the writers conference was fun today, my group was way better than last year. caitlin and aisha were in it, too, so i didn't have to worry about being alone. we all read our stories to each other and i wrote one called "elementary, my dear downey" about...take a guess. one of the kids said i read part of it really well (a part where i freaked out because i thought we got lost and i wouldn't be able to meet him), and that made me really happy. plus, everyone else liked it a lot. :)
we saw watchmen afterward, which was good, but i was kind of taken by surprise at all the violence. like instead of handcuffing a guy to a furnace and then burning the house he was in to the ground, rorschach just chopped his head in half with a meat cleaver. there was also a part where a midget and two big guys try to beat up rorschach in jail, but the midget was played by the guy who plays mickey in seinfeld, and i couldn't take him seriously, i just kept laughing to myself. it bothered me that alan moore refused to attach his name to the movie because he didn't think any movie adaptation could do his book justice. i dunno, that just seems really snobbish to me. i think i'd be honored if anyone was a big enough fan of something i'd written that they'd want to turn it into a movie. but hey, that's just me. i really liked the cinematography, though, i thought it was awesome throughout the movie. it kind of made it feel graphic novel-ish, which was cool. but yeah...
...who does watch the watchmen?
i am also now a big fan of ari gold. i don't know why, but i am.
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