HP and The Deathly Hallows

So yeah, I'm going out to buy the DVD day after tomorrow, just because I can I wasn't completely thrilled with the movie, but they did a damn better job than they have on the last few, so I'll show my support. (Not to mention the screenshots I'll be able to grab from it too. ) And I'll admit that I'm very much looking forward to part two and I wish it wasn't so far away.

In other movie related news, I've been grabbing up movies that I've wanted to see for a while and yet never got to them before. I saw Toy Story 3 and was pleased with it. I don't think it was as good as the first two, but it brought the story to a very nice end. I also saw a movie called Country Strong, which managed to make me cry. It was a very sweet movie and I had to go out and get the soundtrack to it. I've also seen Tangled, (as you may have guessed if you've been raiding my favorites,) and oh-my-god I loved it! One of the cutest movies I've seen in a while and the music was fabulous.

As far as Wraith is concerned----I'll have a new chapter done sometime tomorrow. I'm sorry it's taken so long, but I've been working a lot this week. (And I'm still several days away from having a day off. )

And since we haven't had them in the last couple of journals....quotes from my personal writing god: (I realize the last one is very long, but read it all the way through anyway.)


"Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly."

"Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter."

"The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him with bright eyes.
"Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow.
"Fuck you," said the raven."

"(When asked: But you have a very open relationship with your fans.) Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers."

"I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen — I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."