I am a lass who alas loves a lad who alas has a lass loves another lad who once I had in Canterbury

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Yesterday I did almost nothing at all, which considering how much interaction my last four to six days involved (my God, it's like a social life) was actually fine. I had a voice lesson. I watched some Caprica (2010). I got paid for a poem. I proofread a book.

Today was also quiet: I met Matthew Timmins in Porter Square and we got lunch in the form of sushi from Miso Market (very tasty, befitting their nice writeup in the Boston Globe) and talked for hours about a variety of things not limited to alternate histories or umbrellas and including his unpublished, terrific novel, which took off the top of my head over the weekend. rushthatspeaks called while we were discussing either family geographies or Paranoia, but I called them back on the bus.

I came home and seem to have celebrated this year's Valentine's Day by watching The Ladykillers (1955) and eating pizza. I can't tell what conclusions to draw from that, except that Criterion should put out a box set of Sandy Mackendrick. Alec Guinness plays a wonderful Alastair Sim.

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[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a great day. I had a hang out at Starbucks day but my friend had heard of neither Nicki Minaj or Amy Winehouse and thought that I hated Alan Moore when I hate Frank Miller. There was an element of "buh-buh-but what d'you mean you never heard of these people?" incredulity that hopefully didn't sound like "I'm just that smarter than you" which it's not. Just people have different tastes and different biases and they might not care about whatever performer might be big at the time.

It was still a nice time.

Today I have to write a paper on Isolationism and if I finish by this afternoon, I'm going to the opera (those $20 rush tickets are pretty awesome).

But sounds like you had a great day. Been meaning to watch the original Ladykillers after that Coen Brothers movie which felt like a potentially great movie (even as it was an utter failure)

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I had a hang out at Starbucks day but my friend had heard of neither Nicki Minaj or Amy Winehouse and thought that I hated Alan Moore when I hate Frank Miller.

The first one is perfectly reasonable to me; I have heard of both of those musicians (especially following Winehouse's death; which is also how I discovered Russell Brand can write. It left me entirely confused about his acting career), but I do not know any of their music. I find it weirder to confuse Frank Miller with Alan Moorse, but if you know both of them only as graphic novelists whose catalogues furnished us with some blockbuster movies recently, I can see how it might happen.

Just people have different tastes and different biases and they might not care about whatever performer might be big at the time.

Most of my life's interaction with pop culure is based on this principle.

It was still a nice time.

Good! What opera are you hoping to see?

Been meaning to watch the original Ladykillers after that Coen Brothers movie which felt like a potentially great movie (even as it was an utter failure)

It's brilliant. It's another one of those unclassifiable comedies that hovers between the nightmarish and the absurd: the scriptwriter always said it came to him in a dream and it plays like one. I avoided the remake at all costs, but I would see the stage adaptation if it were not playing on the wrong side of the ocean from me. I like Peter Capaldi.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Um. I am not that well-versed with with Alan Moore (at least as a graphic novelist, apart from Watchmen and LXG); but I loved Voice of the Fire, which feels to me like a psychogeography of the Midlands I don't know. I'd recommend it as a flipside to Iain Sinclair (whose work I also love).

I totally need to rewatch The Ladykillers. I have a small Sim crush.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

(Extending to anyone who does a Sim impression, I should say.)

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Apologies. Slight birthday hangover.

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Apologies. Slight birthday hangover.

Apologies are never necessary for a Sim crush. Even when it's really Guinness.

(That sounds like some kind of advertisement.)

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but I loved Voice of the Fire, which feels to me like a psychogeography of the Midlands I don't know. I'd recommend it as a flipside to Iain Sinclair (whose work I also love).

I have seen that on shelves and never read it! If it reminds you of Iain Sinclair, I'll give it a try. rushthatspeaks gave me Rodinsky's Room for Hanukkah. I am constantly looking for Downriver in used book stores.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I do have a copy of Downriver knocking about, if you'd like it.