Bad sleep and backs, closed sets, and hobbits

You wouldn't think the full moon was over already, from how "well" I slept the last two nights - particularly last. I didn't feel as if I'd really slept at all when the alarm went off this morning. *yawn* And of course now that my neck/left shoulder is better again (too much screen capping of Sean Maher in Living 'til the End last week... *blush* - and obviously my feeling that my computer desk is a little higher now than it used to be before the move is correct, must remember to lower it a bit asap), my lower back is acting up. It's not really hurting, just very cramped, right around the waist/spine "junction". I hope my sister has time to give me a massage tonight.


I don't think I've ever been so happy to hear about a closed set... ( cut for minor Oxford Murders spoiler )

But now we have to wait for what, a year until we get to see this scene?! *distressed whimper*


Also, TORN posted another comment on The Hobbit, this time by Greg Wright - information about him here, and his thoughts here and copied below. If you only ever read one of these comments by various people, this should be the one - a quite brilliant analysis of the situation, IMHO!

Greg Wright Talks 'THE HOBBIT'
Xoanon @ 7:59 pm EST


“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain wrote after the New York Journal erroneously covered news of his demise. “Mistaken publications of obituaries aren’t as rare as you might expect,” observes The Phrase Finder. We might say the same for the frequency with which greenlit film projects never see the light of a projector lamp, or the number of times “dead” film projects are resurrected.

The scuttlebutt now, of course, as we all know, is that New Line Cinema has greenlit The Hobbit, but that both Peter Jackson and New Line head Robert Shaye declare that Jackson will not be at the helm of the project. At the heart of the issue, at least publicly, is the lawsuit Jackson and company have filed against New Line over profits from the ancillary rights to The Fellowship of the Ring. Jackson has said he “won’t discuss making the [Hobbit] movies until the lawsuit is resolved,” and Shaye has gone so far as to declare that he doesn’t “want to make a movie with somebody who is suing me… It will never happen during my watch.” Complicating perception of the truth is Saul Zaentz’ assertion that The Hobbit “will definitely be shot by Peter Jackson.”

What’s really being waged is not a fractious legal dispute. The real battle is a tussle over public opinion. No matter how badly all the parties might want The Hobbit to happen, and for Peter Jackson to be at the helm, they all also know that, until a film actually starts shooting, all bets are off. Even at that point, studios have been known to replace directors. So in the meantime, everyone’s jockeying for influence, control, and as big a share of the pie as possible.

( And what all the parties involved want to do is avoid pissing off the fans, upon whom all future largesse depends. )

BRILLIANT MOVE!!!

Sorry to spam your flist, but this deserves its own entry!!! :D Courtesy of textualdeviance:


http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_020507WABinitiative957SW.546c6a4d.html

Wash. initiative would require married couples to have kids

02:34 PM PST on Monday, February 5, 2007

KING5.com Staff and Associated Press

OLYMPIA, Wash. - An initiative filed by proponents of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriage annulled.

Initiative 957 was filed by the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance. That group was formed last summer after the state Supreme Court upheld Washington's ban on same-sex marriage.

Under the initiative, marriage would be limited to men and women who are able to have children. Couples would be required to prove they can have children in order to get a marriage license, and if they did not have children within three years, their marriage would be subject to annulment.

All other marriages would be defined as "unrecognized" and people in those marriages would be ineligible to receive any marriage benefits.

“For many years, social conservatives have claimed that marriage exists solely for the purpose of procreation ... The time has come for these conservatives to be dosed with their own medicine," said WA-DOMA organizer Gregory Gadow in a printed statement. “If same-sex couples should be barred from marriage because they can not have children together, it follows that all couples who cannot or will not have children together should equally be barred from marriage."

Supporters must gather more than 224,000 valid signatures by July 6 to put the initiative on the November ballot.

Opponents say the measure is another attack on traditional marriage, but supporters say the move is needed to have a discussion on the high court ruling.


That's briliant - give them some of their own medicine!