Things on the lists....
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captainsblog* Cinema.
Our Netflix queue has shrunk to near nothing, after years of being in the 20s and 30s of backlog. Some, surely, is Eleanor not adding to it as she always had been (when you're waiting three months for cataract surgery, you're not actively looking for things to watch that you can't see well), but some, also, is from the purge Netflix did around the first of the year of a lot of their titles.
One that did just come, and we enjoyed, was a back-catalog piece from Guy Ritchie titled Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. It's plenty bloody, and contains enough f-bombs to light the night sky, but it's well crafted and devilishly funny. IMDBing it also got me to add a similar film to the queue- Bob Hoskins's 1980 cinematic debut titled The Long Good Friday, also starring Helen Mirren (but not Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln).
* Podcasts.
Another place I've finally caught up in is Night Vale. Weeks of three-at-a-time listens in the car have got me to just the past two episodes, which I'll likely knock off by the time the next one releases on 15 April. It's interesting to see how the show has come since it began not quite two years ago; they're no longer as welcoming of story and music ideas as the initial episodes were, the background music no longer says it "can all be downloaded for free," and the intro and outros are more about pushing donations and the merch than about silliness. I'm wondering if there's a very tiny shark under lane five of the Desert Flower Bowling Alley and Arcade Fun Complex, just waiting to jump.
* The TV.
I got suckered in by an April Fools post on Jezebel about Netflix signing an a la Arrested Development deal to bring back Firefly. I suppose it's better to be Malrolled than Rickrolled, but still. Boo.
We have three of the original Orphan Black episodes to rewatch before next weekend's S2 premiere. I'm guessing these will go more slowly and carefully so we can remember exactly where we left off.
* Bookses.
I'm up to 15-ish read on the 2014 list (now kept here). It's "ish"-ish because I'm not officially counting a read of an unpublished one I'm editing on a ARC basis, nor a non-fiction epub I just pick at in between other library books.
And certainly, as of now, not Renowned Author Dan Brown's latest magnum opus dei. Inferno finally came off the library's 7-day list, although I could probably eat this brain candy in less than a week if I really tried. Why pain myself with it? Because some road accidents just have to be slowed down for. Admittedly, though, I couldn't get through it without a little help from my (robot) friends:
Best reaction I got to that picture was from a Facebook friend who explained, The TITLE of the book is actually INSTRUCTIONS for disposal.
I bet Tom Hanks is wishing he'd stayed in character as Walt Disney and gotten himself frozen, rather than having to face acting his way through this mess.
Our Netflix queue has shrunk to near nothing, after years of being in the 20s and 30s of backlog. Some, surely, is Eleanor not adding to it as she always had been (when you're waiting three months for cataract surgery, you're not actively looking for things to watch that you can't see well), but some, also, is from the purge Netflix did around the first of the year of a lot of their titles.
One that did just come, and we enjoyed, was a back-catalog piece from Guy Ritchie titled Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. It's plenty bloody, and contains enough f-bombs to light the night sky, but it's well crafted and devilishly funny. IMDBing it also got me to add a similar film to the queue- Bob Hoskins's 1980 cinematic debut titled The Long Good Friday, also starring Helen Mirren (but not Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln).
* Podcasts.
Another place I've finally caught up in is Night Vale. Weeks of three-at-a-time listens in the car have got me to just the past two episodes, which I'll likely knock off by the time the next one releases on 15 April. It's interesting to see how the show has come since it began not quite two years ago; they're no longer as welcoming of story and music ideas as the initial episodes were, the background music no longer says it "can all be downloaded for free," and the intro and outros are more about pushing donations and the merch than about silliness. I'm wondering if there's a very tiny shark under lane five of the Desert Flower Bowling Alley and Arcade Fun Complex, just waiting to jump.
* The TV.
I got suckered in by an April Fools post on Jezebel about Netflix signing an a la Arrested Development deal to bring back Firefly. I suppose it's better to be Malrolled than Rickrolled, but still. Boo.
We have three of the original Orphan Black episodes to rewatch before next weekend's S2 premiere. I'm guessing these will go more slowly and carefully so we can remember exactly where we left off.
* Bookses.
I'm up to 15-ish read on the 2014 list (now kept here). It's "ish"-ish because I'm not officially counting a read of an unpublished one I'm editing on a ARC basis, nor a non-fiction epub I just pick at in between other library books.
And certainly, as of now, not Renowned Author Dan Brown's latest magnum opus dei. Inferno finally came off the library's 7-day list, although I could probably eat this brain candy in less than a week if I really tried. Why pain myself with it? Because some road accidents just have to be slowed down for. Admittedly, though, I couldn't get through it without a little help from my (robot) friends:
Best reaction I got to that picture was from a Facebook friend who explained, The TITLE of the book is actually INSTRUCTIONS for disposal.
I bet Tom Hanks is wishing he'd stayed in character as Walt Disney and gotten himself frozen, rather than having to face acting his way through this mess.
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Date: 2014-04-12 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-12 10:31 pm (UTC)But okay- I'm 25 percent in after 2 days and I have the liberry copy for 3 weeks from last Thursday. You want it when I'm done? #shamelessbribetomeethebebe
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Date: 2014-04-12 11:49 pm (UTC)Said colleague has met Dan Brown. I am one degree of separation from Dan Brown. This is not nearly far enough.
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Date: 2014-04-13 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-14 06:46 pm (UTC)Some of it is, how shall I say, not quite as weird or creepy as it used to be, but it's still enjoyable, and it takes up less than an hour a month, so I think I'm in it for the long haul. And every now and then they pull off something really interesting.