I'm so pathetic, you guys. A year's time seems to be exactly long enough for me to forget what I'm like every single steenking summer around here. I forget that I'm going to get insomnia (or maybe I just go back to utterly disbelieving that I - *IIIIII!* - could ever have the slightest difficulty doing what Tiggers do best - falling asleep). I ( Read more... )

I love Tim Burton, despite the fact that I all too often find watching his movies to be just like turning up at the most sumptuous banquet imaginable only to come away hungry. Big Fish is my favorite Tim Burton movie (that I know of), because it is the only one (that I know of) where the story fully inhabits and lives up to its own spectacle. ( Read more... )

I wrote the bulk of this last night - or, more accurately, in the wee hours this morning, before finally getting tired and toddling off to bed.So: I am a gnome. And also a very poor lj-friend of late. But the inevitable excuses will have to wait for another time. I should *so* be in bed right now, but I can't seem to sleep! All my excitement and ( Read more... )