itsallovernow | Peeking My Head Out From Under the Covers

Had an incredibly busy weekend full of much working (including work at my clients that kept me at their house until 7:00 p.m. last night - Err Grrr - and while I adore them and need the money, I had plans people!! Which I missed! Waves to

iamsab and

wearemany! So, so sorry! Hope it was fabulous!)

But, there was also time in there for many pricey martinis and for a viewing of Brick. This is such an interesting movie, total high school noir and there's something so fitting about noir in the bright confines of Coastal California (see also Veronica Mars, and Raymond Chandler, etc). The ocean provides this nice atmospheric haze that can't quite obscure the sun, but it adds a film to everything. This movie did fabulous things with dialogue and pacing and vernacular and even when I didn't have any idea what they were talking about it worked in that way one frequently has no idea what teenagers are talking about and yet the language is revelatory for them. And the other thing I loved was that it paced and ebbed like a play, had the feeling of a stylized production with these teenagers dressing up as adults that - for all that I really enjoy and respect and genuinely like Veronica Mars - felt more "real" in terms of representing teens as older than their years and removed from the adults in their lives, even if they were doing very adult things.

Also cut off much of my hair and have total magazine hair:) My hair is messy at the best of times and now it's just slightly crazed with the pieces around my scalp being far shorter and thus wildly wavy and sticky outty:) I'm enjoying it muchly:)

Just a reminder that signups for the ficathon -Thelma and Louise Do Outerspace Ficathon Signups and Rules - end on May 5. So c'mon down and sign up, or at the very least pimp it out!! Remember, it's not all about outer space:)