i'm cracking your little code
Fruit is so confusing. The plums and nectarines I've bought this summer have been so good, and yet the peaches have been godawful. What's up with that?
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Yesterday, I read Year Zero by Rick Reid. It's about how aliens have been illegally downloading and copying Earth music since the 70s, and now because they owe more in copyright infringement fines than there is money in the universe, they've come to earth to try to sort things out.
It's clever and cute and I laughed a few times, but I wish it had been more about music than it was. Or more something. And also, the narrator has some serious white/straight/middle-class/male blinders on, which made me cringe more than I'd have liked. I think my favorite thing is the various character playlists at the end.
Last night, I read Winter Soldier #8 but it was mostly setup and Bucky being angsty, so probably more enjoyable if you have a lot of Bucky and/or Bucky/Natasha feels, which I do, so I said, "Oh, Bucky" a few times.
I started reading A Superman for All Seasons on the train this morning, and 1. I kind of dislike the art a lot, or at least how Clark is drawn (he's potato-faced! Superman should not have a big potato head with tiny features!) and 2. the Kindle app comics reading thing is kind of a pain.
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On the writing front, 14,000 words in, I have finally achieved makeouts. Whew. That was kind of exhausting. Now they won't stop talking. Sigh. But at least they're kissing while they're talking.
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And finally, have some links:
- an interview with Anthony Russo, one of the directors of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (thanks to
siria for the link). Doesn't really tell us anything we don't know already, but I thought this was interesting:
One reason why people coming from the television world work particularly well at Marvel is connected to one thing you were saying earlier: Marvel is a big company and they've made a lot of movies and these movies are connected to each other. That's not typical for a feature film. A lot of people who work in feature films, that whole concept is a little foreign, in the sense that you have to be thinking about predecessors in a very specific way. They aren't just prequels, there's a whole mythology that has preceded you. Television people are used to that because there's seasons and seasons of a show and this history is very important.
Also, they are supposedly having lunch with Ed Brubaker soon, which will hopefully mean he will consult on the script.
- An interesting interview with Ursula LeGuin (via
cofax7)
- How Pearl Jam influenced the Gaslight Anthem's Handwritten, or, a brief interview with Brian Fallon:
The old songs still mean something to me, but they're not who I am now. The only option for me was to open up a notebook and start over. It was either do that or be the culmination of my influences for the rest of my life. With lyrics, my feeling was that it's too much work if I was going to keep going, "You gotta throw a little Van Morrison in there and a little Neil Young in there. You gotta put a little Sam Cooke in there." What was that communicating? That I liked those bands a lot? Our influences have music that already exists in the world. We don't need to be them. I'm not talking trash about our records. I think they're great. But they're not who I am anymore.
If you want longevity as a band these days, Pearl Jam's not a bad model to look at.
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Lunch now, I think.
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Yesterday, I read Year Zero by Rick Reid. It's about how aliens have been illegally downloading and copying Earth music since the 70s, and now because they owe more in copyright infringement fines than there is money in the universe, they've come to earth to try to sort things out.
It's clever and cute and I laughed a few times, but I wish it had been more about music than it was. Or more something. And also, the narrator has some serious white/straight/middle-class/male blinders on, which made me cringe more than I'd have liked. I think my favorite thing is the various character playlists at the end.
Last night, I read Winter Soldier #8 but it was mostly setup and Bucky being angsty, so probably more enjoyable if you have a lot of Bucky and/or Bucky/Natasha feels, which I do, so I said, "Oh, Bucky" a few times.
I started reading A Superman for All Seasons on the train this morning, and 1. I kind of dislike the art a lot, or at least how Clark is drawn (he's potato-faced! Superman should not have a big potato head with tiny features!) and 2. the Kindle app comics reading thing is kind of a pain.
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On the writing front, 14,000 words in, I have finally achieved makeouts. Whew. That was kind of exhausting. Now they won't stop talking. Sigh. But at least they're kissing while they're talking.
*
And finally, have some links:
- an interview with Anthony Russo, one of the directors of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (thanks to
siria for the link). Doesn't really tell us anything we don't know already, but I thought this was interesting:
One reason why people coming from the television world work particularly well at Marvel is connected to one thing you were saying earlier: Marvel is a big company and they've made a lot of movies and these movies are connected to each other. That's not typical for a feature film. A lot of people who work in feature films, that whole concept is a little foreign, in the sense that you have to be thinking about predecessors in a very specific way. They aren't just prequels, there's a whole mythology that has preceded you. Television people are used to that because there's seasons and seasons of a show and this history is very important.
Also, they are supposedly having lunch with Ed Brubaker soon, which will hopefully mean he will consult on the script.
- An interesting interview with Ursula LeGuin (via
cofax7)
- How Pearl Jam influenced the Gaslight Anthem's Handwritten, or, a brief interview with Brian Fallon:
The old songs still mean something to me, but they're not who I am now. The only option for me was to open up a notebook and start over. It was either do that or be the culmination of my influences for the rest of my life. With lyrics, my feeling was that it's too much work if I was going to keep going, "You gotta throw a little Van Morrison in there and a little Neil Young in there. You gotta put a little Sam Cooke in there." What was that communicating? That I liked those bands a lot? Our influences have music that already exists in the world. We don't need to be them. I'm not talking trash about our records. I think they're great. But they're not who I am anymore.
If you want longevity as a band these days, Pearl Jam's not a bad model to look at.
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Lunch now, I think.
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/486980.html.
people have commented there.