And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.
Movies
I've just finished watching Breakfast at Tiffany's. Since I'm preparing for the return of Mad Men, I felt that it was only right to watch actual 60s movies as well as 2009 TV that wants to be from the 60s. My experience with things like this has been a bit hit and miss - I loved the remake of Ocean's 11 but couldn't watch the original at all. I really like the 60s flashbacks that Brian Michael Bendis does in his Avengers books (and the entirety of Age of the Sentry) but reading actual comics from the 60s doesn't do anything for me. I've mentioned this before, so I'll skip over the rest.
I actually enjoyed the film and thought that there were a lot of bits that were done very well. I've seen the posters for it and 'got' that Audrey Hepburn was super stylish in it, but I hadn't actually seen her in anything. With a lot of classics, it's diminished because we know that it's good and why it's good. I'd have liked to seen it when it first came out, to see how people responded to it and to see how well it captured, reflected or even dictated the mood and style of the time.
Of course, the incredibry racist Japanase randrord/neighbour was a bit of an oddity.
Also, that subject line. How well would it fit in the mouth of Mitchell Hundred?
Lost in a good book
I was thinking of doing it for book group, but it's only a novella. I suppose we could possibly do the other books that were released with it, or In Cold Blood, but we've already done Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which would be kind of similar. I kind of want to do a Truman Capote story because then when the group asks me why I picked it, I can say "I read a story with Truman Capote where he was terrified of bears and I warmed to him"*
I finished off Sunnyside yesterday evening. It's odd. There's a few bits where I thought "There's a point being made here, I just haven't grasped it. There's a lot of meandering for the first two hundred pages or so as it sets up three story strands, drops one of them and branches the other two. I do like the way that the book sprawls and just takes time to get to know some characters who are generally inconsequential to the narrative thrust. When it pares it down to the three central characters at the end, it's a bit less interesting.
Because it's by the author of the unstoppable Carter beats the devil it's going to draw comparisons, which is unfair. NOTHING on my shelf is as good a read as Carter beats the devil. The first section of Sunnyside has the same sort of wonder and joy that Gold brought to Carter. I deeply enjoyed the Hollywood story, but was less drawn to Chaplin's tale. I'll also add that if you have a choice, buy the British version - the cover is more interesting and the binding on the US hardback looks absolutely terrible - the pages don't align, giving the edges an awful feathered look.
Matters of etiquette
(American) Wired magazine did a big cover feature in their most recent issue on New rules for highly evolved humans which is essential a techonological etiquette guide
FWIW, don't use chat slang if you don't know what it means.
It is acceptable to text in the presence of others if you are trying to include somebody in to the group, but not if it is done to exclude others.
Hide your porn downloads in a folder named March Madness '03.
Choose the right ringtone and don't do what a friend of mine did and have a meeting with your boss be interrupted with the Surprise, Cockbag! bit from Team America.
Meet online friends in the real world.
Kill your zombie brother. He's not your brother. He's a zombie.
Use these lessons and learn from them.
Flouting one of the rules for a minute, I will say that if I had a pound for every time a girl told me I'm actually seeing somebody right now. I hope you find a good girl, I'd be able to buy a copy of FourFourTwo magazine. At least.
*Age of the Sentry #2, true believers - Ed!
I've just finished watching Breakfast at Tiffany's. Since I'm preparing for the return of Mad Men, I felt that it was only right to watch actual 60s movies as well as 2009 TV that wants to be from the 60s. My experience with things like this has been a bit hit and miss - I loved the remake of Ocean's 11 but couldn't watch the original at all. I really like the 60s flashbacks that Brian Michael Bendis does in his Avengers books (and the entirety of Age of the Sentry) but reading actual comics from the 60s doesn't do anything for me. I've mentioned this before, so I'll skip over the rest.
I actually enjoyed the film and thought that there were a lot of bits that were done very well. I've seen the posters for it and 'got' that Audrey Hepburn was super stylish in it, but I hadn't actually seen her in anything. With a lot of classics, it's diminished because we know that it's good and why it's good. I'd have liked to seen it when it first came out, to see how people responded to it and to see how well it captured, reflected or even dictated the mood and style of the time.
Of course, the incredibry racist Japanase randrord/neighbour was a bit of an oddity.
Also, that subject line. How well would it fit in the mouth of Mitchell Hundred?
Lost in a good book
I was thinking of doing it for book group, but it's only a novella. I suppose we could possibly do the other books that were released with it, or In Cold Blood, but we've already done Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which would be kind of similar. I kind of want to do a Truman Capote story because then when the group asks me why I picked it, I can say "I read a story with Truman Capote where he was terrified of bears and I warmed to him"*
I finished off Sunnyside yesterday evening. It's odd. There's a few bits where I thought "There's a point being made here, I just haven't grasped it. There's a lot of meandering for the first two hundred pages or so as it sets up three story strands, drops one of them and branches the other two. I do like the way that the book sprawls and just takes time to get to know some characters who are generally inconsequential to the narrative thrust. When it pares it down to the three central characters at the end, it's a bit less interesting.
Because it's by the author of the unstoppable Carter beats the devil it's going to draw comparisons, which is unfair. NOTHING on my shelf is as good a read as Carter beats the devil. The first section of Sunnyside has the same sort of wonder and joy that Gold brought to Carter. I deeply enjoyed the Hollywood story, but was less drawn to Chaplin's tale. I'll also add that if you have a choice, buy the British version - the cover is more interesting and the binding on the US hardback looks absolutely terrible - the pages don't align, giving the edges an awful feathered look.
Matters of etiquette
(American) Wired magazine did a big cover feature in their most recent issue on New rules for highly evolved humans which is essential a techonological etiquette guide
FWIW, don't use chat slang if you don't know what it means.
It is acceptable to text in the presence of others if you are trying to include somebody in to the group, but not if it is done to exclude others.
Hide your porn downloads in a folder named March Madness '03.
Choose the right ringtone and don't do what a friend of mine did and have a meeting with your boss be interrupted with the Surprise, Cockbag! bit from Team America.
Meet online friends in the real world.
Kill your zombie brother. He's not your brother. He's a zombie.
Use these lessons and learn from them.
Flouting one of the rules for a minute, I will say that if I had a pound for every time a girl told me I'm actually seeing somebody right now. I hope you find a good girl, I'd be able to buy a copy of FourFourTwo magazine. At least.
*Age of the Sentry #2, true believers - Ed!