I know, I know. Daddy has not been keeping up w/ his blog. Daddy is v good. He has turned the corner re his job scare, & saved his most wonderful, perfect job that he wants to keep so bad. Plus, he got engaged. I'll post a picture of the rock as soon as Renee will send me one!
We'll prob get married in Spring of 2011. We're doing a City Hall wedding! Just like Andy & Donna did (that's my folks, Donna was slightly hippy round the fringes, hence I almost never call her Mum [I prefer Mombo, anyhoo] & have called her Donna for ever.)
Now, like the Health Care Debate comes the negotiations. I want to do the reception at a gallery space in SF. Renee prefers a restaurant, cheaper!- she has a point there!- or the W Hotel in SF. We love that place.
Today was a big test at work & I think I did great. I love my job & I wanta keep doing it.
I know you've heard this before but I'm gonna finish all those movie posts & Beatles re-mastered reviews. In the meantime, really quick, here are some notes of great/good/bad books, movies, music, whate'er:
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, Blu-ray DVD: Great. Tommy Lee Jones played OL for Harvard! He roomed w/ Al Gore. A Yale guy roomed w/ W. A Yale guy dated Meryl Streep! I think I'm beginning to love Ivy League athletics. & I'm rooting for Cornell hard tomorrow. Go Big Red!
An Education, book by Lynn Barber: Better than great. The best book I have read in ages. It is a memoir, in which one chapter was turned in to an Oscar-nominated best picture. It is hilarious, brave, & v moving. After "Carey Mulligan" got accepted at Oxford, Ms Barber was working for Penthouse at their start-up, wrote a seminal sex manual, & became the the toughest interviewer in the UK press, earning her the nickname, "The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." But it is her two bookending chapters about her husband, David (hey, why'd they pick that name for Saarsgard's character in An Education, the movie?) that cinch the memoir as something I will return to o'er & o'er agin.
Franny & Zooey, novel by JD Salinger: Great. His attention to detail & knack for dialogue are still unmatched today. I only write my pathetic attempts at fiction in one of 2 styles. Salinger's is the most comfortable, easiest, & the best-recieved amongst my friends, peers, classmates, etc, ... What I really work hard at, & what I'd really like to be known as my style (as an un-published author) is something approximating Raymond Carver. (I'm working on this neat project involving, don't laugh! a screenplay, short story, treatment for film, novella, novel!, eek!, whate'er, based on a suite of Steely Dan songs that could fit on a CD-R. Me & a couple of other Steely Dan freaks came up w/ this plan. My novella is a Lolita kinda thing, natch.)
Sunrise, Blu-ray DVD: Better than great. It is e'en more magical & resplendent in Blu-ray than I'd e'er thought could be.
Man On Wire, DVD: Great. Breathtaking, actually. Really. I know that word is terribly overused.
Here, There, & Everywhere, book about recording the Beatles by one of my fave producers, Geoff Emerick: Awful. His personal opinions about the group come off as snotty & petty. I just wanta hear aboot ADT & Leslie speakers, & the new drum sound him & Ringo created (& he doesn't e'en give much love to Ringo, the guy who invented overhand rok drumming!) Elvis Costello warned me in the foreward there would be critical opinions, but this shoulda been a straight memoir, which, to be honest wouldnt a sold a lot of books. I want Norman Smith's book! But he is dead. He engineered the Beatles, got sik of them, produced Syd Barrett The Pink Floyd, & had number one hits all on his own as Hurricane Smith!
The Damned United, DVD: Great. Listening to the commentary, Michael Sheen comes off as a jerk. Love him as actor, tho, ... Cool to see him on 30Rock.
The Ghost Writer, film in theaters: Good. Man, I dont give a shit about his 70s drugging an under-age girl. She doesn't seem to care, either! Mick LaSalle sed it's the first serious film of the year. I dont know aboot that. I thought it was a v good, old-school potboiler, a fantastic popcorn movie, not profound or anything. Kim Cattrall is still smoking hot & my fave performance was by Rushmore's undersung hero, Olivia Williams. & to be honest, I thought In The Loop's depiction of this crucial moment in the UK/US occupation of Iraq or mythical middle-eastern country (in In The Loop's case, specifically) was more profound than any great fun that I had at Ghost Writer. "Anyone like a mint?"
An aside, to close, In The Loop will become a cult, midnight movie film, like a few of my other faves: Withnail & I, & This Is Spinal Tap. Plus, its' political statement, quintessentially a "liberal/dove" statement was so infused w/ the crap arm-twisting, two-faced, diplomatic rules of order Washington/10 Downing St are masters of that this ultimately anti-war film will fly under T. J. "King" Kong's radar & be loved by the hoards.
Goodnight, motherfukers, I love you all. Me & Renee & Mavis & Molly all give you a big bite on your Chicken!
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