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talkingsoup) wrote2006-07-21 06:02 pm
talkingsoup) wrote2006-07-21 06:02 pm
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Kenshin, Kenshin, Kenshin, *squee!*
Oh, and--I read my third Yami no Matsuei. And...gaaaah, the doctor is back. I'm serious, no, no, no character has ever disturbed me as much as Muraki does. When I was like thirteen or whatever and weirder than I am now, I kept a list of fictional characters who I held real hatred for. The only three I can remember right now are Percy Wetmore and Wild Bill from The Green Mile both the book and the movie, and Prof. Umbridge from the...5th Harry Potter? I suppose I kept a list because I wanted to one day be able to write the kind of villains who stir that kind of visceral reaction in me. Anyway, Muraki takes the cake. God, he scares me. He is made of evil.
And Julie, I'm serious about him being made of evil. I'll need to get you to read this series. Muraki is the kind of evil that villains should be.
Although, villains with a trace of humanity in them are just as good--they just don't get me to hate them as much. Then you start feeling a shred of sympathy for the villain and you get into all kinds of psychological and philisophical questions and stuff, which is all good and fine, unless you really just want to hate the fucker.
Anyway.
Saw a few episodes of Black Cat last night, and maybe it doesn't follow the manga, but it still roxors. And I found out there's a sequel to Honey and Clover! Dwah! Happiness!
Liz called me late last night too (she's still in MN) because her friend, Steve, has this girlfriend who apparently is psychotic and giving Liz a really hard time. Liz hates the girl, and I don't even know her but I don't like her already. Pretty much all the drama that's been happening in Liz's life comes from this girl. Bleah.
But between anime and the call I didn't get much writing done. Started the "E and Kail reconciliation scene, Take One" and redid a whole bunch of stuff between Morgan and Boone (I love how much they dislike each other and yet they tease each other incessently...gee, I wonder where that'll lead...but then you never know, mua-ha!). The start of the E and Kail scene is also only so-so. I don't know why I have such a hard time writing those two. I love them to death and I feel like I know them pretty well--but at the same time they're both really complex, and their relationship just adds a whole new series of complexities to their already complex selves. Heh.
Best Buy called me today. Day after I applied, too--pretty crazy. They're all, "oh, you're only seasonal? Sorry, no go." Which leads me to believe that most places are going to respond like that, considering that's pretty much exactly what the library said. But I dunno. Guess I'll still apply at the drinksy places...gotta keep applying to keep the 'rents happy. My dad came downstairs before I could sneak up to bed and flipped out on me. They really don't get it.
Ah! Movie review.
Memento
I must be the only person who hasn't seen this movie. Well, to refresh your short-term memory, it's about a guy who suffers from short-term memory loss, and he's trying to piece together the evidence he has in order to find the man who killed his wife. It starts at the end and works backward from there.
It's awesome. One of the most twisty movies I've ever seen. Incredible plot, great acting, wonderful editing, and the story flow, from end to beginning, is just so fricking sweet. You go along with everything that's happening around this guy (Leonard) and you're trying to piece together the mystery yourself, but at the same time it's like, who do you trust? Can Leonard's own memory be trusted?
It was really sad, actually. You get the feeling from the start that people all around him are using him, since he can't remember being used five minutes later.
Can't really talk much more without giving away details, and since I'm sure there's one or two people among us 6 billion who haven't seen it yet (like yours truly), I'll leave out the spoilers. But all the elements that make a great movie are in here. Gives new meaning to the genre "thriller."
Score: 9 out of 10.
Oh, and--I read my third Yami no Matsuei. And...gaaaah, the doctor is back. I'm serious, no, no, no character has ever disturbed me as much as Muraki does. When I was like thirteen or whatever and weirder than I am now, I kept a list of fictional characters who I held real hatred for. The only three I can remember right now are Percy Wetmore and Wild Bill from The Green Mile both the book and the movie, and Prof. Umbridge from the...5th Harry Potter? I suppose I kept a list because I wanted to one day be able to write the kind of villains who stir that kind of visceral reaction in me. Anyway, Muraki takes the cake. God, he scares me. He is made of evil.
And Julie, I'm serious about him being made of evil. I'll need to get you to read this series. Muraki is the kind of evil that villains should be.
Although, villains with a trace of humanity in them are just as good--they just don't get me to hate them as much. Then you start feeling a shred of sympathy for the villain and you get into all kinds of psychological and philisophical questions and stuff, which is all good and fine, unless you really just want to hate the fucker.
Anyway.
Saw a few episodes of Black Cat last night, and maybe it doesn't follow the manga, but it still roxors. And I found out there's a sequel to Honey and Clover! Dwah! Happiness!
Liz called me late last night too (she's still in MN) because her friend, Steve, has this girlfriend who apparently is psychotic and giving Liz a really hard time. Liz hates the girl, and I don't even know her but I don't like her already. Pretty much all the drama that's been happening in Liz's life comes from this girl. Bleah.
But between anime and the call I didn't get much writing done. Started the "E and Kail reconciliation scene, Take One" and redid a whole bunch of stuff between Morgan and Boone (I love how much they dislike each other and yet they tease each other incessently...gee, I wonder where that'll lead...but then you never know, mua-ha!). The start of the E and Kail scene is also only so-so. I don't know why I have such a hard time writing those two. I love them to death and I feel like I know them pretty well--but at the same time they're both really complex, and their relationship just adds a whole new series of complexities to their already complex selves. Heh.
Best Buy called me today. Day after I applied, too--pretty crazy. They're all, "oh, you're only seasonal? Sorry, no go." Which leads me to believe that most places are going to respond like that, considering that's pretty much exactly what the library said. But I dunno. Guess I'll still apply at the drinksy places...gotta keep applying to keep the 'rents happy. My dad came downstairs before I could sneak up to bed and flipped out on me. They really don't get it.
Ah! Movie review.
Memento
I must be the only person who hasn't seen this movie. Well, to refresh your short-term memory, it's about a guy who suffers from short-term memory loss, and he's trying to piece together the evidence he has in order to find the man who killed his wife. It starts at the end and works backward from there.
It's awesome. One of the most twisty movies I've ever seen. Incredible plot, great acting, wonderful editing, and the story flow, from end to beginning, is just so fricking sweet. You go along with everything that's happening around this guy (Leonard) and you're trying to piece together the mystery yourself, but at the same time it's like, who do you trust? Can Leonard's own memory be trusted?
It was really sad, actually. You get the feeling from the start that people all around him are using him, since he can't remember being used five minutes later.
Can't really talk much more without giving away details, and since I'm sure there's one or two people among us 6 billion who haven't seen it yet (like yours truly), I'll leave out the spoilers. But all the elements that make a great movie are in here. Gives new meaning to the genre "thriller."
Score: 9 out of 10.
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Ahhh, squeedlies, isn't the Kenshin ending great? I'm reading this awesome writing book called BETWEEN THE LINES, about subtlety in fiction, and it was saying that the end of a story should leave you feeling satisfied, but also... how did it put it? "Like a good friend has moved on to some place they've always wanted to be," or something along that line. I loved the end of Kenshin. Loved loved loved it!
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And yes, good books should end that way, with that sorta-sense of loss but more a sense of...well, exactly how you put it. Like a friend is where they want to be.