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i sorta fell off the planet there for a while.
summer school has started and it's got me hyper-focused. i'm actually on schedule with my adr work, have been writing (wow!), got my tv fixed (after six months), and sundry other banal domestic things. in other words, things are good.
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scarlite recently about Gods and Generals and Gettysburg, i decided that to commemorate the fixing of my 36 inch tv, i would watch the two back to back. (this is an insanity i don't really recommend for a number of reasons: first of all, they're not very good films ~ they're fun if you love the history, but the acting is bad and the dialogue is atrocious, and there's really not much plot ~ particularly in the first one. the battle sequences, on the other hand are fabulous. oh, and let's not forget that they are interminable: G & G clocks in at 219 minutes and G at 254 minutes ~ that's nearly 8 hours if you need the conversion. yeah, i still haven't finished the second movie yet). as a side note, i picked up Gods & Generals the book at half price for a buck today. i doubt i'll read it through, but i will likely skim the good parts.
anyway, so that's been ridiculous and distracting, but i also needed the time away from the computer. my eyes are really bothering me and i think part of what's been hard on them since i got here is that i work on files all day and then watch movies on the same screen at night. having my tv back helps and also gives me a reprieve from that corner of the house.
a secondary benefit is that when i throw a movie on, chances are i've seen it a dozen times and likely won't be watching the screen too much, which means i can do other things, like paint. so i've got the easel set up and i'm back to bartering and dickering with the gouache (and not being horrifically self-critical about it yet), which is nice. today i was practicing just how small i can draw with a .001 pen. actually managed to do fairly well with heads the size of pea. i'm seriously considering revisiting the business card story (a la gaping void).
a wee experiment doodle
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very lightly tinted
anyway, so that's where i've been the last two days. and prolly where i will be more often, hopefully. i've been writing at night in bed and that's working out well too. i've written two sections of In Fidelity (i guess that's a "chapter"), and though i'm still about 40 pages behind, at least i'm moving forward and i like what i'm doing so far.
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summer school has started and it's got me hyper-focused. i'm actually on schedule with my adr work, have been writing (wow!), got my tv fixed (after six months), and sundry other banal domestic things. in other words, things are good.
talking with
scarlite recently about Gods and Generals and Gettysburg, i decided that to commemorate the fixing of my 36 inch tv, i would watch the two back to back. (this is an insanity i don't really recommend for a number of reasons: first of all, they're not very good films ~ they're fun if you love the history, but the acting is bad and the dialogue is atrocious, and there's really not much plot ~ particularly in the first one. the battle sequences, on the other hand are fabulous. oh, and let's not forget that they are interminable: G & G clocks in at 219 minutes and G at 254 minutes ~ that's nearly 8 hours if you need the conversion. yeah, i still haven't finished the second movie yet). as a side note, i picked up Gods & Generals the book at half price for a buck today. i doubt i'll read it through, but i will likely skim the good parts.anyway, so that's been ridiculous and distracting, but i also needed the time away from the computer. my eyes are really bothering me and i think part of what's been hard on them since i got here is that i work on files all day and then watch movies on the same screen at night. having my tv back helps and also gives me a reprieve from that corner of the house.
a secondary benefit is that when i throw a movie on, chances are i've seen it a dozen times and likely won't be watching the screen too much, which means i can do other things, like paint. so i've got the easel set up and i'm back to bartering and dickering with the gouache (and not being horrifically self-critical about it yet), which is nice. today i was practicing just how small i can draw with a .001 pen. actually managed to do fairly well with heads the size of pea. i'm seriously considering revisiting the business card story (a la gaping void).
a wee experiment doodle
slightly enlarged and
very lightly tinted
anyway, so that's where i've been the last two days. and prolly where i will be more often, hopefully. i've been writing at night in bed and that's working out well too. i've written two sections of In Fidelity (i guess that's a "chapter"), and though i'm still about 40 pages behind, at least i'm moving forward and i like what i'm doing so far.
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I liked them. But, I will agree a lot of the dialogue was forced, and, sometimes, just plain bad. And then there's there's Tom Berenger's Longstreet beard. I kept waiting for it to detach itself and go build a dam somewhere.
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*gigglesnort* Oh my god. That made me laugh so hard. I adore Berenger in that movie, but good lord. The beard! You are completely right of course, but now that image with stick with me anytime I watch the movie. *LOL*
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the facial hair was somewhat improved in the second outing, but longstreet still got the worst of the wear. i find myself staring at it with a mix of horror and fascination whenever i look up at the screen.
period hair is so hard, though. they're trying to add hair on bottom and should be taking hair off the top. most of those men were quite balding, but i guess there's only so much hollywood can do.
still and all, i think they are worthy romps. despite all the negative strikes, they really do capture, in their own way, the immensity of the conflict.
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And wow, Gods and Generals and Gettysburg... That's quite an undertaking. I still have yet to finish G&G.
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even though Gettysburg is the longer film (by more than half an hour), Gods & Generals feels longer. it actually didn't seem quite as bad the second time around (i didn't bust out laughing like i did the first time). but then maybe it was because my expectations were exceptionally low.
still, put a bunch of guys in 19th century uniforms and prance them around on the screen and i'm sufficiently entertained.
still think Gettysburg has the far better soundtrack ~ !
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it basically said: never heard of iced earth before, but looked them up ~ they cover some of my favorite old bands on Tribute to the Gods, but Glorious Burden isn't available yet on my iTunes, so i can't hear clips of it. maybe when it's available i'll buy the Gettysburg trilogy for fun ~ it sounds really interesting based on what it says on the iced earth website (http://www.icedearth.com).
thanks for the tip!
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