*brutusmaaaaaaaaaowr*

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I am so oddly fatigued. Bleh.

Jeff had to help a friend at lunch, so no lunchtime fun. Mowr. And he's still not back, so I hope everything's okay.

I don't want to work. I just want to read this new thing the guy at Arcane Comics recommended. I'd heard of it before and I felt like trying something new. It's called Y: The Last Man and it's pretty good so far.

Also, the new SiP was in and it was freaking hilarious. Now that was a good issue. Entertaining without making me aggravated.

It needs to be 5:30 right now, dammit. Then I can hustle over to meet Sarah downtown where we can gorge on our respective literary obsessions and then meet group of people for moviefun. Yay for Jodie Foster. And Jeff says he might be able to go see A History of Violence on Saturday. He said NPR was giving it a raving review, which is exciting.

I wish I didn't feel so blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. I want so very much to be at home in bed with kitty and book and good lighting and cocoa.

Comments

[archaica.livejournal.com]

I think I want to see HoV too. Both reviews I read were great, and I loves me some Cronenberg. I even liked eXistenZ.

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I hope it isn't as upsetting as Crash was. Amazing movie, but it really shook me up for a few days.

I'd prefer my entertainment a little less under-my-skin.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Crash, but being familiar with the rest of Cronenberg's word, I'd say that's likely to be one of the least under-the-skin movies.

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Well that is very good to hear :) I really haven't seen anything else of his other than Crash.

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Oh! You're missing out! Now I have to see Crash.

And yes, I meant "work".

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Hrm. Are you saying it's a remarkable work of art, vs. just mindless movie entertainment?

Recommendations, please!

And let me know what you think of Crash.

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I'm saying I meant "work" instead of "word".

Oh dear, recommendations. For Cronenberg. I'm not sure that's a legal enterprise across state borders. eXistenZ is probably a good start. The thing about his movies is not that they're mindless entertainment, but they can pretty off-kilter. I think he's tapped into a disturbing vein of the subconscious zeitgeist. Videodrome is another that explores the sometimes thin line between perception and reality, often shattering the characters' sense of self in the process. He tends to explore these themes in a fairly signature... organic way.

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OH. Hee. I'm doing this via email, so didn't note your earlier typothingie.

I have seen Videodrome. I was in the 8th grade and we were on that ubiquitous class trip to Washington, D.C. The girls in my room were tittering because there were Marines in the next room that would buy them beer and flirt with the idea of statutory rape.

I was less excited by lip-gloss than they were, so I stayed in and watched Videodrome—and would be scarred for life by that one scene where that guy burns himself (I think) with a cigarette.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

You can see why I was wary of recommending something. But suddenly I want to watch a bunch of this movies now.

In my copious free time, of course.

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In my copious free time, of course.

Naturally!

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I like Y, but it's hard to live up to the insanely great critical reviews it's been getting. I think it's largely another case of another comic that doesn't deal with superheroes, so suddenly everyone's calling it revolutionary.

Man, I really need to read through the stack of comics on my table.

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It's always a bummer when excessive build-up ruins the fun. I have some friends who like it, and the guy who suggested it at Arcane Comics did it in a fairly mellow way, "I think you might like this, it's kinda cool.." instead of leaping across the counter and saying it was the best thing ever.

So I'm enjoying it.

I really need to finish Lucifer too. Somewhere toward the end of the 5th book (I think it was 5..) my interest waned. So I have about 2-3 trade paperbacks left.

That and the latest two from Astro City..

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Lucifer isn't finished yet... or at least it wasn't in the last issue I've read (one or two have come uot since then).

I love Astro City. A friend loaned me that, Powers, and Top Ten, all of which I liked. I only managed to find the second of Top Ten a week ago, and I'm looking forward to reading that.

Also, I have the two volumes of Flight which I've been hearing great things about. Damn, I need to set aside more reading time.

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Re: Lucifer, I meant I needed to finish the ones under my bedside table, not the series (because, I think you're right--it's not finished yet).

Astro City is awesome, but I haven't read the others you've mentioned. I'll have to check them out. I also just bought Fables: Legends in Exile which looks fun!

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

(I need a comics icon.)

I've been liking Fables. Another that hasn't seemed to live up to the hype (and again, no superheroes) but I enjoy playing "spot the fable". And damn, but some of those are obscure. I wonder if there's an annotation somewhere.

The monthly version has built up to an exciting point, and I kind of can't believe I'm not rushing to read them, but I'm overwhelmed by stuff I should be reading... and some of which have deadlines.

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I hope to start Fables tonight. Also, I suspect I'm a lot more easily amused than you are. You seem to have tastes and standards and shit :)

And I'm curious, how does reading have deadlines? Oh! You have a bookclub, right? I used to be awful with my deadlines and finally had to break the book up into 50-page increments, count back from the 'deadline' and make myself read 50-pages a night from the latest point in. Sad, huh? It's the only way I was going to get through Hotel New Hampshire.

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Well, I do have tastes and standards, but I also have some horrible movies that are terrible guilty pleasures. Cronenberg sometimes falls in this category. Mostly, I'm just resistant to hype -- while it's more likely to make me watch or read something, it's also a turn-off if it doesn't live up to that. Among some of my friends, there's this perception that I love everything -- because I don't just hate everything, as they do. So it's a matter of perspective.

Yep, book club. I'm glad for it, not just because I get to see my friends more and discuss books I wouldn't have read otherwise, but the monthly schedule and my refusal to give up on my own choice of books has gotten my into a two-book-a-month groove, which is good. Unfortuntely, I this means I usually have to cram during the last week, which I'm going to have to do again. I'm glad it's a short book written for English speakers this time. I'd invite you, but you're all those miles away.

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No, it's true. Hype can really destroy a nice little whatever. Which is why it makes me leary, and will often disappoint if I've bought into it.

And thanks for the thought, but I wasn't able to keep up with my own bookclub and it disbanded many months ago.

Someday I'd like to try again!