For any American readers who haven't seen it yet...
...you get your chance this Friday - in "theaters"*!
(I enjoyed it enough to grab the DVD, anyway**. Not sure how much of a recommendation that is, though.)
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Picking up on the theme of words from my last post, here's one of the more curious (and somewhat innovative) features of JournalSpace:
http://journalspace.com/new/pronouns/
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Film-related Edit: [Now with added Spanish poster menace...]
It may be a sign of age (on my part), or something, but I've just completely failed to convince someone that John Hurt really ought to get top billing above Elijah bloody Wood in next year's The Oxford Murders (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488604).
Ye Gods...
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Notebook-related Edit: The odd thing about the link coming up is that a couple of weeks ago, and originally as prep for a conference, I picked up a spiral-bound, plastic-covered A6 (slightly oversized for that category, actually, but it gives you a rough idea of scale, sans photograph) notebook from Paperchase with multiple page types, pocket sections (card and clear vinyl), and even an internal ziplocked compartment in the back. With a single slim Moleskine cahiers Plain Journal tucked into one of its pockets***, and a pen neatly retained inside the spiral binding, I genuinely think it has the edge on this:
http://moleskine.vox.com/library/post/moleskine-and-accessories---create-your-perfect-notebook.html
(Via notebookism.)
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*I mean come on. Is it really so difficult to get letters in the right order? How can an entire country possess a note from some quack about a spurious reading disorder? Tut.
**Critics had a very hard time with the film. Poor dears.
***A notebook inside a notebook may seem extravagant, but as anyone familiar with those 64-page mini Moleskine marvels will tell you, the last sixteen sheets are perforated along the inner edges in order to be detachable. (A feature which they have in common with the Plain Reporter Notebook, although with that you get 24 of 'em to rip out as required.) Quite apart from any incidental aesthetic and/or practical issues concerning mucking up a notebook's binding, intentionally detachable pages are ideal for pieces of information and the odd datum with "crossover" potential. (In the past, I've ended up farting about with one of those Magson glue sticks, and odd pieces of notepaper, the backs of receipts, envelopes, and all manner of assorted stationery cut-offs. Hopefully this more functionally-designed alternative will see an end to all that nonsense...)
(I enjoyed it enough to grab the DVD, anyway**. Not sure how much of a recommendation that is, though.)
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Picking up on the theme of words from my last post, here's one of the more curious (and somewhat innovative) features of JournalSpace:
http://journalspace.com/new/pronouns/
____________________________________________
Film-related Edit: [Now with added Spanish poster menace...]
It may be a sign of age (on my part), or something, but I've just completely failed to convince someone that John Hurt really ought to get top billing above Elijah bloody Wood in next year's The Oxford Murders (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488604).
Ye Gods...
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Notebook-related Edit: The odd thing about the link coming up is that a couple of weeks ago, and originally as prep for a conference, I picked up a spiral-bound, plastic-covered A6 (slightly oversized for that category, actually, but it gives you a rough idea of scale, sans photograph) notebook from Paperchase with multiple page types, pocket sections (card and clear vinyl), and even an internal ziplocked compartment in the back. With a single slim Moleskine cahiers Plain Journal tucked into one of its pockets***, and a pen neatly retained inside the spiral binding, I genuinely think it has the edge on this:
http://moleskine.vox.com/library/post/moleskine-and-accessories---create-your-perfect-notebook.html
(Via notebookism.)
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*I mean come on. Is it really so difficult to get letters in the right order? How can an entire country possess a note from some quack about a spurious reading disorder? Tut.
**Critics had a very hard time with the film. Poor dears.
***A notebook inside a notebook may seem extravagant, but as anyone familiar with those 64-page mini Moleskine marvels will tell you, the last sixteen sheets are perforated along the inner edges in order to be detachable. (A feature which they have in common with the Plain Reporter Notebook, although with that you get 24 of 'em to rip out as required.) Quite apart from any incidental aesthetic and/or practical issues concerning mucking up a notebook's binding, intentionally detachable pages are ideal for pieces of information and the odd datum with "crossover" potential. (In the past, I've ended up farting about with one of those Magson glue sticks, and odd pieces of notepaper, the backs of receipts, envelopes, and all manner of assorted stationery cut-offs. Hopefully this more functionally-designed alternative will see an end to all that nonsense...)