Friday, April 20, 2007
Can you veto a person?
Urg, I cannot get myself to work. And the pile's only gonna grow, considering that as of May 15 I will indeed begin servings as assistant to a second person-who-matters. Bluh. I don't care--I'll just work twice as fast in order that I may continue to accommodate my job-w/in-a-job here at Big Movies Int'l. You know, the one that I intended to take on full-time in moving here. Yet self-loathing and all, I'm still pleased w/ how my freelance writing life is shaping up: I take on what I can/want to, thus avoid (most of) the stress of having to pull a working income out of it. At the moment I've got another RW pitch in the works, and then there are two CT stories begging to be written... One thing I'm frustrated w/ is the fact that large-circ magazines can sometimes take FOREVER to move a story through the publication process (initial acceptance, contractual stuff, decision as to which upcoming issue will house the story, editing, rewriting, fact-checking, illustration, blah blah, on and on). This means that one of my essays won't see print for a good year after it was accepted. If I were more virtuous in the patience department, maybe I wouldn't whine, but garsh, I need my fix.
I cannot stop listening to these guys. Can Not. In fact, I've been listening to music nonstop these last couple of weeks, and I'm enjoying it like never before. I hardly even miss cable/Internet at home. Still, I'll be all wired and good to go by next week, which will again make possible some of my more troubling habits. Oh, Al.
Saw Spidey 3 last night--my company's premiere of it. My review: Yes! Better than 1 and 2. Toby Maguire typically does little for me, but there's one scene in which he, as bad-ass, black-suited Spiderman, busts out the dance moves, and I tell ya, it'll split your side. Funny! No kidding. Oh, and the part where Sandman emerges for the first time--rising and falling, rising and falling, until he finally manages to hold himself together--is pretty marvelous, as are really all of the special effects, even if the fight scenes went on a bit longer than my delicate self needed them to.
And hey, look what I found! It's like, real life!