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Mar 20, 2006 10:59

I think all Monday's should begin with e-mail from Leticia Aguilar and Kra Krarosaline. It's a good way for the day to begin. It makes it easier to believe I'm part of some vast conspiracy of pirates, smugglers, chorus girls, alien bounty hunters, and Dutch diamond merchants. Of course, the illusion would be easier to maintain if said e-mails were ( Read more... )

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robyn_ma March 20 2006, 16:39:51 UTC
Are you still planning to post further thoughts on V for Vendetta? Vehemently disappointed in it though I was, I've been interested in opposing takes on it, particularly from those who haven't read the book or haven't read it recently, as I realize I am most likely too passionate about the original material to look at the film objectively. (I find myself with such questions as, do I find the not-in-the-book things stupid because they're not in the book or because they're stupid?)

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greygirlbeast March 20 2006, 16:53:22 UTC
Are you still planning to post further thoughts on V for Vendetta?

Probably not. I loved it, and it's all really as simple as that. I loved it as a film entirely independant to its relationship to the graphic novel, and I admire that it said what it said at this point in history, regardless of what the graphic novel said at an earlier point in history. I loved the characters. This sort of gets back to what I just wrote. I try hard not to pick movies apart. I try to watch movies the way I used to read fiction. I want to be immersed, and I go to each film as willing and open to the experience as possible. If I have too many reservations beforehand, I usually don't see it. I want to live the story. Movies (and a little television) is the last "story" I really have left to me.

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robyn_ma March 20 2006, 17:19:15 UTC
Fair enough. Usually I'm willing to let the movie be the movie; I enjoyed the From Hell film for what it was (which was extremely different from Moore's book), but then I didn't feel as emotionally connected to that book - brilliant though it was - as I was to V for Vendetta. So once I got over my initial heated 'All y'all are dorks for liking the movie' response, and found more and more intelligent people enjoying the film as a film apart from its source, I thought I had better examine my response rather than theirs.

I unfortunately don't, however, think the film will make much of a cultural/political ripple, given that Bush's approval rating is in the toilet and has been for months, even many Republicans are starting to distance themselves from him, and the movie is actually (accidentally) being released at a time when the majority of Americans will agree with it. It will be a Sin City-sized cult favorite on DVD; sadly, the Larry the Cable Guy movie will probably knock it off its #1 perch next weekend.

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Off-Topic: Thinking of you... chris_walsh March 20 2006, 18:35:01 UTC
Hi, Caitlin. This made me think of you: I was reading a report I needed to correct and came across a misspelling of "stepmother." It had been written as "Stem-mother."

Stem-mother. Sounded like something you'd've come up with. Sounds maternal and arboreal.

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lizziebelle March 20 2006, 16:43:53 UTC
I'm not anywhere near being a professional writer, but I often have a hard time reading fiction, especially in my genre (fantasy/ urban fantasy). The nitpicker/proofreader in me sees all the mistakes, and it breaks the narrative flow for me. I also get annoyed when I read something that I know I could have done better. ;)

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iliadawry March 20 2006, 17:16:43 UTC
I wanted to say thank you for recommending Night Watch -- I saw it yesterday (with fellow reader cattdragon) and adored it. Guh. Just... guh. It was incredibly gorgeous.

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Spoiling the art by turning it into work. adriang March 20 2006, 18:00:37 UTC
That was fascinating to read. It's a problem I really hadn't thought of, before, although I suppose I should have. At least, I haven't thought of it in terms of writing fiction. I am a computer programmer, and I have said, many times in the past, that the reason most computer games don't appeal to me is that I can't stop thinking about how I would have done parts of them. But, in my case, that's simply the easiest explanation to offer, and this sense of not being able to get past the fact that I do similar work is not nearly so strong as what you describe ( ... )

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stardustgirl March 20 2006, 18:46:59 UTC
I know from my book cover gig that I had the same problem. I started seeing everything more technically / critically / commercially, and started to lose that untainted pool of energy / creativity / whatever that used to fuel what I made. I now churned a product all day, I had no more of that energy to use for my own stuff when I got home. I'm trying to detox from that still, trying to remember what I used to do to get the artwork I really, personally loved, though part of the issue is that the environments I shot have now been turned into plastic subdivisions, or lovely, decaying things restored to pristine, light n bright newness. It's harder to find the atmosphere ( ... )

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greygirlbeast March 20 2006, 18:59:11 UTC
I now churned a product all day,

Fortunately, this hasn't happened to me. Yet. I live in fear of it.

It doesn't surprise me that you have issues with reading now, epecially given how much you write. I think you write more than any other writer I know.

If I do say so myself, I'm inclined to agree. Well, I can think of a couple who probably write as much. But only a couple.

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