i was hoping for purple and it was just kind of lavender
yesterday my sister and i went to ikea (she got a lamp and two chairs and some picture frames, and i got, uh, a couple glasses, because i keep breaking mine) and on the way home i mentioned that flowers in the attic was on tv and we spent some quality time trying to remember the titles of all the books and what happened in them, and she made me look up her local library on my phone to see if they had flowers, which they did but it was checked out. it was such a terrible, ott, purple-romance gothic soap, such a weird fucking story, but for so many girls around our age it was the book you read in middle school/junior high. it was weirdly formative. (my sister actually owned the series. she read flowers in the attic so many times it fell apart. i have no idea how i got my hands on them, tho.)
so i watched it last night and i was kind of disappointed. i was expecting it to be more overblown, and instead they played it really straight. i didn't think the acting was so fabulous, altho apparently kiernan shipka is really good on mad men, and i know heather graham and ellen burstyn are good, so maybe it was just the script and the directing. and i read the book so long ago i've forgotten a lot of it, so i couldn't tell what in the movie had come from the book and what had been added. i thought the kids were confined to the attic, for one thing, and not a fairly standard bedroom with stairs up to the attic so that they had both spaces. i remembered the swan bed, altho in my head it was more impressive and swanny than it was on tv.
i was hoping it would be as ridiculous as i remembered the book being, and... it wasn't. altho there might only be two ways to do it - either completely straight-faced, which is what they did, or completely ott gothic horror soap. it could either revel in the crazy or not. i was hoping it would revel in the crazy. oh well.
i kind of want to reread the book now, see how well (or if) it holds up, and if it's as purple and bugnuts as i remember.
today i met drglam for lunch and she shared a bunch of object lessons in what NOT do to in a science lab, which made me go "where were you two years ago when i was writing about science grad students?" my bigbang from 2012 (the scientific moose) could've had, i dunno, someone blowing up the hood in the lab, or breaking equipment, or spilling something on themselves that was toxic enough to necessitate stripping all their clothes off right there. (evidently this happens. also the occasional touching of one's face or hair while one is wearing gloves, when one is wearing gloves for very good reasons. like, because one is handling radioactive material.) anyway, it was fun. and then we went grocery shopping. :D because i needed food and offered to drive drglam home afterwards. (she doesn't live that far from me.)
i also had to drive out to my parents' house to ice my mom's orchids - my parents are in florida and you don't water the orchids, you put ice cubes in the pots - and in the process discovered that my dad has a book about pirates! why didn't i discover that in october, before nano? altho i wrote kind of romanticized fantasy pirates, so reading about the real thing might not have helped. but i also found a couple books that looked useful for my bigbang. and then of course i had a minor mental flail about the timeframe for said bang, in the sense that i don't know how much time should pass during the course of the fic. >.< i still haven't written anything and i'm still not panicking. yay?
see the anatomy of barbie, my little pony, hello kitty, and others - if you could cut open a barbie, this is the skeleton and internal organs you might see. kinda gross, kinda cool.
so i watched it last night and i was kind of disappointed. i was expecting it to be more overblown, and instead they played it really straight. i didn't think the acting was so fabulous, altho apparently kiernan shipka is really good on mad men, and i know heather graham and ellen burstyn are good, so maybe it was just the script and the directing. and i read the book so long ago i've forgotten a lot of it, so i couldn't tell what in the movie had come from the book and what had been added. i thought the kids were confined to the attic, for one thing, and not a fairly standard bedroom with stairs up to the attic so that they had both spaces. i remembered the swan bed, altho in my head it was more impressive and swanny than it was on tv.
i was hoping it would be as ridiculous as i remembered the book being, and... it wasn't. altho there might only be two ways to do it - either completely straight-faced, which is what they did, or completely ott gothic horror soap. it could either revel in the crazy or not. i was hoping it would revel in the crazy. oh well.
i kind of want to reread the book now, see how well (or if) it holds up, and if it's as purple and bugnuts as i remember.
today i met drglam for lunch and she shared a bunch of object lessons in what NOT do to in a science lab, which made me go "where were you two years ago when i was writing about science grad students?" my bigbang from 2012 (the scientific moose) could've had, i dunno, someone blowing up the hood in the lab, or breaking equipment, or spilling something on themselves that was toxic enough to necessitate stripping all their clothes off right there. (evidently this happens. also the occasional touching of one's face or hair while one is wearing gloves, when one is wearing gloves for very good reasons. like, because one is handling radioactive material.) anyway, it was fun. and then we went grocery shopping. :D because i needed food and offered to drive drglam home afterwards. (she doesn't live that far from me.)
i also had to drive out to my parents' house to ice my mom's orchids - my parents are in florida and you don't water the orchids, you put ice cubes in the pots - and in the process discovered that my dad has a book about pirates! why didn't i discover that in october, before nano? altho i wrote kind of romanticized fantasy pirates, so reading about the real thing might not have helped. but i also found a couple books that looked useful for my bigbang. and then of course i had a minor mental flail about the timeframe for said bang, in the sense that i don't know how much time should pass during the course of the fic. >.< i still haven't written anything and i'm still not panicking. yay?
see the anatomy of barbie, my little pony, hello kitty, and others - if you could cut open a barbie, this is the skeleton and internal organs you might see. kinda gross, kinda cool.