one of these things is not like the other

i. So, Dad came upstairs a few minutes ago to tell me that, "oh, there's going to be a Beowulf movie...with Angeline Jolie." We sort of stared at each other in an "o-kay" sort of way, and he said something about Robert Zemeckis directing, "so it might be good, because he's really brilliant," (not that I would know; I am not so well-versed in directors and I had to ask, and apparently he directed Forest Gump and Who Framed Roger Rabbit and some other stuff, which all seems about as far from Beowulf as, well...Angelina Jolie) and I'm still thinking Angeline Jolie? In Beowulf? Angeline Jolie?, because, seriously, who is there for Angelina Jolie to play? And then I thought, oh, oh, sweet Arda, is this the same Beowulf movie that Neil Gaiman did the script for? (Because there could be two totally different Beowulf films coming out in one year. Really!) So, after Dad wanders back downstairs, I had to look it up to see for myself, or I'd sit up all night trying to reconcile the two vastly different worlds of Angelina Jolie and Beowulf. 

I looked it up, and it is. (Right. Like I said, two Beowulf films in one year?) Robert Zemeckis, Neil Gaiman, and Angeline Jolie. As Grendel's mother. Angeline Jolie is going to play an underwater hag. I am thunderstruck, I tell you. Also, the movie is reportedly going to be done with motion-capture technology: i.e., it's all going to be animated. ("Like The Polar Express," the article said, and all I'm saying is that the animation had better be better than The Polar Express, which may have been a technical wonder, but the animation was dead boring.) 

My conclusion? This film is either going to be completely brilliant or fantastically awful.

ii. I am updating Ink & Chocolate, my Vox, every single day now. Or every weekday, anyway. It is for Scholastic Purposes. It is also rather rambly and probably sort of dull, but pop in to read once in a while, won't you? There are Bookish Thoughts. And right now there is costume-squee.