Bits o' random

[daemonluna]

I did not feel like going to the gym tonight, but dragged myself out... only, as I was getting ready to go, to discover that I had no idea where my MP3 player was. And I still don't. It's not on my desk, bedside table, shelf by the door where the keys go, in my purse, my jacket pockets, the pockets of the sweatpants or jeans I was wearing, in the car, the gym bag, the trunk of the car, or turned in at the gym. Grrr.

I mean, I've had it for about three years and it was relatively inexpensive when I got it. But. Still. I hate-hate-hate misplacing things. And also, I have a strong aversion to having to listen to other people's music choices. Rargh. But at least we had yummy things for supper.

Onward to other things!

danmatakizawa and ming_lei have migrated over to pocky.org. I went ahead and syndicated the RSS feed at pocky_dot_org, because I am lazy and read off my lj flist more often than not. Corgi pictures, Japan trip video, video games, and other stuff! Oh, and Bilk. (Beer + Milk. I am not making this up. Neither is Dan. It's a Japanese thing.)

I have not seen the Blood and Chocolate movie yet, but I am dubious. So they've decided to set it in Bucharest. Um, okay. I seem to remember the book taking place in the small-town rural US. (Though I could be wrong, it's been a while.) But whatever. But... WTF is up with the "she must marry the head vampire" plot twist?? And... and... and... yeah. It's from the people who brought us Underworld. I am not confident. At least it will look pretty, though it's a shame the plot looks, um, not quite the same, since the book it's based on is pretty good.

And Bridge to Terebithia! Once again, WTF?? I think I need to re-read it, because I remember it being not-so-much about magic quests and spiffy CGI, as... well. Death. I haven't read the book since I was about nine, but lemme tell you, that's the part I emphatically remember. When I saw the trailer, I may have... reacted somewhat strongly. But we'll see.

Lest you all think I hate all book-to-movie adaptations, the new Charlotte's Web actually looks pretty good. (And no, I haven't seen it yet.)

And a trailer for Blood Ties, based on Tanya Huff's Blood books. Yayness! I am full of anticipation and squee. (She's... a half-blind former police detective. He's.... a romance-novel-writing vampire. Together, THEY FIGHT CRIME! No, seriously!)

A bit of frivolous, Why a Writer Reality TV Show Wouldn't Work.

And finally, the totally random, the Helsinki Complaints Choir is just one of those bizarre, quirky things. "Finnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen collected the pet peeves and angst-ridden pleas of people in Helsinki and then composed this choral work around the list of complaints. Music composed by Esko GrundstrÃm." I'm not going to even try to describe it.

Comments

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

BtT was about magic and such when I was a kid. It was all in the characters' heads, and the text only gave the barest tantalizing hints of the stories they made up, but still it was one of the crucial elements setting up my love for the book. I never really liked or cared for the parts about death in the book as a child so much as the magical descriptions of the friendship.

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

Though from the bits I've read online, it looks like the ending remains intact, what gets me is that the trailer gives you NO indication that this isn't a happy little adventure-fantasy story. As a kid, I would have been DEVESTATED walking into it blind.