gold-bearing cobblestones
I have had this quote from Vineland by Thomas Pynchon in my head for days now:
Miller and Blowden had met in a san Francisco theater group, she doing pretty-girl walk-ons and he thinking about specializing in Brecht - one night in the Haight somebody had some acid, and after careening for a while through the sixties, they alit from their anarcho-psychedelic spin twenty miles up a mud obstacle course referred to as a road only by those who'd never been near it, deep in the Vineland redwoods in a cabin by a stream from whose bed they could hear gold-bearing cobblestones knocking together at night.
These are just two random characters Zoyd spends a few pages with. I love it.
I watched Kingdom of Heaven tonight - or, well, I watched some of it and fast-forwarded through a great deal. And it's not really a movie I like at all. I didn't really think it would be, but it had a good cast (read: Orlando Bloom is pretty) and I thought it was worth a try. Turns out it wasn't, really.
Although I was oddly intrigued by Edward Norton as the king. Edward Norton oddly intrigues me in almost any film he's in, and I actually had no idea who played the king (although I was oddly intrigued by him) until I paused for a break (read: set the fast-forwarded through a huge battle and got some more tea) and checked the credits. And there was Edward Norton.
My favorite part, though, was seeing a line I rememberedfrom the trailer: Orlando says, "You have my love - and my answer." And the trailer made it seem very much like he was talking to the Love Interest, when in fact the line is delivered to the king.
Miller and Blowden had met in a san Francisco theater group, she doing pretty-girl walk-ons and he thinking about specializing in Brecht - one night in the Haight somebody had some acid, and after careening for a while through the sixties, they alit from their anarcho-psychedelic spin twenty miles up a mud obstacle course referred to as a road only by those who'd never been near it, deep in the Vineland redwoods in a cabin by a stream from whose bed they could hear gold-bearing cobblestones knocking together at night.
These are just two random characters Zoyd spends a few pages with. I love it.
I watched Kingdom of Heaven tonight - or, well, I watched some of it and fast-forwarded through a great deal. And it's not really a movie I like at all. I didn't really think it would be, but it had a good cast (read: Orlando Bloom is pretty) and I thought it was worth a try. Turns out it wasn't, really.
Although I was oddly intrigued by Edward Norton as the king. Edward Norton oddly intrigues me in almost any film he's in, and I actually had no idea who played the king (although I was oddly intrigued by him) until I paused for a break (read: set the fast-forwarded through a huge battle and got some more tea) and checked the credits. And there was Edward Norton.
My favorite part, though, was seeing a line I rememberedfrom the trailer: Orlando says, "You have my love - and my answer." And the trailer made it seem very much like he was talking to the Love Interest, when in fact the line is delivered to the king.