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shadowkatHalf-watching a rather depressing short British film entitled The song of Lunch about a 50 year old editor and poet so lost inside himself and his poems that he doesn't see the old friend he arranged to have lunch with, or even hear her, she's moved on, yet he is stuck 15 years in the past. Caught inside his own misery and self-absorption of his own memories. Using alcohol to continue to escape from her...the loss love, he lost her to a fellow writer over 15 years prior. It stars Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. With Rickman's trademark sneering voice reading the poem as a voice over.
Not quit sure it works...it has a feel meditative depression and irony to it. Not a movie I recommend to anyone who feels remotely depressed or frustrated with the current direction of their life.
Finished watching The walking dead and American Horror Story as well.
Can't really state I like one over another. One is a bit more comical...in an odd and almost sly way. Too sly, I think. You don't laugh so much as smile and nod at the
angry sneer. Sort of like...Mona Lisa's smile I think - the humor reminds me of that.
The other...seems almost too earnest for its subject matter, I wish it was a bit more
tongue in cheek and took itself a little less seriously. Also to date the best bits are still with the zombies. When the zombies leave the screen or the threat of the zombies does...it becomes a bit plodding and dull. Similarily...American Horror Story grinds to a halt when it moves away from the house and its ghosts. Both rely far too much on the horror, and don't have much else there.
Wrote a lengthy bit about this...but rather sleepy and screwed up with the html formatting again. Royally. It was impossible to fix. What I did was inadvertently put a "/a" instead of "/b" which resulted in four paragraphs of text being reformatted to look like this "Example="example" "Good="good". Ugh. I hate formatting. Don't have the patience for it. Never have. Gives me a bloody headache.
Used to drive the moderators on one of the private scholarly focused Buffy fan sites nutty whenever I posted long essays or metas. They appeared to like my metas, they just hated my inability to handle their formatting. Their site was...well insanely formatted, which is putting it mildly. Honestly I think the people running it were obsessed with formatting or were getting Ph'D's in web site design and formatting. It had pretty boxes, colors, pictures and designs - the thing looked like it had been designed by someone who nothing better to do all day than write html script. OR they did it for a living. Maybe they taught it.
Some people online are more into the formatting or look of the site than they are into the content. I'm more a content over cover sort of person. Really don't give a damn what the book jacket cover looks like or how the web site is designed, as long as it is legible, I can read it, and the content is good, I'm there.
So..I'd come on this fan site (usually quickly during my lunch break at work or really fast in the evening), attempt to post a long essay I'd written in word - in about five to ten minutes - which you can do on a voy message board (sigh really miss those old boards, nice and simple and you could basically post anything you wanted on them). Only to run into the massive brick wall of "html/java script and formatting". They tried to be helpful - they had a little box you could pull up showing an example on how to format the essay. With all sorts of formatting codes. This works really well - if a)you have time, b)your computer server doesn't kick you out continuously (mine did), and c)you aren't sneaking on it at work. The other option was to send it to someone moderating or working the site and let them beta it, format it, and post it - but if you have figured out anything about me by now, you know that I hate asking for help particularly for things I hate to do. Also, I didn't feel that comfortable trying that...I like to have some control over my own content online, such as it is. So I thought, screw that. And I valiantly tried option one - and managed as luck would have it to screw it up royally. I inevitably dropped a tag somewhere in the mix, much like I do here, or screwed up the paragraph codes. (You had to put a paragraph and line code and index code, along with a blockquote code at every other paragraph and line - it was insane. I swear whoever came up with the thing clearly had a lot of time on their hands. Insanely creative and pretty, but a bitch and a half to maintain or post to.)
Talk about taking grammar and sentence structure to a whole new level - just add advanced html to the mix. I think I ended up buying one of those laminated HTML code guides to help me - just for that site and well for posting on LJ, because people were getting nutty about hyper-links and how we should be posting them. Again, some people have way too much time on their hands.
Still screwed it up royally. Their html codes weren't the same as laminated guides. The moderators were so bored they made up their own codes! Never found out that I screwed up... until after I posted the thing. Again, it is sort of like LJ - it wasn't nice enough to tell you that you'd screwed it up in the little posting box, or as you wrote it - no, it was long after you posted it, after it went through the system - that was when you found out. I remember in one instance, after having spent about 5-6 hours posting and formatting the damn thing the evening before, coming back during my lunch break at work (as was my habit) - not to interesting discussion comments on my hard-earned effort (the only reward you really ever get for writing these things), but a cranky and fairly derogatory chat regarding my post and me personally between the moderators, which I'm guessing they hadn't intended me or anyone else to see. Humiliated. And incredibly annoyed. I tried to go back and delete the thing - but was locked out. So I just left that board and site completely, never posted on it again. I forgave the moderators - they probably had a bad day. But decided the site was not worth it. I mean, hello, it was a Buffy fan site. It wasn't like I was getting anything out of posting to it, just lots of grief. Life is too short.
LJ is frustrating. But here, at least, I control the formatting, well for the most part. And no cranky moderators to put up with. I'm cranky enough on my own, I don't need help.
Not quit sure it works...it has a feel meditative depression and irony to it. Not a movie I recommend to anyone who feels remotely depressed or frustrated with the current direction of their life.
Finished watching The walking dead and American Horror Story as well.
Can't really state I like one over another. One is a bit more comical...in an odd and almost sly way. Too sly, I think. You don't laugh so much as smile and nod at the
angry sneer. Sort of like...Mona Lisa's smile I think - the humor reminds me of that.
The other...seems almost too earnest for its subject matter, I wish it was a bit more
tongue in cheek and took itself a little less seriously. Also to date the best bits are still with the zombies. When the zombies leave the screen or the threat of the zombies does...it becomes a bit plodding and dull. Similarily...American Horror Story grinds to a halt when it moves away from the house and its ghosts. Both rely far too much on the horror, and don't have much else there.
Wrote a lengthy bit about this...but rather sleepy and screwed up with the html formatting again. Royally. It was impossible to fix. What I did was inadvertently put a "/a" instead of "/b" which resulted in four paragraphs of text being reformatted to look like this "Example="example" "Good="good". Ugh. I hate formatting. Don't have the patience for it. Never have. Gives me a bloody headache.
Used to drive the moderators on one of the private scholarly focused Buffy fan sites nutty whenever I posted long essays or metas. They appeared to like my metas, they just hated my inability to handle their formatting. Their site was...well insanely formatted, which is putting it mildly. Honestly I think the people running it were obsessed with formatting or were getting Ph'D's in web site design and formatting. It had pretty boxes, colors, pictures and designs - the thing looked like it had been designed by someone who nothing better to do all day than write html script. OR they did it for a living. Maybe they taught it.
Some people online are more into the formatting or look of the site than they are into the content. I'm more a content over cover sort of person. Really don't give a damn what the book jacket cover looks like or how the web site is designed, as long as it is legible, I can read it, and the content is good, I'm there.
So..I'd come on this fan site (usually quickly during my lunch break at work or really fast in the evening), attempt to post a long essay I'd written in word - in about five to ten minutes - which you can do on a voy message board (sigh really miss those old boards, nice and simple and you could basically post anything you wanted on them). Only to run into the massive brick wall of "html/java script and formatting". They tried to be helpful - they had a little box you could pull up showing an example on how to format the essay. With all sorts of formatting codes. This works really well - if a)you have time, b)your computer server doesn't kick you out continuously (mine did), and c)you aren't sneaking on it at work. The other option was to send it to someone moderating or working the site and let them beta it, format it, and post it - but if you have figured out anything about me by now, you know that I hate asking for help particularly for things I hate to do. Also, I didn't feel that comfortable trying that...I like to have some control over my own content online, such as it is. So I thought, screw that. And I valiantly tried option one - and managed as luck would have it to screw it up royally. I inevitably dropped a tag somewhere in the mix, much like I do here, or screwed up the paragraph codes. (You had to put a paragraph and line code and index code, along with a blockquote code at every other paragraph and line - it was insane. I swear whoever came up with the thing clearly had a lot of time on their hands. Insanely creative and pretty, but a bitch and a half to maintain or post to.)
Talk about taking grammar and sentence structure to a whole new level - just add advanced html to the mix. I think I ended up buying one of those laminated HTML code guides to help me - just for that site and well for posting on LJ, because people were getting nutty about hyper-links and how we should be posting them. Again, some people have way too much time on their hands.
Still screwed it up royally. Their html codes weren't the same as laminated guides. The moderators were so bored they made up their own codes! Never found out that I screwed up... until after I posted the thing. Again, it is sort of like LJ - it wasn't nice enough to tell you that you'd screwed it up in the little posting box, or as you wrote it - no, it was long after you posted it, after it went through the system - that was when you found out. I remember in one instance, after having spent about 5-6 hours posting and formatting the damn thing the evening before, coming back during my lunch break at work (as was my habit) - not to interesting discussion comments on my hard-earned effort (the only reward you really ever get for writing these things), but a cranky and fairly derogatory chat regarding my post and me personally between the moderators, which I'm guessing they hadn't intended me or anyone else to see. Humiliated. And incredibly annoyed. I tried to go back and delete the thing - but was locked out. So I just left that board and site completely, never posted on it again. I forgave the moderators - they probably had a bad day. But decided the site was not worth it. I mean, hello, it was a Buffy fan site. It wasn't like I was getting anything out of posting to it, just lots of grief. Life is too short.
LJ is frustrating. But here, at least, I control the formatting, well for the most part. And no cranky moderators to put up with. I'm cranky enough on my own, I don't need help.
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Date: 2011-11-21 10:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-21 11:02 pm (UTC)I may check out Reid's other works. Thanks!
(Had a somewhat similar flat or rather house sharing experience with a guy who is now performing songs on the American Blue-grass circuit. We're not in touch at all now.)
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Date: 2011-11-21 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-21 10:59 pm (UTC)Hardest site to post to on the internet, and that is actually an accomplishment. It wasn't enough to be artistic with the formatting, they had to make up their own codes.
It did however teach me basic html coding.