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miscellanium) wrote2023-01-02 01:51 pm
miscellanium) wrote2023-01-02 01:51 pm
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new year, same me
what a busy winter holiday season. not busy in terms of socializing (covid precautions...) but i had to finish up edits for the magazine publication and then i got a fair amount of personal writing done. nothing quite completed yet, but since they're both xmas/nye-themed i'd like to have them done by the end of this month, lol. i've also been enjoying playing elder scrolls online again - my laptop finally stopped being able to run it back over the summer, but after i built a new pc it runs so fucking smooth it's a whole different experience. still trying to figure out why my pc keeps rebooting instead of staying asleep but it's not a huge problem yet, just a pain in the ass.
it was tough spending yet another batch of holidays away from my family, since i am on good terms with them, but i'm still trying to find a new job that'll put me close enough to make day trips feasible. at least i could do some things online with them, and watch things together with friends via discord. finally got around to seeing the first episode of our flag means death and it was honestly just as funny as people made it out to be. i'll have to watch more soon. i also bought my partner a single by a local musician for hanukkah (we only exchange gifts on the first night) and it was cool comparing how it sounded on our record player to when we've seen him perform it live.
one really nice holiday treat (for me, anyway) was a new ebay listing for a press photo/lobby card i hadn't seen before. the seller also had a listing for the scanners lobby card with dane on it, but they only do reproductions so i hadn't felt like it was worth buying. this new photo, though, hasn't been posted anywhere else and it was covered in watermarks so obviously my only choice was to buy it (and grab a copy of the scanners one while i was at it). i don't know why this seller won't just list the original because it's not like anyone else would want it lmao. nobody likes running (1979)...or if they do, they don't like it for dane. i get the impression that he might've had a scene or two that were cut from the final production, or from the version of the movie i found anyway, since i also have a press photo of a scene that i don't remember seeing in the movie. i have a lot of press photos/lobby cards, lol.
i call this my "panorama of dane" because my mother and her friend, during their teen years, were obsessed with joel grey in cabaret and went to all these stage performances of his and collected various memorabilia that they called their panorama of joel. there's a polaroid of them displaying their panorama and it was really a quite impressive collection, lol, much larger than what i have. i should put these in frames at some point, but i'd have to get a custom frame for a lot of them so that isn't happening (yet). the main thing was just having something nice to look at when i'm shackled to my telework desk. there's a couple other photos i could include but i'd have to get them printed. other than those i thought my collection was finished, especially since none of the lobby cards for nothing personal includes him, but, well... i look forward to potentially being proven wrong yet again.
i'm not going to make any new year's resolutions - i just want to write more and finish another story with an eye towards publication. signed up for the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ygorarepairs reverse minibang and might try to sign up for other fan events, but one thing i'd like to do this year is keep my goals realistic so i don't try to take on too much. i also want to do more dane reviews/research! there's one i started drafting last year and i'll have to finish it soon so we can ring in the new year with a short film where he has like three sex scenes within 20 minutes. it's so much...........
here's hoping everyone's new year is off to a good start!
it was tough spending yet another batch of holidays away from my family, since i am on good terms with them, but i'm still trying to find a new job that'll put me close enough to make day trips feasible. at least i could do some things online with them, and watch things together with friends via discord. finally got around to seeing the first episode of our flag means death and it was honestly just as funny as people made it out to be. i'll have to watch more soon. i also bought my partner a single by a local musician for hanukkah (we only exchange gifts on the first night) and it was cool comparing how it sounded on our record player to when we've seen him perform it live.
one really nice holiday treat (for me, anyway) was a new ebay listing for a press photo/lobby card i hadn't seen before. the seller also had a listing for the scanners lobby card with dane on it, but they only do reproductions so i hadn't felt like it was worth buying. this new photo, though, hasn't been posted anywhere else and it was covered in watermarks so obviously my only choice was to buy it (and grab a copy of the scanners one while i was at it). i don't know why this seller won't just list the original because it's not like anyone else would want it lmao. nobody likes running (1979)...or if they do, they don't like it for dane. i get the impression that he might've had a scene or two that were cut from the final production, or from the version of the movie i found anyway, since i also have a press photo of a scene that i don't remember seeing in the movie. i have a lot of press photos/lobby cards, lol.
the new find is the big pic at the bottom right. it arrived right before the winter storm that shut things down across multiple states, so that was exciting. (the apparent deleted scene is the small photo that's left of the light switches, which you can view properly here. i also tried to scan the new one, but my scanner isn't quite big enough so i had to try and composite it lol. i think i did ok, considering.)
i call this my "panorama of dane" because my mother and her friend, during their teen years, were obsessed with joel grey in cabaret and went to all these stage performances of his and collected various memorabilia that they called their panorama of joel. there's a polaroid of them displaying their panorama and it was really a quite impressive collection, lol, much larger than what i have. i should put these in frames at some point, but i'd have to get a custom frame for a lot of them so that isn't happening (yet). the main thing was just having something nice to look at when i'm shackled to my telework desk. there's a couple other photos i could include but i'd have to get them printed. other than those i thought my collection was finished, especially since none of the lobby cards for nothing personal includes him, but, well... i look forward to potentially being proven wrong yet again.
i'm not going to make any new year's resolutions - i just want to write more and finish another story with an eye towards publication. signed up for the
ygorarepairs reverse minibang and might try to sign up for other fan events, but one thing i'd like to do this year is keep my goals realistic so i don't try to take on too much. i also want to do more dane reviews/research! there's one i started drafting last year and i'll have to finish it soon so we can ring in the new year with a short film where he has like three sex scenes within 20 minutes. it's so much...........here's hoping everyone's new year is off to a good start!
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