Snapshot, turn of the year 2016-2017
Jan. 4th, 2017 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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(-) My mom is having semi-elective abdominal surgery next week. If all goes as planned, I'll drive down to NY when she's discharged from the hospital to help with the initial recovery at home, which is supposed to be slow but smooth -- but things never seem to go as planned when it comes to her health. Wish us luck?
[Mutters to self: Positives, positives, focus on positives.]
(+) First Festivid submitted! Other drafts continue apace.
(+) I signed up to offer a vid through![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
FandomTrumpsHate. They say more than 500 fan creators are participating! Bidding will run Jan. 12-20.
(+) My officemate's departure means I now get the window side of the room. I'm all moved in, and I and my spider plants are enjoying the light.
(+) I got to do lunch, brunch, Christmas light ogling and first-night-of-Hanukkah activities withroga, who came to the U.S. over the holidays, and thedeadparrot, who hosted her. We lit a well-traveled menorah and made many potato latkes and caught up on everyone's lives. ♥
(+) Saw Moana with![[twitter.com profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
windtheme. The animation of the stationary ocean and the lava monster were incredible, I was proud of myself for identifying Jemaine Clement behind the sparkly crab, and between Heihei and K-2S0, Alan Tudyk wins the holiday movie season for voice acting. Hanging with windtheme was lovely. I have an informal goal this year to spend more time with a few Boston-area fan people I'd like to get to know better, if the feeling is mutual.
(+) Visiteddeelaundry and family, which I used to do all the time when I lived in DC and had been missing since coming up north. A lovely respite filled with friend time, good food (that I didn't have to cook myself), movies & TV, and a bit of touristing. One highlight was seeing the restored original model of the U.S.S. Enterprise at the Air & Space Museum! They turn on the blinky lights every few hours and everything.
We also watched Rogue One, which I liked fine* and which I thought really enriched the story of A New Hope; the current season so far of Brooklyn 99, good fun; and a pair of AMAZING early '70s horror-comedies, Blood for Dracula and Flesh for Frankenstein. Dashing young Udo Kier, riffs on the original myths plus other Gothic themes plus commentary on changes in class and politics and sexual mores, shameless overacting, fountains of blood: basically everything you want out of a B movie. (Much more Byron than Stoker, Dracula is the most emo, I love it.)
I'm used to this Udo Kier:
So I was taken aback by the beauty of this Udo Kier:
Also recommended: these | essays | on the Criterion Collection site.
Both films are available in full on YouTube, should you care to check them out. Warning: They're super rapey (although the characters' misogynistic practices are not presented in a flattering light), and Blood for Dracula includes a cameo by Roman Polanski; thanks tojetpack_monkey for calling that to my attention when I didn't recognize RP under a hat and moustache.
At this point, once current projects are cleared out I just want to expand this wonderful-bizarro scene at an inn into a fic of Dracula's one-star Yelp reviews or TripAdvisor complaints or something.
*Except this and that and the other thing, but now is not the time.
(-) Yuletide as usual made me crabby, #UnpopularFannishOpinion, although there is a promising Grantchester fic I'd like to try. However, the universe separately provided a second fic by that Vampire Chronicles author who made me happy the other week: In the Trials of the Heart by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
monstersinthecosmos (10,500 words, rated M), Armand/Daniel, Daniel/Marius and combinations thereof.
...Sorry, stored up too many things for one post!
[Mutters to self: Positives, positives, focus on positives.]
(+) First Festivid submitted! Other drafts continue apace.
(+) I signed up to offer a vid through
(+) My officemate's departure means I now get the window side of the room. I'm all moved in, and I and my spider plants are enjoying the light.
(+) I got to do lunch, brunch, Christmas light ogling and first-night-of-Hanukkah activities with
roga, who came to the U.S. over the holidays, and thedeadparrot, who hosted her. We lit a well-traveled menorah and made many potato latkes and caught up on everyone's lives. ♥(+) Saw Moana with
(+) Visited
deelaundry and family, which I used to do all the time when I lived in DC and had been missing since coming up north. A lovely respite filled with friend time, good food (that I didn't have to cook myself), movies & TV, and a bit of touristing. One highlight was seeing the restored original model of the U.S.S. Enterprise at the Air & Space Museum! They turn on the blinky lights every few hours and everything.We also watched Rogue One, which I liked fine* and which I thought really enriched the story of A New Hope; the current season so far of Brooklyn 99, good fun; and a pair of AMAZING early '70s horror-comedies, Blood for Dracula and Flesh for Frankenstein. Dashing young Udo Kier, riffs on the original myths plus other Gothic themes plus commentary on changes in class and politics and sexual mores, shameless overacting, fountains of blood: basically everything you want out of a B movie. (Much more Byron than Stoker, Dracula is the most emo, I love it.)
I'm used to this Udo Kier:
So I was taken aback by the beauty of this Udo Kier:
Also recommended: these | essays | on the Criterion Collection site.
Both films are available in full on YouTube, should you care to check them out. Warning: They're super rapey (although the characters' misogynistic practices are not presented in a flattering light), and Blood for Dracula includes a cameo by Roman Polanski; thanks to
jetpack_monkey for calling that to my attention when I didn't recognize RP under a hat and moustache.At this point, once current projects are cleared out I just want to expand this wonderful-bizarro scene at an inn into a fic of Dracula's one-star Yelp reviews or TripAdvisor complaints or something.
*Except this and that and the other thing, but now is not the time.
(-) Yuletide as usual made me crabby, #UnpopularFannishOpinion, although there is a promising Grantchester fic I'd like to try. However, the universe separately provided a second fic by that Vampire Chronicles author who made me happy the other week: In the Trials of the Heart by
...Sorry, stored up too many things for one post!
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Date: Jan. 5th, 2017 09:12 pm (UTC)FYI, I don't know when you'll be in NY and whether you'll have any time or energy for it, but the Improvised Shakespeare Company will be there on the 8-9th, which is always important to know if you're in their vicinity.
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Date: Jan. 7th, 2017 05:39 am (UTC)*I came over from the friending meme. ^_^
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