Some things you should know about me.
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rsadelleRomance
In Real Life, I can't stand Romance. If you want to do nothing more than stare into your sweetie's eyes, you're perfectly welcome to do so--somewhere where I am not. Fictional Romance, however, is a different matter. I'm not a big fan of the romance novel (with the exception of the occasional Jennifer Crusie), but I like my books and movies to have some Romance. Molly often laughs at me for my penchant for Romantic Comedies, and she laughed even harder when I watched my way through Freddie Prinze Jr.'s entire body of work last summer.
Melodrama
Although I disliked Breakfast At Tiffany's, I am otherwise a sucker for the big emotional scene in the rain. This is what made me enjoy Jackson's "Sweet Revenge." It's also a big part of what makes "Five by Five" the best Angel episode I've seen yet.
Hypocrisy?
My shoes are leather. My sandals are leather. This doesn't bother me. But now I'm shopping for a new wallet and I can't bring myself to even look at a leather one. Part of it is a tactile thing--I don't like the way the leather feels in my hand--but part of it is revulsion at the very thought of carrying leather. So why does having leather shoes not bother me?
Novel Ideas
If you ever wanted to write a novel but didn't know where to start, all you have to do is watch the local news. I usually don't watch the local news, but every once in a while I have to tune in, and every time I do, it provides the starter pieces for at least three plots for a novel. For example, in tonight's national coverage, they mentioned the pregnant woman missing in Utah. Her husband reported her missing after she didn't come back from a jog.
In the novel, he killed her and dumped her body in the woods. He did it in some way that won't show on the bones, and he made sure to put her somewhere where she won't be found until she's largely decomposed. The protagonist could be the detective in charge of the case, and it could be a basic police procedural. Or it could be some member of the woman's family--her mother, her father, a sibling--and it could focus on the heartbreak they're going through. It could even be the husband himself with the revelation of his part in the disappearance as the shocking twist at the end.
In Real Life, I can't stand Romance. If you want to do nothing more than stare into your sweetie's eyes, you're perfectly welcome to do so--somewhere where I am not. Fictional Romance, however, is a different matter. I'm not a big fan of the romance novel (with the exception of the occasional Jennifer Crusie), but I like my books and movies to have some Romance. Molly often laughs at me for my penchant for Romantic Comedies, and she laughed even harder when I watched my way through Freddie Prinze Jr.'s entire body of work last summer.
Melodrama
Although I disliked Breakfast At Tiffany's, I am otherwise a sucker for the big emotional scene in the rain. This is what made me enjoy Jackson's "Sweet Revenge." It's also a big part of what makes "Five by Five" the best Angel episode I've seen yet.
Hypocrisy?
My shoes are leather. My sandals are leather. This doesn't bother me. But now I'm shopping for a new wallet and I can't bring myself to even look at a leather one. Part of it is a tactile thing--I don't like the way the leather feels in my hand--but part of it is revulsion at the very thought of carrying leather. So why does having leather shoes not bother me?
Novel Ideas
If you ever wanted to write a novel but didn't know where to start, all you have to do is watch the local news. I usually don't watch the local news, but every once in a while I have to tune in, and every time I do, it provides the starter pieces for at least three plots for a novel. For example, in tonight's national coverage, they mentioned the pregnant woman missing in Utah. Her husband reported her missing after she didn't come back from a jog.
In the novel, he killed her and dumped her body in the woods. He did it in some way that won't show on the bones, and he made sure to put her somewhere where she won't be found until she's largely decomposed. The protagonist could be the detective in charge of the case, and it could be a basic police procedural. Or it could be some member of the woman's family--her mother, her father, a sibling--and it could focus on the heartbreak they're going through. It could even be the husband himself with the revelation of his part in the disappearance as the shocking twist at the end.
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Date: 2004-07-25 09:19 am (UTC)God yes. It's so horribly cliche that it makes me cringe to to think about it, but I adore rain scenes.
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Date: 2004-07-25 10:02 pm (UTC)