You cut-ah my hours, I stake-ah you heart!

[matrixrefugee]

And Nosferatu jr. (my boss, more about that in a moment) has done it again: he cut my hours down to one day next week. I've got a few options:

--Just go in on the other days like it was a normally scheduled day and hope he doesn't send me home.

--Confront him -- which I'd rather do with a few wooden stakes and maybe the paintball gun loaded with holy water and garlic that Kincaid used in "Blood Rites" -- and inform him that I need about twenty hours a week to be able to pay my expenses since I am *NOT* getting a handout from mommy and daddy like most of the kids that work there.

--Use the time off to work on finishing "An Issue of Blood", since I'm almost through the rough draft on that one, post it here for your consideration and beta-reading, then start sending it the rounds of the fantasy mags.

In the meantime, I've been having a mini vampire-movie film festival of sorts. Recently watched both "Underworld" movies (first one's better then the second; the script on the second kept derailing itself), "Van Helsing" (A little silly, but it doesn't take itself seriously: great art design, witty script, great VFX -- all around great flick to just sit back and have fun watching. Plus: Hugh Jackman in a mantled leather duster and a fedora; if there's ever a big-screen version of "The Dresden Files", the casting directors gotta get him to play Harry.), and of course: F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (Seriously: put the same vampire makeup on my boss, and you'd swear it was him. Made it even scarier to watch.).

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I saw "Van Helsing" before it was released here (thank you, nerdy friend who always manages to get pre-screening passes!) Good GOD, I thought that was the worst movie I'd ever not paid for (ironically, 'Underworld' takes the prize for worst movie I HAVE paid for). At the very end, with the face-in-the-sky bit, the entire cinema packed with hard-core nerds let out a collective "Oh, come ON!"
Oh, and get "Shadow of the Vampire", which I think I told you about. Very artful and fun.
And your manager needs to be beaten, hard, about the face and shoulders. I wouldn't go in without being cleared first (they can get in some legal trouble for having workers off-the-clock), but I WOULD talk to his immediate superior.
~Ruby

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

I did manage to speak to the store manager, his superior, but I didn't get a word in edgewise about the matter. I swear Nosferatu, Jr. has turned him into his Renfield (or rather Knock, to keep in Murnau's context). I'm tempted to start looking elsewhere for employment until I can get my feet under me as a writer.

[dark-puck.livejournal.com]

No. Hugh Jackman can never EVER be Harry. He's WAY too short for that. And remember this is the fandom that bitched that 6'5" Paul Blackthorne was too short to play 6'7" Harry.

...though I would be a happy child if they got Alan Rickman or Oded Fehr to be Nicodemus.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Alan Rickman as Nicodemus? Yeeeeeek! (And Heeee! I'd love it!) Oy, could he play that freak to the nines. Brr!

[dark-puck.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking that maybe Hugo Weaving could be Cowl, or maybe whatsisface, Grevane.

[koemiko.livejournal.com]

I... I like Underworld and Van Helsing.

I haven't seen the second Underworld yet. Although I'm still a little "um, what?" about the idea vampires getting pregnant.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Hee, re-reading Dead Beat as of now, and I'll be hearing Hugo as Cowl now! :: Grins::

[dark-puck.livejournal.com]

The man is versatile enough to do it. I can't wait to hear him as Megatron.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Mm, my sentiments exactly on vamps getting pregnant, though there again, in the legends, a male vamp can supposedly impregnate a mortal woman, thus producing a dhampire, so I wonder if Len Wiseman and company were just evening out the matter.

[koemiko.livejournal.com]

Dhampires I'm okay with ... but a vampire getting pregnant from a werewolf and having a vampire-werewolf baby seems a lot more far fetched.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Hand Hugo Weaving a phonebook to read out loud and he could make it sound interesting. :: Grins::

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

I've seen vamp/werewolf crossbreeds done for comedy, but it's too far-fetched for something more serious.