General Musing

Work continues to flow on the Prelude. I'm trying to figure out how to boil down 20 years of captivity with the Fae and still tell a good story. Of course, the shortest possible version would go something like: Ooh, look a kid! *grab* Horror Wonderment Wonderment Terror Scary Oooh, pretty! Torture Wow, look at that! You want to do what? Horror Pain Ecstasy Wonderment Fear Anger Daring Escape.... But as you can see, it lacks a certain something. :-?

I just read on Neil Gaiman's blog that they're starting work on a Neverwhere movie. Pardon while I squee. I've got the original miniseries on DVD, but I have to admit I've been curious to see how a movie of it would turn out. I was fond of the Marquis de Carabas. I wonder if they'd consider getting the same fellow to play him...

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
Back in 1995, I began seeing a psychotherapist whose influence ultimately improved me in a thousand ways. At the end of our first session, she handed me a note as I left. It read: "If you don't articulate your conscious desires, your unconscious patterns will come true." She gazed at me firmly and said, "Don't come back until you've proved to yourself that those words are true. All my work will be of no use to you unless you take them to heart." It took
me exactly 23 days to prove to myself that what she'd written was true. Now I offer you the same challenge, Pisces. Spend the upcoming week in intense contemplation on the hypothesis, "If you don't articulate your conscious desires, your unconscious patterns will come true."

A tall order but a good one, for pretty much anyone, really.

New group:
Do As Infinity--Raven

I think for further Hiragana practice I'll get ahold of some lyrics and transcribe them, see how far I can get without having to look the symbols up...

Edit: Not so far, apparently. I can recognize the symbols when I see them, but remembering them to write them is a bit like pulling a Ginger Rodgers--doing it backwards in heels. :-P *gets crash helmet and proceeds*

Oh, and I watched hentai for the first time, last night. (Yes, I do live under a rock.) I think I like it better than regular porn. If I'm going to listen to chicks faking orgasms, I'd rather at least have an actual storyline to follow while I'm doing it. And the acting's better, anyway. :-P