The coolest video game trailer I have ever seen.
Monthly Archives: February 2011
I hope this is better than the last film
Fans with time.
So if you watched the superbowl, or saw it here, you may have seen the teaser trailer for this year Captain America: The First Avenger. A film I plan on seeing.
Well some enterprising fan has recut the trailer with shall we say more empathic music.
More than a line edit
That is what the edit of Love and Loyalty is turning into. I started off just trying to bring my sentence construction up to my current standards. However as I have mentioned here I discovered a glaring fault in chapter two, with the feedback from the MG Writers group, and so that means a total re-write of chapter ttwo.
Now I have found several scenes that would greatly enhance the novel with their addition. Some were scenes that existed in the plot, but were handled ‘off-screen’ as it were. Some were scenes I knew about but never wrote into the narrative because I thought it worked without them. Now I understand hat I need to expand the POV of the novel and employ more of Hitchcock’s ‘ticking Bomb theory of suspense.’
lovely
This is so cool.
Hat Tip to my pal Ed Green for the pointer. (it is a weird coincidence that I saw this after watching part of Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow while at the dentist.)
A somewhat trying day
I started my day with a visit to the dentist. Luckily what was scheduled to take 90 minutes only took 60. I had five crowns put into my mouth today. One of my teeth, Number 6 he is not a tooth he is a free man, was particularly sensitive and Dr Rhodes was forced to numb half of my mouth. The new teeth look great and it good to be back to regular eating. I had pizza to celebrate.
After that I had chores around the house to do. I cleaned out some old storage containers with old manuscripts in them. Then it was odd to see ,my sinus surgeon for my six-month follow-up. I did not see Dr. Weeks but rather his physician’s assistant. Still my sinuses look great and I have been throttled back to annual check-up now,
I had a headache — I always seem to get them after getting numbed at the Dentist, so their will be no further blogging tonight.
Sunday Night Movie: Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World
It was a string of events that lead me to select Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World as this weekend’s Sunday Night Movie.
First off I am editing/re-writing Love and Loyalty. Now Love and Loyalty is a Space Opera novel of adventure among the stars it might not seem congruent with a movie like Master and Commander. That’s only on the surface, Love and Loyalty is my salute/homage to the Horatio Hornblower novels, which are Napoleonic Sea adventures, like Master and Commander. I have read the entire Hornblower series multiple times and one of these days I intend to get around to the Jack Aubrey novel — from which the film Master and Commander was inspired.
Second over at Star trek re-watch after a particularly wide-ranging conversation in the comments section we ended up talking about naval matters and traditions. Star Trek also is inspired by the Hornblower stories and so there was a mood synergy that just insisted that I had to watch Master and Commander and soon.
Yeah, I’m looking forward to it.
Here’s the first trailer for the Marvel Superhero film Captain America: The First Avenger
A very pleasant Saturday
So yesterday was another board and card gaming day, but this one got an earlier start as my friend Brad came over about noon so we could get in a game of Federation Commander. That game did not go very well for myself. I was rolling poorly and Brad was rolling hot. Still it was fun and I don’t think I made any bonehead mistakes as I had in the game previous.
Around 5:30 we got together for the regular B7C gaming session and that went alright. (Though I did not win any of the games I did come close in Showbiz Shuffle.)
After my sweetie-wife retired for the evening we sat and watched a blu-rau, The Wrath Of Khan. Not only was that a throughly enjoyable film to watch, all of use including Brian snapped with commented during the screening. It is so good to hear Brian’s voice getting clearer each week. After the movie it was sit around bullshitting for a little while and at one point something was said that set Brian off laughing. It was one of those laughing jags that is so difficult to stop. I really felt good hearing him laugh like that.
Experimenting
I am now experimenting with having my blog posts cross posted to my lj and my facebook accounts. We’ll see how this goes.