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September 30th, 2009
01:29 pm - SEPTEMBER
Argh.
That is all.
Current Mood:  argh
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August 24th, 2009
03:43 pm - August Thoughts
Keeping the ol' LJ on life support for another month, it looks like...
Let's see. I got engaged this month, but I expect pretty much everyone already knew that? Still writing words for money. Still not making very much money doing it, but living off it which is more than I can say for many of my peers.
I bet this feels as perfunctory to you as it does to me. Why not go visit me on one of my many other virtual hangouts? I like the Twitters these days: @casciato.
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July 24th, 2009
09:24 pm - July, it's your turn!
Hello ... Is this thing on? I am still sorely tempted to simply mothball this and move on. It was a great My First Blog but I just don't have a lot of use for it at this point. The "random details from my life" niche is adequately filled by Twitter and Facebook status updates. I blog every single freaking day on various blogs about zombies, music, technology, social media and other stuff. It leaves me little energy or volition to come here and write about anything.
I have considered making this a blog on writing. See, editors tell you never to write about writing, but sometimes you want to. So to keep it out of my "real" writing, I could write it here. But then I realize I don't really care that much, you don't really care that much and so I don't.
So, if that picture is to be believed, LiveJournal is ten years old. Crazy, I have been here for five of those years. Maybe that is reason enough to keep it going, right there.
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June 30th, 2009
08:20 pm - Obligatory June Post
June almost escaped without getting LiveJournaled. Not so fast, wily June! The most notable thing that happened in June was Zombie Movie Marathon Month. Thirty days, thirty zombie movies, super big fun. You can read all about it on my zombie blog. Right now, Abby has just returned from her job in Wyoming and I'm looking forward to a few days alone with her before she returns to the wilds of Wyoming. Unfortunately, I have a cold or flu or some goddamn thing and feel pretty miserable. Sucktacular timing, immune system!
Q was here for a three-week visit. It was really fun for me, but she got bored a lot. Because I work a lot, and she doesn't have a lot friends here. We went and saw Repo: the Genetic Opera as a midnight moive and we really liked it, even though that was the night I got sick. It's a pretty weird movie and my raging fever only made it weirder. Earlier in her visit we went to Westword Music Showcase (fun but a long fucking day) and the final Hot IQs show (also fun). So we did some stuff.
So that was June, more or less. Less, I guess.
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May 24th, 2009
01:31 pm - Obligatory May post
So, yeah. LiveJournal. I still read my friends' list. I still post the occasional thing in one of my communities. But my interest in blogging random details from my life? Pretty minimal. I am blogging like fifteen or so times a week at various places (newest one is becoming the Denver Horror Movies Examiner so go there if you like horror movies) and just picked up another five-times-a-week blog (Westword tech blogger). So yeah, basically no time to recount meaningless details from my life on any kind of frequent basis. Here's a quick recap: daughter is great, just finished the school year with kick-ass grades. Girlfriend/relationship is great. Still poor. Still work too much.
June is Zombie Movie Marathon Month, which some of you may remember from last year. I'll be watching a zombie movie every day of the month of June. You can read more about it at The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse.
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April 23rd, 2009
11:38 am - Obligatory April post
Already April 23 and I have yet to post. I've been posting like crazy on my zombie blog The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse, on the Backbeat Online Blog and on Twitter, though. Sorry LJ, it's not that I don't love you anymore, it's that my life is pretty static for the kind of stuff I post here. Let's see, Saturday is the big move and I couldn't be less enthusiastic... I really enjoy playing Left 4 Dead. I wish I were better at looking for jobs and/or pitching stories.
Sorry, folks, that is all I've got.
Current Music: Fabio Frizzi - Zombi 2 theme
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March 31st, 2009
04:54 pm - Moving soon, melatonin still weird
Abby (aka  fairiecolors ) and I are getting ready to move soon. We found a new place off Colfax, just south of Sloan's Lake. Should be a quick bus ride into downtown. We will be there for a while, since we signed a two-year lease. It's a pretty cool place, a decent sized two bedroom duplex. The other side of the duplex is our landlords, at least for now. They seem pretty cool, about our age and have a couple of dogs for Abby's mutts to play with.
Abby got a job in Wyoming this summer, so for the first few months I will be kinda sorta living alone (she'll be back every ten days or so for a four-day stretch). It will be weird. I haven't ever really lived alone for a significant period of time, and the last time I did was for just a couple months (maybe less) over ten years ago. I assume I will get caught up on lots of zombie movies I haven't had time to watch. Should be good for the blog.
In other news, melatonin does seem to be helping me sleep. I still have the intermittent trouble falling asleep, but nowhere near what it used to be. And the dreams are still vivid and kind of strange. Unless it stops working or the dreams revert to "normal" or something else weird happens, I probably won't have much else to say about it.
Also, I Twitter now.
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March 24th, 2009
03:42 pm - Melatonin dreams keep dreaming on
Still using melatonin, still having some pretty intense/strange dreams. It also seems to be helping my insomnia to some degree, but it's definitely no magic bullet. It took me close to an hour to go to sleep last night, but that isn't bad considering that's the worse it's been since I started taking it and it is not at all unusual for me to take hours to go to sleep.
Bu yeah, the dreams. The only other thing I've used that triggers intense dreaming is nicotine patches, but these are qualitatively different. The nic-patch dreams were intense, typically creepy and had a strange, almost film-like quality to them. These dreams, on the other hand, are very real seeming. I keep running into people from my life (although strangely, they frequently seem to have traded identities/names with other real people from my life...) in relatively normal situations and having normal-ish conversations with them. It's weird for its very normalcy. I might have to start keeping a dream journal again to track what's going on in my head while I sleep.
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March 19th, 2009
05:04 pm - More melatonin data ... maybe
It's hard to say if it is related or not (you know, correlation, causation, all that jazz), but I keep getting really sleepy around 5 p.m. every day. Now, I have noted in the past that this seems to be a natural energy lull point for me, and may be related to the fact that I usually stop drinking coffee around 2 p.m. or so, but since the melatonin experiment started, it's been worse. I guess melatonin is supposed to work on circadian rhythms so maybe it is just reinforcing my natural biorhythm. Whatever it is, it's kind of annoying since 5 p.m. is a terrible time for a nap. Must... power ... through.
Also, I found out yesterday that my divorce was finalized.
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March 18th, 2009
08:04 pm - Fuck Virgin and the geekgasm
Today Abby e-mailed to tell me that Virgin Megastore was having a going out of business sale. While I am sorry about the people that will lose their jobs, hey, sweet -- going out of business sale means lots of cheap stuff and I've been impressed with their selection of zombie movies in the past. Plus, I've really, really been wanting to play Left 4 Dead and I thought, hey they might have that on sale! So I went down in the middle of the day to check. Of course, they had no Left 4 Dead. They did have lots and lots of other games I kind of want to play (including Fallout 3 and Resident Evil 5) but I was kind of fixated on L4D. Foiled there, I moved on to the DVDs but some other zombie freak apparently beat me to it -- there wasn't anything there I don't have or that isn't extremely common, even though I have seen lots of fairly obscure stuff there in the past. Foiled again! I moved on to perusing the general stuff but quickly realized the "deals" from the closeout were a fucking scam. See, Virgin's typical list price is on the high side -- sometimes ridiculously so. The only thing that makes the place worthwhile is their constant sales, like the never-ending $10 DVD sale. Thing is, those $10 DVDs are list priced $15 and up. And they are offering 25 percent off DVDs, but all of the sales are ended now; it's just the going out of business sale on at the moment. Some quick math tells us this is a worse deal than what they used to run almost every single day. To make a long story short(ish) I didn't buy anything, and Virgin can eat a bag of dicks. I may go back in the last few days to pick over the dessicated corpse when they are offering 50-75 percent off.
On to the geekgasm...
See, I was so excited to find some bargains I decided to go ahead and park in the lot while I was downtown, figuring the $4 parking fee for an hour would be reasonable if I bought a game or two and a couple DVDs and saved $20 or so. After realizing I'd been suckered, I decided that I might as well catch an early matinee and validate my parking for free rather than pay the garage -- it's only a few bucks more (actually, turned out to be just $5, so that was sweet) and I see a movie. Watchmen in this case. Hence, the geekgasm.
The short version is, believe the hype. If you liked the book, this will be a great experience. If you haven't, I don't know. i think it is still a great movie, but you might be confused, or even a little bored. As a huge fan of the book, I have to say I think this is probably the best possible adaptation of it that could possibly have been made. I even liked the changed ending (blasphemy, I know!). My buddy jjhalloween got it right -- it may even be a better, more elegant ending than the book offered (double blasphemy, I KNOW!). I didn't even mind the blue wang that much. Seriously, what are you all doing staring at the man's crotch, anyway? It's not like the camera was focused there, for fuck's sake. I do wonder what the experience of seeing it (the movie, not the wang) would be like for the uninitiated. Me, I was constantly anticipating how he'd shoot the next bit and being blown away when he did. I thought the acting was a bit spotty here and there, but nothing egregious and only at a few points. I really liked the performances by the actors who played the Comedian and Rorschach. The Comedian's performance, in particular, made him an incredibly sympathetic character, more so than he comes off in the book. I am officially impressed with Zack Snyder, even though this may turn out to be his Citizen Kane (i.e. a brilliant albatross that keeps him from ever working with the same freedom again). I'm curious to see if he can do an original, non-adapted/remade script, but fuck it; even if he is "only" the film equivalent of a song stylist interpreting comics and other movies, he's the best fucking stylist of the generation. Maybe any generation.
Bold statement, I know. I told you I was having a geekgasm. I'm going to see it again soon, hopefully I will be able to judge it a little more this time rather than just sit there in awe with a geeky lump in my throat the whole time.
Current Mood: geeky
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