what i did this weekend, by merde

wrote.
made tea.
wrote.
ate cookies.
wrote.
made salsa.
wrote.
ate salsa.
wrote.
drank wine.
wrote.
ate frozen pizza.
drank wine.
logged onto OK Cupid.
drank wine.
had 5 hour conversation with total stranger in southern california about geekery, explosives, divorce, and getting into fights in tijuana, part online, part on the phone.
fell asleep.
got up.
received real-life email address of not-quite-total stranger in southern california.
said, "woohoo!"
received admonition to follow my own advice re: men who are in the process of divorcing from boutell.
assured boutell that i'm too cynical and jaded to get very excited about these things anymore.
screwed around with my email settings, but was unable to determine why outlook express on my new machine refuses to send mail via bcom.
read lj.
got yet another call from my dad, who has taken to calling every week to see how i'm doing. this is new and strange behavior. i may stop answering the phone because i always feel skeezy after i talk to him.
realized that it's 4pm and i still haven't got clothes on. which wouldn't be a problem only i have to go pick up a prescription. (when don't i?)
decided to post to lj instead of putting on clothes. (hi! i'm naked!)

but, uh, yeah. gotta get my shit together now, before my brane realizes it's missed two doses of this stuff today and starts making me crazy. we all know how well that usually goes.

ah, and iceberg just horked up his lunch on the rug again. splendid.

anyway, after i deal with these things, i plan to write some more. it took me a while to get these two characters comfortable with each other, but after an expeditious -- if incredibly trite -- forced-to-share-body-heat scenario, they can't keep their hands off each other. Male Protagonist has revealed an unforeseen but oddly appropriate tendency to dominance and possessiveness. even more unexpectedly, Female Protagonist seems to like it. this particular dynamic has never actually happened before in my writing. amazing what your characters will do if you grant them free will and self-determination.

aren't you glad you only have to read the executive summary? man, remind me to set some kind of bomb in my computer that will destroy all traces of my drivel upon my death, ensuring that i will retain in the eternal void what few scraps of dignity i still possess.

well, i'm still naked

yeah, i know, you're shocked. SHOCKED!

but i was just reading some theories on casting for the new A-Team movie, and felt it necessary to weigh in with my own opinions. a couple of my ideal choices are already listed there: Ving Rhames for B.A., and Brad Pitt for the Faceman. because, come on, admit it: Brad's not much of an actor, but he's a good fit in a caper flick and he does have a great ear for accents. and, well, the face. dumb as a rock, but way prettier. if they can't get Brad to do it, Val Kilmer is a shoo-in.

but the other two... hm. i don't see Jim Carrey as Murdock -- he's too goofy. he'd reduce the whole thing to a lame parody. (which, of course, is exactly what i'm sure Hollywood has planned for this, after the Charlies Angels thing, but let's pretend for a moment that they're not planning to defile yet another of my chlidhood favorites with more formulaic, lowest-common-denominator bullshit.) for Murdock, i see... Benicio Del Toro. i was going to say Edward Norton -- hey, they're both good at playing crazy -- but i just know they're going to try to shoehorn a latino into the team. as we all know, any group appearing in a movie these days must have not only a token black guy, but a token hispanic. i also wouldn't mind seeing Gary Oldman in this role, but i think he's a little too crazy.

now, Hannibal, that's going to be tricky. i'm tempted to say Anthony Hopkins just because of the name synchronicity, but no... Sir Anthony is too sophisticated for this role. he's not the cigar-chomping type. but you know who is the cigar-chomping type, and would be absolutely fucking perfect for this role? Kurt Russell. on the other hand -- bear with me, now, this is a bit of a stretch but i think it would work -- how about Jeff Bridges? think about it before you laugh. i think he'd bring a certain laid back yet ubercool je ne sais quoi to the role.

work with me here, people. i'm RE-IMAGINING.

(please note: if Chris Rock appears anywhere in the A-Team movie, i'm going to either go on a tri-state shooting spree or stab myself to death with a spork.)

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