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

[sovay]

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Globe) and talked for hours about a variety of things not limited to alternate histories or umbrellas and including his unpublished, terrific novel, which took off the top of my head over the weekend.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.

Comments

[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.)

[sovay]

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.