Only 28?

Blogger says I've only got 28 (soon to be 29) posts. This feels wrong. I feel like I must have written more than that. by the by, firefox sucks ass on mac's.

So, now that I'm using safari (much better, minus the copy/paste problem) back to talking. 

Just finished reading REQUIEM. It's good. I like it because of the way it uses language, more than the story. There's no way for the book to be not-sad; it's not about that. It feels like a decent into human depravity, more like the different holes that people dig for themselves. 

That aside, the language, the way it's written is much much MUCH more interesting than what happens. I'd need to take a very close look to see if Aronofsky managed to portray the speed and crushed-together-ness of the words in the book onto the screen. I know that part of it is achieved through his so-called "hip-hop" cut sequences, but that's really a cop-out. 

The language is one long strung-together scene, and if a carriage-return is finally used, it's a scene change/the camera cuts from one place to the next, instead of a black/white-out, or something to that degree. 

The full carriage-return is used in the following way: two-line, not one-line separation to indicate that there is a significant change in scene. not just characters, or time,  but location location location! back in real estate, which actually matters in book design. 

The breaks in the way words look in a page, called "rivers" if i remember correctly, are something that, in general, are to be avoided. My friend Em showed me a book where the author uses these "rivers" to make, you guessed it, rivers, white/negative space throughout the page. Interesting. 

Another real estate thing (more graphics-oriented): it's difficult to keep visual attention when turning pages, so the last image (in the bottom right corner, if you read left-to-right) and the first image on the next page (top-left) are crucial to maintaining a sense of coherence and cohesive-ness. The situations need to be kept either constant, or deliberately kept inconsistent, depending on what effect one's attempting to achieve. 

Rambling over now. 

What will I pick up next, you ask? I don't know. I really don't. Tell you what though: you will when I do.