I didn't even notice. Sorta.

[apocalypsos]

Dude, I completely missed that that was Tyler Perry leading the court during Kirk's suspension hearing. I knew I recognized him from somewhere, my brain just didn't associate "Tyler Perry" with "well-made Star Trek movie." Or just with a well-made movie, I suppose.

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Why is it that I can find every other Air Crash Investigation episode online except for the one I want? Hmph. Internet, what the hell, yo? You are FAILING me.

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I feel like an absolute fatass. Every time I get on a roll writing-wise, I end up focusing solely on that, which means I eat a lot of junk and don't do any chores and barely get out of my chair because I'm too busy writing. So now I feel gross and lazy and I can't begin to describe how much worrying about money is not helping.

Oh, and I have to go to the dentist tomorrow and turn down putting in a crown until next week. If I can even afford it then. Le sigh.

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I haven't written anything yet today. I will, I swear. God knows if I stop now for anything more involved than dinner and a movie I may break my stride.

I literally have not reread any of these chapters since I wrote them. It's just been a nonstop cycle of "Write chapter, write next chapter, write chapter after that" for two straight weeks now, with the exception of skipping ahead and writing the final chapter. What I really need to do, because I think I'm approaching that point, is start writing down a list of scenes I need to have in the story, writing them, and then writing the rest of the novel around it as per usual.

At the very least, I do have to start sketching out notes of exactly where the story is going, since right now I know where the story ends, but I'm basically discovering the rest of it along with the main character as I go. I do have a vague idea of what's happening along the way, but I'm trying not to throw quite as many balls up into the air as I normally do. This story's already complicated enough without adding more plotlines than it's already got, you know what I mean?

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I think I need a nap. *yawns*

Comments

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

Which Air Crash Investigation ep are you looking for?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

The one about the Erebus disaster. It's like the second- or third-to-last of the newest season, and I can't even find it on YouTube. (I did find some other doc on it, but I like my ACI, damn it. *pouts*)

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

Bah. This guy http://www.freewebs.com/aircrashmayday/fullepisodes.htm says he has full episodes, but the links are dead--might be worth a shot to email him and let him know. There's also a recreation of the disaster on Youtube, but you probably already found that.

(I know how annoying this is. Footage of the Summerland disaster on the Isle of Man is nonexistent on the internets except for a very brief clip from the angle I'm not interested in.)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, I'd never even heard of that disaster. Ooooo.

The one thing that's been making me happy the last couple of weeks is finding a guy on YouTube who's got pretty much all of the first five seasons of ACI/Mayday, in English, German, and Dutch, a few other disaster docs, and a bunch of Seconds From Disaster episodes, although all of the English ones apparently got reported to Nat Geo and have had one or all of them taken down. He's got "Crash of the Century" up about the Tenerife crash and I think I've watched that entire thing about three or four times in the past week.

I wish they were still making Seconds From Disaster. There's a few I would have loved to see them cover -- I only just found out about the Hillsborough disaster this year during the 20th anniversary and I think I devoured every clip related to it on YouTube.

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

Oh my God I was so happy when I found the Dutch version of the Seconds From Disaster ep about King's Cross. I loved watching the shows about UA 232 and UA 389, and every now and then I go looking for footage of the Aloha Airlines disaster because I am one hell of a ghoul.

I would love to see an episode about Hillsborough. There's some fantastic and awful footage with the announcer guys talking in real time about the fire--in particular the bit where the guy's staggering around in flames and all these people are gathering around to try and put him out.

If you haven't looked up the Couronnes disaster and the Kaprun fire, do so, they're along the same lines and both pretty scary. I'm planning to start a new all-disaster all-the-time blog called something like What Went Wrong, basically covering how these things happened and why.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, the Aloha Airlines one scares the crap out of me. Especially in the ACI episode where they show it bending at the bottom. At least with other crashes, you're not flying around without a ROOF for what's got to feel like forever.

I would have loved to see an episode about the Hartford circus fire, too. There's actually a Canadian documentary on it that was really great AND streaming online, but I haven't been able to find the website again. Which sucks, because that website had a lot of episodes for some Canadian version of Seconds From Disaster with a bunch of disasters I either haven't seen footage of or have never even heard of.

Ooo, ooo, the Kaprun fire! I think that may be one of the episodes on Veoh. They also have that documentary about the Uruguayans who survived the Andes mountains crash going back to the disaster site thirty years later, which was really interesting because they interviewed pretty much everybody who got off that mountain.

I'm planning to start a new all-disaster all-the-time blog called something like What Went Wrong, basically covering how these things happened and why.

*swoons* :)

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

God I know. How weird and awful would that be to suddenly see the sky instead of the plastic roof? Puts you right off the idea of flying.

(also I kind of wish I hadn't researched ValuJet because I don't want to think about lazy-ass cargo handlers killing people by mistake; it seems too easy.)

:D Here is one of the entries I plan to rework for the new blog.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I just keep thinking about when they're already sitting in a plane without a roof or walls, and then the pilots would have to turn the plane and you're there strapped into a seat while the whole thing tips to the side. I would FREAK OUT.

Oh, God, ValuJet. I think the only way I'd choose them is if my other option were China Airlines.

*reads post* Ooo, good stuff. And oh, man, I almost forgot about the gunk under the escalators. Ew.

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

ValuJet's now AirTran, so presumably they've learnt not to let oxygen generators bounce around unsecured in the forward hold, but still I try not to fly them.

I think the UA 232 accident's the worst of the ones I've researched--and also kind of inspiring because they did manage to do what everyone thought was impossible, and save some of the people on board.

...I kind of wish I'd had a chance to fly into Kai Tak before it closed, just for the OH GOD I GONNA DIE experience.

[tully-argyle.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad, I completely missed who was playing Amanda, until after I got home.