That's gonna bruise.
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changelingNote to self: although it is highly nifty that you can lift a whole (empty) shopping trolley, don't try it again. That hurt. Next time, take the long way around, jackass.
Although I mistrust any article which gives its title as something like "How to be Creative", this particular one is quite good. As is the companion piece, "The Sex & Cash Theory".
Spent yesterday playing Halo and Soul Calibur 2 with Jess & Nathan, my novel-workshopping/uni buddies. Jess's leant me her copy of Soul Calibur, so I can get beaten and/or gamer's wrist. It's very kind of her.
Oh, and in a connected wossname to the previous two points, sign-ups have started at NaNoWriMo.org. I'm taking Jess and Nathan with me this year. Plus Greg (other N-W/U buddy, who was "too busy" to play yesterday) and Geof (short story/Vis Ink/uni buddy). Mwuhahaha.
I feel like I have to apologise every time I miss a day here, especially since I have friends with whom this is our primary method of communication. Was out last night watching Liam perform in the Scottish Play. It was not as good as I had hoped, and due to the universe dicking our party around (next time I send a prayer to the universe that I arrive on time, I shall be less specific and include anyone else I plan on meeting. Including the person with the tickets), I missed Liam's major part (the Sergeant's speech in what I'm assuming is scene 1, based on the performances I've seen). Of course, my complete lack of appreciation was augmented by the fact that I was utterly buggered, and also that I sound op'ed for TSP last year, and so have seen it enough times that I could quote large slabs of dialogue along with the actors (and indeed did when we were trapped in the foyer with CCTV during the first 15 minutes). Also Malcolm was shit, and spoilt one of my favourite scenes (the Malcolm we had last year was delightfully gay, and a little camp as well, which put a whole new spin on the Malcolm--Macduff scene. The same scene has the line "This tune goes manly", which you utterly cannot fail to laugh at).
Now I want to resurrect (and possibly make more of) my Macbeth icons.
I'm fricking buggered, and I have to write a short story and read a novel tomorrow. Yes, I do have to read the novel. This is for uni, not for enjoyment. Especially considering I haven't enjoyed any of the other novels our teacher set us (with the dubious exception of The Butcher Boy, which I appreciated but didn't enjoy much - you're not supposed to - and didn't finish. Bad me). And I have to do a damn report on this novel. I might just "forget" it tomorrow and focus on the damn short story.
[Edit: Gratuitous iconage. *whistles*]
Although I mistrust any article which gives its title as something like "How to be Creative", this particular one is quite good. As is the companion piece, "The Sex & Cash Theory".
6. Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten.
Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with books on algebra etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the creative bug is just a wee voice telling you, "I’d like my crayons back, please."
--How to be Creative
Spent yesterday playing Halo and Soul Calibur 2 with Jess & Nathan, my novel-workshopping/uni buddies. Jess's leant me her copy of Soul Calibur, so I can get beaten and/or gamer's wrist. It's very kind of her.
Oh, and in a connected wossname to the previous two points, sign-ups have started at NaNoWriMo.org. I'm taking Jess and Nathan with me this year. Plus Greg (other N-W/U buddy, who was "too busy" to play yesterday) and Geof (short story/Vis Ink/uni buddy). Mwuhahaha.
I feel like I have to apologise every time I miss a day here, especially since I have friends with whom this is our primary method of communication. Was out last night watching Liam perform in the Scottish Play. It was not as good as I had hoped, and due to the universe dicking our party around (next time I send a prayer to the universe that I arrive on time, I shall be less specific and include anyone else I plan on meeting. Including the person with the tickets), I missed Liam's major part (the Sergeant's speech in what I'm assuming is scene 1, based on the performances I've seen). Of course, my complete lack of appreciation was augmented by the fact that I was utterly buggered, and also that I sound op'ed for TSP last year, and so have seen it enough times that I could quote large slabs of dialogue along with the actors (and indeed did when we were trapped in the foyer with CCTV during the first 15 minutes). Also Malcolm was shit, and spoilt one of my favourite scenes (the Malcolm we had last year was delightfully gay, and a little camp as well, which put a whole new spin on the Malcolm--Macduff scene. The same scene has the line "This tune goes manly", which you utterly cannot fail to laugh at).
Now I want to resurrect (and possibly make more of) my Macbeth icons.
I'm fricking buggered, and I have to write a short story and read a novel tomorrow. Yes, I do have to read the novel. This is for uni, not for enjoyment. Especially considering I haven't enjoyed any of the other novels our teacher set us (with the dubious exception of The Butcher Boy, which I appreciated but didn't enjoy much - you're not supposed to - and didn't finish. Bad me). And I have to do a damn report on this novel. I might just "forget" it tomorrow and focus on the damn short story.
[Edit: Gratuitous iconage. *whistles*]
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Date: 2004-10-03 07:59 pm (UTC)Don't know how to fit "Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!" into an icon...
And of course, I've been thinking a great deal about how to make money off my art, but... like there's a market for doodly little pictures of Bride of Frankenstein-looking women, over and over again...
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Date: 2004-10-03 08:17 pm (UTC)I'd be happy to make you an icon. What sort of image do you want? (Or do you already have one in mind?) Because last time I made these I just used images from the play I sound-op'ed, and this time I've used utterly unrelated images (they're actually illustrations from Thomas Hardy) to fit my icon theme.