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May. 17th, 2005 10:25 pm...was, apparently, what I would have been reading from, had I actually made it to Jason Taniguchi's annual Reading of Single Pages. Which I obviously did not, as all my friends must know by now: Instead, I nursed my son through toothishness, saw carpetting installed, and moved all the furniture around in our apartment. Said carpet has now been horked on repeatedly, and lives up to its stain-resistant reputation; we've also discovered quite startling "new" amounts of space now that Steve's Captain's bed has finally gone the way of all ricketty woodstuffs. All this is good.
I had some vague plan of posting little excerpts from the books I would have read at the Reading, but to be frank, I'm still pretty tired. Did work out yesterday and tonight, though. And I indulged myself by buying various things today--Microcosmos on DVD, the new Nine Inch Nails, the Kingdom of Heaven soundtrack (which is just as good as I remember, thank God). I got Steve a cheap copy of Sky Captain..., too, along with the bells and whistles version of Independence Day--because if he's going to watch shit, that's at least better than Armageddon: Inventive, button-pushing, slightly lunatic, with likable freaks for characters, and great blowing of shit up. Keeps you awake, if nothing else, which is more than you can say for Godzilla.
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moon_custafer, I thought of you while reading Brimstone, the latest thriller from the fine minds behind The Relic...because not only have they invented a main character who Vincent D'Onofrio was born to play, they've also lifted Count Fosco bodily from the pages of Wilke Collins' The Lady in White and stuck him in as their villain. I'm not giving much away by telling you he's behind everyting, but on the other hand, they HAVE updated his schtick as befits the 21st century: His white mice are robotic, for example. And he knows a lot about microwaves. Etc.
Anyways, that's pretty much that about that. Must now return to my latest obsession, which involves looking up slash starring Baldwin the Leper King. Mmmm, leprosy!
(I didn't make that last part up, by the way. What people won't do for a nice silver mask, not to mention Edward Norton's voice. But it does get me thinking about how well a Baldwin/Balian [or anybody, really] vid set to Loreena McKennitt would go: Do you like my mask? Do you like my mirror?)
I had some vague plan of posting little excerpts from the books I would have read at the Reading, but to be frank, I'm still pretty tired. Did work out yesterday and tonight, though. And I indulged myself by buying various things today--Microcosmos on DVD, the new Nine Inch Nails, the Kingdom of Heaven soundtrack (which is just as good as I remember, thank God). I got Steve a cheap copy of Sky Captain..., too, along with the bells and whistles version of Independence Day--because if he's going to watch shit, that's at least better than Armageddon: Inventive, button-pushing, slightly lunatic, with likable freaks for characters, and great blowing of shit up. Keeps you awake, if nothing else, which is more than you can say for Godzilla.
Oh, and
moon_custafer, I thought of you while reading Brimstone, the latest thriller from the fine minds behind The Relic...because not only have they invented a main character who Vincent D'Onofrio was born to play, they've also lifted Count Fosco bodily from the pages of Wilke Collins' The Lady in White and stuck him in as their villain. I'm not giving much away by telling you he's behind everyting, but on the other hand, they HAVE updated his schtick as befits the 21st century: His white mice are robotic, for example. And he knows a lot about microwaves. Etc.Anyways, that's pretty much that about that. Must now return to my latest obsession, which involves looking up slash starring Baldwin the Leper King. Mmmm, leprosy!
(I didn't make that last part up, by the way. What people won't do for a nice silver mask, not to mention Edward Norton's voice. But it does get me thinking about how well a Baldwin/Balian [or anybody, really] vid set to Loreena McKennitt would go: Do you like my mask? Do you like my mirror?)
