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

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

Oh, Tanya Huff's books are fun! Her Blood series (aka the Vicki Nelson books) have just been re-released in a set of three two-in one editions. (The last one has the final book, and all the collected short stories.) The early Anita Blake books kind of remind me of the Blood books (before Laurell K. Hamilton turned into an Anne Rice wanna-be).

The hot new teen vampire books seem to be Stephanie Meyer's Twilight, and New Moon. I just finished the first one, Twilight, and am kind of dubious. An awful lotta adolescent wish fulfillment going on. (No, but these are GOOD vampires! Who are NOBLE! And never killed people, ever! Only murderers and bad people! And in the sunlight, they SPARKLE!)

[meadowlion.livejournal.com]

See, I've heard a fair amount about Hamilton's series, including from my brother-in-law, but haven't yet read any of those either. I'll check out the Blood series when I can, though.

(No, but these are GOOD vampires! Who are NOBLE! And never killed people, ever! Only murderers and bad people! And in the sunlight, they SPARKLE!)

::snickers:: That does seem a bit much. However, I think I might be even more picky about vampire fiction than I am about fiction in general, so my issues should be taken with a grain of salt.

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

See, I've heard a fair amount about Hamilton's series, including from my brother-in-law, but haven't yet read any of those either. I'll check out the Blood series when I can, though.

Laurell K. Hamilton's early books are... pretty good. Definitely diverting and fun. But around about halfway through the Anita Blake series, she started adding WAY too many characters and not coming back to the ones we actually knew and cared about, and oh yeah, her main character went past Mary Sue into omnipotent Mary Sue.

::snickers:: That does seem a bit much. However, I think I might be even more picky about vampire fiction than I am about fiction in general, so my issues should be taken with a grain of salt.

Ohhhh, I figured out why the book was so squeaky clean and morally black and white. The author is Mormon. (I am trying to be respectful of other people's religous beliefs, etc, etc, but.... yeah, that made me laugh when I found out.)

[meadowlion.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Have you read L.A. Banks' or Kelley Armstrong's series? I tried one of each of theirs and gave up without even finishing the first book, although I might go back to Armstrong's. I also want to check out Kit Whitfield's Benighted and its follow-up(s).