Saturday, March 11, 2006
Wild and boring.
We're having some wild weather here. In this part of California, snow is pretty much unheard of, but yesterday, there was snow on the Sonoma Mountains (Think hill, and you'll have a good idea). Snow level was 500 feet. It snows in the Sierras, home of the Donner party and awesome Lake Tahoe. It does not snow here, and yet, what used to be a once in 10 or 20 years has now become 3 times in 5 years. Oh, no, there's no climate change! Next thing you know, people I know in New York will be saying, "Yeah, it's cold here, I had to put on a jacket." And I'll be saying, "It's -5!" I may actually have to buy a coat. (OK, I feel better, I got my weather snootiness in.)
Went to see Ultraviolet. Weird, weird movie. It's not bad exactly, so much as a genre of movie ahead of its time. It's a comic book, but no director has yet got a handle on how to bring a comic book to the big screen. One of these days someone will get it, and it'll be awesome. Maybe about the time they start involving women in the story and scriptwriting. In this one, there were 2 women characters. (not counting crowd scene extras). The other women said like three words and then got blown away. The closest thing to a male interest was a completely obvious never in a million years airquotes scientist. What's weird, is the cutest guy (extremely cute, by the way) in the whole movie inexplicably had a French accent (tres charmant!) appeared a few times for reasons I can't figure out and looked eerily like Chris Keeslar. Also, stupid vampire teeth. Obviously, they spent oodles on Violet's three hey-look-at-my-navel costumes and special-fu effects, couldn't they have sprung for realstic vampire fangs?
In writing news, I wrote chapter 1 of the New Historical then stalled out on chapter 2. I think I started that chapter with the wrong character. Or maybe in the wrong place. Need to think about that. Worked on Dark Elf and that went well. Went to my local chapter meeting. Hilary Sares of Kensington was speaking. She was really personable and interesting. Now, I think I'm going to read one of the books I bought at the meeting.
Note to Patti: See, this is how
me time is handled. Movie AND a Book. Way more than 1/2 hour for
me. Because I am a selfish witch. (Anyone, feel free to substitute a rhyming word of your choice.
