Three Days On

[handful_ofdust]

So, yeah: Labour Day. On which there was labour, but not that kind. I spent the long weekend, predictably, doing little except the usual round of chores and Cal-looking-after. Made a few notes, thought about various shit, saw some films (Green Lantern: First Flight, Ed Brubaker's Angel of Death (starring Zoe Bell) and State of Play, if you're wondering). According to my list, I'm now up over 161 books read in 2009, so at some point I should probably post a list of the best stuff thus far, with brief annotations. "Should", ha ha.

But today is also Day One (and only, per week) for Cal at Senior Kindergarten, which means I really need to get my ass in gear and lay some pipe before I have to go ferry him over to Surrey Place (then rush back here and lay more pipe, etcetera). Time's a-tickin'.

Oh, man. Where's that damn Tommyknockers machine that lets you simply dream an entire novel in beautiful first draft prose when you need it, anyhow? As I recall, it also heated your water, and maybe made you coffee at the same time. Screw you for teasing me, Stephen King.

Comments

[jackal-lies.livejournal.com]

I desperately wanted to see State Of Play when it came out. Sadly, it did badly at the box office which made me worry about the state of smart political films in the future. Can I ask who the other half of Reverend Rook is? And on the the Tommyknocker machines, they were great for some things but as I remember the female protagonist (read the book a while ago) ended up looking like a skeleton and being taken over by the Tommyknockers. If you could have the technology without the aliens though, we'd all be happy.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what happens when you get caught up in dreaming books and forget to eat. (Also the radiation...but aside from that, come on!)

The other half of Rook--his outsized physicality and his voice--comes from a young Clancy Brown. What I like about Clancy is that he can convince you he's a "good guy", but he also simply looks like he could crush your head--not that Russell can't convince you he's "good" per se, but since I'm going with Ben Wade as my general template, I know damn well that Ben can't. He won't even try.