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annundriel- Have not watched the finale of Stargate Atlantis. And I'm still unspoiled for it.
- Saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Loved it, but I'm not sure it would be everyone's cup of tea, though both my parents loved it, too. It's a long movie, but it doesn't feel like it. Which is a funny thing, because when it started with a bunch of exposition my first thought was, "How long are these three hours going to feel?" Not as long as you'd think, actually. It began feeling like it should be slow, but then it told the story it had to tell and time went with it.
Everybody in it was fantastic. The guy who got hit by lightning seven times never stopped being funny.
And while I wasn't entirely sure Benjamin absolutely had to go away because he'd be too young to raise his daughter, he may have used that as an excuse because he knew it'd be hard on Daisy to see him get younger and younger as she aged.
Speaking of the aging, I do wish that they'd been a little more clear about how old he was at certain points of the film.
- Finished reading John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things. If this book were a movie, Terry Gilliam would be the director. I am completely enamored with it. From David to Roland to the Communist dwarfs. (omg, the Communist dwarfs.) And while I'm done with the main part of the book, the last hundred or so pages are fairy tale background and writerly thoughts and that makes me happy. Especially from an intertextual point-of-view.
What a great book to start the year with. It was one of those books I had no idea I was looking for, y'know?
- Hey! Amber from House is on this repeat of How I Met Your Mother!
- Saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Loved it, but I'm not sure it would be everyone's cup of tea, though both my parents loved it, too. It's a long movie, but it doesn't feel like it. Which is a funny thing, because when it started with a bunch of exposition my first thought was, "How long are these three hours going to feel?" Not as long as you'd think, actually. It began feeling like it should be slow, but then it told the story it had to tell and time went with it.
Everybody in it was fantastic. The guy who got hit by lightning seven times never stopped being funny.
And while I wasn't entirely sure Benjamin absolutely had to go away because he'd be too young to raise his daughter, he may have used that as an excuse because he knew it'd be hard on Daisy to see him get younger and younger as she aged.
Speaking of the aging, I do wish that they'd been a little more clear about how old he was at certain points of the film.
- Finished reading John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things. If this book were a movie, Terry Gilliam would be the director. I am completely enamored with it. From David to Roland to the Communist dwarfs. (omg, the Communist dwarfs.) And while I'm done with the main part of the book, the last hundred or so pages are fairy tale background and writerly thoughts and that makes me happy. Especially from an intertextual point-of-view.
The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers, David's mother would say. Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of attention only for as long as they remained fresh, which was not very long at all. They were like the street urchins hawking the evening editions, all shouty and insistent, while stories - real stories, proper made-up stories - were like stern but helpful librarians in a well-stocked library. Newspaper stories were as insubstantial as smoke, as long-lived as mayflies. They did not take root but were instead like weeds that crawled along the ground, stealing the sunlight from more deserving tales.
- John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things (p. 9)
What a great book to start the year with. It was one of those books I had no idea I was looking for, y'know?
- Hey! Amber from House is on this repeat of How I Met Your Mother!
