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bearshorty) wrote2010-10-23 10:49 pm
bearshorty) wrote2010-10-23 10:49 pm
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
I spent the morning reading; Saturday morning is a good time not to get out of warm comfy bed right away but just read. I want to finish Maugham’s “Theater” by the end of next week and I’m also reading Charlaine Harris’ 7th Sookie book. Every time I start a new book in the series I always wonder how a person, who creates such interesting characters, can be such a bad writer. She focuses on the mundane way too much, and she is terrible at smut. There is good smut, and I read plenty online without cringing to know it, and there is just terribly written smut that make me feel sorry for the characters. It is not even ‘this is so bad it’s good smut’, it is ‘I’m embarrassed to read this it is terrible’ smut. Thankfully, the characters are fun and I do want to know what will happen with the plot so I’m reading along at a good pace.
My parents and I went to the shopping center this afternoon since they wanted to look for decorative plate hangers and I just wanted to get out of the house. It was nice and warm today and the outside did beckon. We also stopped by at Best Buy to look at shiny things, including a towerless desktop that my father wants to buy soon. I also encountered a very rude sales guy, who was standing there chatting with another sales person, and I apparently interrupted him while he was ‘on his break’ when I wanted to ask him a question. He really didn’t have to be rude about it or stand around on the sales floor. I also stopped by at Michaels and got some more notecards and looked at some cross stitch kits.
I especially like “Mark Reads Harry Potter” reviews when he mixes passages from the book with his autobiographical story. He dealt with his father’s death, his father’s funeral and a painful break-up; and today his story was about losing faith in people and the world sometimes. He is a great autobiographical writer. I like his writing. This entry today was just so tragic, sad and beautiful. (even for people who are not into Harry Potter, his personal story here is worth a read).
“Good” A good morality tale.
This is a movie about a regular good guy who is a literature professor in 1930s Germany who joins the Nazi party for his career, previously not really agreeing with them. He wrote a novel on euthanasia which higher ups in the party embrace and that leads to promotions and little things, like joining the SS merely as an honorary figure, and his career rises. At the end of movie, visiting a concentration camp it really hits him how far his ideas and morality has been compromised. But the story is about regular people and how they get pulled into horrifying ideas and situations. Viggo Mortensen is the main character and Jason Isaacs plays his best friend, who is Jewish and finds himself in a very different situation. The main character, John, does try to help his friend at one point but it comes too late. This movie was based on C.P. Taylor’s play. I liked the movie. The acting was excellent and Aragon really carried the whole film. He was great as just this guy who has a mother, wife, mistress, friend who all want different things from him and he is a little neurotic. But pretty ordinary, quiet guy. Jason Isaacs is also wonderful. The scenes between the two men are very intense and powerful – one is losing everything he has and his friend is joining an organization responsible; the movie does raise the question of how far would you go for friendship. This is not a preachy movie, merely the movie that examines little choices in life that the big differences they can make.
My parents and I went to the shopping center this afternoon since they wanted to look for decorative plate hangers and I just wanted to get out of the house. It was nice and warm today and the outside did beckon. We also stopped by at Best Buy to look at shiny things, including a towerless desktop that my father wants to buy soon. I also encountered a very rude sales guy, who was standing there chatting with another sales person, and I apparently interrupted him while he was ‘on his break’ when I wanted to ask him a question. He really didn’t have to be rude about it or stand around on the sales floor. I also stopped by at Michaels and got some more notecards and looked at some cross stitch kits.
I especially like “Mark Reads Harry Potter” reviews when he mixes passages from the book with his autobiographical story. He dealt with his father’s death, his father’s funeral and a painful break-up; and today his story was about losing faith in people and the world sometimes. He is a great autobiographical writer. I like his writing. This entry today was just so tragic, sad and beautiful. (even for people who are not into Harry Potter, his personal story here is worth a read).
“Good” A good morality tale.
This is a movie about a regular good guy who is a literature professor in 1930s Germany who joins the Nazi party for his career, previously not really agreeing with them. He wrote a novel on euthanasia which higher ups in the party embrace and that leads to promotions and little things, like joining the SS merely as an honorary figure, and his career rises. At the end of movie, visiting a concentration camp it really hits him how far his ideas and morality has been compromised. But the story is about regular people and how they get pulled into horrifying ideas and situations. Viggo Mortensen is the main character and Jason Isaacs plays his best friend, who is Jewish and finds himself in a very different situation. The main character, John, does try to help his friend at one point but it comes too late. This movie was based on C.P. Taylor’s play. I liked the movie. The acting was excellent and Aragon really carried the whole film. He was great as just this guy who has a mother, wife, mistress, friend who all want different things from him and he is a little neurotic. But pretty ordinary, quiet guy. Jason Isaacs is also wonderful. The scenes between the two men are very intense and powerful – one is losing everything he has and his friend is joining an organization responsible; the movie does raise the question of how far would you go for friendship. This is not a preachy movie, merely the movie that examines little choices in life that the big differences they can make.