Three Days On
Sep. 8th, 2009 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
handful_ofdustSo, 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.
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.
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Date: 2009-09-09 06:08 am (UTC)I'm with you on Dame Helen, though...she makes anything better.
I am looking forward very much to her Tempest, although I maintain it was totally unnecessary to change the genders.
You think it's going to be a complete rip-off of something like Michael Douglas's Falling Down, where a buttoned-down dude snaps for Big Life-Altering Socio-Economic Reasons! and starts shooting people, except with differently-flavored racism.
I just want to point out: that is an awesome sentence.
A guy who, on some level, knows he's done wrong, but is too invested in his own image as "a nice guy" (and the privilege that mask affords him) to risk doing anything about it.
Right: it's on the list.
On the Matt-and-Ben tip, meanwhile, have you seen their merciless skewering of their own public personae in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back?
I have not! My familiarity with Kevin Smith is limited entirely to Dogma and the clips from Jersey Girl that appeared in This Film Is Not Yet Rated. Look, I'm very good with pop culture from several centuries ago . . .
Also: They Made Me A Fugitive sounds great. I'll look it up in my Noir histories, see what pops.;)
If you see it before I get the chance (wedding, chaos, etc.), I demand a full review!
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Date: 2009-09-10 03:17 am (UTC)Don't get me started on directors who change characters' sexes without a really good reason. Especially because most times I noticed it, it led to thinking 'Gosh, these two characters are clearly attracted to each other, single, and from the same socio-economic background - why oh why don't they act on it - maybe because in the original script they were both guys?"
Seriously, I used to think the directors were being homophobic but eventually I decided they were just too clueless to notice subtext.
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Date: 2009-09-10 03:18 am (UTC)