random thoughts

[laurie_bunter]

Yeah, I'm still alive. Been busy:

- fangirling over Byakuya
- meeting up with friends with complicated romantic entanglements (the shipping hexagon of doom does happen in real life!)
- watching Beowulf (oh, Neil Gaiman, I love you -- did you write in all the butt naked fighting scenes?)
- reading my latest acquisition, Umberto Eco's On Ugliness -

Comments

[wicked_liz]

*cough* I saw Beowulf today, please tell me ur joking when u say that Gaiman had anything to do with. Please.

Be aware that ur response will determine whether or not I throw my pc out the window. So feel free to "embellish' the truth.

I'm also a Capote fan. To me; good books much like a good thesis should never be hacked out without considerable effort and pain, and stints in rehab. So don't stress the word count, especially when I can vouch for the quality ;) (I think Stephen King also insulted that book, lol)

Also u like Radiohead which earns u a def. plus with me, but do u like Tom Robbins (the writer)?

hate to break it to you but...

[laurie_bunter]

Neil Gaiman's one of the executive producers.

Did I just hear a computer crash through glass?

*ducks to avoid flying shards*

I read an interview on it... Gaiman wrote the script a long time ago, with some other guy. The movie was "in development" for several years until the original copyright of the script reverted back to Gaiman and his partner. Then the original director who commissioned the script said, hey, now we're ready to make it, Gaiman & partner automatically became exec producers. So yeah. He had lots to do with it.

Personally I think it's totally sexed up and not the Beowulf I read in English 21 (Anglo-American Lit: Beowulf to Shakespeare) with an aging crone for a professor reciting the lines from memory. Still, for an afternoon after a coup, I wasn't exactly looking for highbrow entertainment

*horrified*

[wicked_liz]

...

...I honestly have no words, srsly. WTF? This is like watching "Daredevil" with BEN AFFLECK and wondering if Stan Lee had been replaced by a pod person.

T_T

[adam_epp]

Gaiman co-wrote the screenplay with Roger Avary, which was adapted from the epic poem.

[wicked_liz]

Oh. God.

[adam_epp]

Haven't you heard the name of the game? Girl, we call it riding the gravy train.