awesome.
 
 
Shrug: Butcher Boy
05:02 / 04.12.07
Oh dear (my contempt for its execution should be implicit when reading this but)
A viewer is watching television: The outernarrative. Scene: Greyish CCTV footage.
The Channel Changes between various scenes: horror/highschool drama/news footage
and a fourth scene which is actually the room of the outernarrative viewed from the a CCTV footage camera in the rooms corner at a previous time wherein a couple are fighting (one of which is actually the viewer).
Their lots of changing of channels at apt (or so I say) moments to illustrate hyperbolic moments of emotion.
Silly stuff with viewer and his counterpart interacting.
Its about reiterations and archetypes and breakups although God you wouldn't know it from the script.
Its a short and will be uttter UTTER bollocks as it was already late when I started to properly write it.
 
 
Shrug: Butcher Boy
05:12 / 04.12.07
Oh dear. I've shared too much.
Well I'm putting it down to experience anyway.
 
 
Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar
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05:12 / 04.12.07
Oh well, any creative endeavour...

I'm thinking about strolling over to the fridge and pulling out that bar of dark chocolate & orange.
 
 
Deculture Aquatripper
05:34 / 04.12.07
I went out and bought a cheesecake and came back to notice Timothy Spall's in Enchanted. Between that and Susan Sarandon, I may have a hard time not making dirty comments at the thing. Must not see with children present. Or, rather, parents.
 
 
Liger Null
05:37 / 04.12.07
Why would you see it at all?
 
 
Shrug: Butcher Boy
05:38 / 04.12.07
The monstrosity is done. Apart from some formatting issues.
Going to watch Carnivale and sleep.

Yay!

Goodnight.
 
 
Liger Null
05:39 / 04.12.07
Goodnight Shrug!
 
 
Keggers vs Dracula
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05:45 / 04.12.07
G'night Harvey!


I really dont want to watch the latest episode of Dexter. If I do I will have no more Dexter until next week.

Oh for the future day on instantly generated tv.
 
 
Liger Null
05:49 / 04.12.07
You people with your new-fangled television sets.

Me, I'm listening to the Old-School Hip-Hop show.
 
 
Deculture Aquatripper
05:51 / 04.12.07
Why would you see it at all?

Same reason I finally had to see the rat cooking France thing; I know people who worked on it and don't want to lie to them and tell them I did when I didn't. I suck at lying on my feet.
 
 
Liger Null
05:59 / 04.12.07
Ah, so you saw it for the same reason I saw Zombie Planet.

Was the rat cooking thing any good? It sounded somewhat interesting.
 
 
Deculture Aquatripper
06:09 / 04.12.07
I somehow suspect you got off easier, with ye zombie flick.
 
 
Keggers vs Dracula
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06:12 / 04.12.07
We need a zombie rat in paris movie.
 
 
Deculture Aquatripper
06:23 / 04.12.07
The rat thing... it was a cute story and had some good gags, but I just don't think Brad Bird's remotely exciting or interesting as a director. He has the same mise en scene techniques he had in the late eighties, and even then, eh, not so good.

The best bits were probably the Truffaut allusions and the use of 2-D animation stretch-n-bob techniques integrated into 3-D. I know loads of people found it terribly mature, but I just... I'm very happy people got paid well and it made bucks at the box office, but may have had Doritos ads show more relevance to my life, and they probably showed more innovative camera work.
 
 
Deculture Aquatripper
06:26 / 04.12.07
There's an extra on the DVD, though, where the two main rats explain patiently why the brown rat is our (us human's) friend, and it's the nasty little black rat giving them a bad name. That was kinda funny. Completely wrongheaded and fast-moving. That I liked. Like some weird Disney-fied rat-world promote-racism piece.

I don't think that's what they intended.
 
 
Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar
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06:28 / 04.12.07
Creepy.

All right, I'm getting my music system organized for the evening and I think I'll do a bit of scribbling in a while.
 
 
Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar
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06:37 / 04.12.07
Feeling a little dejected over Matt Fraction's inability to follow through on the critique of female sexbots in sci-fi he set up in CASANOVA, I have this massive urge to write about a feminist sexbot bringing about her own revolution.
 
 
Deculture Aquatripper
06:37 / 04.12.07
I'm so happy the revision/capping-off on the new screenplay is done done done. It's homeless now, due to complications with the strike, but it's mine and I love it even if it has been kicked out, rejected, and otherwise forced to seek new and dangerous employment like a Victorian Era urchin. Maybe it'll find a rich benefactor, but regardless...

So, now I can go back to comfortable, comfortable prose and the new ghosting gig which won't end soon enough. I think I get a t-shirt out of that one, though. It's almost like getting paid well, free tie-in swag.
 
 
Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar
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06:39 / 04.12.07
I want to write too many things at once, so I have my share of Victorian urchins, scrambling through the streets and generally acting as cut-purses and chimney-sweeps. Man's got to be a good father, sure, but somedays it feels as though they'd be better without me.
 
 
Deculture Aquatripper
06:39 / 04.12.07
Y'know, the CASANOVA book never reeled me in? I just... I want to enjoy it on principle, but no. It's like that smiley type sits at the end of the bar kinda giving you the eye and looking like they're after a warm body, but if you go back with them, you'll not so much regret it in the morning as regret the possibility that you'll have to keep seeing them? Something like that, but with paper and comics shops and too much money, not enough sex and alcohol.
 
 
Deculture Aquatripper
06:42 / 04.12.07
I half-fancy the idea of being Fagin to a bunch of wayward scripts. Knock some guidance into them; generate some revenue. It's urchiny scripts or zombies, and if it's zombies, I'd probably end up like Lugosi in White Zombie, which ain't so grand.
 
 
Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar
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07:11 / 04.12.07
Either way, her name's going to be Tin Honey, dammit. There will be other dumb, weird super-heroes attached to her, I think.

I'm very pumped right now. Chocolate! Makes me say "damn." A LOT. Also, ripping Duran Duran tracks off a disc and making weird play lists.

CASANOVA is actually really good, even if it occasionally falls short of its intended goals. And it's pretty frakkin' cheap, all considered.
 
 
Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar
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07:12 / 04.12.07
DENIED! Accomplice will not let me name our hypothetical firstborn offspring UNIVAC, and I don't get to fashion hir into some terrible machine god, shrinking cities and bottling them for sport.
 
 
Liger Null
07:47 / 04.12.07
Damn party poopers.
 
 
Deculture Aquatripper
08:27 / 04.12.07
Yet another point for the barbe-polygamy... really, who here (and their celebrity harem of choice) wouldn't let a kid be named UNIVAC?

Heck, it was plotted out years ago, while I was unconscious, that my two firstborn be named Shaft and Superfly. Because, went the logic, when I had to go to parent/teacher meetings, they'd at least sound cool. Superfly's done very well in fingerpainting and during story time, but when we pass out snacks, he... that sort of thing.
 
 
Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar
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08:29 / 04.12.07
And lo, did the Lith give birth to the first doom children: Superfly, Shaft and UNIVAC.

I'm torn between working on the story that I've been working on, or working on this Tin Honey fiasco. Maybe I should spend half an hour on each and then crash because YOU KNOW HAVE WORK TOMORROW MORNING.

Because my entire life is spent at the bloody library checking out bloody books.
 
 
Deculture Aquatripper
08:54 / 04.12.07
Split your time between both. The world needs a Tin Honey.

I'm about two-thirds of the way through Kill Bill which I haven't seen as a whole in, well, a while. And the responses are pouring in for that homeless little screenplay, so fingers crossed that the company still wants it when things are settled. People seem genuinely happy and genuinely perplexed, but in ways that I think it should make them perplexed and not in this things riddled with idiotic flaws way.
 
 
Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar
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08:58 / 04.12.07
Good to hear there's interest, even if you can't parlay that into anything at the moment.

I think I'm going to work on Tin Honey tonight -- I have enough of a start for a new scene for the other story to work on it tomorrow when I get home from work, so I'll take the time for some preliminary stuff with the Tin Honey thing tonight.

I'm liking my new suitname -- feels fiery, even if it's a little more aggressive. Reflects how I've felt lately.

Anyway, now I'm going to retire to scribble in my notebook in bed. Night.
 
  

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