CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!!!!

The NYDV conference at the end of this month, if you want to volunteer, let me know NOW so I can pass it on to Evelyn. This is how it works. You work the day before you attend classes. You can attend classes for Avid, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Maya, etc., and network! Find out more from the website. Here is the list of classes.

Somehow I ended up lying across the laps of two gayboys and a hot girl while we all squished inside a car. The city looks very strange that way.

Okay, I have decided to start attending weekend shoots again. The first D.P. and I pretty much left because we just could not put up with the director any more. So we were basically replaced. I went back today because the shoot was in Manhattan and to take photos for the future film website. The new Fiona is a sweet gayboy. The new D.P. is this utterly adorable boy . REALLY. There is something utterly attractive about him despite the fact that he has 1) no social skills and 2) kind of indifferent to everything in a sort of shambling way. But when he smiles, it is so cute and endearing. He is kind of Nino-esque, now that I think about it. Cute. I am so in love. Oh dear. Please let him be straight. I don't care about single, just be straight. Not that that has ever stopped me before, this whole silly straight thing. Bad. Crushing. Is. Bad. He makes me smile. This is bad. Very bad. Argh. Crushes are evil. He is going to attend something that *I* have connections to, thanks to secret twin Evelyn!

where did my johnny marr = frodo entry go????

argh.

Evelyn: I bet David Bowie's area is ginormous.
Sarah (makes vague groping gesture): My precioussssssssss...

Anything is funnier if you put "my precious" after it. For instance:

Bush has a new economic plan...my precious.
I'm going to the grocery store...my precious.
He's such a motherfucker...my precious.
More tea, my precious?

Yesterday was very nice. Instead of 40 e-mails at the end of the day, I had 9. Really lovely. Maybe I will do this every week. Thanks muchly to all for not taking it personally.

Yesterday's street find: one pineapple in front of a hotel. It was sitting on top of a pole, waiting for me, saying, "Fiona, you know you want to take me home with you." How could I resist such an appeal?

(this is from Tuesday)
This is a great day in my life, for I have just been spammed by The Real Tuesday Weld, who sent out an e-mail petition against the U.S. going to war.

Does anybody use Greymatter? I'm thinking of using it to update loveloev since it would give me the ability to update dynamically and create new pages easily. Any thoughts? I thought about using Moveable Type, but the commercial license is $150. Shit, anyone know of a good business software? That they would be willing to...you know...donate to the cause?

For dinner, Sammi and I made latkes and fried rice, we are the perfect Jewish-Chinese alliance. Couldn't help making up a song to our little cooking session after Sammi enthusiastically said, "This is what America is all about!" America is all about fried food, damnit. Here is the song, music from Journey On from Ragtime:

"Two latkes meeting
at the moment
in a frying pan.

One being cooked,
one going out,
LAAAATKES!"

Okay maybe you need to be us to be amused by this.

More interesting things that I have picked up off the street today: an illustrated letter from a Japanese woman, negatives of photos of candles, and a photo of doll faces. They are all sort of dirty and trampled on. The letter is especially poignant. Reiko writes to Valerie that she has enjoyed the class and hopes they will be friends forever. I want to develop the negatives, but they are very dirty and possibly undevelopable. Am contemplating some sort of decorative display of found items to stick on my wall or in the living room.

Robert Jordan is a very snarky man, which is a little surprising since his books are sooooooo serious. Then again, most fantasy authors are snarky people. His favourite line is "Read the book." He told a guy that the answer to his question was "so obvious." He was only asked fanboy/girl-esque questions, which visibly irritated him. The Q&A began with him giving out pronounciations, the only one I wasn't sure about was Aes Sedai. Aes SeDAY sounds better than Aes SeDYE, but RJ wrote the books and Aes SeDYE it is. He said that someone has figured out who killed Asmodean from the last two books. The audience was full of my people aka geeks and freaks. It was lovely. Did not stick around to get anything signed, as I am v. poor and not really interested in reading the latest Wheel of Time book since I would have to read the entire series all over again or the latest won't make any sense. However, if the clues to who killed Asmodean are in the last two, maybe I will just read those. Asmodean was my favourite character! He wore lace at his wrists and strummed the guitar; obviously he was the wimpy emo boy of the Forsaken.

Please, just for one day, leave me alone. Do not e-mail me. Do not call me. Just leave me alone so I can do what I need to do in peace.

Yes, I am that stressed.

Instead of a Best films of 2002 list, here is a bitch list. Some of these I clearly set myself up for torture.

Movies That Made Me Wonder When I Would Get to Leave the Theatre and Escape Before More Brain Cells Perished

1. Moonlight Mile
2. Sweet Home Alabama
3. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
4. Queen of the Damned
5. Punch Drunk Love
6. About Schmidt

My favourite movie that I saw this year, which will not be released until perhaps NEXT year, was Millennium Actress.

This is such an awesome thread (oops, the link was wrong, has been corrected now). I heart ILX. One of these days I need to write a long dissertation about all the ways I love ILX and ILM.

For some reason I have a line from The Smiths' William It Was Really Nothing stuck in my head: "Oh, would you like to marry me? And if you like you can buy the ring." What an earworm.

The New Order box set "Retro" came out today. *sigh* Time to dish out the credit card.

JOHN Cameron Mitchell, Japhy. James Cameron is the director of Titanic. BTW, your comments are broken!

William Gibson, of all people, has a blog.

Think people are stupid and take up too much space? Time for a little genocide. There is a ranking by country. Man, this is so un-PC it's hilarious.

Britney Spears to Play Sherlock Holmes. Dear Lord.

how strange it is to read about something from someone else and to be able to see it from your terrace. so that is what the structure is, a new hotel. i resent it. this thing is literally in my backyard. first of all, during the summer i could not sleep past seven am without hearing the construction OR their music. once, i was playing janni's comp of new order rarities. and as i was listening from my bathroom (which is all the way on the other side of the apartment from the terrace which faces the hotel), i wondered, is this a new remix of temptation? i don't remember a remix having such a strong salsa backing track. i went back to my room and then i realised that it was coming from the construction workers and it was fucking loud. secondly, the structure is pretty tall and it is blocking the light. will i be able to sit on the terrace and read on nice summer afternoons this year? i had better, or i'm going to throw rotten eggs at the motherfuckers.

r. williams has a mad cute olive green tank, very well-designed, for sale on his website. but 27 pounds and shipping? and i want escapology. embarassing. i have the whole thing on mp3 but i want an actual album. import prices can suck my dick though.

e.f. benson and the lucia novels are on the list of books to read. society novels set in the 1920s? say no more, i'll send bunter out for copies.

Thank heavens, more pervy hobbit fanciers are on the way. I can't wait to see Return of the King mainly for this scene:

Frodo-chu has been taken prisoner. He is lying in a cell, nekkid. Sam rushes to him, clasps El Fro to his bosom and wipes his tender brow. Sam scopes the action and sees the truth of large hobbit feet. Homeroticism ensues. Fangirls everywhere freak out.

If this scene is not included (IT IS IN THE BOOK DAMNIT), then I will cry.


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I represent the epic grandeur of the decentered self in the abyss of modernity. Even my bird-lizard is a hermeneutic fusion of the subconscious mind and the intangible Other.
My unmentioned secret: That pesky recurring nightmare about badger pudding.

Likely fate: Hufflepuff legend.

Just recently found out that Matthieu Kassovitz (aka Nino of Amelie fame) directed La Haine (Hate). He is cute and socially aware, what's not to love? An interesting thing that was mentioned in a NYT review of Amelie was that though the film is clearly a fantasy of Paris, M.K.'s presence in the film points to the lack of people of colour and the issues around race in France that Amelie attempts to literally whitewash.

The Pianist is an amazing film. Intense, unsentimental, sparing in its use of dialogue and score other than the piano scenes. It all adds up to an extremely powerful film, one that left me dazed for nearly ten minutes after. Much better than Schindler's List, but then again, I think SL is emotionally manipulative and well, a piece of Spielbergian crap. Having said all this in praise of The Pianist, you could not pay me to see it again, it is just too painful.

NOBODY has answered my question re: post-rampaging-Willow world. Shame.