Luna Park launches January 31, 2008
Posted by Phineas in : Info , add a commentNice new site surveying the world of literary magazines just launched, check it out:
Luna Park, a Quarterly and Occasional Review of Literary Magazines and Various Other Stuff
Atonement January 11, 2008
Posted by Phineas in : Irrelevant, Psycho/Spirit, Reading , add a commentSo a few years ago, I was given a copy of the Ian McEwan novel, Atonement. I placed it on my bedside and started reading it. One paragraph into it, I fell asleep. Each night, I tried to read more, but all reclined like that, I can hardly get one paragraph before I fall asleep.
So since that time, a whole lot of other people also read that book, and some of them got the bright idea to make a movie based on it. More people got involved and now there’s a movie in the theaters now.
I can’t tell you how strange that makes me feel. I feel a bit like Rumpelstiltskin Rip Van Winkle. Like all you people are a frenetic blur, racing around me, while I’m in this temporal slowdown, disjoined, frozen, metabolic hibernation.
Somewhere out there, right now, a novel is waiting to be written by someone, whose first three paragraphs will put me to sleep, some future sleep, from which I will awaken again, to find a movie about the novel will have been produced, and it will already be in my Netflix queue.
Children of Men January 8, 2008
Posted by Phineas in : Film, Music , add a commentI watched this film on cable the other day. It was enjoyable. I always enjoy the bleak, near future sci-fi stories. But the main thing that thrilled me was a long sequence featuring King Crimson’s “In The Court Of The Crimson King” for no obvious reason other than it sounded cool.
Wish I Was There January 6, 2008
Posted by Phineas in : Outdoors/Travel, Wild Animals , 1 comment so far
