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Assuming today can remain relatively crisis free, and as such, I am the owner of a working brain when I get home tonight, I'm going to see if I can pound out a travel article on Sydney, and submit it and a couple of the photos I took that are actually spectacular to an online magazine -- it's not a lucrative thing so much as -- people always tell me I should do travel writing, and I want to see if I can step back enough from some of the threads of my trip, pull out the ones that would actually be potentially relevant to others, and make something oa linear tale out of the whole thing. I've been meaning to go through my paper journal when I was there and post some of it here anyway, so perhaps these things will happen concurrently.
Also, reading the SMH today, nothing makes me more of a cranky/insensitive American than listening to Australians whine about the poor state of their poor film industry. Yes, it's fucked up; yes, you don't have massive corporate mechansims for pumping $$ into film. Yes, writers are shafted there, and yes, I know you all never go to see your own films, but foreign dollars won't de-Australianize projects that are actually solid. Grah! Also -- Eucalyptus? I've seens fucking _feet_ of gossip column inches on it, but why hasn't anyone pointed out the absurdity of casting actors (no matter how good, revered and drawing at the box office) who are/were in some cases 20 years too old for the parts. What the hell? I mean really, that seemed enough to make the thing crumble, not the bloody ego drama gossip fest.
Also, reading the SMH today, nothing makes me more of a cranky/insensitive American than listening to Australians whine about the poor state of their poor film industry. Yes, it's fucked up; yes, you don't have massive corporate mechansims for pumping $$ into film. Yes, writers are shafted there, and yes, I know you all never go to see your own films, but foreign dollars won't de-Australianize projects that are actually solid. Grah! Also -- Eucalyptus? I've seens fucking _feet_ of gossip column inches on it, but why hasn't anyone pointed out the absurdity of casting actors (no matter how good, revered and drawing at the box office) who are/were in some cases 20 years too old for the parts. What the hell? I mean really, that seemed enough to make the thing crumble, not the bloody ego drama gossip fest.