beauty, freedom, truth, and above all else...

[greygirlbeast]

The Bookslut interview is now up. Please have a look, even though I strongly suspect I come off sounding like a loon. It's not that I didn't mean everything I said, because I did, so...I don't know. My lit agent is very happy with it. When I told her I thought I sounded like a loon, she didn't disagree, but only pointed out that it'll sell books. She is a wise woman.

There was very little work yesterday. Mostly, I dealt with the aforementioned mountain of funny books. I did better in the discard department than I expected I would. I was aiming to ditch 75%, but figured I'd wuss out and only lose about 40% of them. I think I managed about 55%. The hallway is currently all but blocked by 134 lbs. of comics waiting for a good home. The rest go to the new place with me. Once I'm settled in, I'll sell a few of those on eBay. And I guess I'll keep the rest for good. Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions yesterday re: ridding myself of comics. Don't worry, Sissy. It won't be the Salvation Army.

We're poised somewhere doubly indefinite, between being here and moving, between being here and heading off to Minneapolis. I wish I didn't hate traveling so much. I really do.

Last night I saw a trailer for Revenge of the Sith. I'm not getting my hopes up this time. George Lucas has burned me twice now. What can I say about the movie, based on this trailer? I suspect it will be pretty as hell and dumb as dirt, just like the last two. Why, oh why couldn't we have gotten just one more film in this series as good as The Empire Strikes Back? Gods, I love that film. In the summer of 1981, I saw that movie twenty times at the theatre. Twenty times. It's what I did all damn summer long, when I wasn't away at field camp digging up mosasurs, plesiosaurs, and sea turtles. I was seventeen, and TESB was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen on film. I was in love with Han Solo and Princess Leia and Chewbacca in equal measure (I always thought Luke was a bit of a doofus, though). Now, we get Jar-Jar frelling Binks and Hayden frellling Christensen. Oh, I'll be there on opening day, don't get me wrong. I'm too big a geek to do otherwise, and part of me (despite what I just said above) can't relinquish hope that this one will be a good movie, and I'll be as amazed as I was in the summer of '81. And hey, at least we get to see Chewbacca this time. If only he'd mutilate Jar-Jar Binks.

Last night, after the comics and all the other crap that filled the day, I played about an hour of BoodRayne 2. Then Spooky and I made spaghetti. Then we watched Moulin Rouge, because I hadn't watched it in almost two years and suddenly I needed to see it again. It still astounds me. It's a beautiful, astonishing film.

Comments

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

I really didn't like The Empire Strikes Back. I mean sure it deepend the storyline and took it in interesting directions but damnit you can't make Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader related. Darth Vader's the bad guy damnit.

Unfortunately as an adult I'm more inclined to dislike it for the long stretches of nothing happening and that dialogue. Everyone is getting a bad feeling and getting out of there.

[emrecom.livejournal.com]

What a swell interview!

Moulin Rouge could give you Stendahl's Syndrome, it's so epiliptically gorgeous.

[dreamtech.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, I liked the interview and don't think it makes you sound like a loon. Intense, interesting (definitely NOT boring), creative, experienced, but not a loon.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

I liked the interview. You are so painfully honest.

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

Every time I hear someone blathering "Oh, I hope Episode Three won't suck," I end up giving the same response I've given for twenty years to anyone who figures that "next time, Lucas will do it right": Proverbs 26:11. After catching Episode One at a critics' preview in 1999 (and spending the next three years licking clean toilets in Grand Central Station to get the taste out of my mouth) and seeing Harry Knowles' ringing endorsement of Episode Two, that verse explains why I won't waste my time on Episode Three.

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[mastadge.livejournal.com]

I'm wasting my time on Episode III for exactly one reason: Matt Stover is writing the novelization.

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[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

I see that Terry Brooks didn't work out: seeing as how he and Lucas are poster children for the "proof that plagiarism is fun and profitable" movement, I can't understand why.

[the-numinous-1.livejournal.com]

Well, to the average person, anyone who has any spark of creative fire in them is a loon. You have more than a spark - you burn up with it, and you obviously don't hide it. That kind of intensity I've found (as an actress) is "tolerated" in certain times and locations, but at the end of the day most of the human race wants to be far away from us - because they know it can't be controlled. The artist has a tendency to rip the veil back far and wide, beyond the edges of the stage or the end of the music or the pages of the book, and the audience is always horrified to be confronted with the truth that art cannot be controlled or dictated to. It's messy and terrifying and wondrous, and has a life of its own that cannot be denied, even by the creator itself. I think you encapsulated that very well in the interview. Your agent is indeed a wise woman, because she knows you are wise in your ways as well.

Sorry to run on. I never get the chance to talk about things like this anymore, so I tend to blather on when chance occurs.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

. It's messy and terrifying and wondrous, and has a life of its own that cannot be denied, even by the creator itself. I think you encapsulated that very well in the interview.

Very well said. Thank you.

[mb2u]

I think it's one of the better interviews you've done. Maybe more open than you expected to be, but I'll agree with the wise woman that it may just sell a few books.

When I saw the poster for SWIII, I remarked that Vader looked like a fat Muppet. After seeing the trailer online, frankly, a fat Muppet would have been better.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

I think it's one of the better interviews you've done. Maybe more open than you expected to be,

See, I think that's it. It is, certainly, one of my most honest, open interviews. I used to have an interview persona. She was very serious. She was this NeoVictorian ass-pain with a chip on her shoulder and a lot of useless ideas about propriety. Going into these recent interview, post-Murder of Angels, I'm trying very hard just to speak candidly as me, the me that I am now (who's quite different from the me of just three or four years ago). But the old persona keeps looking over my shoulder....

She whispers "loon" over and over and over...

[mb2u]

She whispers "loon" over and over and over...

She needs to get over herself, I think. Caitlin V.2.0 is a better overall interview (and person, IMHO).

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Caitlin V.2.0 is a better overall interview (and person, IMHO).

Oh, just wait till you get a load of Caitlín V.3.0 (Caitlín Mark III as she'll be marketed). But we're still in R&D...

[gallifreyangoth]

Ah, but what a fantastic loon...

Wonderful interview.

[artemiswinter.livejournal.com]

I thought the interview was lovely, offering genuine insight on you and your work. (And I love Bookslut, it is fast becoming a favorite site.

I just finished Murder of Angels yesterday, after rereading Silk. Bravo!

[ultraheather.livejournal.com]

If being a loon means coming across genuine, well spoken and even articulate, then you sounded as loony as Eric Idle in a pair of German pantaloons. Seriously, it was a great interview and you came across beautifully.

As for Episode Three, I would have some hope if it wasn't for the fact that Lucas is totally off of his creative rocker. There's a big danger when filmmakers get so rich and big that no one will tell them no. (Or perhaps in this case, if their ego is so bloated to the point when the word "no" has zero effect.) The best thing one can hope for with this one is that it won't be as sucky as the last one.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

If being a loon means coming across genuine, well spoken and even articulate, then you sounded as loony as Eric Idle in a pair of German pantaloons.

Whoa.

There's a big danger when filmmakers get so rich and big that no one will tell them no.

Yes, and. likewise, there's another such danger posed by the lure of marketing and merchandising, which, beginning with Return of the Jedi, has been a serious factor in the ongoing crapulation of the Star Wars series.

[wishlish.livejournal.com]

Caitlin, if you would, check your low red mail addy. You might find it interesting.

Ah, for the good old days of Star Wars, when one could just grouse a little at the end of Return, thinking that was the abberation, not realizing that the first two movies were the real abberations, and that the project had become more about toys than art.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Ah, for the good old days of Star Wars, when one could just grouse a little at the end of Return, thinking that was the abberation, not realizing that the first two movies were the real abberations, and that the project had become more about toys than art.

Yep. Exactly.

Caitlin, if you would, check your low red mail addy. You might find it interesting.

If you mean the BloodRayne e-mail, I got it. Yes. It is interesting. I'll e-mail you back when I have a moment.

[fornikate.livejournal.com]

That was a fantastic interview. I don't think you came off as a loon at all.
Her death in 1995, just as I was beginning to be recognized as an author, changed everything about my life. Everything. When I found out what had happened, that she was gone, that was one of my first thoughts — Everything is changed forever. Whatever was going to happen, her decision made this happen, instead. Sometimes that has made me very angry. And yes, I wish she were here. But I won't condemn her for making the choice she made. I know it's all far too complicated to allow myself to think like that.


This is exactly how I feel about my late boyfriend. It's very difficult to articulate and I thank you for being honest. It's a terrible thing and I wish neither of us had to deal with it.

[setsuled.livejournal.com]

The Bookslut interview is now up.

I always feel a little vulnerable and over-emotional at this time of day so your wonderful interview has me in tears, thank you very much.

What got me was the juxtaposition of how funny I thought it was that the interviewer would involve your "Kid night" in this thing with the response you gave to that specific question which was at once intelligent, beautiful, sad, and . . . er . . . can't think of the word. I'll say 'involving', although that hardly covers it.

Gods, Caitlin, you didn't just give an interview. You walked home with it, took it on a tour of the park and the hospital, and then dropped us back home at 6am. I mean, wow. And it's a beautiful lady that's made apparent in this interview, too.

Last night I saw a trailer for Revenge of the Sith. I'm not getting my hopes up this time.

I've learned I can't control my hopes so I'll just have to deal. At least it's got James Earl Jones . . . Surely he can save everything . . . I know he can . . . And this one's supposed to be PG-13 for extra violence. So there's that . . . I hear Yoda gets to chop someone's head off.