And ghosts walk in the fire of angels

[sovay]

So this afternoon I met rushthatspeaks and jinian at Rodney's in Central Square and then we met ajodasso and rinue at Toscanini's and then we shot B-roll for a science fiction film. I have never been part of even a microbudget film before. We dressed for the future out of our own clothes, some scarves and props. derspatchel pointed us toward MIT's Simmons Hall. Apparently the correct term is not extras, it's background, and if I turn up for two seconds as background in an offworld montage, I will consider this an afternoon entirely well spent. If I don't turn up for two seconds as background in an offworld montage, I will consider it an afternoon entirely well spent. It was like silent film. It was a lot of fun.

And then I stopped off at Blue Shirt Café in Davis Square and helped Rob sort pages. There was an exciting moment when I realized I'd left my four-dollar record of Songs by Tom Lehrer (1953) in Rush's car. It was retrieved and presented to its proper owner. I hung on to the play by Peter Ustinov. (The ninety-four-cent shelf at Rodney's is no slouch. I only left Christopher Fry's The Dark Is Light Enough (1954) because I couldn't remember if I already owned it.)

And then I got home to discover that my poem "In the Firebird Museum" is now online at Stone Telling, with a haunting illustration by Yuri Dojc. This is the one I wrote the same night as my poem currently in inkscrawl: I think it was meant at the time for rose_lemberg, but it found its way to her in the end. This magazine gets better with every issue.

(Discovered earlier, but deserving of post: Jeff VanderMeer writes about Beyond Binary and interviews britmandelo.)

Today, in short: pretty damn fine.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh Sovay, at first I didn't remember it, and was thinking, how gorgeous--and then I was still thinking, how gorgeous, but remembering: the welder's sparks, the cinnabar.

And I love the photo. Rose has amazing taste--she picks the best art to go with her poems.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Given how well you write about films, it seems only fair you should be in one. Being curious, what was your future outfit?

And well done on "Museum". I'll give it a proper re-read when I'm back on the netbook.

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

I am mostly dead, but so happy you had a great day. And of course I love the poem and now also the art that goes with it,

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I have not gotten an chance to read ST yet. I am looking forward to it.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted at your chance to be background in a silent SF film. I hope you appear in the final product, and I hope to see it.

I'm glad for the ninety-four-cent-shelf finds.

Congratulations on the poem going online! It's lovely, and I think that it and the illustration suit each other.

Today, in short: pretty damn fine.

Excellent.

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for the poetry links. I love coming on here and finding I've new poems to read. :)

I'm holding them until Thursday, when I turn in my project and hope to begin to write again. Your work always inspires.

Dressing up to be extras! That just sounds fun. :)

[selidor]

I am very glad to find there will be more movies in the world with people in them whom I know!
(An aunt-in-law in Wellywood is background in The Hobbit, and a colleague on the trip last week showed me the most expensive short film ever made, which manages to pack a full-realism Round Table Grail quest with evil!Galahad inversion into 15 minutes.)
edit: Found the film: Perceval. Spanish production, entirely in Latin.

And I endorse as said above: that's a grand illustration.
(A minor query; supernova, rather than supernovae?)