Though that's hard to make a movie show about

[sovay]

I still have the hell-cold! It could go away already! It's like Monty Woolley on Kleenex.

I am nonethless going with ratatosk to see the Alloy Orchestra accompany a selection of short silent surrealist films at the Somerville Theatre tonight, because seriously, what about that program doesn't appeal? I am especially curious about Hans Richter's Filmstudie (1926), but I expect I'll come back raving about things I'd never heard of. Not literally, one hopes, but I suppose that will depend on how weird these things really are.

Before then—

Jeremy Denk on Charles Ives. The way he writes about the composer succeeds in making me want to hear how he plays him.

Evie Nagy on Miss Fury. I am not as familiar with superheroes of the 1940's as I am with most other media from that period, but I still feel I should really have heard of Marla Drake. I will be looking for this collection.

Vienna haunts William Boyd. (Look! There's Wittgenstein again!)

I am off to catch a bus.

Comments

Wild and Weird

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds brilliant. If only that could end up on disc.

I want to be a Rarebit Fiend too. Maybe carrot cake eaten after midnight will do just as well.

[sovay]

Oh, that sounds brilliant. If only that could end up on disc.

Lucky for you . . .

(They were selling copies at the theater—I'd have gotten one for you if I'd known!)

I want to be a Rarebit Fiend too. Maybe carrot cake eaten after midnight will do just as well.

Report back if you get anything!

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Damn it, it's not available on Amazon UK!

Carrot cake is, alas, only good for a dreamless sleep.

[sovay]

Damn it, it's not available on Amazon UK!

Hell.

You could write to Roger Miller at the address listed here and see about ordering to the UK.

Alternately, the next time I am at a show of theirs, I will see if I can get you a copy.