Camp is OVER! I'm thrilled! I get my life back now!
So today I started writing again. Hard to pick up, but it's starting to flow out now at 9pm. I've been trying to get it moving since about 3pm.
Saw Harry Potter VI today. I love the world, the story in general was good, and I enjoyed the humor and romance, but PICK UP THE CUES ALREADY! You could drive a semi-truck in between their dialogue - is David Yates asleep!? This whole series would have really kicked some ass if Alfonso Cuaron had stayed at the helm. I've seen some of Yates' other work and it's fine, so why is he dragging the Potter movies? Crikey - they complain the movies are too long, but if they picked up their lines, they'd cut the time down by about a third, I swear! Phoenix had the same problem.
Here's my other thought about the HP series. Love Gary Oldman to DEATH, but he was wrong for Sirius. He should have been Lupin. Thewlis is great, but he should have been Quirrell. And Matthew Macfadyen should have been Sirius! He would have been PERFECT! Sirius is supposed to be handsome, even though whipped from being in Azkaban, and very tall and dark, which Gary Oldman isn't. Oh well, he's off doing more profound projects anyway and at the time was probably still tied up with Spooks.
By the way, I highly recommend checking out Matthew Macfadyen's work. His most visible yet was "Pride & Prejudice" 2005, where he played Mr. Darcy. I resisted this film for a few years, because I hate Keira Knightley, but it turned out to be very good in its own right, and Matthew blew me away. You can also see him in "Frost/Nixon", "Incendiary" (lousy movie, but good performance), "In My Father's Den", which is from New Zealand and very hard to get a hold of, but EXCELLENT, "Little Dorrit", which is the Dickens miniseries which aired on the BBC last fall and on PBS this spring in which he is the lead and very brilliant, the upcoming "Nottingham" with Russell Crowe and the brilliant British spy series "Spooks", or MI-5, as it's known in America. IMDB him - you won't regret it!
In between camp and students - I seem to have spent a lot of down time in the car, sweating my ass off (it's hot!) for the last 3 weeks - I read "Pillars of the Earth" and "World Without End" by Ken Follett. They both center around a cathedral in England built in the 12th century. I couldn't put either of them down! Pillars is being made into a mini-series, shot in Hungary and Austria right now and up until about Christmas. Matthew Macfadyen is playing Prior Philip and although it's an ensemble cast, his role is very big and very good. I'm really stoked about this mini-series and hope that someday they make one about World Without End as well. http://www.the-pillars-of-the-earth.tv
Okay, I'm rambling. Back to work!
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