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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
random tuesday
random link -- Don't get enough Dr. Phil in your life? Need to sound superficially wise but on deeper consideration, make no sense at all? Check this thing out. My favorite quote was, "You don't need shingles to throw a brick at a turtle" but "You don't need orange sherbet to treat yourself to a tasty shake," runs a close second because it sounds like something Dr. Phil would actually say.
*author's note* This thing eventually spat out the following gem: You don't need to think clearly to do the wild thing. *author considers her checkered past* Truer words were never spoken.
random update -- Finished initial edits on Guide. Senior edits came back Sunday night and I'll get started on them tomorrow. As of 2:30 am, I finished my story for the Samhain antho, I DREAM OF DRAGONS. It's called THE TEMPTATION OF TERESA and it rocks. I still have some refining / editing to do, but the core is complete and it is fookin' lovely. As it's not due til Friday I have time to make it shine. (Gogo writing 9K in one day!) I worked up a complete soundtrack for this project, something I usually don't do. I may post it when the story comes out.
random funny pr0n e-mail -- I get the best ones. Last night I deleted one that tickled me: SEXUALLY EXPLICIT - Hardcore lesbians rampage in prehistoric costumes! I swear someone is spamming me these as a joke. First Santa and his secret sluts, now cave-lesbians? Is this a big fantasy?
random endorsement -- Remember the Numa Numa guy? Adorable cherubic kid lip-synching to O-zone? Well, you may not have known the behind the scenes story. Gary Brolsma started mugging for his camera to cheer himself up after his dad's death. (Awww.) Everything snowballed from there. I'm linking him because apparently he has his own garage band in his hometown of Saddle Brook, NJ, and they're kinda good. I'm all for indie artists, so I'm pimping The Nowadays here. I dig the song Motionless, which they recorded in his bedroom (amazing quality!) so I'm gonna buy it.
Final note, Death Cab for Cutie's song I Will Follow You into the Dark owns my ass. It's also Dev and Teresa's theme song from TEMPTATION. Go have a listen. If it doesn't move you, then you're all shriveled up and wrinkly inside. There's no Botox for the soul, beotch.
*author's note* This thing eventually spat out the following gem: You don't need to think clearly to do the wild thing. *author considers her checkered past* Truer words were never spoken.
random update -- Finished initial edits on Guide. Senior edits came back Sunday night and I'll get started on them tomorrow. As of 2:30 am, I finished my story for the Samhain antho, I DREAM OF DRAGONS. It's called THE TEMPTATION OF TERESA and it rocks. I still have some refining / editing to do, but the core is complete and it is fookin' lovely. As it's not due til Friday I have time to make it shine. (Gogo writing 9K in one day!) I worked up a complete soundtrack for this project, something I usually don't do. I may post it when the story comes out.
random funny pr0n e-mail -- I get the best ones. Last night I deleted one that tickled me: SEXUALLY EXPLICIT - Hardcore lesbians rampage in prehistoric costumes! I swear someone is spamming me these as a joke. First Santa and his secret sluts, now cave-lesbians? Is this a big fantasy?
random endorsement -- Remember the Numa Numa guy? Adorable cherubic kid lip-synching to O-zone? Well, you may not have known the behind the scenes story. Gary Brolsma started mugging for his camera to cheer himself up after his dad's death. (Awww.) Everything snowballed from there. I'm linking him because apparently he has his own garage band in his hometown of Saddle Brook, NJ, and they're kinda good. I'm all for indie artists, so I'm pimping The Nowadays here. I dig the song Motionless, which they recorded in his bedroom (amazing quality!) so I'm gonna buy it.
Final note, Death Cab for Cutie's song I Will Follow You into the Dark owns my ass. It's also Dev and Teresa's theme song from TEMPTATION. Go have a listen. If it doesn't move you, then you're all shriveled up and wrinkly inside. There's no Botox for the soul, beotch.
Labels: Random Tuesday
Have fun with those edits!
I am -so- sick of Guide. I think it's a fun story, I really do, and I hope people like it.
But OMG.
In the e-mail, my editor says, "Hi ladies,I think this story is fabulous and in great shape as well. I'd say 1 more set of rounds will do it and it will be ready for line edits."
So that's a total of THREE times through Guide before its release in May. *headdesk*
"Love of mine some day you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark
No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
"Son fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back
If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about
Cause we'll hold each other soon
The blackest of rooms
If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark"
Shit, I think it must be PMS. I'm all weepy again, just reading that.
Good to know my insides aren't shriveled up and wrinkly.
Perfect theme song! :)
(Lainey has a raw copy of TEMPTATION and I'm waiting on feedback before I wade in with my virtual red pen)
Yes, it -is- perfect.
I'm such a dork. Even though I knew how it turns out, I cried all the way through the last two chapters. Carrie said I'm like Joan Wilder from Romancing the Stone.
(When she first said I was like Joan Wilder, I said, "Who? I haven't read her.")
<---dork
Yabba dabba doo!
I opened TEMPTATION up just to give it a once over and I was still in my jammies an hour later cuz I couldn't get away from it! :)
You've got mail!
But last night, your e-mail showed up in my box with a 9 hour delay on it. I read it and it said, "Sent 9 hours ago". I was like, huh?
Cos I'm in my box all the time.
Wait, that sounded wrong.
;-)
I'm such a feedback whore.
Ack! You've no idea what you've reduced me to!
How badly do you need help when so-called 'professional' you, starts sending 'writer-wannabe' you emails? I mean, I love to get mail. But from myself?
I didn't get the message I sent from the addy you have either, but the other one came through instantly, so it should be there now :)
There's nothing like having your crazy inner voice confirmed as being on the mark.
I owe you a "Hurry, read this and crit", anytime you wanna ask for it.