Where the Home Is

[sisabet]

So I found a place and put down a deposit and got my new address and my move-in date is 2-23-04.

And then Dawn called and she is having problems with breaking the lease and it really is gonna be a pain and cost her a ton of money and if I want, I can just pay 1/2 the rent to her and stay through the end of June at the apartment.

Luckily, my deposit is refundable.

I don't have to move now. I'll be in a 3 bedroom apartment by myself - but no moving of me will be involved.

Which means I can relax with gusto at Unknown LJ Tag's house.

Let me tell ya about yesterday.

So - I was stressed and in denial and I decided to go see a matinee. By the time I made it out to the movie theater - I had a couple of hours to kill until the next show. I was also hungry - so I decided to go buy something to read while I ate a late lunch. I went to Barnes and Noble and promptly forgot my name, remembered that I like Neil Gaiman and grabbed a copy of "Neverwhere" just cause the title sounded quite cool and I have not read it. I need to start printing out melymbrosia's posts and if heres_luck would do the book meme I suggested - well, then I could just keep those lists in my car and never be at a loss in a bookstore again.

Actually, this one time I was not at a loss at all. I sat down over a burrito at Moe's, started reading and promptly fell in love with Richard Mayhew. I mean - I *love* him. From the moment he stood up drunk in Scotland and ran after the old lady to give her his umbrella to the way he met his fiancee and then could never convince her he was not a museum person after that - I loved. I do. This story - well I am only half-way through, I hope to finish it tonight, but good lord, it is the perfect story for me.

After about an hour at my booth reading intently, I realized that I was having difficulty placing the story at London in my head. No - that is not it. I was not having any difficulty at all with the London part - and most characters (like Mr. Croup) sounded as they should sound in my head - but Richard and Door had American Midwest Accents and damned if I could go back and make em English (well, Scottish for Richard) now. I blame my tendency to cast actors as characters in books in my head. I don't always do it and it is a lazy shortcut that lacks imagination - but the part of Door (in my head) is now being played by Summer Glau just cause Door at first was all River-like (from FF). I am trying to recast Richard as Ewan McGregor, but he started out all adorable and ignoring his going away party and being nice to an old lady and I couldn't help it. Tom Welling just kinda snuck in there. At this point I have succeeded in pulling Tom out of my mind's eye as the protagonist - but I am not successful with the recast of Ewan (he just does not fit) so that means he is kinda faceless right now, and this is how I know I love him. Even faceless, I am all about the Richard Mayhew. I hope he doesn't die.

So I am reading and time is passing and I have to make a decision: "The Butterfly Effect" or "Big Fish" -- now here is the problem: I have been looking forward to seeing TBE since I saw the trailer at RotK. I *know* there is no way that movie can ever live up to the trailer, *but* I still want to see it desparately. I also have avoided all reviews of this movie, cause I don't wanna know if it is bad - I just want to see it. Unfortunately, due to the weather and work and the Smallville vid and everything, I have not been able to get to the movie theater since it opened. Meanwhile, "Big Fish" is killing my FLIst. I *know* this is gonna be a great movie - I should go see this movie. I was in front of the movie theater and I was getting stressed trying to pick a film and if I went to see TBE, I was gonna feel guilty for skipping out on a chance to see BF and if I went to see BF then I was worried I would spend the entire time thinking about Ashton Kutcher topless.

I realized then that I would rather just read my book. So I went to Planet Salon and asked for someone to fix my purple hair.

This is the best part: I had a team of hot blond boys working on my hair for the next 2 hours. Seriously, head hot blond was in charge of mixing up and deciding what colors to use and he was directing his apprenticey hot blond guy. At one point I had bright orange hair and they were making 5th Element cracks. I love these guys and have I mentioned how incredibly hot they are? I mean - the apprentice guy was not nearly as hot as the head dude and the apprentice guy looked kinda like Owen Wilson, if you beat him to death with the pretty stick. I was in heaven.

My hair looks great, too. Kinda the same as it was this summer, but with a coppery kinda cast. NotOwen was so sweet - before he fixed my hair, he sat down beside me and got all serious and wanted to discuss my conditioning schedule and begged me to stop washing my hair everyday. He was so adorably earnest that I wanted to make him a website and give him a super-power and write fanfic about him and head hot blond saving the world through better hair care. It was also really important to him that I use this particular Bumble and Bumble shampoo and normally B&B is too expensive for me, but this guy. Well, he could truly see me anything. I can't wait until my roots show!

Comments

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

You know there's a DVD of the Neverwhere Miniseries, right?

And YAY for gusto-like relaxation!

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

There is a miniseries?? You mean I don't have to go to the trouble of casting these parts in my head - someone has already done it?

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[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

enjoy! (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000A14WF/qid%3D1076100294/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-4951804-4024906)

Here's Richard

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

http://www.dvdtalk.com/images/neverwhere02.jpg

Re: Here's Richard

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I don't think that is the Richard in my head. Man, if I ever meet the Richard in my head - I am so stalking him.

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[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

There was a miniseries first -- the book is actually a novelization of the BBC series, although the book made it to the US way before the series did. Oh, and the UK version of the book has a few extra scenes.

Gaiman is also a prolific blogger, with an lj feed at officialgaiman.

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[sisabet.livejournal.com]

It was a miniseries first?? No, no - the book is supposed to come first *that* is the natural order of things. Now I am all cranky, but still wanting to finish the book. It would figure that even when I break away from the TV to read, it is still something TV-related.

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[lumenara.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he wrote the teleplay first. So he got to fix everything for the book, right? ;)

Richard reminds me so much of Arthur Dent, but, like... upgraded. And I *know* what the right actor looks like, in enough detail that I must've seen him in something, but I can't remember what and I've no idea what his name is.

Have you read American Gods?

Also, I'm glad you've worked out your housing situation.

[luvs-phoenix.livejournal.com]

Whew. Reading this post was like running a race. I'm out of breath, LOL.

Cool on Apt.

Great about the boys!

Wish you had seen one or the other movie and given me your reivew as I have to decide myself and don't know which way to go.

::hugs::

[caille.livejournal.com]

Sisabet, you are so adorable.

I am selfish. I am glad you went to Planet Salon instead of the movies, 'cause now I have Team of Hot Blond Boys scenes running in my head.

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

Just remember to mind the gap.

[deaver.livejournal.com]

You are just too cute. I'm headed in tonight to get my hair colored, and now I'm going to be all dis-appointed when two hot blond boys don't work on my hair. Harumph. Sounds like you and I are a lot alike, easily seduced into buying way too expensive hair care products, all due to the hotness of who is selling them. Although, I will admit that I started using Bumble and Bumble product a few weeks ago, and my hair never has looked better. Go figure, maybe even hot blond boys know what they are talking about sometimes....

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

Richard Mayhew is so adorably lost. No wonder you like him :D

I hear you

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I'm curious... are there reasons not to wash your hair every day? I don't, because my hair is so friggin' long that it's a project and if I washed my hair eveyr day then I'd be going through shamppoo and conditioner bottles like Crack!Willow went through magic. But I hadn't heard that to do so was bad.

I never cast anyone as Richard Mayhew... if anything he almost became like a cuter, cooler, hotter, and more intelligent version of Arthur Dent from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Except that I've always casted Jim Carrey as Arthur Dent, and I wouldn't cast Jim Carrey as Richard Mayhew, so we're back to square one.

Re: I hear you

[deaver.livejournal.com]

I have always been told that washing your hair daily strips it of all it's natural oils, so your hair either goes into overdrive to replace said oils, thus leading to greasy, limp hair, or it stops producing enough oils and you wind up with crispy-fried hair. My old hairdresser said the average person (who doesn't put tons of goop in their hair daily) only needs to actually wash their hair once a week. I never quite make it that long, usually use some odd products at least twice a week which require some shampoo.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I had heard that constantly blow-drying your hair was bad for that reason, but I hadn't thought about washing it.

I tend to watch my hair about 1-3 times a week, depending on whether I'm going out and want to style it or not. I think average about twice a week. If I go for a whole week or longer without washing my hair, it starts to look weighed-down.

I hear you're gettin' old this week... happy cake day. :)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I'm curious... are there reasons not to wash your hair every day? I don't, because my hair is so friggin' long that it's a project and if I washed my hair eveyr day then I'd be going through shamppoo and conditioner bottles like Crack!Willow went through magic. But I hadn't heard that to do so was bad.

I never cast anyone as Richard Mayhew... if anything he almost became like a slightly cooler, hotter, and more intelligent version of Arthur Dent from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Except that I've always casted Jim Carrey as Arthur Dent, and I wouldn't cast Jim Carrey as Richard Mayhew, so we're back to square one.

Interesting that you cast River from Firefly as Door. Now that the idea has been presented to me, I can kinda see that. When i read it, for me Door was a weird combination of a youngish Lili Taylor (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000666/) plus Jena Malone (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540441/)... and then take that combination, and make her features less round and more pointy.

[highd.livejournal.com]

Neverwhere I just finished this book and watched the mini series too and I gotta tell you my richard in my head was stalkworthy too

Glad about your hair I love a nice pampering now and then.

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

It's interesting that you thought he had a Midwestern accent. I didn't really notice it when I read the book, but I'm from here. I believe that Neil Gaiman was living in Wisconsin when he wrote it so it makes sense.

Aren't you just Little Miss Perceptive today?

[myriad69.livejournal.com]

Okay, that was just the best story of a Day ever. Fabulous books, reading in a restaurant and then getting your hair done.

I want to live your day.

And I missed being online and wishing you a happy birthday!! I'm glad it was a good one!