From Twitter 07-13-2010

• 07:38:21: Off to spend my morning learning about the university's new purchasing system. Are these tears of joy I'm weeping?
  
• 08:20:31: It's cold. I've missed my bus. I haven't had breakfast. I would like to cancel today, please
  
• 08:57:57: I have finally found a use for my English literature degree: arguing about John Polidori's The Vampyre on Facebook
  
• 09:07:36: And now we've dragged Dracula into it. This could get brutal
  
• 09:13:32: OMG, now I'm being told that necrophilia is more acceptable than bestiality. How did we get here?
  
• 11:07:56: @Scarimonious I'm still figuring out why you'd rant against vampires as romantic heroes and call Mina Dracula's one true love ....
  
• 11:08:49: @Scarimonious ... in the same breath. And then say you prefer dhampirs because they're more tragic
  
• 11:17:47: @Scarimonious I know! That's why I've gracefully withdrawn before it gets any worse
  
• 14:44:45: @cherose228 Something in the water, I suspect!
  
• 15:51:19: @Scarimonious The Swain essay was full of insanity, right? It wasn't just me?
  
• 16:01:02: @Scarimonious Literary analysis is all fun and games until people stop actually reading the books they're analysing
  
• 16:20:36: @cherose228 The Swain essay is one of the ones in Arduer, the book of essays on LKH and Anita Blake
  
• 16:31:18: @cherose228 I think excerpts from it were, but never the whole thing. It's an interesting read, but I wouldn't pay for it
  
• 17:25:09: I'm off to see Predators despite feeling like utter crap. If I collapse and die in the cinema, know that I did it loving Predators!
  
• 17:33:47: @cherose228 Let me know if it's any good! I'm a Jolie fan but don't normally go for spy thrillers
  
• 17:39:38: @Scarimonious I figured she was confusing ambiguity with clarity?
  
• 17:47:30: @Scarimonious Which bit of TMI? There was so much!
  
• 18:53:30: RT @DamnationBooks: Confederate Zombies http://bit.ly/c8gcON
  
• 21:16:12: PREDATORS WHY THE HUMAN INTEREST ANGLE? But no, I liked it
  
• 21:29:17: Adrian Brody, I liked your Wolverine impression very much
  
• 22:36:18: Frankly the only film that matters now is The Expendables! Especially since I now know it also has Steve Austin in it. Ultimate win!
  
• 23:00:06: @Scarimonious Yes! They should photoshop him into the posters, at least
  

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Points of Interest

I haven't really been blogging much lately because I've been feeling rather crap. I suspect a virus is on its way. But now I have News And Opinions! So damn the earache, here comes the blog:

1. I've been offered a contract for DEMONISED! (or Demonized, as it will be Americanised in editing). Yay! Damnation Books are looking at a March 2011 release, but more details will follow. I'm very excited (or would be if my head didn't feel like it's full of cottonwool), and hope this will be the first of many wacky adventures for Ethan.

2. This whole "I write like..." meme thing is everywhere now, and I'm bored of it. Everyone I know apparently writes like Stephen King, which is probably patently untrue (no offence, anyone, but come on), and I think we should all aspire to write like ourselves anyway.

3. We went to see the trailer for The Expendables Predators last night. OMG. I don't even know. It was vastly superior to both AVP films, but not quite as good as Predator. I have this thing about Predator films where I don't really want the puny humans to have personalities, I just want them to be walking targets. So I get annoyed when people start showing each other pictures of their kids (not least because as soon as you do that YOU ARE GOING TO DIE, QUITE FRANKLY) and having deep philosophical conversations about why they became hitmen or whatever. Look, just run around blindly, realise you're all doomed and then die, okay? Predator does not care for your backstory. And please, please don't EVER get a human and a Predator to team up together! That's not what I watch Predator films for! I hated it in AVP, and I didn't appreciate it last night either.

But it was good! Laurence Fishburne put in a great performance as a crazy-ass wild man, and I loved the sword fight between the Yakuza guy and the Predator. I was disappointed not to notice any xenomorph skulls in the Predator death camp, but they may just have been there and I didn't notice because I was all distracted by Adrian Brody's Wolverine impression. (Oh seriously, Adrian Brody as an action hero? He looks like a Toby jug!). And I totally pegged the doctor at the start. You don't drop a weedy-looking doctor on a planet designed as a game preserve with a group of black ops-serial killer-mercenary-cartel enforcer types unless he's also a Very Bad Man.

Of course, none of that matters because I saw a trailer for The Expendables, and it's like Hollywood looked into my brain, saw everything I love and made it into a film. I cannot wait for August! I need this film in my life. Also saw a trailer for Splice, which I'm convinced will be hilarious good times, and also features Adrian Brody in a more appropriate role.

Anyway. My head hurts so I'm going to hunt down some painkillers.