RE: Solutions

I wouldn't be surprised if none (or any) of these were lived up to.

1) See Berlin
2) Finish the screenplay (maybe also begin to imagine casting choices for the lead who are not Clive Owen)
3) Get an apartment
4) Get a job I'm proud of
5) Be more cynical (it'd help with the creative process of #2)
6) Read The Fountainhead again
7) See New York City in the summer
8) Relieve my debt-load
9) Play with my cat (she's getting old)
10) Blog

I wish I felt better

To celebrate my self-imposed bedridden-ness (see: flu), I'm watching a zillion episodes of House on SurfTheChannel. I started noticing that lupus came up as a possible diagnosis in a lot of the episodes, so I Google image searched "House" and "lupus" and found this awesome jpeg.

<3 Hugh Laurie

I attended the Christmas release of Fincher's Buttons yesterday, and the film haunts me still. While I've read several reviews belittling the directorial casting choice (Fincher's previous credits include Se7en and Zodiac), I see no more perfect a selection than the godfather or serial killer narratives to bring to life Fitzgerald's rendition of time-as-silent-killer.

A part of me always winces when I see recycled classics on the big screen, but this one's an example of repuporsing with purpose. Hollywood's mastered the art of bringing the textual to the screen in spectacular ways (this is what Godard loves about the Americans), and this is one of those universal stories that packs the most punch when told visually.

A tax sheltered Christmas

Merci maman pour la belle contribution au RRSP.
Nothing says Christmas like registered savings.

The screenplay

With the holidays upon us and the '09 just on their tail, it's time to kick last year's projects into high gear. The screenplay is on its 35th page and looking swell. Xan and I await the notes of 1995 Governor General's Literary Award winner Tim Wynne-Jones before proceeding.

A sneak-peek: