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Cookie Face
Mar. 21st, 2011 11:06 pmSaw Jane Eyre Friday. Very nice performances across the board, and some very impressive lighting. (Candles and firelight. Most difficult lighting setup.) But it's not really a story you can tell in two hours. They employed a non-linear narrative structure to try to mitigate that, which had strengths and weaknesses. Two hours is still two hours, though. One hopes there will be a double-length director's cut, but I would assume against it, given the cost of shooting that much film. Hair and makeup were uncommonly excellent for a period piece; hair always seemed just messy enough to have plausibly been done by the characters, without looking distractingly as though someone messed up. And the interiors were mostly Haddon Hall, one of my ancestral homes. (One of Mom's grandmothers was a Haddon; I forget which.)
Otherwise, a weekend mostly devoted to writing more novel-length script deconstruction for Shuang, which I feel mad at myself for not having finished yet but which is a lot of work. Edit coming along beautifully, a relief after so many delays and setbacks.
Pip Deathwatch has abruptly resumed, as she suddenly stopped eating. We have tried wet food, dry food, chicken, broth, rabbit entrails, milk, butter, gravy, and pedialyte. She's lost a lot of weight and seems confused and dehydrated even though she's still drinking water. Meanwhile, Mom and Dad left this morning to Virginia to visit my grandmother. I'm taking Pip to the vet tomorrow. It is generally assumed that we're entering a hospice phase.
I don't view animals as people; I like them, but I also eat them, which fosters a certain emotional distance. But I hate seeing her confused and afraid and not being able to do anything about it, which seems like my responsibility to her. It also seems wrong she's stuck with me, who she doesn't like, instead of Dad, who she loves.
Scarlett and I made a batch of almond butter cookies (modified from a peanut butter cookie recipe she found in one of Ciro's cookbooks) and gave them all faces made out of blueberries, craisins, almonds, and chocolate chips. There's an owl, a goat, a walrus, a cyclops, a skull, a surprised person, a crazy-haired conductor, and so forth. Picking which one to eat is difficult because they all have necessarily different proportions of toppings and some you want to look at for longer. So for instance I ate the chocolate-chip-heavy skull, but regret now not being able to look at the skull.
REL is in Atlanta for a couple weeks.
Otherwise, a weekend mostly devoted to writing more novel-length script deconstruction for Shuang, which I feel mad at myself for not having finished yet but which is a lot of work. Edit coming along beautifully, a relief after so many delays and setbacks.
Pip Deathwatch has abruptly resumed, as she suddenly stopped eating. We have tried wet food, dry food, chicken, broth, rabbit entrails, milk, butter, gravy, and pedialyte. She's lost a lot of weight and seems confused and dehydrated even though she's still drinking water. Meanwhile, Mom and Dad left this morning to Virginia to visit my grandmother. I'm taking Pip to the vet tomorrow. It is generally assumed that we're entering a hospice phase.
I don't view animals as people; I like them, but I also eat them, which fosters a certain emotional distance. But I hate seeing her confused and afraid and not being able to do anything about it, which seems like my responsibility to her. It also seems wrong she's stuck with me, who she doesn't like, instead of Dad, who she loves.
Scarlett and I made a batch of almond butter cookies (modified from a peanut butter cookie recipe she found in one of Ciro's cookbooks) and gave them all faces made out of blueberries, craisins, almonds, and chocolate chips. There's an owl, a goat, a walrus, a cyclops, a skull, a surprised person, a crazy-haired conductor, and so forth. Picking which one to eat is difficult because they all have necessarily different proportions of toppings and some you want to look at for longer. So for instance I ate the chocolate-chip-heavy skull, but regret now not being able to look at the skull.
REL is in Atlanta for a couple weeks.
