bup bup bup ~

it gets to a point in homework evasion that the diversions you take on to avoid the homework start to lose all their zing ~ because you know the clock is ticking and eventually you're going to have to do your dad-gum homework. so as much as i am wasting the day, i'm not having as much fun doing so as i'd like.

and if i see one more tv show or read one more story about the evil priest who turns out to be a man who murdered the real priest and is impersonating him, i'm going to scream. it's become a way to make a priest evil and spout a lot of hysterical religious falderol and then you tidily back out of it and say "just kidding" and that somehow makes it all good. i ain't buying it. stop selling.* i suppose, though, i guess it's better than having just a wacked out insane priest who really is a priest. feh.

* aforementioned Ghost Rider issue (many posts back) is excused from this mini-rant on account of the murderer-pretending-to-be-a-priest wasn't being evil, he was just hearing Johnny Blaze's confession and actually trying to pretend to be a priest (that was a cool plot twist).

okay, that was totally random ~

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in painting news, i finished a partner for the doll i posted yesterday and painted a third (who now also needs a partner). i'm more than ready to leap to the next phase, but am hesitant. it also looks as if i will run out of diet Coke shortly and so i am wondering about whether i should go to the grocery (and maybe use one of those free rental coupons i still have). if i just weren't so dern lazy. these things are all related of course because i can't possibly be expected to function without diet Coke.

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you ever just write entries and don't really know why?

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i'm so manic and the soda is running low ~

five "fast facts":

why i am a writer: i throw parties that no one ever comes to.

why i write about Jesuits, soldiers, and dentists: dentists ~ goes back to Hermie the elf ~ that's all there is to say about that oddly enough. soldiers ~ i want to believe in ordinary heroes, simply put. Jesuits ~ well, they're soldiers (of God), though not so ordinary. beyond that, i've yet to piece this one together. nothing in my past explains how they infiltrated my psyche (sneaky little buggers). confluence? the hand of God? saint iggy is a determined fella, that's fer sure.

early reconstructive surgery: first evidence in nepal dating back to the middle ages ~ used to reconstruct noses for frostbite victims by grafting still-attached skin from the forehead. fascinating stuff and wonderful conversation starter at parties (that no one comes to).

tonight's dinner: popcorn and chocolate. and i wonder why i'm having a mood swing ~ hahahahaha ~

the cross of Cortez: it belongs in a museum!

speaking of which, from a Spanish site: Futuro Cine two skeery movie rumors about spielberg projects:

Indiana Jones IV

Hace años que debería estar rodada y estrenada, pero el proyecto se paró en seco cuando el guión que se iba a filmar apareció en Internet. Puesto que George Lucas y Steven Spielberg quieren llevar todo el asunto en secreto, contrataron a Frank Darabont (director de “Cadena Perpetua” y “La Milla Verde”) para que volviera a escribir el guión de esta 4ª parte. Pero el rodaje (previsto para este 2005) se volvió a paralizar porque, según parece, a Lucas no le gustó el nuevo guión ya terminado. Sin embargo, ultimamente corren rumores de la posible incorporación de un nuevo personaje, Idaho, la hija de Indiana Jones y que estaría interpretada por Natalie Portman.

Abraham Lincoln

Una biografía escrita por Doris Kearns Goodwin servirá de base para el film que Steven Spielberg está preparando sobre la vida del presidende Lincoln y la Guerra Civil Norteamericana. El director está en tratos con el actor Liam Neeson para que acepte el papel protagonista y así comenzar el rodaje el próximo mes de Marzo, nada más terminar “La Guerra de los Mundos” que ahora realiza.

the first one says that spielberg is fussy about the script script for another Indiana Jones movie and it's possible the story will center around Jones' daughter Idaho (gad) played by Natalie Portman. sounds like this one's turned. hopefully it's not true.

the second one says spielberg's working on a lincoln film (with liam neeson possibly to play the role? zooks!). geh and piffle. while i'd like to see a good Civil War film from spielberg, i wish he'd take a different angle if he's actually making a film. lincoln just irritates me (the smarmy duck). weird ~ i originally had a thing about lincoln in my fast facts above, but deleted it. planets much be aligning or something.

no idea if either of these have any currency. and i'm too lazy to find out at the moment.

man, i'm being so bad today.

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i have rankin/bass to blame for lewis fletcher's occupation
though i confess that Little Shop of Horrors also
had a little something to do with it.