She says bring it on down, bring on the wave...

[greygirlbeast]

Yesterday was productive, but only in the dullest sort of way. Nothing much worth recounting here. Proofreading and more work on Sirenia Digest 13, which will likely go out to subscribers tomorrow.

This time last year, I was struggling with polishes to the Daughter of Hounds manuscript. Just a mountain of pages in a cardboard box. And here, a year

Comments

[robyn_ma]

'The reviews I'd read were uniformly negative'

Hmm, that's odd, given that it got an 84% fresh rating at rottentomatoes.com. Maybe you looked at the 16% reviews.

I found it far and away the year's best horror film, which isn't saying much considering that 2006 was one of the worst years for horror films on record. The reviews I saw were by and large 'OMG, this actually doesn't blow and suck at the same time.'

[greygirlbeast]

Hmm, that's odd, given that it got an 84% fresh rating at rottentomatoes.com. Maybe you looked at the 16% reviews.

No, it's not odd. I do not read a lot of movie reviews (I never look at rottentomatoes.com, for example). I'd read only a handful of reviews for this film, mostly in the local press, and they were negative.

[robyn_ma]

Oh, admit it, you await with bated breath Jeffrey Lyons' incisive critiques every week.

[greygirlbeast]

Oh, admit it, you await with bated breath Jeffrey Lyons' incisive critiques every week.

Sadly, I can only admit that, off the top of my head, I can't even say who Jeffrey Lyons is...

[styggian]

Several of us went and saw The Descent at the theatre simply because it sounded like the best movie out at the time and were pleasantly surprised as well.
I knew nothing about it except that there were people trapped in a cave and that they had redone the ending for american audiences.
I didn't even know about the creatures that they found in there so they were a surprise as well.

[drewsilla]

We have yet to see "The Descent", but some reason I feel like there is a faint underlying tone of vampirism in it, judging by the commercials that I've seen. Am I right, going by the idea that there is many, many different forms of vampires lore out there, I mean.

[greygirlbeast]

Am I right

Nope.

[shadowmeursault]

today, Amazon informs me that my pre-order of Daughter of Hounds has shipped, and that i should expect it come January 8th or so.
oh, the anticipation.....

[reverendcrofoot]

Even the score was quite good, even though a few bits were stolen directly from Ennio Morricone's score for John Carpenter's The Thing.

Do you perhaps mean Inspired, Influenced, Similar, Akin, Mistakable, or Consanguineous rather than "Stolen Directly?"

[greygirlbeast]

Do you perhaps mean Inspired, Influenced, Similar, Akin, Mistakable, or Consanguineous rather than "Stolen Directly?"

No. I tried to consider it homage, but if were that, then it was a crude sort, indeed. So, I think stolen fits the deed.

[reverendcrofoot]

  I know it shouldn't bug me, but the stolen directly comments reminds me of a slightly nicer version of something you went through.

This man, David Julyan, is essentially being accused of plagiarism (to me being unoriginal is much different) something on that occasion even you weren't subjected to. I may be wrong but I thought that most of Hollywood Guild people had to submit their work in order to get credit for it... You know it really isn't worth all the research and I'm sorry about making this my bone. It's not like I even know the man. Maybe it's just a me thing.

[greygirlbeast]

Maybe it's just a me thing.

Maybe so.