Finally, I can post an entry. Random thoughts.

I was on the Madcow cluster, and I'm delighted to finally be able to access again. I thought I might have to wait until tomorrow.

Happy to be here.

I lost a few of the comments on the last entry (the hair entry), so if you still want to check out the Hair Change the link is here.

And the lovely Creativity Thread is still open...if you haven't added to the thread yet, go ahead! It's still here! Several of you have replied---thank you!---but I'd love to read more insights about the pieces of writing/drawing/photography that you're most proud of, and why, so if you haven't, and would like to, check it out! Hell, even if you've already posted and you thought of something else, go ahead and add to it.

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I was always impressed with ffnet's notification system, until today. There is this one story I was attempting to follow...it sounded like it had some promise...but it wasn't as interesting as I thought it would be. So I took the author off my "Favorite Author"/Author Alert list. I still kept getting notifications. So I went back and took it off "Favorite Stories" too. So now there are no references at all to this author. Yet I am still getting notifications. And I received no notification for the review I just got for "The Last Button"! Just weird.

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I made a friend laugh today...I was pretending to be at a convention watching my favorite "star" address the audience...I pretended to ask some crazy question and did the frazzled star's reply...and then I turned to my friend and said..."I can't wait to update my faq!"

Maybe you had to be there.

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Went and saw "House of Flying Daggers" and, surprisingly, I actually liked "Hero" better. Jin was fairly hot, the plot was interesting, the acting wonderful...but for some reason I wasn't as connected.

There's one scene where the guy comes back to the girl, and you can just completely grasp all the feelings in his head...it was wonderful. I sometimes think in mainstream American movies we're too afraid that the audiences aren't going to "get it". We make movies with everything underscored so that everyone will understand. (I'm talking mainstream here.) It was so nice to see a film where you have to put it together yourself, with far fewer words.

I did enjoy some of it, but I would have liked a little bit more here and there, and the ending took way, way, way too long for me. There's a point where melodrama just heads into silly. I love melodrama, but there was just a bit too much there.

I loved the whole is that you, or is that a you that you've invented theme...

Oh, I'm so happy LJ is back. Hooray!