VM page update and news!

And the latest page (34) of VM is up, here it is, along with some fabulous art from Ms. Traci Spencer who does the wonderful comic Compass!

The page was a little late because after five years, I have become officially engaged! And that's a weird thing, because I'm not super girly or sentimental (nor is my now fiancee), and when I got my ring, I was so touched that I mean so much to another person, and also realized that I'm officially an adult! I mean, how scary!!! And I've never, EVER gotten a diamond anything from a man, so as my first ring, I have to say it's incredibly special. (I don't wear any jewelry anyways, because my skin is so sensitive, I have never been able to have my ears pierced, necklaces always get tangled in my hair, leather bracelets or watchbands make my skin break out, and I just never really bought myself rings.) It's pretty funny though, I doubt we'll do a "wedding" per say-as I'm not a wedding person, but of course we'll do something. Just have to figure out what... *tee hee!* Our anniversary falls on Halloween-but I refuse to do some "theme" thing. So-no getting married on that day.

AND, I saw Grindhouse and both loved and hated it. I LOVED Planet Terror. I'm sorry, it was so MST3K, that I half expected the little talking heads to make note of it. It was just so over the top, it moved at a frantic pace, the missing integral reels of story development were so funny, I just had such a fun time. The faux trailers were all great, then we get to Tarantino's contribution-Death Proof. ERRRR!!! Why must he always go for this overly intricate Tarantinoesque cutesy dialogue?!!! Sometimes, it drives me crazy with it's meaninglessness. (Each of his movies do it-like the whole pancake thing in Pulp Fiction, the overwrought dialogue between the Bride and Bill at the end of Kill Bill 2...) It's dialogue for the sake of dialogue. And I know Tarantino must write the words, and love reading them out to himself, or whatever, because the man loves to talk, but SERIOUSLY. When you only have a little over an hour-and you bring a double feature almost to a screeching halt with it, it's annoying. It bothers me, only because he is a total fanboy, and he is so freaking good at emulating the stuff he loves most, but I wanted to pull my hair out, I was so bored. And it's sad, because the car chases were wild. They really were. I wish he had kept it moving.

My two cents there! I don't want to go to work tomorrow....this week is going to be insane....