So. Update.
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jetpack_monkeySo much stuff going on. Some of it I can control, some of it I can control but don't seem to have any desire to do so, and some of it is out of my hands.
Credits Addict: I appear to have developed an addiction to watching credits sequences in movies. No lie. Based on a suggestion planted in my head a few years back by makeup whiz Mark Shostrom (long story), I've begun watching the opening and closing credits of the films in the Classic-Horror.com database and writing down all of the makeup and most of the effects credits. The IMDb is incomplete and doesn't help when trying to figure out who had the primary responsibility for the effects of a movie, so many of these fine artists don't get their due. The problem is that there are 651 reviews in the database and going through all the effects credits for a movie like, say, Van Helsing or Alien vs. Predator can take quite a long time. Last night I busted through six, taking time out to watch How I Met Your Mother and discuss upcoming plans with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
echan. That makes 186 fully vetted. Of the remaining 465, I own just under half of them and Netflix has most of the rest.
My only thing is that I, uh, can't seem to stop. I get home and the first thing I want to do is pop in a movie and look at those credits. I delight when I can add information to C-H that the IMDb doesn't have. It's a sickness. A really boring sickness.
Book: Based on a promise thatkenobi extracted from me -- crafty lady -- this year I'm properly starting work on some sort of horror film related book. It was meant to be a book on comedic represenations of cannibalism in film, but it turns out that another author is working along similar enough lines that I need a new idea. I'm still pondering.
Web Design: Designing a website for Dad right now. It's... going.
Work: Busy.
Phoenix Comicon: Not quite sure what's going on here, because the coordinator in question is clearly very busy, but I'm fairly certain I'm doing a panel on classic horror there in a few weeks.
Fun: I do have time for that. And it's been awesome.
Anyway, in the next week or so, keep your eyes peeled for my annual "A Great Many Things I'd Like To Do This Year" list. And of course, next month we'll have my annual birthday mix CD and Top 25 films list.
Credits Addict: I appear to have developed an addiction to watching credits sequences in movies. No lie. Based on a suggestion planted in my head a few years back by makeup whiz Mark Shostrom (long story), I've begun watching the opening and closing credits of the films in the Classic-Horror.com database and writing down all of the makeup and most of the effects credits. The IMDb is incomplete and doesn't help when trying to figure out who had the primary responsibility for the effects of a movie, so many of these fine artists don't get their due. The problem is that there are 651 reviews in the database and going through all the effects credits for a movie like, say, Van Helsing or Alien vs. Predator can take quite a long time. Last night I busted through six, taking time out to watch How I Met Your Mother and discuss upcoming plans with
echan. That makes 186 fully vetted. Of the remaining 465, I own just under half of them and Netflix has most of the rest. My only thing is that I, uh, can't seem to stop. I get home and the first thing I want to do is pop in a movie and look at those credits. I delight when I can add information to C-H that the IMDb doesn't have. It's a sickness. A really boring sickness.
Book: Based on a promise that
kenobi extracted from me -- crafty lady -- this year I'm properly starting work on some sort of horror film related book. It was meant to be a book on comedic represenations of cannibalism in film, but it turns out that another author is working along similar enough lines that I need a new idea. I'm still pondering. Web Design: Designing a website for Dad right now. It's... going.
Work: Busy.
Phoenix Comicon: Not quite sure what's going on here, because the coordinator in question is clearly very busy, but I'm fairly certain I'm doing a panel on classic horror there in a few weeks.
Fun: I do have time for that. And it's been awesome.
Anyway, in the next week or so, keep your eyes peeled for my annual "A Great Many Things I'd Like To Do This Year" list. And of course, next month we'll have my annual birthday mix CD and Top 25 films list.
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Date: 2009-01-16 03:03 am (UTC)Also, what about something from your list of 100 Greatest Dead Teenager Movies? That's actually the reason I originally came to CH, so that sort of sticks out in my mind. I don't really know what you could do with that, but again, just supplying something to stimulate the mind if you will. If you want to talk more about it, feel free to shoot me an e-mail.
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Date: 2009-01-16 08:13 pm (UTC)I'd like to figure out a niche for the book that I can research into the ground. That'll make selling it to the company I have in mind easier, I think.