300 and Da Vinci

My space bar is broken.Deal with it.

Just a little whileagoI saw SPARTAAAAAAA 300. While I liked the way it was filmed in some places,mostly it was likea really long rock video. The dialogue was weird in places, it would gofrom arcane sounding words and rhythm to modern andback to arcane. SOme of the dialogue was just odd. OTOH, it was pretty neat, too. I liked the battle scenes which is rare for me, because usually they bore the crap out of me. Which would have been bad in this movie, since it was mostly battle scene. I was kind ofinto the hacking and slashing in this case. Although I had to look away during the parts with the horsesand elephants. I did see some parallels to the war that's going on now--but I think when you're at war, how cna you not? It does, at least, not force one view or the other on you. To me, Xerxes was Bush. Only really tall, with piercings. And more articulate. There were parts that I thought were unintentionally funny,too, like when all the chicks were stroking that guy's hump. Oh, and the part with Astaroth from Soul Calibur the big giant guy was pretty funny, too.

What I think is going to be my favorite aspect of this movie, though is the fan reaction on the internet. What has clued me in was this thread on the 30STM board, with all the hilarious 300 pictures. My favorite is the stupid Jenga one. I am so easily amused. I hope they post more. (If you hit that link, I apologize in advance for some of the posters there. Ignore Jer, the resident one-handed poster.)

Oh, also last night I finally saw The Da Vinci Code. It was pretty faithful to the book, I thought, which made it fast paced. (Dan Brown owns at pacing. I know he's not writing High Art, but the dude can tell a story.) Man, why did no one tell me that Paul Bettany was hot?

300 and Da Vinci

My space bar is broken.Deal with it.

Just a little whileagoI saw SPARTAAAAAAA 300. While I liked the way it was filmed in some places,mostly it was likea really long rock video. The dialogue was weird in places, it would gofrom arcane sounding words and rhythm to modern andback to arcane. SOme of the dialogue was just odd. OTOH, it was pretty neat, too. I liked the battle scenes which is rare for me, because usually they bore the crap out of me. Which would have been bad in this movie, since it was mostly battle scene. I was kind ofinto the hacking and slashing in this case. Although I had to look away during the parts with the horsesand elephants. I did see some parallels to the war that's going on now--but I think when you're at war, how cna you not? It does, at least, not force one view or the other on you. To me, Xerxes was Bush. Only really tall, with piercings. And more articulate. There were parts that I thought were unintentionally funny,too, like when all the chicks were stroking that guy's hump. Oh, and the part with Astaroth from Soul Calibur the big giant guy was pretty funny, too.

What I think is going to be my favorite aspect of this movie, though is the fan reaction on the internet. What has clued me in was this thread on the 30STM board, with all the hilarious 300 pictures. My favorite is the stupid Jenga one. I am so easily amused. I hope they post more. (If you hit that link, I apologize in advance for some of the posters there. Ignore Jer, the resident one-handed poster.)

Oh, also last night I finally saw The Da Vinci Code. It was pretty faithful to the book, I thought, which made it fast paced. (Dan Brown owns at pacing. I know he's not writing High Art, but the dude can tell a story.) Man, why did no one tell me that Paul Bettany was hot?

Query letter PAU!

I just want to commemorate this moment by saying I have finished my query letter and SASE (folded into thirds the short way!), put them both into a neatly addressed #10 envelope, and am sending the entire cafloofling thing out tomorrow morning to DAW books, betches. This is after FIVE HOURS of cutting, snipping, re-wording, hacking, hair-pulling, chest-beating, soy-drinking, knuckle-cracking, and general OMGWTF-ing. I went through six envelopes, not liking my handwriting on one, neglecting to put "Miss" before my gender-nonspecific first name, having the stamp on crooked, trying a 3-way fold the long way (duh!) and botching some envelope/letter origami that probably bordered on paper porn.

Now I eagerly await my first reply. If it's a rejection, I will gladly accept my first real rejection and tack it to my bedroom door, then I'll rework the query letter and try Silverleaf, because they sound cool, too. And so on down the line. I'll paper my door with rejections if I have to. If it is a request for the manuscript, I will cut my own throat with the manuscript begin the hair-pulling process all over again. I will not vanity-publish. Eventually, I'll pass the sentries at the gates of publication. "What is your quest? What is your favorite color? What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

So, yeah.

ETA: EXCEPT I WROTE THE WRONG DATE AND HAD TO RE-PRINT AND MAKE A NEW ENVELOPE! It's funny. Really, it is.

Query letter PAU!

I just want to commemorate this moment by saying I have finished my query letter and SASE (folded into thirds the short way!), put them both into a neatly addressed #10 envelope, and am sending the entire cafloofling thing out tomorrow morning to DAW books, betches. This is after FIVE HOURS of cutting, snipping, re-wording, hacking, hair-pulling, chest-beating, soy-drinking, knuckle-cracking, and general OMGWTF-ing. I went through six envelopes, not liking my handwriting on one, neglecting to put "Miss" before my gender-nonspecific first name, having the stamp on crooked, trying a 3-way fold the long way (duh!) and botching some envelope/letter origami that probably bordered on paper porn.

Now I eagerly await my first reply. If it's a rejection, I will gladly accept my first real rejection and tack it to my bedroom door, then I'll rework the query letter and try Silverleaf, because they sound cool, too. And so on down the line. I'll paper my door with rejections if I have to. If it is a request for the manuscript, I will cut my own throat with the manuscript begin the hair-pulling process all over again. I will not vanity-publish. Eventually, I'll pass the sentries at the gates of publication. "What is your quest? What is your favorite color? What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

So, yeah.

ETA: EXCEPT I WROTE THE WRONG DATE AND HAD TO RE-PRINT AND MAKE A NEW ENVELOPE! It's funny. Really, it is.