sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-06-24 03:10 pm

Chinese tea and sassafras, abalone and pearl

1. I get to see one of my cousins who is neither [livejournal.com profile] gaudior nor [livejournal.com profile] rushthatspeaks tonight. She's interviewing at colleges in the Boston area; it has been hinted to me that I may be expected to serve as an unofficial guide to Brandeis, though I have no idea how useful she'll find me, being eight years out of date at best. I am amused that our dinner plans are for Yenching in Harvard Square.

2. I have my preliminary Readercon schedule, although I'm waiting for it to be finalized before I post it. I'm not unhappy with what I've seen so far, though.

3. Having run out of Princess Jellyfish (2010) until such time as there is some kind of second season or I give up and track down the manga, Viking Zen and I have started watching Spice and Wolf (2008). Four episodes in, it is the best show about gods and economics I've ever seen. I hadn't expected to recognize one of [livejournal.com profile] rax's icons suddenly.

4. Mission of Burma is recording a new album. I haven't been able to make any of their recent shows, but this makes me very happy. Also, a bowtie on Clint Conley is a terrifying thing.

5. I think someone ran this experiment just for the sake of the headline.

6. Because five things make a post, but death is the extra at any table: Peter Falk. I grew up on him as Columbo, of course, but what I'd watch for his memory is Der Himmel über Berlin (1987), rumpled and fallen, sketching, shaking hands with empty air; the small miracles of coffee and cigarettes. You need to figure that out for yourself. That's the fun of it.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2011-06-28 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Unless it disintegrates utterly by the end of the season, it's both a very intelligent show and does immortal and nonhuman very well.

I hope it doesn't disintegrate.

Thank you. I liked him.

You're welcome. And that is a nice shot.