writing update – the end is in sight!

onefinemess | May 29, 2009

Seriously.
It’s creepy.
I’m sitting at about 90k words right now, with 4ish chapters left to write – and it’s the climactic battle and fallout – FUN stuff to write.   Not that the rest hasn’t been fun, because it has.  But still.  This is THE. END.  I can see that sun rising over the horizon, almost feel [...]

a “No Surrender” for the 90s?

onefinemess | May 27, 2009

We’re not done with the 00’s yet — so we’ll get to that later.
Here’s my question — does anyone know of a song
a) as good as No Surrender, sonically, lyrically and thematically (within the quality boundaries of the decade) with
b) a title direct, yet powerful enough that one wouldn’t necessarily be embarrassed to get a [...]

new Green Day album is not better than the last

onefinemess | May 23, 2009

Contrary to what Rolling Stone says, at least. IMHO.  YMMV.
vs. 
Here’s a couple, completely subjective, ways in which I know this.

I’ve only made it through 21st Century in its entirety like once.  The rest in pieces.  And, tellingly, I never have any particular urge to finish it once I start.  Idiot on the other hand – [...]

Things wrong with the X-Men Origins: Wolverine script

onefinemess | May 18, 2009

Caveat: I enjoyed the movie, toxicly, dangerously, stupidly, rotundly horrid as the script was.  How?  Because people punched each other.  With super powers.
So, let’s get this out of the way – this is one of the worst scripts I can remember seeing visualized:   scenes make no sense in connections to other scenes, characters have [...]

clock solitaire, the dumbest game in the world?

onefinemess | May 14, 2009

Seriously.
1/13 chance of winning (although another site said 1% for some reason), NO SKILL INVOLVED.  Entirely luck and chance – which is fine for silly things like flipping a coin, but playing a round of this game (even on my phone, where viciously taunts me) takes a good few minutes (more if you were flipping [...]

new CoH xpack announced! : “Going Rogue”

onefinemess | May 12, 2009

So glad they spelled motherfucking R O G U E correctly ;).
New site is barely up here.
Not much info yet, but it looks like it will include access to opposing side content, and at least 2 new powersets (dual pistols & demon summoning (?)).  I’m really curious how much of this second world is going [...]

my “to read list”

onefinemess | May 11, 2009

(Yes I’m lazy and just grabbed Amazon images).
My small pile currently consists of:

Every damned writing blog I read mentioned this so I figured WTF.

This sat on my Amazon maybe/wtf list for so long that I felt bad and shelled out basically the cost of shipping for it.  I’m not expecting much.

Impulse buy.  I read Name [...]

The 3 cds that have been in my car for the last 2 weeks

onefinemess | May 10, 2009

Just looping in this order, and I haven’t gotten bored yet.  But still, I think it’s time to swap them.

New Mutants #1

onefinemess | May 8, 2009

Is this volume 3 or volume 4? I forget.  Anyway, they’re back!  Yes, it is true – Marvel seems to be at an all-time high for # of x-books again.  The bloat is so bad I’m actually NOT buying as many as I am buying… I think.  Somewhere in there.
Anyway, so, was this any good?
Sort [...]

songs that “mean something” to me

onefinemess | May 5, 2009

I’m sure this is probably a meme…how can it not be right? But it came to me on my way to lunch today, so I’m going to roll with it and pretend I made it up.
So, the task:
Songs that trigger an emotional resonance, or strong memory,  when you hear them. THEY DO NOT HAVE [...]