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Jun. 28th, 2005 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liptonrm_backupHad a very strange dream last night. I was at some hospital/asylum for some sort of program and it turned out that what was actually happening was that the government was engaging in a little psychological programming. I found out about that right before I was scheduled to leave and so I told everyone else in my group and we were all shocked and amazed. The whole dream had this weird edge of pain to it. It was all very strange.
Very much enjoyed the King Kong trailer last night. Giant apes and dinosaurs, oh my.
I have no desire whatsoever to see War of the Worlds. The increasing insanity of Tom Cruise coupled with yet another big budget alien invasion just makes me cringe. Plus it looks like Miranda Otto is only in it for a couple minutes and that just sucks. As does that line in the trailer where Cruise's character is telling his son not to get involved in the Resistance because there's no hope that they'd win? WTF!? If aliens are trying to invade your planet you do everything in your power to defeat them and you bloody well JOIN THE RESISTANCE! This is why Mr. Cruise has no part whatsoever in the RHAR.
Apparently Robin Hobb, a fantasy author with whom I have a passing acquaintance, has written a rant against fanfiction (it's over here) and while I can see where she's coming from the best response I have is "Why pay for books when I can get better written stories for free?" She's a decent author but her main character is a big ol' honking Marty Stu if I've ever seen one and the books themselves are so angsty and bitter that I kept expecting some emo boy to jump fully formed from the pages just so he could kill himself in front of me.
On the opposite side of the spectrum MaryAnn Johanson has her own idea of the role fan fiction plays in modern pop culture. We fic because we love.
ABC's ancient Rome miniseries Empire starts tonight. Even if it's horrible I will still watch every episode because I am that big a history nerd. mmmmmmm roman history guuuuuuuuuh
Very much enjoyed the King Kong trailer last night. Giant apes and dinosaurs, oh my.
I have no desire whatsoever to see War of the Worlds. The increasing insanity of Tom Cruise coupled with yet another big budget alien invasion just makes me cringe. Plus it looks like Miranda Otto is only in it for a couple minutes and that just sucks. As does that line in the trailer where Cruise's character is telling his son not to get involved in the Resistance because there's no hope that they'd win? WTF!? If aliens are trying to invade your planet you do everything in your power to defeat them and you bloody well JOIN THE RESISTANCE! This is why Mr. Cruise has no part whatsoever in the RHAR.
Apparently Robin Hobb, a fantasy author with whom I have a passing acquaintance, has written a rant against fanfiction (it's over here) and while I can see where she's coming from the best response I have is "Why pay for books when I can get better written stories for free?" She's a decent author but her main character is a big ol' honking Marty Stu if I've ever seen one and the books themselves are so angsty and bitter that I kept expecting some emo boy to jump fully formed from the pages just so he could kill himself in front of me.
On the opposite side of the spectrum MaryAnn Johanson has her own idea of the role fan fiction plays in modern pop culture. We fic because we love.
ABC's ancient Rome miniseries Empire starts tonight. Even if it's horrible I will still watch every episode because I am that big a history nerd. mmmmmmm roman history guuuuuuuuuh
