30 Days Of Night - Official Site
It's been a long time since I've seen a good vampire movie. A LONG time. I didn't realize how long until I went to see 30 Days of Night. Josh Hartnett + based on a graphic novel about vamps = I'm going to see it whether it is the total bomb or sucks eggs.
It didn't suck. Not even close. Here's the warning: this is not the old Lestat that we've seen so much of lately. Or Jean-Claude or God help us, that atrocious person on the CBS Vamp show with Logan Echolls does Vamp.
They are exactly as vampires were meant to be, before someone romanticized them: hungry, evil, and WAY FUCKING CREEPY. Reminded me a bit of The Gentlemen from Buffy.
Thirty Days of Night, in case you live under a rock and didn't catch the trailer, is about a small town in Alaska going through the thirty day sun-out. A group of vamps decide this is the perfect place to come and play. Josh Hartnett is the sherriff who is adorably heroic, but not in any kind of creepy way.
The gore, for once, is fitting. They are vamps after all- there has to be some decapitation and a lot of blood. I can stomach the gore when it makes sense. Saw is pushing the limit of my tolerance and let's just forget things like Hostel altogether. If you're sensitive, stick to Lestat or track down that Henry guy on lifetime. He's adorable and doesn't sleep in a frakking freezer.
I am both in love with and destroyed by the ending, depending on when you ask me. Either way, it was a great flick. Certain scenes were so good, I swear they came right off the page of the graphic novel. Alaska as backdrop for a vamp flick was a fabulous touch- blood on the snow just looks... well, it's one of Ren's few nightmares, let's put it that way.
And of course I took the muses to the movie. Key didn't get the point, and was mad that someone was pissing around in Alaska. Erik was entirely amused by the whole thing. Ren loved it, but was a bit disturbed. The angel dorks showed up around the end, and I had to endure the hairy eyeball from Cris for going to see it in the first place.
Now I'm off to write; Kat says she's been trapped in a bad episode of Seinfeld for three days and if someone doesn't do anything about it, she's going to withold all my caffiene. Ack.
Music of the day: Muse, Muse, Muse. Maybe a side of Breaking Ben later.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
From Neil Gaiman's Journal: Why write?
Neil Gaiman - Neil Gaiman's Journal: Why write?
Mostly I'm just testing out this Google/Blogger/ Send it to my blog feature. Now that I have a fancy computer with Vista and all kinds of gadgets to keep me too preoccupied to write, that is.(Play PacMan on your desktop and Blackjack on your homepage! GASP!)
But I spend a lot of time trying to explain to the norms why I live in my own head and spend my time writing. The master Neil Gaiman sums it up better than I could ever hope to. Not that I've ever made it to the end of something. Yet.
HA! Now I actually feel confident that we WILL get to the end of Kat's story, eventually. Even if I only get two to ten pages a week, we'll get there. I have faith. And a lot of extra characters who want attention now that someone is musing.
Speaking of all that, I really need to get back to working on the story.
What I'm writing: Kat, as always. We're up to Chapter 13 in which Kat must devise a plan to escape a creepy sandcastle and also Las Vegas. Not the one with Josh Duhamel lmao.
What I'm reading: The Book of Joby, by someone named Ferrari of all things. Think... Memnoch without all the vampire drama, Gibbs as Lucifer, Cris and Zack being completely adorable and doing a scary good job of playing themselves (Gabriel and Michael, respectively), and a completely adorable little boy who has God all mixed up with King Arthur. Well, that's the beginning anyway. I really love this book, we may have to do a book report someday in the future.
What we're listening to: MCR, with a side of Muse to get the story kicking for the day.
ummm that's all, shoo everyone so we can get to work or something.
Mostly I'm just testing out this Google/Blogger/ Send it to my blog feature. Now that I have a fancy computer with Vista and all kinds of gadgets to keep me too preoccupied to write, that is.(Play PacMan on your desktop and Blackjack on your homepage! GASP!)
But I spend a lot of time trying to explain to the norms why I live in my own head and spend my time writing. The master Neil Gaiman sums it up better than I could ever hope to. Not that I've ever made it to the end of something. Yet.
HA! Now I actually feel confident that we WILL get to the end of Kat's story, eventually. Even if I only get two to ten pages a week, we'll get there. I have faith. And a lot of extra characters who want attention now that someone is musing.
Speaking of all that, I really need to get back to working on the story.
What I'm writing: Kat, as always. We're up to Chapter 13 in which Kat must devise a plan to escape a creepy sandcastle and also Las Vegas. Not the one with Josh Duhamel lmao.
What I'm reading: The Book of Joby, by someone named Ferrari of all things. Think... Memnoch without all the vampire drama, Gibbs as Lucifer, Cris and Zack being completely adorable and doing a scary good job of playing themselves (Gabriel and Michael, respectively), and a completely adorable little boy who has God all mixed up with King Arthur. Well, that's the beginning anyway. I really love this book, we may have to do a book report someday in the future.
What we're listening to: MCR, with a side of Muse to get the story kicking for the day.
ummm that's all, shoo everyone so we can get to work or something.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Hooray for Hollywood
Who would have ever thought I would actually advocate going to Hollywood Video again? But lo and behold they are closing a bunch of their stores, and selling every last thing. Five bucks a movie, YAY. Anyone who loves movies, especially the old stuipd ones, needs to hurry up and get in there before the good ones are all gone. I'm totally on a mission to find some things I've been wanting to get on DVD but haven't ever had time to search for. Two stores down in two days, and I'm pretty sure this is all a secret plan of Hollywood Corporate to get back all the money I swore I'd never give them in revenue after we parted ways. So far we got a Ren movie, a Deedle movie, a Cris movie YAY, one dragon, one fairy tale I've never seen but looks cute, several horror movies for Ren who wanted to buy the whole damn section regardless of its Meyers content, an Arthur movie, and About Last Night which if I have to explain the concept behind THAT movie, what the fuck are we even doing here.
In other news, three months after the last post and we're almost at 33K. Not very much as far as progress goes, until you count the fact that I have it all completely plotted out and I work about 50 hours a week. But the greatest part? I'm having FUN with it. I finally found a voice to speak through that translates. Translates to what, well that's debatable. But I'm writing, and that's all that matters. I think the fact that somewhere along the lines this spring and summer, I decided to hell with trying to live up to anyones standards but my own. Yes, I write or wrather play around at it. No, I definitely do not have delusions of grandeur- I'm just doing it because its fun, and maybe when I'm done I'll have something to entertain someone with. I love telling stories and entertaining people with them. Out loud and in person, I completely suck at it, and get bogged down by things like shyness and being retardedness. But I stopped worrying about whether people know I live in the land of the loony tunes or not. I've got lions and tigers and a bunch of other dumb dorks around almost constantly, which pretty much means I'm having more fun.
What else.... I've sort of become a regular at the Louisville zoo. I'm working a lot. My divorce still is not final, sigh, because Jackoff Jason spent his summer dragging his feet. I'm boycotting christmas- we're going to have Nightmare Before Christmas decorating theme going on this year in my new apartment. Hopefully they won't kick me out when I put up my halloween tree.
Random cool things: Heroes is back (Ben, YAY); Kid Nation, Gossip Girl, and Life on Wednesdays; finding new fruit to throw at the TV on Thursdays; Stephenie Meyer books; Gilmore Girls on DVD, but only seasons five and six for liony cuteness; Muse,Bryan Adams, and Kat's Rain playlist; husbands of old friends who are successfullly published brilliant authors and other good friends with Maggies (these last two need to be promoted, but I'm saving that for another day, because the end of a post about Hollywood Video is SO not the proper place)- and I think that's it for the moment.
Current music- Rob Zombie. Ren highly recommends the new Halloween movie, by the way, but only after an original Halloween movie marathon at home.
In other news, three months after the last post and we're almost at 33K. Not very much as far as progress goes, until you count the fact that I have it all completely plotted out and I work about 50 hours a week. But the greatest part? I'm having FUN with it. I finally found a voice to speak through that translates. Translates to what, well that's debatable. But I'm writing, and that's all that matters. I think the fact that somewhere along the lines this spring and summer, I decided to hell with trying to live up to anyones standards but my own. Yes, I write or wrather play around at it. No, I definitely do not have delusions of grandeur- I'm just doing it because its fun, and maybe when I'm done I'll have something to entertain someone with. I love telling stories and entertaining people with them. Out loud and in person, I completely suck at it, and get bogged down by things like shyness and being retardedness. But I stopped worrying about whether people know I live in the land of the loony tunes or not. I've got lions and tigers and a bunch of other dumb dorks around almost constantly, which pretty much means I'm having more fun.
What else.... I've sort of become a regular at the Louisville zoo. I'm working a lot. My divorce still is not final, sigh, because Jackoff Jason spent his summer dragging his feet. I'm boycotting christmas- we're going to have Nightmare Before Christmas decorating theme going on this year in my new apartment. Hopefully they won't kick me out when I put up my halloween tree.
Random cool things: Heroes is back (Ben, YAY); Kid Nation, Gossip Girl, and Life on Wednesdays; finding new fruit to throw at the TV on Thursdays; Stephenie Meyer books; Gilmore Girls on DVD, but only seasons five and six for liony cuteness; Muse,Bryan Adams, and Kat's Rain playlist; husbands of old friends who are successfullly published brilliant authors and other good friends with Maggies (these last two need to be promoted, but I'm saving that for another day, because the end of a post about Hollywood Video is SO not the proper place)- and I think that's it for the moment.
Current music- Rob Zombie. Ren highly recommends the new Halloween movie, by the way, but only after an original Halloween movie marathon at home.
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