This arrived this morning (of course I was at work and didn't get home until after 7pm... *grumble*):



I opted for the 2-disc DVD set - in its shiny steelbook case!¹ - after looking longingly at the Blu-ray set and finally coming to the remarkable realisation that buying it would also require the purchase of a Blu-ray player.²

I think a movie night is in order.

1. Shiny steelbook case took approximately 3.76 seconds to get smeared in fingerprints and become unshiny.
2. This may actually happen at some point. In the future. When I stop spending all my money on DVDs.

Should I NaNo this year? On one hand, I haven't written anything since... can't even remember when - and the writing would be appalling. On the other hand, NaNo is all about quantity - and the writing is generally expected to be appalling (good excuse, indeed). The trouble is, I always want to have something at the end of it that is salvageable. Bashing out 50k of worthless crap would seem, I dunno, a waste of the little creative time I get, even though I know it's probably good for getting my creative processes out of the long-term coma they've been in for a ridiculously long time). I guess I'm pretty goal oriented; if I'm going to put a lot of energy into something, I want to see a semidecent product at the end of it.

So, either I use the imposed time restriction of NaNoWriMo as a way of forcing myself to writewritewrite - or I slow down, plan what I want to write, edit like crazy... and possibly end up writing nothing. Which has pretty much been my modus operandi for years.

What say ye, flist?

Bonus writing-related meme:
Stolen from mustangcandi more than a month ago (yes, I am a procrastinator, why do you ask?):

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

If you know me at all, you know that my muse has her soul permanently wrapped around Spock/TOS, but I think she may be willing to flirt a little with the XI-verse... maybe (XIDVDsetarrivingthisweekyay).

My mother, jeanlucbev, is celebrating her birthday today. She won't tell anyone how old she is, but I'm pretty sure it's less than 150.

You know you have a cooler-than-average boss when he happily encourages you to play Whack Your Boss during work hours, and leans over your shoulder shouting, "The scissors! Use the scissors!"

p.s. Whack Your Boss is not a game for the squeamish; cartoon violence abounds.

Use the scissors and you'll see what I mean.

Okay, so I haven't been hanging around LJ much lately (well, not at all, really, except to post to trek_news, and I reckon I've missed maybe 3 months of stuff. Given the astronomically daunting prospect of trying to catch up with my flist (YIKES), I've decided (logically, I thought) to simply start fresh from now and save my fragile sanity from further strain. If there's anything you think I should know that I've missed, give me a yell.

So, yeah. Hi, flist; I've missed you, I have no idea what's happened in LJland for months, I haven't been intentionally ignoring you, I'm hopefully back now, and maybe I'll bring icons or something soon.

p.s. I won't bore you with the details of the last few months of Real Life, except to say that I did just have a super-awesome holiday in Auckland and Christchurch. Woot.

Since this post essentially has no content it is completely spoiler-free! Guaranteed!

First off, and I'm serious here, I've never, ever attended a movie with so many stereotypically nerdy-looking people before¹. But, anyway...

Ten-word-two-thirty-in-the-morning-summary:

Great movie, excellent cast. Action, drama, humour, angst. Wonderful experience.

I think I'd really like to see it again soon... but maybe at a more respectable time.

And now that I see 3am fast approaching, it's time for bed. *yawn*

If the information doesn't fall out of my brain while I'm asleep, I'll try to make a better post tomorrow. And to those of you who are about to see it, enjoy! I did. \o/

1. Having said that, there were NO Starfleet uniforms, pointy ears or Klingons in the audience.

Midnight screening. Wooooooooot.

My next post will have Actual Content™ (maybe even icons) - I promise!

In the meantime, the vid-spamming continues. Quinto, Cho and Pine on C4's Vodafone Select Live show. Links again, because I can't embed.

[1] An interview in which the guys get, um, close.

[2] An illogical, but entertaining, game show (of sorts).

Okay, I know this is getting kind of spammy now. My only excuse is that I've got caught up in the snowballing hysteria now that we're less than a month out from the movie's release. *shrug*

TV3 did an interview with Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine which you can see here. Watch it. It's funny. And 20 minutes long. Huzzah.

They also did one with John Cho and Karl Urban here. Also funny.

Hopefully, the videos should play outside of NZ. I heard that the TVNZ ones I linked to yesterday might not play overseas, so I edited the post with YouTube links.

I really need to make some Trek movie icons.

After the premiere in Sydney a couple of nights ago, the Trek cast have beamed down to Kiwiland to repeat the whole red carpet gig in Auckland (still too far away for me... *cries*). The local media are all over it because of Kiwi!McCoy... and probably because NZ doesn't get a lot of glitzy Hollywood-type events with Real Hollywood Stars™!

Here's a couple of interviews from TVNZ (links because I can't seem to embed them):

Karl Urban and John Cho on Breakfast
Watch it on YouTube

Karl Urban and Zachary Quinto on One News
Watch it on YouTube

What they haven't included in the second clip is the two newsreaders Vulcan-saluting back to the reporter interviewing Karl and Zach. A shame, really; it was kind of cute (I think Simon and Wendy are kind of cute anyway, but we don't need to go there).

EDIT: Added links to YouTube for anyone who can't see the videos on the TVNZ site.