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party monopoly through dogged organisation and donations gathered from lemonade stands and loose change found in the crevices of the couch meanwhile he took more money from wall street than any other presidential candidate swallowed the democratic party establishment in one gulp after defeating hillary clinton then pursued bipartisanship with crazed republicans once in the white house posted in uncategorized leave a comment movie review night of the demons posted on may 29 2011 by ggaluschak68 i saw the original night of the demons but i don t remember much about it i seem to recall that there was a nun chaperoning a dance who kept telling the dancing teens to leave room between them for the holy spirit when the demon got loose and the body count started spiraling that nun kicked some righteous ass i don t know if that was the first or second night of the demons btw the remake stars shannon elizabeth who is barely in the movie she rents a haunted mansion for a halloween party and ends up getting possessed by a demon the results are predictable except the filmmakers screw up and kill off too many characters too fast by forty five minutes in only three characters remain one of them cannon fodder since most of the fun in movies like this is watching people die in creative ways knocking off half your cast in five minutes is a bad idea continue reading posted in uncategorized leave a comment the art of not to rock at times posted on march 21 2011 by louiszyphire pj harvey made a new album and i fucking love it now there are two options for you you could save yourself some time and just obtain let england shake through some channel i still favor cds my home insurance doesn t cover itunes in case of a fire or you can listen to me telling you how good it is for a while and then get it should you choose to do neither the evil creeperman will eat your soul some night soon i ll try to be brief though harvey s new album is weirdly intimate and soul gripping part may be the instrumentation which is very folky for someone who made her career on noisy guitar rock another aspect is her singing harvey sings in her highest key throughout the album reinventing herself once more she has ever been of the tribe of musical chameleons her voice echos hauntingly familiar to use a somewhat overused but in this case apt expression it s almost like the memory of someone you think you might have known at some point and just can t place until you realize you ve known this person for a long time and she has just chosen to show you another facet of herself harvey recorded the album in an old church somewhere in dorset england maybe one of the ways she got in touch with her country s musical roots still it s not a nostalgic look back there are too many reminiscences of war and carnage here but then that is history seen from the perspective of the angel of history here is a short two part interview harvey did with the nmw if one day i can talk about my own art in a somewhat similar manner well my efforts will not have been in vain part two and some other stuff after the break continue reading posted in uncategorized leave a comment the global seed vault posted on march 4 2011 by herndy i just found out about the global seed vault in svalbard today it reminds me of a novel that one of the denizens of this very blog was writing at one point you know who you are http en wikipedia org wiki svalbard_global_seed_vault also i think i just broke a lightbulb with my mind i mean i m that stressed out ka pow posted in uncategorized tagged books my friends are writing superpowers 2 comments yes and posted on february 25 2011 by herndy i just googled yes and and the second result was this i do post more often when i m procrastinating why do you ask posted in uncategorized leave a comment wrongra posted on february 25 2011 by herndy wrongra wrong ra pronunciation rong ruh i don t know how to make diacritical marks in html do you pronounced like the word wrong with a ruh on the end have you heard this expression it means wrongest most wrong or wronger than wrong or perhaps if we re feeling silly lord of the wrong king among wrongs it is used to describe a person place thing phenomenon or situation that is supremely lacking in right ness such that we fear permanent damage to the balance of the universe i m writing something today and i came to a place in my narrative where this term would not have gone amiss in fact it would have been perfect and i can t think of anything better really wrong seems woefully inadequate by comparison but i wonder if over a dozen people use the term maybe i ll put it in anyway posted in uncategorized tagged slang wrongra leave a comment shocking revelations posted on february 24 2011 by herndy let s get something out in the open the biggest revelation in this article was not that tom cruise wanted custom nickel plating and cherry red paint on his motorcycle it was this oscar winning screenwriter paul haggis got his start writing scripts for scooby doo and other classic musty old cartoons i know this is the second post wherein i ve mentioned scooby doo lest i start to seem like some demented closet fan i should explain that my attempts to learn the craft of writing have oddly coincided with my 5 year old daughter s discovery of the beloved talking dog detective and those two events happening in concert with one another have set up an echo in my head a maddening echo that i want to share with everyone an echo that sounds like this oh no my glasses i can t see without them it s not that i like scooby doo but it has a strange negative fascination for me for starters i love talking animals and i love amateur detectives and i ve always been flummoxed how a show that incorporates both of those things could go so awfully wrong but there s something else something that incorporates a whiff of dated slang a dash of as you know bob a pinch of captain obvious it s that groovy dialogue the dialogue in old cartoons is not just bad it s bad in a certain workmanlike way that feels strangely indulgent it accomplishes things you re not supposed to accomplish in dialogue while speeding merrily on its way without a backward glance let s call it boneheaded dialogue i think i may have coined this term myself said with a wink of course so let s define it boneheaded dialogue must either state something obvious about the scene or gleefully telegraph an emerging and probably also obvious plot point sometimes it can even do both like this oh no my glasses i can t see without them gee what a spooky place to run out of gas what would a ghost from outer space be doing reading the newspaper i ll be honest and say that my desire to stamp out boneheaded dialogue is at war with my equally strong albeit perverse desire to promulgate even more boneheaded dialogue for the next generation to enjoy i ve committed acts of boneheaded dialogue in real life as well although i suppose then it would be called boneheaded conversation for example i wish i could share the chirpy remark i dropped into contented silence at a dinner party the night arturo gatti was found murdered but this isn t a boxing blog my point being i guess go paul haggis for moving up from that hardworking scooby doo dialogue all the way to an oscar posted in uncategorized tagged boneheaded dialogue boxing oh no my glasses i can t see without them scooby doo the process leave a comment the secrets of scriptwriting posted on february 4 2011 by drherpetophilius of course there s only one real secret in the arts work harder that is the big secret but there are plenty of others here s another big one for writers i started as a scriptwriter and writing scripts is excellent training for writing fiction it teaches you to write in scenes to tell stories through images and dialog and most importantly it teaches you to write for an audience there s a lot more to writing for an audience than any of us know first a caveat fiction writers are known in the film industry as terrible scriptwriters and i have a notion as to why i ve heard two excellent fiction writers speak of their scriptwriting experiences and they both said oh it s so easy there are so few words per page and one admitted his script was bad and the other failed to sell the script they were right in that a page of script has about a quarter the word count of a page of manuscript they were wrong about the other part i have sold cartoon scripts that were broadcast on bbc and the warner brothers website it takes me twice as long to write a page of script as a page of prose which means i spend about eight times as much effort on a word of script as a word of prose if fewer words meant easier work then poetry would be the easiest thing in the world to write it ain t it s the hardest get me now for the good stuff scenes are one of the basic units of dramatic fiction a story is made up of a series of scenes and in fact a scene is a small story in itself with a beginning middle end and central conflict however many times writers will use exposition in place of scenes by this i mean that instead of a fully described set of actions occurring in a fully described setting we are given a synopsis of the events in question the detective rubbed his chin and gazed into the gas jets of the fake fireplace so how did you come to realize that someone had modified the scrimshaw work on your sister s false leg scene the lawyer s reply was halting and difficult to understand exposition this is weak exposition does not engage the reader a scene does exposition can be the most graceful way of handling things that the reader needs to know and doesn t want to read about but a movie does not give you the option of using exposition in film all you have is sight and sound so you are forced to tell the story entirely in scenes and every scene has to hold the reader s interest in the script you can bring in other sensory cues or small bits of exposition for the people who will film it but they won t make it to the audience and what is necessary in a film is frequently preferable in a story the idea that fiction should be primarily sight and dialog predates film i think flaubert might be the man responsible and it still holds a lot of truth i do think a full sensorium is best in fiction but a strong visual focus is key if the reader can t see what s going on they re lost additionally working only in scenes teaches you the value of the cut too much of the time writers and i include myself here spend time to ing and fro ing having characters walk and turn keys and open doors and attend to various personal matters sometimes they do this in movies and when they do so the actors use it as an opportunity to show you the character but usually they will cut from one important scene to the next one no interval bim bam this works in fiction as well there are quiet scenes there are times when you want to give the character a sandwich and some time to think but those thoughts have to be important to the reader the sandwich has to mean something to the character quiet moments should only be in your story if they are real scenes and most stories work best if they consist of nothing but important scenes one right after another don t be afraid to leave out the boring stuff your first question about any difficult passage should be can i leave this out dialog functions differently in scripts than in prose it carries more weight because it is spoken by actors trained to add to the delivery or even modify the script to best fit their portrayal of a character scenes are constructed around the rhythms of dialog and it s the flow of conversation that determines when a scene starts and ends there are things that can t be done on film that can be done on the page the reverse is not true you can bring your characters to life on the page through skillful dialog and description how does your dialog sound when you read it out loud if you re a scriptwriter you re gonna find out the hard way read it yourself you never know which passages that look simple on the page will tangle in the mouth here s the central conflict in scriptwriting you have to write for more than one audience when i did cartoons i wrote for the story editor and the director of the show for the actors for the animators and for the viewer all in addition to myself the story editor and the director wanted something that filled the formula of the show and succeeded as a story the actors wanted dialog that was fun and engaging the animators wanted exciting visuals and the people watching the cartoon wanted three minutes away from working on their spreadsheets a script isn t a work in itself it is a set of instructions for creating a story this is also true of fiction fiction is not a work in itself it is a performance that you write and the reader executes you must equip the reader to design the sets to get the best performances from the actors fiction is a set of instructions to the reader telling them how to create the story in their minds there are formal and experimental aspects of fiction that can play against story but for the vast majority of fiction this is a true statement so you might want to write your next short story as a script or rewrite part of a completed piece as a script or you might go crazy and try your hand at a full film script look into scriptwriting it s one of the secrets posted in uncategorized tagged writing 2 comments book review a fire upon the deep posted on february 3 2011 by mirandasuri a fire upon the deep by vernor vinge 534 pages science fiction this book was the one that made me want to write science fiction and fantasy round about 2002 i was on a 6 month excavation project in honduras and i found a battered copy of fire upon the deep stuffed into the project book shelf i picked it up and within minutes was totally engrossed fast forward to 2011 when i spotted a copy on a markdown shelf at borders poor sad dying borders and grabbed it for a re read man had i forgotten how good it is there is much genius in this book genius in plot structure and story and genius in world building too on the surface the coolest thing about fire upon the deep are the tines the group mind species vinge creates to inhabit a wild ferocious back water planet at the bottom of the beyond they re like dogs but individuals are created by combining several members into a pack each member performs different functions or brings different personality traits or types of intelligence to the whole and they think and operate as one though the tines are truly alien they are also deeply familiar to us humans in terms of their hopes dreams fears and desires into this world come two children fleeing an interstellar terror set on destroying the entire galaxy called the blight the deeper genius of the book is how it structurally juxtaposes the plight of these kids as they attempt to survive on the tines world with the malicious plans of the blight a third p...