at wit's bloody endThere was no writing yesterday. I could not even bring myself to try. The very thought brought on an instant panic and a black fury. I spent most of the afternoon in bed.
Spooky read to me from Gregory Maguire's A Lion Among Men, which I'm liking quite a lot. That's hardly surprising, given how much I loved Wicked and Son of a Witch. We watched Glenn McQuaid's I Sell the Dead (2008), which is a truly adorable film. Dominic Monaghan and Larry Fessenden both deliver splendid performances, and even though Ron Perlman is pretty much on autopilot, what the fuck. He's Ron Perlman. The art direction and makeup effects show how one can do quite a lot on a tight budget. Much homage is paid to Hammer, as well as to Roger Corman's Poe films. Highly recommended. I can't say the same for Tommy Wirkola's Norwegian splatter-fest Død Snø (aka Dead Snow, 2010). A terrible, silly mess of a film. The Nazi zombies' makeup effects were cool, but there's not much else positive to say about the film. It doesn't even work as a film that's so bad it's good. Just bad.
There was leftover egg salad for lunch. We got pizza from Fellini's for dinner. We watched the episode of Fringe, a series that just keeps getting better. I tried to do a little rp in Insilico, but came away infuriated and confused and determined to disentangle myself from Second Life...again. Maybe if I go so far as to uninstall the software from my computer I can stop getting sucked back in. There was some WoW, in the Storm Peaks of Northrend. We read more Gregory Maguire until I was was finally sleepy, which must have been close to four ayem. And that was yesterday. An "L" in my day planner.
Today...I did try to write. I managed about 200 words (after erasing a good bit of what I wrote on Thursday), and then I gave up for the day. And I'm going to have something important to say on the subject of The Wolf Who Cried Girl tomorrow. I should probably say it now, but I'm just not up to it.
Spooky's proofreading the galleys for the mass-market paperback edition of The Red Tree, which is due back in NYC on the 15th.
If you've not already, do please preorder The Ammonite Violin & Others. Thanks. Remember, only the limited comes with the "Sanderlings" chapbook.