'Allo Slothwatchers!

BIG TIME CONGRATULATIONS to thessalymarley and atschpe for winning NaNoWriMo (and Witherwings from the Leaky Lounge as well)! If you know any of them, they deserve your absolute praise for what they accomplished!

As for me, I guess despite my attempts to convince myself and others, I never succeeded in really getting myself fully devoted to NaNo this year. Oh well, I'm not too broken up over it, although I would have liked to make a bit more progress on my latest project. But that's OK, I continue to plug away, and it will get there in the end! And perhaps I will try my hand at another NaNoWriMo sometime in the future.

I watched Chungking Express a little while back, perhaps a week ago or more. It's a great film out of Hong Kong by Wong Kar-Wai. It's basically two stories connected in a very small way (but perhaps sharing more thematically). I tend to have trouble explaining why I like movies without giving away lots of plot - not that the plot necessarily is so secret in this movie, but I generally just don't like to give summaries. There's just - a lot of life in this flick, I guess would be my take on it. It made me happy, and also made me a bit sad or wistful - but it's good to watch a movie that encourages one to feel something, but doesn't beat you over the head with it either. Perhaps its the method that Wong Kar-Wai uses to make his films - as far as I know, he never works from complete scripts, instead writing them as he goes along - so there seems to be this sense of "I don't really know where this is going" to the stories. Which can be very refreshing. Anyway, just thought I'd give my little rave about the movie! Check it out if it sounds interesting.

All right, that's enough for today. Happy December!

Peace.