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I don't update daily, sorry but I have a life and all that. I will update at least once a week. I'm a writer for SieEnt, a Video Game development company, a Community faculty member in Screenwriting at Metropolitan State University and have a full time job as an analyst at the U of MN. I have an MFA in Creative Writing/Screenwriting from Goddard College, and a bit of a snarky attitude, so hopefully you'll at least be entertained, if not informed. Thanks for stopping by.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Super 8

Watched the JJ Abrams helmed Super 8 last night. Felt like I was a kid watching Close Encounters all over again. Quite amazing how he captured all the magic of a Spielberg flick from the 70s yet managed to avoid the hyperbolic sentimentality usually found in the Spielberg films. Though the two dads banding together was a bit much. I mean, who didn't see that coming. The kids were all great, very impressed with the quality of the cast. This brings my total number of films so far this year to 10. It seems there supposed to be movies new to me, and since I've seen the LOTR trilogy so many times, I'll just count them all as 1 for the purposes of Fifty Fifty. Which is where the weird math comes from. Just in case you were pondering.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

This reading and watching movie thing is easy.

So I've read 4 books so far this year:
The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K. Dick
Staying Well With Guided Imagery by Belleruth Naparstek
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik (book club selection, meh)
Clans of the Alphane Moons by Philip K. Dick

Movies I've watched so far this year, in reverse chronological order:
The Burrowers
Quantum of Solace
Casino Royale
Contagion
Phase 7
An Inconvenient Truth
Cowboys & Aliens
Fright Night
Return of the King
The Two Towers
The Fellowship of the Ring

For a total of 11, which equals a movie just about every other day. This is not including episodes of TV shows. I really need to work on writing more.

Monday, January 2, 2012

So far so good

Managed to knock off 2 films yesterday as we started our annual viewing of The Lord of the Rings. Every year on New Year's Day we watch, or attempt to watch, all three extended versions of the films. Yesterday we only made it through the first two, but we plan to watch the third tonight. One year we tried a Star Wars Marathon, but you know what? Those, sadly, don't hold together so well to make one cohesive story. It's as if the first three were done after the last three or some such nonsense ;-) Also, Episodes 1-3 are pretty bad. Yes, some epic battles, but plot, script, acting...meh. So we scrapped that idea and returned to the viewing of LOTR. It's the only time of the year we watch the films, so it's always a treat. Cannot WAIT for The Hobbit.
Also finished the first book of the year Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K. Dick. He's just brilliant, and crazy enough to really push the boundaries. Can't believe this one hasn't been adapted into a film yet, it would be great.
So far so good on my Fifty/Fifty pledge.