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I just want to let everyone know I'm still alive out here. Despite fighting against the twin handicaps of spending my first week at a new job and having a Roger-patented Week Without Booze, my week is actually going really well. The job is fractionally less dull than I expected, and I'm meeting some lovely people there, including this very friendly and funny red-haired girl called Jayne and a Muslim girl called Romana [!] who's good at long spiels on the difficulty of fasting for Ramadan and the guy down the street who she's "unhealthily obsessed" (her words, not mine) with.

Some links. Fametracker does a brilliant and venomous take-down of Zach Braff's signature rom-com style. And for those who missed their obscure hottie this week, well, I seem to have repeated my Karim Saleh mistake and chose someone so obscure I can't find many linkable pictures of her. But you can see Carrie Fleming here, here and on her official site here. I might sort this out into proper hotlinks sometime. Or I might not.

Carrie's guest-starred in The Chris Isaak Show, The 4400 and The L Word. She took the lead role in Dario Argento's Jenifer under tons of disfiguring make-up, which is very cool. Almost enough to make me forgive her for her next role, Uwe Boll's In the Name of the King, or Dungeon Siege Vol. 1.

So. No time to answer to anyone's comments. I'll get my on-line house sorted soon, but in the meantime this should be enough for you all to go on, surely? I mean, I could post a bit from my new improvised script, which is going really well. But I won't.

Current Location:
A blur
Current Mood:
rushed rushed
Current Music:
That New Badly Drawn Boy Song

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On October 4th, 2006 08:41 pm (UTC), [info]mayaserana commented:
Where do you work now?
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On October 8th, 2006 03:23 pm (UTC), [info]parma_violets replied:
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On October 5th, 2006 10:32 am (UTC), [info]whiggles commented:
The Braff thing had me in stitches. Seriously, I quite liked Garden State, despite its pseudo-intellectual pretentious "I'm really deep but actually have nothing worthwhile to say" emo overtones, but bitch-slap articles like these are so dead-on it's scary. I have nothing against Braff, you know, and enjoy his work on the brainless but amiable Scrubs when I've got nothing better to do with my time, but his profound(-but-actually-not-really) everyman schtick is beginning to wear a little thin.
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On October 8th, 2006 03:33 pm (UTC), [info]parma_violets replied:
Weirdly, I also remember enjoying Garden State too - I say weirdly because I can't honestly remember what was so good about it afterwards. It certainly wasn't dialogue like "I know it hurts. But it's life, and it's real. And sometimes it fucking hurts, but it's life, and it's pretty much all we got."

Everything about it felt totally insincere, from the fake-alternative soundtrack (featuring those avant-garde masters of the contemporary counterculture, Coldplay) to Braff's character just deciding not to take his lithium, with no side-effects whatsoever, through the unrelenting self-absorbtion passed off as harsh realism, to the unbridled horror of Natalie Portman's character, the worst example of the "screenwriter's fantasy girlfriend" trope in cinema I've ever seen.

And yet, it goes down quite smoothly. I don't know how he's managed to pull it off, but he's made a film that's incredibly irritating in retrospect only.

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