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Sunday to-doings
Oct. 9th, 2005 10:58 amThis afternoon I'm going to assist in the beginning set-up of the art show next week. Did I mention Swiss Miss is doing an art show? Well, we've put one together, anyway, and we've got to start cleaning the venue today, as much as we can. And for those who are wondering, we won't be performing, not to my knowledge. Which is good, b/c I haven't picked up the flute in months. Total post-SM depression I think, followed by something else (it was a weird summer). Overall malaise, I think.
I think I may have found a cure for mind viruses--Rehab's version of "Gin & Juice" (that's the version of Snoop Dogg's song that's all bluegrass-y).
Do I have the coolest name in the history of lj? seattleforge thinks so. Fortunately, no one gets confused and calls me Leinies. Or Spotted Cow. At least to my face.
I started character profiles and the writing down of some plot points for nanowrimo. Mda said to me the other day, "The one thing you cannot write about is Tal." "Uh, sorry, that's exactly what I'm planning to write about." Write what you know, hmmm? Plus I'm tired of coming across books where the writer obviously doesn't really understand the art subject that they're talking about. Ok, Girl with a Pearl Earring as well as Girl in Hyacinth Blue were okay, but The Girl with the Botticelli Eyes strained credulity (an emergency art conservation project on a 400 yo painting completed in 2 weeks?!!?), and then there are the Dan Brown books ("Da Vinci Code"). [I apologize if these titles are not hyperlinked--I was having quite a problem trying to get lj to recognize the HTML, even though I thought I was doing it correctly.] Well, and The Dante Club was good (I got a real sense of New England in the late 19th Century). So maybe it's just all Dan Brown's fault... no, that guy who wrote The Girl with the Botticelli Eyes really did need someone to kick him in the shins.
Anyway, the point is that if we're going to have a fictional representation of art objects or places, why not let me take a crack at it and include the real stuff in there?
I've told mda I want to make this a murder mystery. Why, I don't know, other than (a) because of Dan Brown, murder mysteries + art are all the rage and (b) perhaps I can get away with this without having to resort to complex and sad "character" "development".
Of course, this is all saying that I'm actually going to write something. I still haven't even completed putting in all the edits on my other Tal. book. Oh well. I've got to start somewhere.
I think I may have found a cure for mind viruses--Rehab's version of "Gin & Juice" (that's the version of Snoop Dogg's song that's all bluegrass-y).
Do I have the coolest name in the history of lj? seattleforge thinks so. Fortunately, no one gets confused and calls me Leinies. Or Spotted Cow. At least to my face.
I started character profiles and the writing down of some plot points for nanowrimo. Mda said to me the other day, "The one thing you cannot write about is Tal." "Uh, sorry, that's exactly what I'm planning to write about." Write what you know, hmmm? Plus I'm tired of coming across books where the writer obviously doesn't really understand the art subject that they're talking about. Ok, Girl with a Pearl Earring as well as Girl in Hyacinth Blue were okay, but The Girl with the Botticelli Eyes strained credulity (an emergency art conservation project on a 400 yo painting completed in 2 weeks?!!?), and then there are the Dan Brown books ("Da Vinci Code"). [I apologize if these titles are not hyperlinked--I was having quite a problem trying to get lj to recognize the HTML, even though I thought I was doing it correctly.] Well, and The Dante Club was good (I got a real sense of New England in the late 19th Century). So maybe it's just all Dan Brown's fault... no, that guy who wrote The Girl with the Botticelli Eyes really did need someone to kick him in the shins.
Anyway, the point is that if we're going to have a fictional representation of art objects or places, why not let me take a crack at it and include the real stuff in there?
I've told mda I want to make this a murder mystery. Why, I don't know, other than (a) because of Dan Brown, murder mysteries + art are all the rage and (b) perhaps I can get away with this without having to resort to complex and sad "character" "development".
Of course, this is all saying that I'm actually going to write something. I still haven't even completed putting in all the edits on my other Tal. book. Oh well. I've got to start somewhere.
