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october update
Oct. 25th, 2022 08:45 pmman, time goes fast when you're looking for a new job. still plugging away at that with the hopes of securing something new and being able to move by summer of next year. hoping that's a generous enough timeline to ensure some kind of success. in the meantime, i've been splitting my time between various pursuits. the kink bingo was a bust because i became too busy with other projects, though i'm still quite proud of the rituals fanfic that resulted from it. another story that was originally going to be a fill for both a kink bingo square and a "untranslatable words" bingo square became something i'm submitting to a lit mag so we'll see how that goes. editing that to make it stand on its own more took up a lot of time but i'm pleased with the results so far. whether it gets accepted or not i look forward to sharing it with more people!
i've also watched some more of dane's work, mostly stuff from the 1990s, and i'm still trying to decide what to write about next. i keep putting off reviewing nothing personal so i should probably prioritize that.... it's just painful to think about, lol. not because of him! he's objectively the best thing about it. just everything else is excruciating.
in the meantime i've been thinking a lot about david gale, of re-animator fame - i saw that movie for the first time recently and it made such an impression i had to watch it again with friends and then find the integral cut and watch that as well. david gale is a real show-stealer and the dynamic his dr. hill has with the iconic herbert west (played by jeffrey combs) reminded me so much of my oc's primary relationship that gale has almost become another stand-in for my oc, a bit like lawrence dane. nobody could replace dane for me, but it's a lot of fun digging into gale's history as well. it helps that there's other people who have already done so - there's an archive on tumblr dedicated to him so i don't have to do all the legwork that i've been doing for dane.
there's also just a lot more about gale out there, probably because 1. re-animator and several of the other horror movies he was in are generally considered popular cult classics, unlike most of dane's filmography, and 2. he seems to have been a more consistent actor. like, i love dane, but i'll also admit that he can be a bit unreliable when it comes to quality and that's likely part of why he didn't become more famous. it does make his good turns even more of a prize, but i digress. gale had more of a history of stage acting so that must have helped - he was even doing a theater performance the night he died, and i can't imagine being in the audience when he had a heart attack. it's tragic, but i've taken some comfort in the knowledge that his role in bride of re-animator was created specifically because he so dearly wanted to be part of the production and that he died doing what he loved. (i know, i know, but sometimes one can only resort to cliches.)
i don't have plans to actively seek out everything he was in (and it sounds like it'd be harder for me to even do so, since a lot of his earlier work was in soap operas that haven't been preserved. a damn shame since i would have killed to see him as a priest) but i'll get around to his other movies at some point for sure. savage weekend is top of the list since it sounds similar to the clown murders with the odd tension regarding what kind of movie it wants to be, and i'm intrigued by that. this review of savage weekend also piqued my interest since it was written by someone with similar priorities as me. lumberjack david gale is indeed very important! i'd also love to see the porn flick (!) that was apparently his film debut but as of this date it's still considered a lost film. at least we have the theatrical trailer, and i will confess to slowing it down in order to verify that it is indeed him with the naked rear mid-coitus at approximately 2:49. the 1970s were a wild time for filmmaking, for better or worse, and i'm honestly grateful for the opportunities to watch the fruits of those labors even when they're rotten.
this weekend i'm taking some time off to finish an ao3 exchange fic that i procrastinated on really bad (it's due the 29th and i've written less than half of it...) and also just to recharge a bit because if i could simply quit my job right now i would. unfortunately i need money to live and support my spouse and cat children, so i can't do that. but what i can do is comfort myself in the metaphorical arms of lawrence dane's presence so one way or another i'll get some screencaps and/or scans together for a new dane post. i'll also catch up on my reading page here. until next time!
i've also watched some more of dane's work, mostly stuff from the 1990s, and i'm still trying to decide what to write about next. i keep putting off reviewing nothing personal so i should probably prioritize that.... it's just painful to think about, lol. not because of him! he's objectively the best thing about it. just everything else is excruciating.
in the meantime i've been thinking a lot about david gale, of re-animator fame - i saw that movie for the first time recently and it made such an impression i had to watch it again with friends and then find the integral cut and watch that as well. david gale is a real show-stealer and the dynamic his dr. hill has with the iconic herbert west (played by jeffrey combs) reminded me so much of my oc's primary relationship that gale has almost become another stand-in for my oc, a bit like lawrence dane. nobody could replace dane for me, but it's a lot of fun digging into gale's history as well. it helps that there's other people who have already done so - there's an archive on tumblr dedicated to him so i don't have to do all the legwork that i've been doing for dane.
there's also just a lot more about gale out there, probably because 1. re-animator and several of the other horror movies he was in are generally considered popular cult classics, unlike most of dane's filmography, and 2. he seems to have been a more consistent actor. like, i love dane, but i'll also admit that he can be a bit unreliable when it comes to quality and that's likely part of why he didn't become more famous. it does make his good turns even more of a prize, but i digress. gale had more of a history of stage acting so that must have helped - he was even doing a theater performance the night he died, and i can't imagine being in the audience when he had a heart attack. it's tragic, but i've taken some comfort in the knowledge that his role in bride of re-animator was created specifically because he so dearly wanted to be part of the production and that he died doing what he loved. (i know, i know, but sometimes one can only resort to cliches.)
i don't have plans to actively seek out everything he was in (and it sounds like it'd be harder for me to even do so, since a lot of his earlier work was in soap operas that haven't been preserved. a damn shame since i would have killed to see him as a priest) but i'll get around to his other movies at some point for sure. savage weekend is top of the list since it sounds similar to the clown murders with the odd tension regarding what kind of movie it wants to be, and i'm intrigued by that. this review of savage weekend also piqued my interest since it was written by someone with similar priorities as me. lumberjack david gale is indeed very important! i'd also love to see the porn flick (!) that was apparently his film debut but as of this date it's still considered a lost film. at least we have the theatrical trailer, and i will confess to slowing it down in order to verify that it is indeed him with the naked rear mid-coitus at approximately 2:49. the 1970s were a wild time for filmmaking, for better or worse, and i'm honestly grateful for the opportunities to watch the fruits of those labors even when they're rotten.
this weekend i'm taking some time off to finish an ao3 exchange fic that i procrastinated on really bad (it's due the 29th and i've written less than half of it...) and also just to recharge a bit because if i could simply quit my job right now i would. unfortunately i need money to live and support my spouse and cat children, so i can't do that. but what i can do is comfort myself in the metaphorical arms of lawrence dane's presence so one way or another i'll get some screencaps and/or scans together for a new dane post. i'll also catch up on my reading page here. until next time!
