Got my first mini-sun burn this weekend while putting in the garden. YAY WARMTH. Except for how my shoulders are a little ouchie. I always forget to hit my shoulder blades with the sun screen. One day that skin will turn into a pair of leathery angel wings and my dream of becoming the embodiment of an Affliction t-shirt will come true.
Had a film showing at the Dallas International Film Festival on Saturday night, it was sold out, there was a line around the block, and the audience really seemed to love it. Great! Keep your eyes peeled for Wuss at a festival near you, it's Fest season and it's picking up steam. A short film I'm really proud of has it's world premiere on Wednesday, written by and starring my brother in law and featuring yours truly, Narcissism & Me (only one person has gotten the joke so far, which is disappointing) and you can check out the trailer here. It's dark and hilarious, and I can't wait to see it with an audience. I'll post festival dates for that, and the shorts that have been showing so far have all been stellar. If you've never been to a Shorts Festival, you're missing out.
Tried to watch Mildred Pierce on HBO, and without going into any real spoilers, I'll just say that it was the most tedious hour and change of television I've had to endure in a long time. Didn't finish, didn't care to. Dreary, petulant characters with trumped up drama that just doesn't stand the test of time. Oh, noes, poor divorced woman has to (gasp!) wait tables!? It's hard and we should feel bad for her not being able to carry more than one plate on her body and her job is embarrassing to her bratty shit of a daughter? Wah. Good hell, how pathetic. If you're into the show, alrighty, I thought it was absolutely ridiculous, overly dramatic, scenes were too long, the acting was over the top in places. I expect more from Kate Winslet and HBO, I'm just saying.
I need to get some trail shoes this week because on Friday (here's the antidote to the ear worm that may or may not have popped up in your head at that word, also, creepy video of Friday is CREEPY)
dovil gets in town all the way from New Zealand! WOO and a HOO. She'll be shown the delights of North Texas (read: shopping, eating, drinking) and then we head out on Monday to hit the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, and then a weekend of debauchery in Las Vegas with marenfic. We've been planning this trip for a year now, and I swear to god, if she screws this up for me, I am going to straight up murder her ass and leave her in the desert. Ahahaha. It's funny because it's inevitable.
HI GUYS IT IS MONDAY AND WINDY OUT AND I HATE THE WIND. Which means I will be goofing around indoors. How are you? *chin fists*
Had a film showing at the Dallas International Film Festival on Saturday night, it was sold out, there was a line around the block, and the audience really seemed to love it. Great! Keep your eyes peeled for Wuss at a festival near you, it's Fest season and it's picking up steam. A short film I'm really proud of has it's world premiere on Wednesday, written by and starring my brother in law and featuring yours truly, Narcissism & Me (only one person has gotten the joke so far, which is disappointing) and you can check out the trailer here. It's dark and hilarious, and I can't wait to see it with an audience. I'll post festival dates for that, and the shorts that have been showing so far have all been stellar. If you've never been to a Shorts Festival, you're missing out.
Tried to watch Mildred Pierce on HBO, and without going into any real spoilers, I'll just say that it was the most tedious hour and change of television I've had to endure in a long time. Didn't finish, didn't care to. Dreary, petulant characters with trumped up drama that just doesn't stand the test of time. Oh, noes, poor divorced woman has to (gasp!) wait tables!? It's hard and we should feel bad for her not being able to carry more than one plate on her body and her job is embarrassing to her bratty shit of a daughter? Wah. Good hell, how pathetic. If you're into the show, alrighty, I thought it was absolutely ridiculous, overly dramatic, scenes were too long, the acting was over the top in places. I expect more from Kate Winslet and HBO, I'm just saying.
I need to get some trail shoes this week because on Friday (here's the antidote to the ear worm that may or may not have popped up in your head at that word, also, creepy video of Friday is CREEPY)
dovil gets in town all the way from New Zealand! WOO and a HOO. She'll be shown the delights of North Texas (read: shopping, eating, drinking) and then we head out on Monday to hit the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, and then a weekend of debauchery in Las Vegas with marenfic. We've been planning this trip for a year now, and I swear to god, if she screws this up for me, I am going to straight up murder her ass and leave her in the desert. Ahahaha. It's funny because it's inevitable.HI GUYS IT IS MONDAY AND WINDY OUT AND I HATE THE WIND. Which means I will be goofing around indoors. How are you? *chin fists*
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I'm glad your film is getting some Kudos! Hopefully I'll be able to catch it this year at the LR Film Festival!
Had a very successful weekend of apartment hunting for the friend-boy who will be relocating to The Rock soon. It was 80 degress yesterday and I am still high from the Vitamin D. But today is very stormy weather so I'm thinking an afternoon nap might be in order...
Anyway, sun, yay, you, yay, life, yay!
And in this day of Push and other movies that show real hardships for women, esp. when their life is on the line... not interested.
I totally get wanting to having sympathetic characters in [media product], but the source is a novel by one of the fathers of the hardboiled genre. James M. Cain doesn't really do sympathetic. Pathetic characters, sure.
I think the very nature of television kind of takes away from the story, too, as much as I was looking forward to it. There are a lot of funny lines in the book (it's certainly not a comedy, but it lightens the horror a bit), and you really lose out on Mildred and Bert's background as well.
Sorry, that's a bit tl;dr. I was really looking forward to the miniseries because I really like Cain, and while it's not the worst thing I've ever watched, it's definitely not as good as I was hoping it would be, especially when I went to bat for its not being a straight remake of the movie.
Try not to get permanently banned from Las Vegas. Although on second though, it would mean you had a rocking time.
I have a feeling we'll just need bail money, no banning. None of us are smart enough to be card counters. ;)
I bet if you try very hard you can get banned for something other than card counting. (my husband's cousin did get banned for card counting. He paid his bills for a while doing that.)
Anne, it's just dreadful. Slow, slow, slow, unlikeable characters, scenes that take waaaaaaaay too long to play out, ugh. You're not missing anything.
I'll admit it: I'm sorely disappointed in you two. I would expect, at a minimum, stealing a homeless person's shoes or finding some glittery vampire and exposing him/her to the sun to top your list.
Why is she even bothering to visit if SHOPPING is the best you can do? Plus, I don't even see stalking anywhere on your list. Sheesh. Seems like a waste of a trip to me.
Those Somalian pirates need to get their contraband from some</i?where, after all. Did I mention the 2 CASES of wine I have waiting? I apologize for leading you astray, in that case. Oh, and several bottles of tequila. And a donkey.
I'm okay, had a nasty headache yesterday but that was due to the INSANE WEATHER that manifested itself with high winds. I almost flew away today! o_ov
I was only able to get out for 1 hour today, and that went to running errands. *sigh* NEXT YEAR.
Whenever I see *chinfists* at the end of a post I can actually picture you doing it. It's kind of cute. :D Clearly you're trying to lull us into a false sense of security...
Yeah the Mildred Pierce remake is not working for me, I gave up on it really fast, the book and original movie are much better. Crawford played her as a strong woman who hated that people looked down on her for working. I really felt in the original that she was happy working liked was proud, but that her spoiled daughter and Monty the whore looked down on her because they had "class". I feel like this new version has sapped the character of strength. I would think if anything a remake could have taken the opportunity to explore class issues in a more complex way, make Mildred even stronger, etc. I think I pulled a muscle rolling my eyes, at the new version.
Truly I think there are so many issues there about class and giving your children what they want instead of what they need that a good writer could easily update the story bring those issues to the foreground and make it feel relevant. How o you balance your kids wanting to keep up with the friggin Kardashians and fit in with teaching them values. What is the price of so much indulgence because you want them to have what you didn't. Damn I could write a better script, and I only earned a B- in my screen-writing class.
So cool that your movies are showing at festivals! I hope one of them comes my way (Boston).