Made of Fail

I've missed so many birthdays while generally AWOL. August is a big birthday month! I hope Very Happy Birthdays were had by pukajen, botias, sweet_ali, estepheia, boschette, rainkatt, and tepintzin, and Very Happy Birthdays in Advance to mere_ubu, romanyg, and dessert_first.

Still blocked on fic, in that way of feeling like you were stupid to ever have thought you could write, but oh well. I know these things tend to be temporary, but that doesn't make them fun.

In the meantime, I amused myself with that "First Lines" meme I've seen going around. ( Take the first lines of the last twenty stories you're written. See if there are any patterns )

[ETA: I've belatedly realized I didn't exactly follow the rules of this meme, as I didn't choose twenty and didn't put them in any particular order. Shrug.] Suffice to say that my results reflect the sort of patterns I suspect this meme was designed to uncover. : )

In other news, film oddities recently seen by myself and toysdream include Liquid Sky, which I'd remembered reading a review of back in the '80s when it first came out and thought it sounded interesting (a fair assessment, although "weird," "slow," and "garish" would also qualify, without even getting into the musical score - some trippy monologues, though) and Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare starring Jon-Mikl Thor, a heavy-metal act who apparently had career in B-Films that I'd somehow missed. Not quite as entertaining as Horror, perhaps, for lack of hilarious devil-goat shots, but the demonic finger-puppets almost made up for the lack.

On the roster for tonight, Zacharaiah, which promises to be a "psychedelic trip through the Wild West." And yes, we've been raiding the Cult shelf at our local video den, why do you ask?

Coming Soon: A Personal Top Ten List of Movie Musicals. It's a genre primed for a comeback, I swear.