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Aug. 27th, 2002 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishYeah, so it's been awhile.
A couple weeks ago Emily and Adam and I watched Brazil. They didn't care much for it. I thought it was brilliant. I also thought it had an awful lot of resonance with the Gummint's current policies... an on-going war against 'terrorists', a man imprisioned (and killed) due to a bureaucratic error... creepy. Good stuff. Plus a very young Jonathan Pryce and Ian Holm, as well as a nigh-unrecognizable Ian Richardson and Robert De Niro.
Did Nova this weekend. Jobs still suck. (Old news.) We spend around $200 on books we've got no place to put. (This in addition to the $50 of books from the week before that we've got no place to put, and the 2/3 of a box of books that can't be unpacked, beause guess what?) Among these was Adam Cadre's _Ready, Okay!_, a very odd novel about high school. "The day I turned sixteen years old I had no idea that in four months nearly everyone I cared about would be dead. Unburdened by this foreknowledge, it was with a free and unclouded spirit that I went down to the DMV and failed my driving test." (Adam Cadre is best known to at least one person reading this as the author of that very odd work of interactive fiction, 9:05.) I cannot emphasize this book's brilliance enough. Cadre produces a huge cast of characters, all clearly distinct from each other (okay, so by the end April Young and Kelly Kaylin feel sort of indistinguishable), and makes you feel like you know most of them--these aren't _Catch-22_'s soldiers with one or two distinguishing characteristics, these are real people. Cadre very carefully builds them up until he's certain you care about them. And then they start dying.
The trailer for Ecks vs Sever is up. The guy doing the voice-over at the beginning, who's visible for the line "You could give a head of state a heart attack," is Miguel Sandoval, best known for speaking very good English as Mr Escobar in _Get Shorty_. Yeah. Creepy. No accent, no mustache, but it's the same guy. Unreal.
A couple weeks ago Emily and Adam and I watched Brazil. They didn't care much for it. I thought it was brilliant. I also thought it had an awful lot of resonance with the Gummint's current policies... an on-going war against 'terrorists', a man imprisioned (and killed) due to a bureaucratic error... creepy. Good stuff. Plus a very young Jonathan Pryce and Ian Holm, as well as a nigh-unrecognizable Ian Richardson and Robert De Niro.
Did Nova this weekend. Jobs still suck. (Old news.) We spend around $200 on books we've got no place to put. (This in addition to the $50 of books from the week before that we've got no place to put, and the 2/3 of a box of books that can't be unpacked, beause guess what?) Among these was Adam Cadre's _Ready, Okay!_, a very odd novel about high school. "The day I turned sixteen years old I had no idea that in four months nearly everyone I cared about would be dead. Unburdened by this foreknowledge, it was with a free and unclouded spirit that I went down to the DMV and failed my driving test." (Adam Cadre is best known to at least one person reading this as the author of that very odd work of interactive fiction, 9:05.) I cannot emphasize this book's brilliance enough. Cadre produces a huge cast of characters, all clearly distinct from each other (okay, so by the end April Young and Kelly Kaylin feel sort of indistinguishable), and makes you feel like you know most of them--these aren't _Catch-22_'s soldiers with one or two distinguishing characteristics, these are real people. Cadre very carefully builds them up until he's certain you care about them. And then they start dying.
The trailer for Ecks vs Sever is up. The guy doing the voice-over at the beginning, who's visible for the line "You could give a head of state a heart attack," is Miguel Sandoval, best known for speaking very good English as Mr Escobar in _Get Shorty_. Yeah. Creepy. No accent, no mustache, but it's the same guy. Unreal.