gollum42 (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gollum42) wrote,@ 2006-05-06 18:15:00 |
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Goreyesque, yesyesyes
Ah. The expansive summer stretches forwards before me like one of those poor bearded fellows on those medieval torture stretching racks. Can you hear the bones crack? I can.
But it is summer. It feels it. It is warm outside and cold and conditioned (air) in my room. New addition to room however:
Yip yip!
Currently listening to:
Oh, those were the days. When Wendy Carlos was still Walter Carlos.
Hmmm.
Quote time:
"For some reason, my mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like."
-Edward Gorey
Those words make my mind curl up, foetal position style, under the weight of its staggering truth! Ah. Ah. Ah.
The fact that, were there lines dictating all human interactions, two lines would go from gorey, to his books, to me, to on my bookshelf above where I sleep, brings me great joy.
I'm getting wordy again, like I used to. I guess it's cause I am back home, and have the time to do this, unlike at College, where everything was either maddening busy or mind numbingly boring. I worked on nine films this year. That's pretty good. Other things weren't good, were awful and confusing, and in retrospect exactly what I should have realized would be coming to me. Not in any doomed, dramatic sense, but more as a natural progression of my already 'very me' times.
Speaking of very me. I have given myself a summer film goal, and that is this:
I am writing a feature length screenplay adaptation of "The Curse of the Blue Figurine," by John Bellairs.
Observe the cover:
Yes. The John Bellairs books were what got me into Gorey, and well, general spookiness, when I was a kid, back in elementary school. Defining books, they!
And they've never been turned into films, save some 1970's tv mini abomination films, which don't count, so I think it's certainly time someone (me) attempted to write one as a film.
I am doing this partially as an excercise, to see if I can. And if I can, well then I have a feature length screenplay to show, to have, as an example of what I can do. It's sort of difficult, adapting something, but I am enjoying the challenge...and more than anything I am enjoying having the TIME to enjoy the challenge.
Finally I am not busy with OTHER'S film work, so I can busy myself with my own! Yes!
However, sooner or later (hopefully, though ghastly) I will have a summer job, which will keep me busy otherways. I don't look forward to it really. Though it's necessary. I applied to a lot of bookstores.
Yes.
And that's my big update.
Ah. The expansive summer stretches forwards before me like one of those poor bearded fellows on those medieval torture stretching racks. Can you hear the bones crack? I can.
But it is summer. It feels it. It is warm outside and cold and conditioned (air) in my room. New addition to room however:
Yip yip!
Currently listening to:
Oh, those were the days. When Wendy Carlos was still Walter Carlos.
Hmmm.
Quote time:
"For some reason, my mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like."
-Edward Gorey
Those words make my mind curl up, foetal position style, under the weight of its staggering truth! Ah. Ah. Ah.
The fact that, were there lines dictating all human interactions, two lines would go from gorey, to his books, to me, to on my bookshelf above where I sleep, brings me great joy.
I'm getting wordy again, like I used to. I guess it's cause I am back home, and have the time to do this, unlike at College, where everything was either maddening busy or mind numbingly boring. I worked on nine films this year. That's pretty good. Other things weren't good, were awful and confusing, and in retrospect exactly what I should have realized would be coming to me. Not in any doomed, dramatic sense, but more as a natural progression of my already 'very me' times.
Speaking of very me. I have given myself a summer film goal, and that is this:
I am writing a feature length screenplay adaptation of "The Curse of the Blue Figurine," by John Bellairs.
Observe the cover:
Yes. The John Bellairs books were what got me into Gorey, and well, general spookiness, when I was a kid, back in elementary school. Defining books, they!
And they've never been turned into films, save some 1970's tv mini abomination films, which don't count, so I think it's certainly time someone (me) attempted to write one as a film.
I am doing this partially as an excercise, to see if I can. And if I can, well then I have a feature length screenplay to show, to have, as an example of what I can do. It's sort of difficult, adapting something, but I am enjoying the challenge...and more than anything I am enjoying having the TIME to enjoy the challenge.
Finally I am not busy with OTHER'S film work, so I can busy myself with my own! Yes!
However, sooner or later (hopefully, though ghastly) I will have a summer job, which will keep me busy otherways. I don't look forward to it really. Though it's necessary. I applied to a lot of bookstores.
Yes.
And that's my big update.
