Sunday
1) Watched a cute and silly movie last night -- The Internship, which is really lightweight but fluffy fun nevertheless. It helps if you are a Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson fan, but it's amusing enough that I would probably watch it again. Also it is the best Google commercial I've ever seen.
2) Watched a different kind of funny movie last week, called Princess O'Rourke, a 1943 comedy with Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, and many others. Mistaken identities, star-crossed lovers, a royal princess and a commoner, and it's all pretty darn funny. I was way too young for Cummings' later TV show, The Bob Cummings Show, so I had no idea he had such great comedic timing and dry, believable delivery. This is a terrific film and is well worth watching.
3) Almost finished with reading China Miéville's Perdido Street Station, and oh my god it's like H.P. Lovecraft and William Gibson had a hideous mutant baby and it barfed up a book. I loved Miéville's The City & The City -- just loved it, and shit I wish he would write a sequel to THAT because I would read the hell out of the further adventures of Inspector Tyador Borlú and his Ul Qoma counterparts. It's an absolute dazzler. Perdido Street, written nine years earlier, is an overstuffed sofa of adverbs. Yes. Yes it is.
4) Blackmare and I may be finished with Prism II. I did a wordcount yesterday and it clocked in at 2,944, but I think it's grown a little since then. Anyway, it's awaiting a read-through by an Intrepid Reader, since Mare and I are at the point where we're having trouble seeing the forest for the trees. :D
5) What else? IDK. I'm sure I had something else, but god knows what it was.
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2) Watched a different kind of funny movie last week, called Princess O'Rourke, a 1943 comedy with Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, and many others. Mistaken identities, star-crossed lovers, a royal princess and a commoner, and it's all pretty darn funny. I was way too young for Cummings' later TV show, The Bob Cummings Show, so I had no idea he had such great comedic timing and dry, believable delivery. This is a terrific film and is well worth watching.
3) Almost finished with reading China Miéville's Perdido Street Station, and oh my god it's like H.P. Lovecraft and William Gibson had a hideous mutant baby and it barfed up a book. I loved Miéville's The City & The City -- just loved it, and shit I wish he would write a sequel to THAT because I would read the hell out of the further adventures of Inspector Tyador Borlú and his Ul Qoma counterparts. It's an absolute dazzler. Perdido Street, written nine years earlier, is an overstuffed sofa of adverbs. Yes. Yes it is.
4) Blackmare and I may be finished with Prism II. I did a wordcount yesterday and it clocked in at 2,944, but I think it's grown a little since then. Anyway, it's awaiting a read-through by an Intrepid Reader, since Mare and I are at the point where we're having trouble seeing the forest for the trees. :D
5) What else? IDK. I'm sure I had something else, but god knows what it was.
Four Five things make a post.
dancing around the four sides on dreamwidth ||
dancers || join the dance