Sunday!
Laundry day means that I get to sit on the couch and watch a movie. (It also means that I can play video games but this is the Sunday post.)
Anyway, I picked up Dcu: Son of Batman
The DCU movies tend to be not as awesome as the first-run stories they are taken from, but they tend to be taken from the best first-run stories and, hey, I’ve actually got a couple of hours to rub together. (Something that didn’t happen when I needed to scrape together time to read the first run stories when I collected them.)
So… what are you reading and/or watching?
Help! Should I watch Fargo next? Revolution was next on my list, but then I heard some really good things about Fargo and that it ending well so I bumped it up to next. Then I heard about it ending poorly. So… anyone who saw the ending, which is it?Report
Well, I’m the wrong person to answer, but I’d say Fargo died as it lived: shapelessly and pointlessly.
There are worse ways to spend your time, but I still have no clear idea why the series was made.Report
I loved the series. Loved the characters. Loved the dialogue. Loved the Minnesotaness of it all. I miss it already.Report
You should probably listen to Roger, not me. Mine is a minority opinion.Report
You betcha.Report
Speaking of Fargo, I miss Coen Brothers movies. They haven’t made one in their trademark style since Burn After Reading in 2008, and the last great one was O Brother, Where Art Thou in 2000.Report
I pretty much have a mile-wide crush on Arya.Report
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I miss Coen Brothers movies. They haven’t made one in their trademark style since Burn After Reading in 2008, and the last great one was O Brother, Where Art Thou in 2000.
Their trademark style is very tightly coupled with telling a regional story.
O Brother, Fargo, obvs.
The Big Lebowski, Southern California
Raising Arizona, Southwest Rural
They’ve covered a lot of the U.S. already. Hawaii they probably can’t do without getting trite. The Northeast was “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Florida, hmmmm… maybe they’re thinking about doing a Travis movie and they’re stuck in rights negotiations. They’d make an awesome version of Pale Gray for Guilt. Be interesting to see John Goodman play Meyer.
My guess is that they’ve been vacationing a lot in somewhere that they’re thinking about doing and just haven’t gotten the vibe yet.Report
I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Miller’s Crossing was about a style of film (30’s and 40s gangster films set in the 20s), much as The Hudsucker Proxy was about Frank Capra depression-era comedies. Blood Simple was also set in the rural southwest. Though perhaps they’ll do an Alaska film; for years their next one was rumored to be The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.Report
Well, today I have a picnic for trans women, and near as I can tell from the Facebook thread it will mostly be people I have not yet met. So, yay! New friends.
Right now I am reading a metric crapton of documentation for my new job. Like, it’s HUGE!
I’m giddy with anticipation.Report
Oh, and on a strange personal note, my new job has appointed me a mentor in the Cambridge office. I have not met her, as I was in CA for my first week, but I will meet her tomorrow.
She’s a trans woman. How amazing is that!Report
I have put off Uylsses again. This time I understood the text but it is just a very very slow read. Not because it is boring, the text is stunningly amazing.
I’m reading Fragrant Harbor by John Lancaster.
I want to see Roman Polanski’s new film, Venus in Furs.Report
I also named three cats (not mine, facebook naming thing from a friend). I picked the winning combination of Porthos, Aramis, and Arthos.Report
Catching up on Game of Thrones with a friend and a bottle of Bulleit rye.Report
The alcohol will come in handy, to celebrate all of the good things happening to characters you lov-
Ah, who am I kidding.
You know, I’m starting to think Westeros is a very depressing place. And sorta violent.Report
It’s true, some of the people in Westeros are vicious, murderous SOBs. But there are Others.Report
Falling Skies returns tonight, so we’ll be watching that (not sure I’ll manage to stay awake). The Russian’s favorite show, True Blood (which I hate) also returns. He’s giddy, but sad that this will be it’s last season.
This afternoon is round two of peach preserve making for me. I’m about ready to crank up the tunes and have at it.Report
it’s been 2000 years since the Portuguese benefited that much from a savior with a cross.Report
This comment deserves some kind of recognition, so…well done.Report
I caught up on B5 and I watched the Julie Taymor Tempest (w/ Helen Mirren as Prospera) and I started watching Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (it holds up well to being stopped and started, as most faux-50s zany comedies would).
I’m reading a historical novel called The Diary of Mattie Spenser and a memoir of Vegas from the 70s. Just finished reading a memoir of mostly-but-not-only Vegas from the early 2000s, some teen girl comics, and a daffy teen mystery novel entitled Bad Kitty.Report