"What the hell kinda place is this?" (58)
Sunny today. And our high was only 77˚F.
I slept a remarkable nine-plus hours last night, and I'm quite a bit better today. But I'm taking it easy, because I have lost too many days to illness for a while.
A little work today. I got some sketches from the artist for "Living a Boy's Adventure Tale." The SubPress chapbook is being illustrated by Steve White, and it's just going to be brilliant. So, I sent some notes to Steve, I also attended to some other writerly business that has been languishing, and...well, I'll write about writing tomorrow. Cross my heart.
I worked on Winifred for about an hour, slowly freeing one of the surangulars from its tomb of hard chalky clay, marl, and sandstone.
The afternoon's movie was the extended cut of Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005), and it's another movie from that period that has held up very, very well. It's amazing how fresh the CGI looks. And Kong's battle with the three Vastatosaurus is one of the best dinosaur sequences ever from any film. Watching it, I was inspired to make a short list of my favorite "dinosaur films," excluding all documentary/nonfiction media and strictly animated films. It actually is a short list (animators' names after release date):
01. Harry O. Hoyt's The Lost World (1925; Willis O'Brien)
02. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's King Kong (1933; Willis O'Brien)
03. Karel Zeman's Journey to the Beginning of Time (1960; Karel Zeman)
04. Don Chaffey's One Million Years B.C. (1967; Ray Harryhausen)
05. Jim O'Connolly's The Valley of Gwangi (1969; Ray Harryhausen)
06. Val Guest's When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1971; Jim Danforth)
07. Kevin Connor's The Land That Time Forgot (1975; Roger Dicken)
08. Phil Tippitt's Prehistoric Beast (1984; Phil Tippett)
09. Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993; Phil Tippett and various)
10. Steven Spielberg's The Lost World (1997; various)
11. Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005; Weta Workshop)
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A quote from Nathan Ballingrud's Twitter feed I would like to share: The "culture war" degrades us all. ~ Nathan Ballingrud
Please have a look at the Big Cartel shop. Thanks.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
3:32 p.m. (yesterday)
I slept a remarkable nine-plus hours last night, and I'm quite a bit better today. But I'm taking it easy, because I have lost too many days to illness for a while.
A little work today. I got some sketches from the artist for "Living a Boy's Adventure Tale." The SubPress chapbook is being illustrated by Steve White, and it's just going to be brilliant. So, I sent some notes to Steve, I also attended to some other writerly business that has been languishing, and...well, I'll write about writing tomorrow. Cross my heart.
I worked on Winifred for about an hour, slowly freeing one of the surangulars from its tomb of hard chalky clay, marl, and sandstone.
The afternoon's movie was the extended cut of Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005), and it's another movie from that period that has held up very, very well. It's amazing how fresh the CGI looks. And Kong's battle with the three Vastatosaurus is one of the best dinosaur sequences ever from any film. Watching it, I was inspired to make a short list of my favorite "dinosaur films," excluding all documentary/nonfiction media and strictly animated films. It actually is a short list (animators' names after release date):
01. Harry O. Hoyt's The Lost World (1925; Willis O'Brien)
02. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's King Kong (1933; Willis O'Brien)
03. Karel Zeman's Journey to the Beginning of Time (1960; Karel Zeman)
04. Don Chaffey's One Million Years B.C. (1967; Ray Harryhausen)
05. Jim O'Connolly's The Valley of Gwangi (1969; Ray Harryhausen)
06. Val Guest's When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1971; Jim Danforth)
07. Kevin Connor's The Land That Time Forgot (1975; Roger Dicken)
08. Phil Tippitt's Prehistoric Beast (1984; Phil Tippett)
09. Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993; Phil Tippett and various)
10. Steven Spielberg's The Lost World (1997; various)
11. Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005; Weta Workshop)
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A quote from Nathan Ballingrud's Twitter feed I would like to share: The "culture war" degrades us all. ~ Nathan Ballingrud
Please have a look at the Big Cartel shop. Thanks.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
3:32 p.m. (yesterday)