It's a decent enough early spring day out there, 72˚F and partly cloudy.

Yesterday, the long-awaited announcement was posted to Facebook at 4:30 p.m. I'll repost it here:

(quote) "Josh Boone's Mid-World Productions has optioned both The Red Tree and The Drowning Girl to develop into feature films. I'm writing the screenplay for The Red Tree. Josh ( Read more... )

Sunny and cooler today. Currently, it's 80˚F, feels like 85˚F.

Yesterday was a good writing day. Probably the only good writing day I've had so far with Agents of Dreamland (excepting maybe the day I began it). I did 1,231 words. Yesterday, at least, I heard the music.

I am so far behind. Remember that list I posted here back on June 27th? All ( Read more... )

So, turns out I actually omitted one of my favorite vampire movies off the list yesterday, Dracula's Daughter (1936). So, I'm going to repost the list, this time in chronological order, with that addition of that film:

01. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
02. Drácula (1931, "the Spanish Dracula")
03. Vampyr (1932)
04. Dracula's ( Read more... )

For no particular reason, I think I'll post a list of what I consider the twenty-nine very best vampire films (in no particular order):

01. The Hunger (1983)
02. The Lost Boys (1987)
03. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
04. Vampire's Kiss (1989)
05. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
06. Byzantium (2012)
07. Låt den rätte komma in (2008 ( Read more... )

In response to a list created by S. T. Joshi, my own attempt at a "best horror novels" list for the 20th Century. Some caveats/notes ( Read more... )

Well, there would have been photos today. But yesterday, when I was going to dump everything onto my iMac, I couldn't find the cameras. Spooky was out, and she knew where they were, and I could not discern their hiding place. So, maybe tomorrow ( Read more... )

I have to make this fast, because we overslept, and I woke to an Alabaster-related crisis ( Read more... )

The first entry of a new year. It's clear and cold outside, the sun too far away to help at all. And it occurred to me today that I could choose to continue the blog until April 15th, which is the tenth anniversary of the LJ (though I started at Blogger on November 21, 2001). It's a thought ( Read more... )

Comments, kittens?

Only about five hours sleep last night. It's not the way I meant to begin the new year.

So, finally, a list of my favorite films of 2012. All but Cloud Atlas appear on the list in a more or less random order. I have placed Cloud Atlas at the top because, I believe, it genuinely is the best and most important film of 2012:

1: ( Read more... )

I am realizing all over again that, as with books, and as with paintings, and...as with all art...there are human beings who are simply too stupid to be trusted with great film. I saw yesterday that a reviewer at CNN has chosen Cloud Atlas the second worst film of 2012. Then it was pointed out to me that a reviewer at Time chose it as the worst ( Read more... )