Catching Up
NaNoWriMo is almost upon us, so nanomojo is upon us too. Go and make merry.
I spent most of last week traveling (in the definition of "not being home") and this week I'm trying hard to get my life back in order, even get ahead of the curve (see previous paragraph). It doesn't help that this is the time of year when I'm perpetually cold. The Daylight Savings Time shift IS going to help, though. Now if my library requests come in tonight, I'm golden.
Media I Have Recently Consumed:
-Beetlejuice (movie): Boy, it's been a while. It's weirder than I remembered.
-To Kill A Mockingbird (book): I got a neat copy at the library book sale (hey...it might be a late first edition) and since kalquessa was raving over it, decided I should finally get around to reading it. Two thumbs up.
-London Calling (book): Very meh, thick with exposition in the time-travel passages, featuring the three most eloquent thirteen-year-old IMers in history. Guys, I'm a grammar glutton and even I don't bother to punctuate on IM.
-Danse Macabre (book): Stephen King's nonfiction analysis of the horror genre. I'm this close to finishing it. I'd really like to see an update--to get his opinion on the torture-porn trend of Saw and Hostel, the you-are-there trend of Blair Witch and Cloverfield, and the fast zombies of 28 Days Later and Resident Evil. It would be neat to see his take on horror-themed video games. I wonder if he'd like to revisit his views on superheroes, now that they've been thoroughly deconstructed, and whether he'd want to change his comments on TV in the post-LOST era. I wonder if he'd still spend the last section on literature worshiping at the shrine of Harlan Ellison. I'd like to see him include some material that he produced after learning that school shootings have been connected to his novella Rage. Overall, though, I really loved it, especially the first part dealing with horror themes.
-Cycle of the Werewolf (book): Boy, is this thing short.
And a couple of short stories compilations. I am nuts about short story compilations.
I spent most of last week traveling (in the definition of "not being home") and this week I'm trying hard to get my life back in order, even get ahead of the curve (see previous paragraph). It doesn't help that this is the time of year when I'm perpetually cold. The Daylight Savings Time shift IS going to help, though. Now if my library requests come in tonight, I'm golden.
Media I Have Recently Consumed:
-Beetlejuice (movie): Boy, it's been a while. It's weirder than I remembered.
-To Kill A Mockingbird (book): I got a neat copy at the library book sale (hey...it might be a late first edition) and since kalquessa was raving over it, decided I should finally get around to reading it. Two thumbs up.
-London Calling (book): Very meh, thick with exposition in the time-travel passages, featuring the three most eloquent thirteen-year-old IMers in history. Guys, I'm a grammar glutton and even I don't bother to punctuate on IM.
-Danse Macabre (book): Stephen King's nonfiction analysis of the horror genre. I'm this close to finishing it. I'd really like to see an update--to get his opinion on the torture-porn trend of Saw and Hostel, the you-are-there trend of Blair Witch and Cloverfield, and the fast zombies of 28 Days Later and Resident Evil. It would be neat to see his take on horror-themed video games. I wonder if he'd like to revisit his views on superheroes, now that they've been thoroughly deconstructed, and whether he'd want to change his comments on TV in the post-LOST era. I wonder if he'd still spend the last section on literature worshiping at the shrine of Harlan Ellison. I'd like to see him include some material that he produced after learning that school shootings have been connected to his novella Rage. Overall, though, I really loved it, especially the first part dealing with horror themes.
-Cycle of the Werewolf (book): Boy, is this thing short.
And a couple of short stories compilations. I am nuts about short story compilations.