In my time on earth, I said too much, but not nearly, not nearly enough

[sovay]

Unless I lost track of one in the phone tree, I have just spent my afternoon calling five different doctor's offices, garnished with one bookstore and one library, and I would still like a refund on selected and considerable tracts of physical existence. In other news, while I have always had an inevitable affection for the mild-mannered character acting of Donald Meek, I have not seen him anywhere near recently enough to explain his appearance in last night's dreams, especially not the one with the used book store crumbling literally on the edge of some awful revelation. Over the last three days, I mainlined a rewatch of the first two seasons of Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17) and just before bed had started re-reading Paul French's Midnight in Peking (2011), which in the years since I originally read and much later wrote about it has garnered at least one nonfiction rebuttal and more contextually interested explorations, because nothing engages the human instinct for rabbit holes like a cold murder case. No offense to Donald Meek, I'm not sure where he came in.

P.S. Stop the presses, Benny Safdie and Dwayne Johnson will be adapting Daniel Pinkwater's Lizard Music (1976)? They had better get the Surrealism.

Comments

[redbird]

Cool! (Re Pinkwater)

[moon_custafer]

John is a bit larger and more imposing than my image of The Chicken Man, but I look forward to seeing this.

[asakiyume]

That is a lot of doctor's offices ....

How indomitable of Mr. Meek to make it into your dreams without a clear line of connection to your waking life. Good job, Mr. Meek!

[radiantfracture]

I hope at least the bookstore and library calls offered some fulfillment.

[thisbluespirit]

I am very sorry about alllllll the doctors and the general rottenness, but: garnished with one bookstore and one library is good. I'm glad that was also a thing. I hope the rest becomes less of thing!

Over the last three days, I mainlined a rewatch of the first two seasons of Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17)

Aww. Comfort rewatches, also very good. *hugs* Again: may you not need them, though! All the books and libraries and health and anything you want to watch!

Btw, I have now finished The Stone Tape and so now I can say I enjoyed it very much as a whole. (Randomly also I kept thinking about you telling me that you had first encountered Iain Cuthbertson in Danger UXB and this, & being amused all over again - both very good but also such a misleading introduction to the usual full Iain Cuthbertsonness of the man! XD

(I'm itching to icon Jane Asher in it, but I can't do that without a DVD, so in the middle of typing this I Googled hopefully for usable images, only to discover that they did a radio play version in 2015 with Romola Garai and Julian Rhind-Tutt, and Jane Asher. It was supposed to be a TV remake, but BBC backed out claiming it already had too much SFF (o rly? ha) and left Radio 4 to pick up the pieces a few years later. I'll want a gap before listening, but I snagged it off the Internet Archive here because clearly I am now obligated to listen to it with that cast. Plus, it's very sound-based and claustrophobic, so seems like a good fit for audio).

[skygiants]

LIZARD MUSIC MOVIE?!?!