| Dec. 14th, 2009 @ 01:28 am Would it kill me to update my damn blog? |
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...let's assume it wont.
I am officially out of the habit of putting words together. Aside from a few offhandedly "professional" blog posts on the Tachyon Blog, I am quite off my game, and this needs to be rectified. Immediately.
Things that are new in the life of Liz- I put down my rat today. I'd wanted to wait until he was out of it, you know, until I was sure he was really ready to go, but I realized today he'd lost even more weight this past week, leaving him down to negative eleventy pounds. At this rate, he would have starved or frozen to death (my room is very cold), and that's not how I wanted him to go out, so I took him to the vet and had him put to sleep. It's sad, my room is all empty now.
I probably should wait a while until I get another pet, but who knows how long that will actually keep up. I mean, I held up all of a few weeks when Tweak and Dorian died.
In a perfect world I'd have my own place with a dog, or I'd be able to bring my cat up, but of course that's not happening right now. Know what I do have? ANTS. I have me some muthafuckin ANTS, and I am not happy. I spent the day filling every groove between the window and the wall with apoxy, and how much you wanna bet I'll wake up and they'll be back in full force tomorrow?
On to the good news!
Lis caved to guilttripping and visited me this weekend. We saw the Princess and the Frog and I loved it. Disney is nearly back on its game--I say nearly because the songs could have been better. They didn't have the easy rhythm and catchy lyrics songs aimed at children need..that isn't to say kid's music can't be good, but the score here missed its mark for its audience.
The rest of the movie was spot on fantastic. Tiana and the prince were entertaining separately and great together, the supporting characters were fun, the villian was creative (I wanted more of him!) and the art was GORGEOUS. There were places where Disney really could have screwed up, but didn't, and the fact that they didn't fall into the obvious potholes made me love it even more (because I've seen enough idiotic scripting choices to make me jaded). I loved Lottie. They could have made her the snotty, shallow, rich girl, but they didn't. She's just a sweet girl with poor focus. Another thing I worried about based on the previews, was that none of the trailers showed the human prince speaking, just him with a kinda silly voice that really worked with him as a frog. I wasn't sure I could reconcile that voice to his human face, but it turns out it works just fine, and actually adds to Naveen's crazy charm.
Oh! and in the exciting world of me-getting-paid, I'm gonna get paid! I'll be getting a salary once I'm back from the Christmas/Birthday holiday tour. It won't be much, but its more than I thought I was getting and that'll be a good dent in my bills. So far I'm handling a lot of design stuff. Aside from updating the website, I've been doing the press kit for The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Reviewers will get, along with the press release and author bio pages, a set of three recipe cards for the proper preparation of some imaginary dishes. Ann Vandermeer wrote the recipes and I designed the cards, and they look very snazzy. We're hoping to do some signed, limited edition copies of the book that will also have the recipe cards in them.
mm... ok, I'm going to leave off here. Apologies to flisties this past month. I've seen some crazy posts this past month but I neglected to comment (Bad Liz! I KNOW!). I am going to get back on this livejournal horse. |
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