Worked on the bible over lunch - listing off swathes of characters, chucking in notes (the ee cummings "birthproof safetysuits" made it in, possibly I'll get around to using it) and trying to build up the backstories. Threw together some plotting and basic arc type things but I need to be a bit more macro about that. Worked out a recurring thematic thing. Thing thing thing, it's all things. I looked up some images of the old Barbarella comic book (French), the one that inspired the movie, I might throw up some images in a few days when I'm actually at home on my own machine.
...girl geniuses with high-end diplomatic skills brokering deals with alien neurosurgeons to enhance their own brains...acquiring ultra-intelligence and designing strange technologies as a result...monsters. Spies or super-heroes or a mixture of both. Lots of neon colouring. I still haven't fully tackled the issue of the Setting -- I've invented a city but it is, as yet, still fairly barren in my mind beyond some place called Promethean Avenue. I like that street name.
Is Scarlett Johanssen the new Woody Allen It-Girl? Scoop just rustled past me over the course of work.
It's sort of tempting to acquire some wiki software for my machine so I can coordinate all the story notes and crossreference character biographies...
Grabbed CDs off the shelf at work for the Beatles, Petula Clark, David Bowie, Eartha Kitt, the Animals, and Bush (of all things) to fire in the cold and sexy recesses of the iPod and make strange playlist soundtracks with.
Is it acceptable to end a sentence with "with?"
Pirates of the Carribean 1 - good characters and acting, but the script was lamely appalling in some places and seriously - SPOILERS...
....you're pirates! Why sweetly agree to "live with the consequences" of your actions and get married when you can say FUCK IT and sail off with the other pirates to have sexy adventures and generally be bad-ass? You don't need to be married to be in love, yo. Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are so pretty, though.
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Sir Winston Churchill had just given an important speech before the assembled members of Parliament. One young listener turned to an older member and said, "I am losing my respect for Sir Winston as a grammarian. Did you notice he ended two sentences with prepositions?"
A few days later, the older gentleman told Sir Winston what their young colleague had said. Churchill thought for a moment about the subject of prepositions and then said," You tell our confused young friend that his criticism is the kind of nonsense up with which I shall not put.
Posted by Christian | December 23, 2006 11:48 PM
Posted on December 23, 2006 23:48