Happy 4th of July

So whether you celebrate it or not, today's been a holiday in the US. Down here there's fireworks and guns going off and horribly bad radio station soundtracks to the fireworks. (I skipped the ones downtown so I could avoid hearing "Sweet Home Alabama" in combination with some warped patriotic sense that the rest of the music is supposed to imply. Although I do have an ex-boyfriend who said it was his 'constitutional right' to drive like a jerk-off. So I suppose overplayed music is just as good, huh?)

I finished doing the paper edits to the novel today. I lay down after my yoga this morning on the living room floor and went through the last 80 pages of the print out that I have of it. I broke for dinner with Lindsay, and then I finished up an hour or two ago. Now I have to translate the paper edits into digital edits, and do one more run of editing based on Seth's notes, and then the manuscript will be done! It's a crazy feeling, having worked on something for this long, to finally get to the end of it.

Well, I hope it won't be the end of it, but at least it's a milestone or a landmark or something in the creation process of it. Other than that, I watched Marie Antoinette this morning... I needed period costume references, and there were pieces of the soundtrack that were quite palatable. Then there were the remixes of otherwise acceptable 80s pop-rock... and those occasionally made me want to mute it and put on some french chamber music and guess at the dialog in the rest of it. I'll say this about that movie... it's dry. It's a biography, but even in that regard, it's dry. The direction they were trying to take the movie was that of Marie being something of a rock star before rock stars existed, well DUH. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but that is the epitome of an irresponsible monarch, or at the very least the stereotype of it... isn't it? Frankly, though, the music choices made it seem more like yet another movie in which Kirsten Dunst was playing Kirsten Dunst. At least this time she wasn't a redhead. And I'll say this for her, her Marie is much better than her MJ. When I mentioned the bit about wanting to mute out the music, it would've been ok, because I could read emotions on her face.

Still pales in comparison to Live Free or Die Hard. Ah, a special place in my heart goes out for that movie. Fire sale, anyone?

Anywho... I'm going to comfort the cat against the popguns and firebombs. Hope everyone had a good Fourth.