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What an odd idea - posting on Livejournal ( Read more... ) -
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We're into Tilda Swinton. We've been eating up interviews she's given in addition to watching her films. When she mentioned her long association with Derek Jarman, I remembered that I'd always been curious about his film, "Blue." It was a film he made when AIDS had taken his eyesight and all he could see was a field of blue ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on Ghost Stories
“The Woman in Black” is a fairly crappy cookie-cutter angry-ghost-in-old-mansion horror film. About the only thing to recommend it is the fun the director had in choreographing the creepy sequences, and the good-looking cinematography. But despite its half-assed scripting and wasted opportunities, I still rather enjoyed it, since I love ghost ( Read more... ) -
Movie: Going Places
Last night, we watched "Going Places (Les valseuses)," a 1974 Bertrand Blier film, starring a young and shockingly hot Gérard Depardieu. It's a loose, giddy 70s movie about two childish, violent but charming young criminals on a rampage of spontaneous crime in the name of living a free life ( Read more... ) -
Cross Polination
I'm feeling a great desire to blog these days, as well as a reluctance. There is so much that would be useful to express, but I am also very protective of my soul now. So, I'll start cautiously, and perhaps I will continue, and perhaps not ( Read more... ) -
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Okay! Chapter 9 of my book is written. The last thing I did was rewrite the whole opening of it and it became something surprising. I love being caught off guard by my own characters.
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Death on New Year's
With my sister and her husband in from Long Island, and my nephew home for the holidays from Harvard, my family was all going to get together for New Year's Eve. But an hour before Béla and I were to head uptown, my mom called to say that my sister-in-law's father had died suddenly at age 95 ( Read more... ) -
Memory Crush
Someone was asking on a YouTube video about first celebrity crushes. I had to think about this a bit and then actually research it because I had no idea the actor's name. But when I was around puberty, I was into this TV drama called "Family." Unusual taste for a 13 year old boy, but then it was me. It was a great show with terrific actors. I was ( Read more... ) -
Stats
My X-Men fanfic novel, Days of Becoming, has been read by 523 people. Many more have begun it, but 523 have consumed all 400,000 words. Additionally, approximately 100 people have downloaded the book in pdf format. Soon I will have it available as an ebook. There is a huge spike in readership on chapters 17 and 18 which are the highest romantic ( Read more... )
