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Still not dead, just been crazy busy! And not with anything exciting, unless you consider medical crap, therapy crap and home remodeling to be exciting. And in my downtime I've been enjoying playing the original Fallout, because I found it for the Mac and I really miss the first two. I totally failed on character creation though, so I've ended up with a dude named None. I find this somewhat hilarious.
Mostly I've just been focusing on moving on to a new, healthy stage of my life. And a part of that is getting rid of a lot of stuff. Out with the old, in with the new, all of that.
I have been having a lot of trouble writing any sort of fiction, but I'm trying not to stress about it. I'm still me, my creativity isn't gone, I'm just in an adjustment period and I'm sure everything will smooth out. And in the meantime I've been exploring the wide world of lyrics writing! Mainly because I don't do the poetry thing, and I'm supposed to be writing expressive poems as part of my therapy.
Netflix keeps taking things I plan on watching off of direct streaming. :/ I want to watch Karas: The Prophecy mainly because 1) beautiful animation 2) Mathew Lillard. But they've only got part one up, and from what I understand, without part two it may as well be a very pretty acid trip. Netflix has a pretty damn good anime selection, but their anime horror (as loosely defined as that genre is, they've got Trinity Blood listed as horror) is sadly lacking. :/
Oh, went to see The Rite over the weekend! Very, very good movie. The casting was wonderful, the pacing was beautiful, and the film managed to scare and disturb without using overt and obvious visuals. I really, really liked that. Plus, they clearly did their research on Catholic exorcism. I was pleased and impressed. And caught the trailer for Suckerpunch which I need to see. Also want to see Red Riding Hood, though I have to say that visually the commercials all make me think of The Village. Or Sleepy Hollow. Both movies I quite like!
The internet seems like such a strange and disorienting place to me these days. I think about it too much. Not what happens on the internet, but just the internet itself. What we're able to do with it, the applications, the ability to reach anywhere in the world at any time with devices that fit into the palm of our hand, the entire spectrum of humanity splashed daily across this technically non-existent continent from the very best to the very worst....
Does anyone else ever just sit and think about it and feel terribly overwhelmed and frightened? Every few days I find myself waking up and realizing 'I live in the future. The future is now'. Things that existed only in the wildest imagination when I was a child are now commonplace and taken for granted. It's amazing and terrifying and it's all happened so fast. Sometimes I think of the technological revolution as a speeding train without breaks....
Ah well, that's about it, as far as I can think. Now I've got to give Sheila her meds since she had surgery last week and still needs to be tranquilized so she doesn't rip out her stitches. At least she doesn't have to wear her stupid clown cone anymore.... (And she weighs 5.3 pounds of muscle already at seven months! Not as little a kitty as I was expecting when she was a tiny baby!)
Mostly I've just been focusing on moving on to a new, healthy stage of my life. And a part of that is getting rid of a lot of stuff. Out with the old, in with the new, all of that.
I have been having a lot of trouble writing any sort of fiction, but I'm trying not to stress about it. I'm still me, my creativity isn't gone, I'm just in an adjustment period and I'm sure everything will smooth out. And in the meantime I've been exploring the wide world of lyrics writing! Mainly because I don't do the poetry thing, and I'm supposed to be writing expressive poems as part of my therapy.
Netflix keeps taking things I plan on watching off of direct streaming. :/ I want to watch Karas: The Prophecy mainly because 1) beautiful animation 2) Mathew Lillard. But they've only got part one up, and from what I understand, without part two it may as well be a very pretty acid trip. Netflix has a pretty damn good anime selection, but their anime horror (as loosely defined as that genre is, they've got Trinity Blood listed as horror) is sadly lacking. :/
Oh, went to see The Rite over the weekend! Very, very good movie. The casting was wonderful, the pacing was beautiful, and the film managed to scare and disturb without using overt and obvious visuals. I really, really liked that. Plus, they clearly did their research on Catholic exorcism. I was pleased and impressed. And caught the trailer for Suckerpunch which I need to see. Also want to see Red Riding Hood, though I have to say that visually the commercials all make me think of The Village. Or Sleepy Hollow. Both movies I quite like!
The internet seems like such a strange and disorienting place to me these days. I think about it too much. Not what happens on the internet, but just the internet itself. What we're able to do with it, the applications, the ability to reach anywhere in the world at any time with devices that fit into the palm of our hand, the entire spectrum of humanity splashed daily across this technically non-existent continent from the very best to the very worst....
Does anyone else ever just sit and think about it and feel terribly overwhelmed and frightened? Every few days I find myself waking up and realizing 'I live in the future. The future is now'. Things that existed only in the wildest imagination when I was a child are now commonplace and taken for granted. It's amazing and terrifying and it's all happened so fast. Sometimes I think of the technological revolution as a speeding train without breaks....
Ah well, that's about it, as far as I can think. Now I've got to give Sheila her meds since she had surgery last week and still needs to be tranquilized so she doesn't rip out her stitches. At least she doesn't have to wear her stupid clown cone anymore.... (And she weighs 5.3 pounds of muscle already at seven months! Not as little a kitty as I was expecting when she was a tiny baby!)