I'm just a sweet transvestite, from Transsexual Transylvania.
Ahh... just what I needed. Rain, blessed rain. How I love thee. :)
Today's a good day, so far... I'm relaxed, it's raining, and I didn't have to work on the Cuban TV noon cast assignment as I had to for three days... I'm getting better at my job anyway... not that I'm saying it myself, but my editors keep sending me encouraging feedback. So that's alllll good! :D
Yesterday was also good, thank the gods. I've been having bad day/good day/bad day sandwiches lately.... *sigh*
Went to the movie night at Manolo Caracol last night with Marko. Missed the showing of Rocky Horror again, because Marko and I were fashionably late, as usual... But got to see The Shining, once more. Well, technically, I've seen that one puzzle style. One piece here, one piece there... And anyway, errr... I don't quite like it, actually. It's supposed to be brilliant, blah blah Kubrick blah blah... but that's the thing. It's Kubrick's movie. But it's Steve's story, dammit! Ok, so I'm biased in favor of Stephen King, so sue me. But it's always the writer's story, never the director's. Oh I know, I know. There are great directors who do great works of art and stamp their personal seal on a film and I love that. And yes, they take the screenwriter's story and make it their own, so to speak. But that's the thing. With a film made out of a book, the story was already finished in the first place! The writer thought it all out so it was finished and the reader could have the full experience.
Or maybe I'm just biased against Kubrick. I don't know. But the film was very annoying. Oh it is brilliant. Brilliant casting, brilliant acting (although Shelley Duvall has to be one of the most annoying actresses in the history of film, and I absolutely hated how useless she was! ack! I don't really remember the book - me & my stupendously bad memory - so I'm not positive her character was indeed that annoying on paper or if it was all Shelley's doing. Now, it was good acting, I'm not saying it wasn't, but her character was irritating!), brilliant editing, those sheets of blood coming from the elevator doors... Yes, freaking brilliant, ok? But did it have to take itself sooooo seriously? What with the camera angles and stuff? And the steadicam, for the love of all that's good in the world, Stanley, we get it, you were in love with the steadicam, but jeeeez! It gave me a headache. All those scenes with the kid rolling around in his tricycle. And the over-the-top music! Gah. I get it, music sets the tone, but really! (Wendy Carlos is good, no doubt about it, but it was just too damn much.) And those final scenes... they dragged on and on and on...
Need I say I was bored yesterday? :P Anyway, Steve hated Kubrick's version (and I hate it how it's referred to as Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, so much so that I don't think many people remember it was written by Steve, argh) and made a TV miniseries, which I haven't seen, incidentally. :/
Damn, it's not raining anymore and it's kinda sunny and hot and I hate it. :/
Oh well... After the movie, Darién let us watch the first 10 minutes or so of Rocky Horror. Yay!!! Tim Curry goodness. Ohh and I discovered Marko is a Rocky virgin! Ha! We soooo have to have a showing now. With all the nonsense and hoopla. :D Yay!
Oh and how cool it was that both films showed last night were two films referenced in Spaced, which we watched recently. :D Heh... then again, Spaced has got to be one of the TV shows with the most pop culture references per square inch of footage ever!
Anyway, after that and because we were already in the neighborhood and the beers were half-price (one dollar beer is fine by me any time) and just because... we went to La Casona. I'm addicted to that place. It's just so surreally cool. I have to take pictures. Anyway, it was somewhat empty. But the music was cool... sort of. And the beers were cold. And the company was nice. :D
After an hour or so... home sweet home. And I felt good. Which is nice. :)
Ahhh... I have to stop for now. I have stuff to post later.
Today's a good day, so far... I'm relaxed, it's raining, and I didn't have to work on the Cuban TV noon cast assignment as I had to for three days... I'm getting better at my job anyway... not that I'm saying it myself, but my editors keep sending me encouraging feedback. So that's alllll good! :D
Yesterday was also good, thank the gods. I've been having bad day/good day/bad day sandwiches lately.... *sigh*
Went to the movie night at Manolo Caracol last night with Marko. Missed the showing of Rocky Horror again, because Marko and I were fashionably late, as usual... But got to see The Shining, once more. Well, technically, I've seen that one puzzle style. One piece here, one piece there... And anyway, errr... I don't quite like it, actually. It's supposed to be brilliant, blah blah Kubrick blah blah... but that's the thing. It's Kubrick's movie. But it's Steve's story, dammit! Ok, so I'm biased in favor of Stephen King, so sue me. But it's always the writer's story, never the director's. Oh I know, I know. There are great directors who do great works of art and stamp their personal seal on a film and I love that. And yes, they take the screenwriter's story and make it their own, so to speak. But that's the thing. With a film made out of a book, the story was already finished in the first place! The writer thought it all out so it was finished and the reader could have the full experience.
Or maybe I'm just biased against Kubrick. I don't know. But the film was very annoying. Oh it is brilliant. Brilliant casting, brilliant acting (although Shelley Duvall has to be one of the most annoying actresses in the history of film, and I absolutely hated how useless she was! ack! I don't really remember the book - me & my stupendously bad memory - so I'm not positive her character was indeed that annoying on paper or if it was all Shelley's doing. Now, it was good acting, I'm not saying it wasn't, but her character was irritating!), brilliant editing, those sheets of blood coming from the elevator doors... Yes, freaking brilliant, ok? But did it have to take itself sooooo seriously? What with the camera angles and stuff? And the steadicam, for the love of all that's good in the world, Stanley, we get it, you were in love with the steadicam, but jeeeez! It gave me a headache. All those scenes with the kid rolling around in his tricycle. And the over-the-top music! Gah. I get it, music sets the tone, but really! (Wendy Carlos is good, no doubt about it, but it was just too damn much.) And those final scenes... they dragged on and on and on...
Need I say I was bored yesterday? :P Anyway, Steve hated Kubrick's version (and I hate it how it's referred to as Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, so much so that I don't think many people remember it was written by Steve, argh) and made a TV miniseries, which I haven't seen, incidentally. :/
Damn, it's not raining anymore and it's kinda sunny and hot and I hate it. :/
Oh well... After the movie, Darién let us watch the first 10 minutes or so of Rocky Horror. Yay!!! Tim Curry goodness. Ohh and I discovered Marko is a Rocky virgin! Ha! We soooo have to have a showing now. With all the nonsense and hoopla. :D Yay!
Oh and how cool it was that both films showed last night were two films referenced in Spaced, which we watched recently. :D Heh... then again, Spaced has got to be one of the TV shows with the most pop culture references per square inch of footage ever!
Anyway, after that and because we were already in the neighborhood and the beers were half-price (one dollar beer is fine by me any time) and just because... we went to La Casona. I'm addicted to that place. It's just so surreally cool. I have to take pictures. Anyway, it was somewhat empty. But the music was cool... sort of. And the beers were cold. And the company was nice. :D
After an hour or so... home sweet home. And I felt good. Which is nice. :)
Ahhh... I have to stop for now. I have stuff to post later.