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In fun news, somewhat germane to the general interest of people reading this, Danny IMDB'd the Alice movie w/ Manson as the Queen of Hearts that Therese mentioned. It looks AWESOME! And I have no idea when it's coming out. But they're actually in production, which is farther than my poor stunted little American McGee's Alice movie ever actually got. That floated forever. I wonder if they'll still toss that concept around if this releases?

LIVING NEON DREAMS (2005)

Credited cast:
Antonia Bernath .... Alice
Marilyn Manson .... Queen of Hearts
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Alan Cumming .... King of Hearts
Daryl Hannah
Jonathan Pryce
Nia Vardalos .... The Duchess

The writer/director, Jeremy Tarr, seems to have no other movies associated with him, which is interesting. Nia Vardalos (Big Fat Greek Wedding Girl) is SUCH an amazing choice for the Duchess. I mean, spot on! I want to reread that scene now! It's been too long since I read those!

Alan Cumming is a good choice for King of Hearts as well. And get me not started on the slashiness of this. What IS Daryl Hannah in this movie? I'm trying to fathom. And Jonathan Price (AKA Gov Swan, AKA Juan Peron(and now I want to see Evita, but can't, dammit!)) makes an appearance. My guess is, respectively, Cheshire Cat and Gryphon (possibly The White Rabbit, but that's not as good-- as a distant third possibility, Caterpillar). But I could be wrong.

The only unknown quality is the 23-yr old Bollywood actress playing Alice (British born and theater-educated, but only major part so far has been Bollywood). I haven't ever seen her before in anything. Everyone else I know and really respect. I really hope she rocks hard, because I so want this movie to be good.

Danny sooo totally checked me with a fool's mate today in Ben's room. I was so dumb. I need to never do that again, for my fragile pride's sake. I did okay in our other games though. You know what would be cool? Thinking ahead, more than one or two moves at a time, so that playing doesn't turn into this giant game of attrition that I win or loose, but take way too long to do either. Or if not a faster game, at least one where I have more of a strategy I'm doing, rather than 'see opportunity, take opportunity.' This is way low on my list of priorities, I make no pretension of being a great, enthused or even frequent chess player, but still, for when I do play, it'd be cool.

My hands are dish panned, but my room is habitable again. The thing about cleaning is there's always more to do. I cleaned the floor, cleaned the inside of the microwave, took old stuff out of the fridge, returned people's belongings, cleaned the desk, did all the dishes, tidied the closet, the cupboards and the laundry basket, but I STILL have to fold the freshly cleaned clothes and clean the inside of the fridge. It never bloody ends!

I had a good, productive workshop this evening on a story I'd all but given up on, so that's nice. Matt, one of our grad student leaders, can be really right or really ridiculous, sometimes both on the same page. But he called a strain of dialog on "heading into Ayn Rand country," and I was horrified, for that is a country I've no wish to visit.

Lit Crit Theories of Selfhood Midterm (like 50% of class grade) p0wned me, or maybe it didn't- I feel like I've no effective way to gage how I'm doing in that class compared to my peers. At any rate, there were a few ridiculous questions, and I plan to argue him on the 'what's more important to Hegel, being or becoming?' question, because from what we read there's strong arguments for each. I went with becoming b/c of dialectic, but the end result of the whole Hegelian thing is being, Spirit recognizing the World as it's emanation (Hi, Oversoul, yeah, I missed you too, what's it been, since Junior year?), so you could say the end (being) over the process (becoming). /pretentious angst.

I feel sort of rummy b/c I really knew my shit on this and I still don't know how well I did on that test, only that it's probably not as well as I might have hoped. Ah well.

So I have a sort of large-esque test in German for Thursday, as well as some backlogged homework, a paper for Ren lit on Thursday, and that massively scary Philo final from Professor Greg "I don't know how to teach, but here's my personal version of the cosmological argument because my opinions are important enough for you to be tested on, have another fun story about People I Have Owned with My Massive Philo Skillz" Jessup. Need to study for that one. I totally need to schedule an adviser meeting. I am a lazy, lazy ass.

While I'm home I have to remember to get my tailoring done and my favorite pearl necklace restrung- it's old and broke on the way up here, I adore it and don't want to be the one who ruined something my great grandmother had.

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In fun news, somewhat germane to the general interest of people reading this, Danny IMDB'd the Alice movie w/ Manson as the Queen of Hearts that Therese mentioned. It looks AWESOME! And I have no idea when it's coming out. But they're actually in production, which is farther than my poor stunted little American McGee's Alice movie ever actually got. That floated forever. I wonder if they'll still toss that concept around if this releases?

LIVING NEON DREAMS (2005)

Credited cast:
Antonia Bernath .... Alice
Marilyn Manson .... Queen of Hearts
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Alan Cumming .... King of Hearts
Daryl Hannah
Jonathan Pryce
Nia Vardalos .... The Duchess

The writer/director, Jeremy Tarr, seems to have no other movies associated with him, which is interesting. Nia Vardalos (Big Fat Greek Wedding Girl) is SUCH an amazing choice for the Duchess. I mean, spot on! I want to reread that scene now! It's been too long since I read those!

Alan Cumming is a good choice for King of Hearts as well. And get me not started on the slashiness of this. What IS Daryl Hannah in this movie? I'm trying to fathom. And Jonathan Price (AKA Gov Swan, AKA Juan Peron(and now I want to see Evita, but can't, dammit!)) makes an appearance. My guess is, respectively, Cheshire Cat and Gryphon (possibly The White Rabbit, but that's not as good-- as a distant third possibility, Caterpillar). But I could be wrong.

The only unknown quality is the 23-yr old Bollywood actress playing Alice (British born and theater-educated, but only major part so far has been Bollywood). I haven't ever seen her before in anything. Everyone else I know and really respect. I really hope she rocks hard, because I so want this movie to be good.

Danny sooo totally checked me with a fool's mate today in Ben's room. I was so dumb. I need to never do that again, for my fragile pride's sake. I did okay in our other games though. You know what would be cool? Thinking ahead, more than one or two moves at a time, so that playing doesn't turn into this giant game of attrition that I win or loose, but take way too long to do either. Or if not a faster game, at least one where I have more of a strategy I'm doing, rather than 'see opportunity, take opportunity.' This is way low on my list of priorities, I make no pretension of being a great, enthused or even frequent chess player, but still, for when I do play, it'd be cool.

My hands are dish panned, but my room is habitable again. The thing about cleaning is there's always more to do. I cleaned the floor, cleaned the inside of the microwave, took old stuff out of the fridge, returned people's belongings, cleaned the desk, did all the dishes, tidied the closet, the cupboards and the laundry basket, but I STILL have to fold the freshly cleaned clothes and clean the inside of the fridge. It never bloody ends!

I had a good, productive workshop this evening on a story I'd all but given up on, so that's nice. Matt, one of our grad student leaders, can be really right or really ridiculous, sometimes both on the same page. But he called a strain of dialog on "heading into Ayn Rand country," and I was horrified, for that is a country I've no wish to visit.

Lit Crit Theories of Selfhood Midterm (like 50% of class grade) p0wned me, or maybe it didn't- I feel like I've no effective way to gage how I'm doing in that class compared to my peers. At any rate, there were a few ridiculous questions, and I plan to argue him on the 'what's more important to Hegel, being or becoming?' question, because from what we read there's strong arguments for each. I went with becoming b/c of dialectic, but the end result of the whole Hegelian thing is being, Spirit recognizing the World as it's emanation (Hi, Oversoul, yeah, I missed you too, what's it been, since Junior year?), so you could say the end (being) over the process (becoming). /pretentious angst.

I feel sort of rummy b/c I really knew my shit on this and I still don't know how well I did on that test, only that it's probably not as well as I might have hoped. Ah well.

So I have a sort of large-esque test in German for Thursday, as well as some backlogged homework, a paper for Ren lit on Thursday, and that massively scary Philo final from Professor Greg "I don't know how to teach, but here's my personal version of the cosmological argument because my opinions are important enough for you to be tested on, have another fun story about People I Have Owned with My Massive Philo Skillz" Jessup. Need to study for that one. I totally need to schedule an adviser meeting. I am a lazy, lazy ass.

While I'm home I have to remember to get my tailoring done and my favorite pearl necklace restrung- it's old and broke on the way up here, I adore it and don't want to be the one who ruined something my great grandmother had.

Can you patch my jeans, Peggy Anne?

So I was walking past Annie's and I heard Tori, but didn't recognize the song. I peeked in, said something like "Tori?" And she said yes, and it was Beekeeper, and I am ripping it with joy and madness. Am only on the second track right now. Sweet the Sting sounds kinda like a lost Ani song (song itself, not title), but it's good. Wallowing--no, seeping, seeping is a better verb-- in love, will have more collected thoughts later. Thanks Annie! You're so awesome for randomly finding this, and just awesome in general!

Finally got someone to play chess w/ me today, after rejection on the Annie and Molly fronts (They are obviously heartless bitches devoid of human feeling). Thanks Ben.

Puzz 3D of St. Basil's Cathedral is almost done. What will I do with it then? Maybe Meghan (little sister) would like it. Maybe I'll just take it home and put it on my bookshelf.

What's that thing called that lets you transfer data directly from one computer to another? I need to use one to take music from the junky laptop and put it onto the better, newer desktop. I'm getting new speakers over spring break, everyone comments on the wierd 'concerty' quality of these, and Colin says something about them beiong too small with odd reverberations.

I also need to remember to bring the hardware install cd stuffs for this printer, as my desktop refuses to acknowledge it's existance properly. Whole lot of asking Uncle David 'what the fuck' going on.

Kelley and I are going to get our hair cut by Tia as per usual back at home. Have pretty finally decided I'm dyeing my hair black. I've never tried another color, and I'm ready for a change.

Can you patch my jeans, Peggy Anne?

So I was walking past Annie's and I heard Tori, but didn't recognize the song. I peeked in, said something like "Tori?" And she said yes, and it was Beekeeper, and I am ripping it with joy and madness. Am only on the second track right now. Sweet the Sting sounds kinda like a lost Ani song (song itself, not title), but it's good. Wallowing--no, seeping, seeping is a better verb-- in love, will have more collected thoughts later. Thanks Annie! You're so awesome for randomly finding this, and just awesome in general!

Finally got someone to play chess w/ me today, after rejection on the Annie and Molly fronts (They are obviously heartless bitches devoid of human feeling). Thanks Ben.

Puzz 3D of St. Basil's Cathedral is almost done. What will I do with it then? Maybe Meghan (little sister) would like it. Maybe I'll just take it home and put it on my bookshelf.

What's that thing called that lets you transfer data directly from one computer to another? I need to use one to take music from the junky laptop and put it onto the better, newer desktop. I'm getting new speakers over spring break, everyone comments on the wierd 'concerty' quality of these, and Colin says something about them beiong too small with odd reverberations.

I also need to remember to bring the hardware install cd stuffs for this printer, as my desktop refuses to acknowledge it's existance properly. Whole lot of asking Uncle David 'what the fuck' going on.

Kelley and I are going to get our hair cut by Tia as per usual back at home. Have pretty finally decided I'm dyeing my hair black. I've never tried another color, and I'm ready for a change.