Friday, March 25, 2005
This here whatever you call it had been updated a few times since the last recorded entry. However, that all went to shit when some jackass-no-gettin'-laid-still-living-at-home-masturbating-to-animal-porn hackers hacked my website. So my server guys had to reset my site to a previous save point which deleted some of the recent uploads blah blah blah.
Anyway...I don't really have much to say and I don't feel like re-updating to cover my last few entries so here's a desktop I made using the cover to this month's Previews.
Happy 16 months, sweetie. (Yes, we are sickeningly in love. Cue Keane's Somewhere Only We Know.)
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Anyway...I don't really have much to say and I don't feel like re-updating to cover my last few entries so here's a desktop I made using the cover to this month's Previews.
Happy 16 months, sweetie. (Yes, we are sickeningly in love. Cue Keane's Somewhere Only We Know.)
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Some cool time travel news!
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'Time' Travels with Van Sant
By Liza Foreman
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Gus Van Sant is in negotiations to direct "The Time Traveler's Wife" for New Line Cinema.
Written by Audrey Niffenegger, a writer and professor of book arts in Chicago, the book is a loose retelling of "The Odyssey." The story centers on a man with a time-traveling gene that allows him to appear to his true love at different points in her life.
Jeremy Leven, whose screen credits include "Alex & Emma," "Don Juan DeMarco" and last year's "The Notebook," adapted the book.
Van Sant's credits include "Drugstore Cowboy," "To Die For," "Good Will Hunting" and "Elephant," which won the Palme d'Or and best director nods at 2003's Festival de Cannes. His upcoming "Last Days" tells a Seattle-set story of rock 'n' roll inspired by the life of Kurt Cobain.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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I read this book about a year ago and really enjoyed it. It's a really unique way to tell a love story. It'll be interesting to see if they can pull it off on celluloid since the book is pretty high concept stuff.
Oh...did I mention I'm a lunatic for time travel?
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'Time' Travels with Van Sant
By Liza Foreman
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Gus Van Sant is in negotiations to direct "The Time Traveler's Wife" for New Line Cinema.
Written by Audrey Niffenegger, a writer and professor of book arts in Chicago, the book is a loose retelling of "The Odyssey." The story centers on a man with a time-traveling gene that allows him to appear to his true love at different points in her life.
Jeremy Leven, whose screen credits include "Alex & Emma," "Don Juan DeMarco" and last year's "The Notebook," adapted the book.
Van Sant's credits include "Drugstore Cowboy," "To Die For," "Good Will Hunting" and "Elephant," which won the Palme d'Or and best director nods at 2003's Festival de Cannes. His upcoming "Last Days" tells a Seattle-set story of rock 'n' roll inspired by the life of Kurt Cobain.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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I read this book about a year ago and really enjoyed it. It's a really unique way to tell a love story. It'll be interesting to see if they can pull it off on celluloid since the book is pretty high concept stuff.
Oh...did I mention I'm a lunatic for time travel?
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Well, it's been a while but I've been very busy lately. Some quick highlights:
A few weeks ago, Linds and I attended my nieces' birthday party in Irvine at a big public park. All their little friends were there along with their parents. It was a fun day since I don't get to see my nieces often these days. Later in the day, we stayed at a little hotel out there (since my sister and brother-in-law were having a house guest) so I could go to an exhibit at the Orange County Museum of Art. Afterwards, we did some window shopping at some horribly fancy mall in the area called Fashion Island. I swear I saw 4 year old girls with Fendi purses.
Next, we ventured out to Camarillo at a little hotel out there so we could get away from LA for the evening and enjoy a jacuzzi. We drove for what seemed like days looking for a decent place to eat. There isn't much out there in Camarillo. We finally settled on a barbecue joint (where neither of us ordered barbecue) and tried to hear each other over the bar-like noise. When we asked the server where the nearest 7-11 was, she replied, "I don't think we have a 7-11 here." Nothing much in Camarillo, I tell ya. We still had a great time, however, despite getting roused out of bed at 4am by the hotel fire alarm. Don't worry...we left unscathed. The following day, we had breakfast (I haven't had French toast in years) and headed home. I forced Lindsey to listen to the Grease soundtrack as I sang all the songs with all the cheese I could muster. I'm still not sure whether she was amused or bemused by my antics.
Later in the day, I attended our monthly sketchbook session in Chatsworth with special guest Ronnie del Carmen, a friend of mine who works in the story department at Pixar. He's giving a talk or a little seminar on story at an animation convention or something soon and he wanted to try it out on us first, you know...people he knew. It went really well. It was nice to have him around. He's an incredibly inspiring guy.
Wizard World in Long Beach is coming this weekend. It's great since I'm really jonesing to nerd out but I'm bummed I'll miss Easter at Lindsey's family's place. Normally it wouldn't bother me, but since her family actually likes me (and I, them) I'm a little sad about it. It'll have to be next time. Anyway...me and my boys (and girl) have a couple of tables in Artists Alley. It should be fun.
And now, my weekly Hellboy drawing:
(recently replaced due to prick jerk nerd hackers)
Oh, by the way, I had to disable the comments function of this journal. This morning I got attacked by about 20 emails of a sexually explicit nature, all from the comments function of this thing. So far, disabling it and blocking the journal anonymous email did the trick. I'm hoping that's all the computer trouble I have this week.
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A few weeks ago, Linds and I attended my nieces' birthday party in Irvine at a big public park. All their little friends were there along with their parents. It was a fun day since I don't get to see my nieces often these days. Later in the day, we stayed at a little hotel out there (since my sister and brother-in-law were having a house guest) so I could go to an exhibit at the Orange County Museum of Art. Afterwards, we did some window shopping at some horribly fancy mall in the area called Fashion Island. I swear I saw 4 year old girls with Fendi purses.
Next, we ventured out to Camarillo at a little hotel out there so we could get away from LA for the evening and enjoy a jacuzzi. We drove for what seemed like days looking for a decent place to eat. There isn't much out there in Camarillo. We finally settled on a barbecue joint (where neither of us ordered barbecue) and tried to hear each other over the bar-like noise. When we asked the server where the nearest 7-11 was, she replied, "I don't think we have a 7-11 here." Nothing much in Camarillo, I tell ya. We still had a great time, however, despite getting roused out of bed at 4am by the hotel fire alarm. Don't worry...we left unscathed. The following day, we had breakfast (I haven't had French toast in years) and headed home. I forced Lindsey to listen to the Grease soundtrack as I sang all the songs with all the cheese I could muster. I'm still not sure whether she was amused or bemused by my antics.
Later in the day, I attended our monthly sketchbook session in Chatsworth with special guest Ronnie del Carmen, a friend of mine who works in the story department at Pixar. He's giving a talk or a little seminar on story at an animation convention or something soon and he wanted to try it out on us first, you know...people he knew. It went really well. It was nice to have him around. He's an incredibly inspiring guy.
Wizard World in Long Beach is coming this weekend. It's great since I'm really jonesing to nerd out but I'm bummed I'll miss Easter at Lindsey's family's place. Normally it wouldn't bother me, but since her family actually likes me (and I, them) I'm a little sad about it. It'll have to be next time. Anyway...me and my boys (and girl) have a couple of tables in Artists Alley. It should be fun.
And now, my weekly Hellboy drawing:
(recently replaced due to prick jerk nerd hackers)
Oh, by the way, I had to disable the comments function of this journal. This morning I got attacked by about 20 emails of a sexually explicit nature, all from the comments function of this thing. So far, disabling it and blocking the journal anonymous email did the trick. I'm hoping that's all the computer trouble I have this week.
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