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Heard a horrible rumor that Nick Cage might play John Constantine in
the Hellblazer movie.  My response was...[*]  Yep, brain fart. 

Speaking of movies, "From Hell" made me very happy to have read the
book.  I had no expectations and wasn't disappointed. Too bad it
couldn't have been done as a 12 part mini-series. *sigh*
  

    
     Constantine, hmm.  So what's Sting doing, after he finishes the
cameo in LoTR?

    Frodo:  "I shall call my weapon . . . Sting!"
    Sam:  "Uh . . . I shall call my weapon . . . The Edge!"

    But I digress.

    Alex Jennings comes to mind, as does Phil Daniels.  Neither is the
perfect physical image, but I think either would do well, particularly
Daniels, unless he's aged more than I recall.  (It's been a while
since QUADROPHENIA.)
    Sean Bean comes to mind, too; he's better known, which the studio
would probably want.
  

    
Erin: Tori songs I play over and over and over again are Here in My
head, Sugar, Upside Down, Father Lucifer, Home On The Range, Famous
Blue Raincoat, Honey, Black Swan, Daisy Dead Petals, Twinkle, Happy
Phantom, and Bells For Her. And as I have compield this list, it occurs
to me that I should make a mix cd for work, so I don't have to lug 10
cds with me... yay!

Dan Guy; I NEED Bruce Campbell's book, because he brings me joy. Is it
called "If Chins Could Kill"? I remember chins being involved... I
remember the Confessions of a B-Movie actor part...

Mike: I second you on Sean Bean. Woo. 

Roxanne: The only other part Nick Cage couldn't be wrong-er for would
be Superman... Eeeg.  I don't care if he is a Coppola, the only movie
I've ever seen where I liked him was "Raising Arizona." I still will
never forgive my kid sister for forcing me to sit through a matinee of
"Snake Eyes" when I could have spent those two hours happier lying on a
bed of nails while a dwarf dance the samba on my abdomen. What a waste
of Gary Sinese.

If I could whap anyone with my magic casting stick that is blind to
box office projections, it would be Calum Keith Rennie. Sure, he's
tall, and has lost his accent, living in Canada. But he's almost
exactly who I picture as John. And he's got a lot of range, at least
based on what I've seen in Hard Core Logo, Double Happiness, and Last
Night.

If you've never seen HCL, I highly recommend it. It's a fake
documentary about a fake punk band reuinitng to tour across Canada (and
it features the calssic road trip game, "Fake Canadian band Names" of
which, my fave will always be "Faster Leonard Cohen, Kill Kill") tho
word of warning--it is a bit, erm... intense. "Spinal Tap" this is NOT.
But it's my fave Canadian movie next to "The Sweet Hereafter" and "The
Red Violin." So make of that what you will.
  

    
Tara O'Shea am very silly.

Mike--you am even sillier.  My neighbors think I'm nuts 'cause I sit
here laughing out loud by myself at 1:30 a.m.  However, I'm with you on
Sting.  How about Sean Pertwee?  John's son, was Hugh Beringar in the
first season of Brother Cadfael?  He even owns a production company
w/Ewen & Jude.  

And Tara O'
Shea knows from Canadian movies, too, as witnessed by her showing me
"Love & Human Remains" earlier this evening.

Hey, Neil--did you see Sweeney earlier this week?  What did you think?

Mary (who loved The Last Hero--Paul Kidby rocks)
  

    
Heh - Mars just went out and bought a Tori folio this evening; Past
The Mission has been playing off and on for the last three hours now.
Oddly, not annoying.

Oh and Mike? That's just bad,...

My weird question of the moment - do any of you, offhand, have an
audio recording of Brust saying "Loiosh"?  :-) (Answers of yes will
have me asking to hear it.)

-Kelly, who'd really like to hear Mike MST3K LOTR (or any other movie,
she thinks,...)
  

    
Streak -- well, I've read the script -- or *A* script anyway, for
CONSTANTINE (which was not bad, although the one I read had a rip-off
of the Corinthian in it, which did not impress me) and he was
definitely an American in the script -- his dear old estranged dad was
dying in Brooklyn, if I remember correctly.

Magic Casting Powers? That has to include anybody, anywhen...

For me, John Constantine when younger looked like Sting in BRIMSTONE
AND TREACLE, but if I could have anyone in the whole world play him, it
would probably be Michael Caine circa THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING.
  

    
Closing night of stagewalker's show was good, except for a plummeting apple
in the middle of the Negri piece which some guy was sagely explaining to his
two female friends, during intermission, represented Eve and temptation, of
course.
  

    
When I told my sister about this Well thing, she made me promise to
ask this question, though I told her I wasn't sure it would get
answered.  So to save myself from being beat up when I go home next:

The introduction to "Queen of Knives" states that it is "close enough
to the truth the I have had, on occasion, to explain to some of my
relatives that it didn't really happen.  Well, not like that, anyway."

So if it didn't happen like that, what really did happen?
  

    
For those who didn't catch the show.. the apple Martha mentioned was
tied to a string, high above the stage, because it lowered and was a
pivotal prop piece for the Chekhov story at the end of the show.
Having an apple drop from the lighting grid in the middle of a totally
unrelated story is the kind of thing that makes live theatre just so
darned interesting!

I'd like to second the interest in the Queen of Knives story, Neil...
  

    
It was a really loud apple.  I jumped in my seat, but astonishingly the
actors on stage didn't flinch at all.
  

    
Oh, and since I haven't really posted here before -- hi Martha.  You
probably don't remember me, but I had lunch with you this past July, in
a little Mexican place with Lenny (who says hi too).  Nice to see you,
virtually at least.
  

    
Sean Bean is HOT.

sorry, that was an uncontrollable teenage fangirl response that
emerged uncalled-for from my lower subconscious. We will now return you
to your regular broadcast.

Yay for all those, reintroduced to the happiness of being in love.
Gotta lurve lurve.

I saw "The Last Hero" in three bookshops yesterday. It is hardback and
it is beautiful and it is also 60 NZD <weeps smally>.

Maybe Christmas will be lucky ...

Jo

who played soccer yesterday for the first time in a month and is stiff
in the most crazy muscles
  

    
Hi, Johanna--
  

    
   Dan -- but Chekhov is famous for saying that if you have an apple
hanging from the fly tower, it -has to- drop into the lighting grid
before the third-act curtain.
   Most people think Chekhov said something about a gun, but then most
people think Chekhov is the one who isn't Sulu.
  

    
I just saw a very interesting movie that reminded me of Sandman,
though it could be because I just re-read the whole series in one
gulp.  But it does share a certain topicality, which is why I'm
posting here.  It's called "Waking Life", and I'm pretty sure I liked
it.  It was worth seeing, at any rate.

Since it's mostly a 2-hour occasionally lucid dream, describing it is
a bit difficult, but the way the art changed styles shimmeringly over
the course of the movie, yet the characters stayed recognizeably
themselves reminded me of watching the different artists at work in
Sandman.  The art was fascinating technically as well -- the movie was
shot in digital live-action video, and then a sort of Photoshop
technique was used to make it into animation, with various artists
using styles of painting to animate the faces and action.  So the
movements and physics were unlike what you usually see even in
realistic animation.

It seemed like it was trying too hard sometimes, and I have
a limited tolerance for PoMoSpeak.  But listening through that, there
were some great concepts in there.  And the soundtrack was great (at
least if you like string quartets and Astor Piazzola, who the
soundtrack wasn't by but sounded a lot like.  And oh I miss playing
string quartets a lot.  I need to do something about that.)

The best line from the movie is my current pseudonym.  The next best I
think (in terms of funny quotability that I could write on my arm in
the theatre, not deep meaningfulness that I want to think about) was
"In the night, I go salsa dancing with my confusion."

So: Waking Life, written/directed by Richard Linklater,
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0243017

Hope no one minds this long review by someone they don't know...
  

    
*blinks slowly*
Tired. Photo shoot today - me and two other women, repro-ing classical
paintings,... sore. Tired. Feeling pretty and desirable, tho, which is
nice...  :-)  I'll post pictures when we get them, but be warned that
they're all partial nudes. (Meep!)

One of the photographers is well known in some circles; Sebastian
DeLaOsa. Small world sort of thing - he's a newlywed, and his wife was
a penpal of 'the' Sunshine for many moons. Interesting story,
interesting connections, interesting small world.

I'm tired. G'night.  :-)
-Kelly
  

    
Kelly - I'm impressed with the masks. Wow! And mondo congratulations!
I'm supposed to have a photo shoot next weekend. Pretty dresses in
dreary cemetaries. Should be silly.

Jinx (et al) - Mmmm, kippers. One of the few fishy things I'll still
eat. Better than those scary smoked oysters any ole day. (ew) As for
fish for breakfast, I'm Japanese; fish is right up there with rice as
something I can eat as ANY meal. (uninteresting trivia: the Japanese
word for 'rice' is the same as the Japanese word for 'meal').

Dan - Oakland rocks? I'm sorry, do you live in the same city I live
in? Hrm. Then again, you probably don't live within three blocks of
monthly gun fire like I do. Ahh, the ghetto. :)

Pamela said <<You are the fiercest boot-wearin', Neil-stalkin',
Devil-Bunny-ownin' mouse in the West.>> - Um, are there others out
there who are less fierce? (Ugh, I suddenly concocted a visual of one
of my mice in mouse-sized New Rocks... sick and wrong)

On another completely sick and wrong note - Jinx's stripper remark,
followed by Jen B's dancing as a threat to make everyone well remark
somehow reminded me that as a go-go dancer, I used to make people feel
better, and then much much worse (best way to get rid of the icky
drooley frat boys is to sneer at them and walk off the platform with
the cute girl on your arm)

Adriana (cheerleader of love!) - Um, yeah, what you said. Go love!
Especially when it presents itself in quirky little manifestations that
might seem insignificant to just anyone else, but thus hold more value
to you. Ah sentimentality! I mean, that's a loverly necklace you have
on. :)

Ack, I need sleep - long commute tomorrow, as I've done something
stupid (tm) and promised someone that I wouldn't drive across the bay
bridge *OR* take BART to the City tomorrow morning... which means a
very long drive halfway around the bay during rush hour traffic. 

squeaks, whose hair hurts 13 hours later.
  

    

Hey squeaks, you gonna shoot at Mountain View Cemetery at the end of
Piedmont?
  

    
Johanna -- well, it depends which bit; there's true family stuff, and
true grandparents stuff in there, and there's stuff I made up as well.
In reality, for example, I never mislaid my grandmother, and she
outlived my grandfather...

The comedian was a man named Harry Worth.

And I got a message from my son Mike telling me I have to see Waking
Life. If memory serves, Mr Linklater is a fan (I seem to remember
somone giving me Slackers at a signing from him.)


Mike -- are you saying that all along, Sulu and Chekov were the same
person?  (Sudden flashback to seeing Shampoo as a young man just before
I knew I needed glasses, and being unable to tell any of the women
bonking Warren Beatty apart.)


...

Suspect the inner world and the outer are reflecting each other right
now. Still sick, although less so, while the libretto's Windows 2000
just got a blue screen of death while booting problem, of the kind
that, several hours research tends to indicate, doesn't go away with
anything but reinstalling Windows 2000. And while I'll not lose any
writing, I will lose hundreds of unanswered e-mails, and the FAQ
messages... so will spend more time figuring how to get some kind of
disk access before I let it die.
  

    
Damn.  I'm glad you didn't lose any writing though.
  

    
Tara -- That's the one!  It's a thoroughly enjoyable book.

Have a good Guy Fawkes day, all.
  

    
Neil -- Thanks for the answer about the Queen of Knives. I will pass
it along to my sister.

And I'd be interested in hearing what you think of Waking Life if/when
you see it...

Sorry to hear about your computer issues.  Does this mean I should
assume email I sent to you last week has vanished into the luminiferous
ether?

Hoppy Monday, everybody!
  

    
Neil, sorry about computer madness.  It seems to be a common plague. 
If I lived near you, I'd send my brilliant computer husband over to
help.  If there's any tech support you need, he and his cousin Chuck,
who is Windows certified, would love to be of service.  

Well it looks like we'll be playing again, this time an acoustic set,
on sunday, but it might have to be cancelled as I just learned my
grandmother is in hospital with a stroke and I may have to fly to New
Mexico to be with her.  Please light a candle for her!

-Adriana
  

    

Beams to you and your grandmother.
  

    
Jen: You're not alone about picking and choosing on the posts thing. 
I should probably limit my responses more than I do, since I so rarely
have anything meaningful to add.  Not that that's entirely stopped me. 
Obviously.

Johanna: Welcome.  People who *do* have interesting things to say,
though--such as yourself--should, must, are sincerely requested to post
long, pseud-able reviews and yummy Things-for-Thingies.

<squeaks>: Nope.  You're one of a kind.  I was just ineptly expressing
my admiration for your post on FROM HELL and your posts in general. 
They're always full of good stuff.

Everyone posting about Tori music: We are, umm... <deep breath,
mini-pep talk to self>... about to try to buy a house.  (Scary
big-people type commitment thing.)  One of the good things about this,
I'm hoping, is that we'll finally have room for the piano my mom keeps
wanting to ship to me.  You've all inspired me to run out and get Tori
songbooks if/when it gets here.

Adriana: Thinking of you and your grandmother.