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As I came home on Saturday night and staggered up the stair
1. My poem "Domovoi, I Came Back!", after the pendant of the same name by Elise Matthesen, has been accepted by Stone Telling. This is going to be some inaugural issue.
2. Bob Colby, B. Diane Martin, David Shaw, and Eric M. Van have been nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Readercon. As much as I loved Kit Whitfield's In Great Waters, I would by far prefer to see![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
greygirlbeast take the award for The Red Tree. I wouldn't mind if Miyazaki won for Ponyo, either.
3. I seem to have had a vacation. It was lovely. There will be a synopsis tomorrow.
(I climbed Mount Hancock. The pleasing part is that even in its current state, my body is capable of a four-thousand footer. The impressive part is thatschreibergasse and his brother are still speaking to me.)
4. And when I got back to Boston, Viking Zen showed me Jane Campion's The Piano (1993), which I loved. This I had expected; its cast alone was enough to compel my attention (Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin, Sam Neill) and I had been very impressed with Bright Star, with which it shares a nineteenth-century setting and a concern with voices. No one warned me, however, that it would be as fetishistic about music as The Pillow Book is about text. No wonder Michael Nyman did the soundtrack. I approve.
5. Happy birthday,fleurdelis28! Happy birthday, rushthatspeaks!
6. My God, have I got a lot of e-mail to answer.
2. Bob Colby, B. Diane Martin, David Shaw, and Eric M. Van have been nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Readercon. As much as I loved Kit Whitfield's In Great Waters, I would by far prefer to see
greygirlbeast take the award for The Red Tree. I wouldn't mind if Miyazaki won for Ponyo, either.3. I seem to have had a vacation. It was lovely. There will be a synopsis tomorrow.
(I climbed Mount Hancock. The pleasing part is that even in its current state, my body is capable of a four-thousand footer. The impressive part is that
schreibergasse and his brother are still speaking to me.)4. And when I got back to Boston, Viking Zen showed me Jane Campion's The Piano (1993), which I loved. This I had expected; its cast alone was enough to compel my attention (Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin, Sam Neill) and I had been very impressed with Bright Star, with which it shares a nineteenth-century setting and a concern with voices. No one warned me, however, that it would be as fetishistic about music as The Pillow Book is about text. No wonder Michael Nyman did the soundtrack. I approve.
5. Happy birthday,
fleurdelis28! Happy birthday, rushthatspeaks!6. My God, have I got a lot of e-mail to answer.
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(And also to Eric & Co. for their hard work on Readercon--nice to see the recognition)
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Thank you!
Possibly we will be TOC buddies--but grayrose76 doesn't know yet whether mine will go in the first issue or the second.
Maybe I can sell her something for the second issue as well . . .
(And also to Eric & Co. for their hard work on Readercon--nice to see the recognition)
Shall tell them. I think it's pretty awesome.
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Congrats on the sale!
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It would still have gone better if I'd realized that my family is prone to fade out when low on salt . . .
Congrats on the sale!
Thanks!
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Thank you! I shall have to visit your region of Connecticut next.
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Thank you!
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And thank you, it is being a good birthday.
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Thank you! It really was.
And thank you, it is being a good birthday.
Yay!
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The Piano is a film I watched and re-watched quite obsessively for a while. I think it's still painted on the inside of my brain, along with Wings of Desire and The Reflecting Skin.
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I'm with you on The Piano and Wings of Desire; I guess I'll have to see The Reflecting Skin.
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Sadly, The Reflecting Skin is yet to be released on DVD (as far as I know, anyway. Haven't checked in months, so I may have missed it.)
You may still be able to find a video copy somewhere to rent. It's one of those movies that all the better video stores had, and held onto.
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I have seen The Piano multiple times, but not recently. I love it, even though I find it kind of troubling. I have sheet music for the piano pieces somewhere, too, although I haven't played it in a long time.
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Thank you!
I love it, even though I find it kind of troubling.
Because of the turns of plot or imagery, or because of whatever they say?
I have sheet music for the piano pieces somewhere, too, although I haven't played it in a long time.
That's very cool.
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It's been a long while since I've seen it, but as I recall, there is some weird stuff around the two men having this struggle for possession of Ada, and I wish that she had been a bit more active in making her choice. And then, of course, there's that one extremely disturbing scene (which is why I haven't watched it in a long time).
But the whole thread of Ada's relationship to her piano and her music, and how much the other character's reactions to that reveal about them is so wonderful. And the scenes of Ada playing the piano are so beautiful and real.
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. . . I don't know how to block out text or encrypt it, so I am attempting to avoid spoilers for the non-kenjari reader in this reply. I agree that the initial positioning of Ada between the two men is troubling, but I found it resolved strongly in favor of Ada's autonomy first by what Baines does with the piano and finally with Stewart's last interaction with Ada, both of which make it clear that she is not to be viewed as in anyone's possession but her own. One of the things I loved about the film was its handling of things like consent and trust and subject/object, almost without using any of those words.
But the whole thread of Ada's relationship to her piano and her music, and how much the other character's reactions to that reveal about them is so wonderful.
Yes.
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Dude.
a) As cucumberseed pointed out, Hancock is srs bzness.
b) While we MIGHT have gone more insanely fast in your absence, we finished the mountain in good time. which is really all that matters.
c) You /did/ get to talk to Dan about Sarah Cain (sp?) at length and knowledgeably, so I'm guessing he'll class you as a worthwhile person.
d) Even with electrolyte deprivation, you kicked the ass of everyone whom I've hiked with who isn't related to me by blood.
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Sarah Kane. I'd forgotten. That's my brain for you.
(Cleansed was the name of the play I couldn't remember. I knew it was a perfect passive participle that started with C.)
d) Even with electrolyte deprivation, you kicked the ass of everyone whom I've hiked with who isn't related to me by blood.
So noted. Okay.
PS Glad post-Ossipee has been fun!
So far, so good!