Harry Connolly's Blog, page 188

And I'm off!

The family just arrived. I'm about to catch a cross-town bus to have dinner and then go to see "my" movie. Usually, I go to see "a" movie. Not tonight.

::gulp!::

Non-controversial, given the speaker

So, much of the media is buzzing over U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's unwillingness to acknowledge what every knowledgable person knows he believes. He is a strict libertarian, and he does not believe government should be making rules for private businesses. According to a letter to the editor he wrote years ago, discrimination by the government = bad, but discrimination by private business = Nothing for the law to do about it.

Nothing surprising there, if you understand that he's very...

Attention Seattleites

Last reminder for serious. The indie horror movie I wrote, THE DEAD FEED, has its world premiere tonight at 7pm at NW Film Forum.

And sometime in the next few days I'll post pictures of the event.

Seven books

1) Happy Hour of the Damned by Mark Henry. Reader, I lol-ed. This book isn't for everyone: it has a very dark sense of humor. It's raunchy and obnoxious, but the author made the protagonist real enough for me that went right along with it.

Setup: Bitchy ad exec Amanda Feral finds herself transformed into a zombie and has to learn to navigate the secret world of the supernatural.

It was a lot of fun, but the big drawback was the detective plot the book is structured around. At some...

Second-to-last reminder:

Tomorrow (Thursday) night, the indie horror film I wrote will have its world premiere at NW Film Forum at 7pm. The title is THE DEAD FEED; it's about a group of friends who receive video feeds showing one of them being murdered… before it happens (dum dum DUM!!!)

Be there or be somewhere else.

I haven't been online much for the past few days

Busy with crap I can't/won't talk about. I'm about 3,000 words into The Buried King and I feel like I'm spinning my wheels–and I'll be damned if just typing that didn't give me the idea I needed to revamp the opening of the book.

That means I'll be restarting this thing for the fourth time, but what the hell. Whatever it takes, right?

It doesn't help that my brain has been consumed by all sorts of personal shit. How do we change our lives for the better? What's the next step? Do we...

Randomness for 5/18

1) Producer Linda Obst on Why movies suck so much right now. Don't miss the comics fanboy outrage in the comments.

2) 2010 Best illusion of the year. For best effect, watch the video before reading the article.

3) Robbing from the poor (writer)–how NOTTINGHAM, a script that featured the Sheriff of Nottingham using CSI techniques to track a wanted terrorist and which was the hottest script at auction in Hollywood for a while, became the completely tedious ROBIN HOOD. Aka why modern movies...

Again, this is brilliant

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Sorry Gary.

That dream I had last night?

Not a dream. I thought I dreamed that muscle cramps in my leg woke me screaming in the middle of the night. Apparently, either my wife had a similar dream (in which she woke up terrified and worked on my leg until it was better) or it really did happen.

Shit. Drinking water now. Will have a banana soon. Have already apologized to her.

Weird.

Not online much

I'm just dropping a quick note before going back to today's pages.

Reminder for Seattle-area folks! The low-budget horror movie I wrote, THE DEAD FEED, about a group of friends who receive video feeds showing one of their number being murdered before it happens, will have its world premiere this Thursday night 5/20, 7pm, at NW Film Forum.

I'll be there with camera in hand so I'll have photos of the event. Maybe video, too. If you can be there, be sure to say hello.