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girlofpreyDownloaded RealPlayer in an attempt play Jekesta's Drop the Dead Donkey DVDs, after an attempt to watch an episode on Paramount was cruelly thwarted by the rest of the family. Well, it downloaded fine, but sadly it still won't play them as DVDs. All I get is the sound. It said something about downloading something to play the content, and then that it couldn't download that particular something. All I know is I can't watch lovely Damien 24/7. Growl.
Does anyone else think that (B&Q?) advert almost ordering you to 'tell (B&Q) what happens in your kitchen' is slightly frightening and 1984-ish? Hmm.
I screencapped the last half-hour or so of Die Hard. It turned up some suprising discoveries and some lovely shots of McClane's hair. Tiring though. And my stupid DVD player keeps shutting itself off at the critical moment! Just because I want it to stop going backward at 1/2 and start going forward at 1/4 so I can pause it and take a screenshot! Growl!
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guede_mazaka's Divinity series. It's a Boondock Saints/Once Upon a Time in Mexico crossover with plenty of Norse myth thrown in, and my head's in too much of a funny place to read it but it looks damn good, and she's a great writer anyhow, so if you're into the fandoms check it out.
I've had an idea for a Nanowrimo novel, which I think could easily stretch to 50,000 words if I gave it a go. The problem is if I can set enough time out of studying and, y'know, sleeping in November. But I really am quite taken with the idea, and if it was Nanowrimo and the challenge was just to get the damn thing out on the page, I think I'd probably have a fair whack at it. Hmm.
It's sort of an amalgamation of few ideas I've had over the last few years/weeks. Basically it's a book ('book') of two halves - first philosophical ponderings and discussion, then all out action fantasy. There's a witch (who may or may not have purple hair ::whistles innocently::) who lives quite peacefully (but not entirely contently) in the woods with various creatures and powers and, y'know, nature and stuff. Also she has a friend who's a lightning bolt. Don't know where that came from. Then one day this girl turns up asking her to join 'The Revolution', about which the girl seems oddly unenthusiastic.
The witch invites her in and there is tea, and it turns out that a revolution was actually the girl's boyfriend's idea, and she wasn't that bothered, but he kept pushing and pushing and cajoling until finally she gave in and agreed to join him - whereupon he was fairly swiftly killed. Since they were the only two in the revolution, all of a sudden it's her job to organise the whole thing, because she keeps her word, dammit. She heard about the witch and thought powers would be a good thing to have, so she came out to ask her if she was interested? At all? But the witch needs to think, so the girl stays on for awhile, and there is cooking and gardening and thinking about nature and what's the right thing to do and crap. And spells, of course. I'm not sure about slash. This goes on for awhile. Then the witch says 'screw it', and they head off to revolutionise some ass! I'm not entirely sure what will go in this half though. A battle, almost certainly. With really big wolves...
It's already kind of plotted itself out in my head, and as usual I can hear some of the lines and see some of the scenes. And since there's a plot (which a lot of my fanfic ideas don't have), I could just get on with the action without worrying too much about the 'mood' or the imagery, which is what tends to happen with said fanfic. I don't know. I guess I worry about my writing not being good enough, and get too worked up to write anything. I tell myself not to worry so much, then worry that worrying is what makes my writing any good. Or maybe I'm just too damned bored to doing any writing without resenting it as a sort of 'last resort'. I don't know. Gah. ETA: Do not try to make me feel better about this. Wallowing is wallowing. Stay away from the Self-Pity party and eventually it will drink until it falls down on the lawn. Yes.
Today was pretty bad family-wise. I'm pretty close to posting all the sordid details just so I don't have to keep making veiled and I'm sure annoying references to 'family drama'. And partially so I can stop worrying anyone reading thinks I'm whining about a few arguments. But I don't want to dump it on anyone either, and make them uncomfortable. And I don't want an excuse to go on and on about it here. Here is the place for joy and laughter and squee, and...pretty icons. Sigh.
It's really hot. Really hot :(
Does anyone else think that (B&Q?) advert almost ordering you to 'tell (B&Q) what happens in your kitchen' is slightly frightening and 1984-ish? Hmm.
I screencapped the last half-hour or so of Die Hard. It turned up some suprising discoveries and some lovely shots of McClane's hair. Tiring though. And my stupid DVD player keeps shutting itself off at the critical moment! Just because I want it to stop going backward at 1/2 and start going forward at 1/4 so I can pause it and take a screenshot! Growl!
I hearby rec
guede_mazaka's Divinity series. It's a Boondock Saints/Once Upon a Time in Mexico crossover with plenty of Norse myth thrown in, and my head's in too much of a funny place to read it but it looks damn good, and she's a great writer anyhow, so if you're into the fandoms check it out.I've had an idea for a Nanowrimo novel, which I think could easily stretch to 50,000 words if I gave it a go. The problem is if I can set enough time out of studying and, y'know, sleeping in November. But I really am quite taken with the idea, and if it was Nanowrimo and the challenge was just to get the damn thing out on the page, I think I'd probably have a fair whack at it. Hmm.
It's sort of an amalgamation of few ideas I've had over the last few years/weeks. Basically it's a book ('book') of two halves - first philosophical ponderings and discussion, then all out action fantasy. There's a witch (who may or may not have purple hair ::whistles innocently::) who lives quite peacefully (but not entirely contently) in the woods with various creatures and powers and, y'know, nature and stuff. Also she has a friend who's a lightning bolt. Don't know where that came from. Then one day this girl turns up asking her to join 'The Revolution', about which the girl seems oddly unenthusiastic.
The witch invites her in and there is tea, and it turns out that a revolution was actually the girl's boyfriend's idea, and she wasn't that bothered, but he kept pushing and pushing and cajoling until finally she gave in and agreed to join him - whereupon he was fairly swiftly killed. Since they were the only two in the revolution, all of a sudden it's her job to organise the whole thing, because she keeps her word, dammit. She heard about the witch and thought powers would be a good thing to have, so she came out to ask her if she was interested? At all? But the witch needs to think, so the girl stays on for awhile, and there is cooking and gardening and thinking about nature and what's the right thing to do and crap. And spells, of course. I'm not sure about slash. This goes on for awhile. Then the witch says 'screw it', and they head off to revolutionise some ass! I'm not entirely sure what will go in this half though. A battle, almost certainly. With really big wolves...
It's already kind of plotted itself out in my head, and as usual I can hear some of the lines and see some of the scenes. And since there's a plot (which a lot of my fanfic ideas don't have), I could just get on with the action without worrying too much about the 'mood' or the imagery, which is what tends to happen with said fanfic. I don't know. I guess I worry about my writing not being good enough, and get too worked up to write anything. I tell myself not to worry so much, then worry that worrying is what makes my writing any good. Or maybe I'm just too damned bored to doing any writing without resenting it as a sort of 'last resort'. I don't know. Gah. ETA: Do not try to make me feel better about this. Wallowing is wallowing. Stay away from the Self-Pity party and eventually it will drink until it falls down on the lawn. Yes.
Today was pretty bad family-wise. I'm pretty close to posting all the sordid details just so I don't have to keep making veiled and I'm sure annoying references to 'family drama'. And partially so I can stop worrying anyone reading thinks I'm whining about a few arguments. But I don't want to dump it on anyone either, and make them uncomfortable. And I don't want an excuse to go on and on about it here. Here is the place for joy and laughter and squee, and...pretty icons. Sigh.
It's really hot. Really hot :(
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Date: 2005-07-10 02:55 pm (UTC)YOU SHOULD SO TOTALLY DO NANOWRIMO YS! It's very very good. And if you don't write a book in November then that's just rubbish. And also you have a pLOT!1 OMG! The time I spent searching for a plot last year, and you have one already and it's only JULY! So totally you should do it. So long as you don't write anything too good. You probably will because yes. But you shoudl try not to. Because it's nanowrimo so you have to aim for BAD and then fail to meet it and settle for piteously terribly bad indeed. But it will be good all the same. Good in its badness. It's all about the word count. And omg WITCH AND GIRL yes. Maybe I write the pirate side of the story and then our books would be like twins without really knowing it, because Pirate/Sailor is so fastly becoming my knew favourite thing. Your witch book is great because omg revolution you would so go and get the witch on side and yes. And wolves. or dragons. But then I'm overly fond of dragons. They could fight barefoot. But you probably knew that already.
IT IS MUCH TOO HOT.
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Date: 2005-07-11 05:27 am (UTC)Hmm, I love dragons too, but it might give them an unfair advantage. Maybe they could go to a dragon for help. Hmm.
Have you ever seen Flight of Dragons? It is a marvellous film. I used to watch it when I was a child, and still love it now. Sadly there is no DVD, only video, but I'm pretty sure they explain how dragons fly using hexagons. I thought of you. Yes?
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Date: 2005-07-11 05:38 am (UTC)I have not seen this film, but I will keep my eyes open for it from now onwards indeed. Dragons fly using hexagons? I think I love them more so.
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Date: 2005-07-11 03:15 pm (UTC)You should feel free to vent about family problems if you think it'll make you feel better and you want to. Flock it or post it on filter; I'd opt in, although, uh, I'm rarely there to make sympathetic noises :). But I'm thinking LJ is probably good for that sort of thing; I might try it myself one day.
It is hot of BEAUTY and JOY. *tans*
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Date: 2005-07-11 03:29 pm (UTC)And I really like my idea :)
Probably there will be venting soon. I like my friends to know what I'm talking about when I complain ;) Frankly it'd be for my benefit more than for comments, so don't worry about that :*
It is a hot of MELTING and YACK *lies in a still heap*