More than you ever wanted to hear from Bestselling Author Jenny Crusie.
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We’ve had a Very Bad Month so far which is astrologically sound–evidently everything is going to be awful until Sept. 29–so I have been coping not blogging. However one of the things I am most looking forward to in 2010 is this:
Amazingly beautiful AND in Imax:
Jennifer Crusie is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of twenty-one novels, one book of literary criticism, miscellaneous articles, essays, novellas, and short stories, and the editor of three essay anthologies. She lives on the Ohio River where she often stares at the ceiling and counts her blessings.
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34 Comments to 'We’re Going'
On September 11, 2009 at 10:23 pm Danielle said...
I am THERE! My roomate and I have already blocked off the day on our calendars. Tim Burton is brilliant. I am in love with Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd. I’m working on enlightening my younger brother.
On September 11, 2009 at 10:27 pm Brooke said...
Oh man: YouTube quit on me after like 3 seconds, but that was enough. Young girl running through the forest? I’m there.
Why is it always a forest? Why is it always a girl?
On September 12, 2009 at 12:05 pm Jenny said...
In general? Because the forest represents the dangers of adulthood that she must enter and conquer, especially the sexual mysteries of puberty.
In this case? Because she’s Alice and she needs to fall down the rabbit hole for her story to start.
Which is probably the same thing.
On September 11, 2009 at 10:44 pm robena grant said...
Blogger ate my comment. I was rambling. Heh.
Fabulous video. Thanks for posting it. I’ll get to see it at the Palm Springs IMAX.
BTW read your article in the October Writer’s Digest tonight, very nice, and that’s a lovely photo. RWA owes you a cake.
On September 11, 2009 at 11:44 pm marly said...
WHOA!!!! Stunning, and lovely to know something else is coming along from Tim Burton that I can watch over and over and over again. There are IMAX blu-ray discs available, right?
On September 12, 2009 at 12:34 am Deanna Nelle said...
BOOYAH!!!!! I have wanted to see this since I first saw the artwork that leaked onto the interwebs. I also heard that there might possibly be a traveling display of the artwork/costumes/props from the movie- the same display they had at comicCon in San Diego over the summer.
BTW, hope you guys are okay. When I read Very Bad Month I worry.
On September 12, 2009 at 12:07 pm Jenny said...
Dog with broken leg, asthmatic kid in ICU for three days, best friend’s husband’s heart attack . . .but all is well now. We think. We’re very cautious.
On September 12, 2009 at 7:37 am Kyra said...
Astrologically, it will be very difficult to write anything new or upload software … but you should be able to edit like a whirling dervish :0) Rework on some older stuff. I cannot wait to see AIW either … Burton’s madness pleases me!
On September 12, 2009 at 12:33 pm Sheri said...
Asthma–scary stuff. My great nephew was also hospitalized for three days this past week–severe sinus and otitis media… His little sister had an MRI because they are afraid she has a mass or also severe sinus issues. crazy stuff, eh? My husband was in a serious accident with his bus–two people went to the hospital, but thankfully he wasn’t one of them. I was concerned because of the possibility that he hit his chest on the steering wheel (heart surgery two years ago) but he says he is fine. My best friend was in a bus accident a little over a week ago–she’s been off for the last week getting over the wrenched muscles. So September–yeah, I think I am with you on September being a Very Bad Month so far. And it’s only the 12th. Oy.
On September 12, 2009 at 12:39 pm Sheri said...
Oh–the only good thing was that neither accident was the bus driver’s fault. Both of them were caused by the other driver not paying attention–one ran a red light and hit the bus and the other one (my husband’s accident) was caused by some guy in an SUV who thought he only had to look to the right to make a left turn and he pulled out in front of my husband’s bus and got T-boned for his effort. None of the injuries were serious, thank God…
On September 12, 2009 at 2:18 pm Melissa Blue said...
My friend calls me and tells me how this week also falls into The Worst Week Ever. I disagree. I try to be optimistic and then she tells me about her week. I then have to agree.
There should always be a light at the end of the tunnel. Glad you found yours with Alice.
On September 12, 2009 at 4:41 pm Kyra said...
As a parent of two little girls I have to say the ICU trip alone makes for a Very Bad Month. Hope it doesn’t EVER happen again!
On September 12, 2009 at 5:20 pm Beki said...
AIW looks incredible. My boy and I have both been awaiting breathlessly and just wait till I fill him on all the forest and approaching sexuality, etc, etc. He LOVES it when I talk to him about that! Hee.
Hugs to you all and hope it gets better. If you’d rather escape your horrible lives for a little while, come celebrate my birthday next weekend! Dueling piano bar… Many cocktails…
On September 12, 2009 at 6:22 pm Micki said...
Oh boy. The bottle in the hall scene: just exactly how I pictured it. (-: But I think Burton winkles out the darker aspects of some of the other scenes — I never though of Tweedledee and Tweedledum being carried off that way . . . but yes, I suppose so. (-: Nervously awaiting this.
On September 12, 2009 at 8:25 pm Lori J. said...
Alan Rickman = automatic must watch.
On September 12, 2009 at 9:52 pm Ericka said...
i’m sorry that you’re having a Very Bad Month, and i hope it behaves itself for the remainder of its stay.
i know! i’ve been counting down the days for weeks until alice! i hope i remember it once it’s in the theatre. *sigh*
On September 12, 2009 at 10:18 pm Eileen said...
SO EXCITED
I have a t-shirt that has a print from the original book with the quote “Sometimes I’ve believed as a many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
I love that shirt
On September 13, 2009 at 9:12 am Samantha said...
I am sooo excited for this movie!
) I’ve been excited since I first heard about it and the trailer just about sealed the deal for me. And I promise it’s not just because Johnny Depp looks weirdly gorgeous as the Mad Hatter…well it’s not the only reason…okay okay!!! It’s reason #1. O=) But the movie looks fabulous either way…counting down the days as we speak. 
D
On September 13, 2009 at 10:32 am AgTigress said...
I don’t see how the ‘dangers of puberty/adulthood’ explanation really applies either to Lewis Carroll’s original books (and am I the only one who prefers Through the Looking Glass to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ?) or to the forthcoming film. Alice Liddell was only about 8 years old when the original tale was written for her, while the film Alice appears to be 19, well past puberty even in Victorian times.
I expect I am being too literal again.
On September 13, 2009 at 6:18 pm Jenny said...
Not at all, Ag.
I think of Alice as a Gothic for Victorian children (think “Goblin Market;” imagine what Burton could do with that), the fall from innocence into experience, running headlong into the unknown. Since Carroll was obsessed with young girls, I think the sexual themes are present there in the deep structure, but really deep. I think Alice was a story he told to keep Alice Liddell happy, but no matter how much you think you’re writing for your audience, you always end up writing for yourself, too.
Alice Liddell was thirteen when Carroll wrote the story down, ten when he first told it to her.
On September 14, 2009 at 10:38 am PG said...
“Since Carroll was obsessed with young girls”
I can’t figure out what I think about this. I find very plausible the Carroll scholars who have said that the Victorians generally were obsessed with the ideas of purity and innocence, and that until Freudian theory and knowledge of pedophilia became common in the early 20th century, it was actually part of an effort to make Carroll look like a pure, childlike innocent to depict him as obsessed with young girls rather than as a mature man who probably had relationships with adult women.
The works are pretty stuffed with possible meanings about sex and fertility (hello, chasing a rabbit? but a *white* rabbit?); I just can’t tell how much of it Carroll meant. The nice thing with the movie, though, is that it doesn’t really matter what Carroll meant, because Tim Burton clearly does.
On September 13, 2009 at 8:00 pm Merry the CB said...
Ag/Tig, I greatly preferred Through the Looking Glass. I always thought that both books fell into the category of something that adults thought children should like, i.e. adults gave them to children rather than children themselves wanting to go buy/read these books. The Hunting of the Snark was more more entertaining to read, at least to my childhood eyes.
On September 13, 2009 at 2:24 pm jessie said...
It reminded me of the opening of “Last of the Mohicans” with Daniel Day-Lewis running through the forest. Afterwards I eves dropped on two women… “Julie didn’t like this movie. She said it opened with an endless scene of Daniel Day-Lewis stripped to the waist running through the forest”. Her friend replied “Oh… And that was a problem?”
On September 13, 2009 at 2:43 pm misspiggy don'twannabe said...
The Cheshire cat had a very scary smile in the preview. I always thought of the Chesire cat as enigmatic not scary.
On September 13, 2009 at 8:25 pm J said...
I’ll keep my fingers crossed that you’ve already had your share of September’s troubles, and that no more come near your home!
On September 13, 2009 at 8:53 pm Sheri said...
See, now I have never liked the story. Always thought it was rather too bizarre for a children’t story and definitely has very dark overtones, even for an adult. I have always believed personally that Lewis was experimenting with some really good drugs when he wrote Alice–LSD, mushrooms, acid… Sort of like the Beatles without music… Very nightmarish images–not a book I have ever read to my girls!
However–Tim Burton doing Alice–yeah, I think I may have to watch it because he is the only one who could do it right. He will “get it”–creepy, bizarre, twisted–heck, I never even liked the ride at Disneyland! LOL! I will probably have nightmares, but it will be worth it…
On September 13, 2009 at 9:47 pm emily said...
hey! the 29th is my birthday! let’s hope we all have great luck that day and the rest of the year. i was laid off last week and need a new job!
On September 13, 2009 at 11:01 pm Jenny said...
Fingers crossed for you, Emily. October is supposed to be MUCH better.
On September 14, 2009 at 11:30 am Kathryn said...
Mine, too! I had a laugh over that part (and that part ONLY) of the Very Bad Month info.
On September 13, 2009 at 9:48 pm Danielle said...
I have to agree with you Sheri. As a kid it was not something I was interested in. Niether the book nor the Disney movie appealed to me.
On September 14, 2009 at 1:50 am inkgrrl said...
Ugh, you guys have had hella more than your share. And I thought epic hives combined with epic headcold and epic brushfires was bad. Here’s to hoping the rest of this month goes well for all of us (I’ve got my last epidural tomorrow morning) as I think we’re all about done with Gemini acting all fussy and retrograde.
On September 14, 2009 at 11:16 am McB said...
Hmm, could be. I’ve heard that the straight-laced Victorian facade hid a lot of shenanigans. And both Alice stories were stuffed with allegories that go well over most kids heads. And I, too, prefered ATTLG to AIW.
Well, September so far has had some bumps. I’m not sure if blaming astrology gives me any comfort, but October already looks more promising.
On September 14, 2009 at 8:04 pm Lindsey said...
Mercury is in retrograde until the 29th. I’m with you in the count down, both til Mercury goes back direct and til Alice in Wonderland comes out.
On September 15, 2009 at 10:01 am Mary Stella said...
I don’t spend much time studying astrological events, but Mercury in Retrograde always gets my attention. It’s like cosmic Murphy’s Law.