I'm tired of this journal. I don't intend to post here any longer - maybe I'll get a new one sometime, but I won't start this one up again. That said, I figure I might as well bury this journal with quizzes so that it'll blend in with all the other dead LJ accounts ( Read more... )

February looks to be a disapointing month for movies.

The only promising thing on the list (ignoring the indie-films) is the Hellblazer adaptation, Constantine. I was skeptical about this at first, but then I noticed that Garth Ennis co-wrote the screenplay. It's nice that they're actually working with one of the comic's original writers, but I'm ( Read more... )

I don't normally go for LJ meme things like this, but this is fun and cool.
Go to images.google.com for this one. Type in your answers to the questions below, then post the first image result (or first postable one if the first pic is down or something).

( The images are really big, so click here for the rest of it. )

So go read this fall's Student Literary Arts Magazine and see what the creative writing program at my prestigious university has spewed forth this past semester. Actually, to tell the truth, I was pretty impressed with this issue. Compared to the spring '04 issue (which seemed to focus entirely on depression, angst, and abuse) this is a big step up ( Read more... )

Fancy that, this thing still exists. My somewhat lengthy absence can be justified by the fact that the chemicals they make me ingest daily have the adverse affect of decreasing my mental alertness and destroying any motivation that I have to post here. That, and the magnetic field of the Earth is changing polarization. To people like myself who are ( Read more... )

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

"Juliette's father was really the one who built it, and Grandfather took ( Read more... )

smchyrocky's life was wrought with the typical struggles that a suburbanite teenager is forced to endure. (Glassdog sums it up nicely.) She was practically at the breaking point when her mother suggested she attend fat camp. The outrage! So what did poor smchyrocky do?

She had her mother killed.

I'm sorry, but this post is exactly the kind of thing that ( Read more... )

If you haven't read these yet, maybe you should:

SCREAM TALKING, courtesty of mistersleepless.

Some pieces are sad, some are wistful, some are haunting, some are downright disgusting, but they're all very good.

I'm going to be sad when the whole thing is over with.

So I went to the theater to view the movie Saw this weekend. (Yes, if you noticed, I did try and keep from making a pun out of the title and the verb “to see.”) Lots of people are comparing this movie to Se7en. Don’t listen to them - the similarities are superficial at best, nonexistent at worst. Where Se7en was a nice little character-driven film ( Read more... )

World Fantasy Awards 2004

• The Etched City, K. J. Bishop
  
• Fudoki, Kij Johnson
  
• The Light Ages, Ian R. MacLeod
  
• Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton (Winner)
  
• Veniss Underground, Jeff VanderMeer
  

I haven't read Tooth and Claw, so I can't really comment on it, but I've never really been that fond of novels focusing mainly on dragons (even if they pretend to ( Read more... )