Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: AWESOME, Books, Contemporary Fiction, Defunct WB, Documentaries, Editor, Middle Grade, Reality, So New It Hurts
I started this blog post last week so that I wouldn’t forget what I had watched.
Yeesh. Inspiration, man. You get it.
Any how, so I’m leaving the title. Because at the time I was halfway through, though now I’m closer to 3/4 of the way though, but whatever. I have watched a ton of shiz. Now that my sister is here, we’re rehashing Supernatural (because as I said earlier, I have a freaking problem). I won’t go too much further into it as I’ve already exhausted the topic IRL. (That’s “In Real Life” for you real life breathing people who don’t spend all day on the internet.) Just know that it is way more awesome than the screaming girls would have you believe.
I really have been putting this post off because of the World Cup. Unfortunately, as it is happening in South Africa, the games are all during the work day … so, uh, thank you streaming websites and the slightly racist Guardian live bloggers. Let’s relive the last 2 minutes of stoppage time in yesterday’s heart attack inducing game, shall we:
Goddamn chills. CHILLS. How does the rest of America not understand how exciting this game is?
So far as fictional television habits go, I stuck with the out of this world theme with my British television viewing by rewatching the first half of the e4 series: Misfits. Robert Sheehan’s got a bit of a Colin Farrell before he got clean thing going for him. It’s lovely.
It’s a gang of delinquent British kids suddenly set upon by powers. However, unlike their American counterparts, it does not devolve into a political power play between good and evil, but rather – how these kids can still dick around and fuck up even though they have these super-ish abilities. If you want a replacement for Skins, that’s just a little more surface level fun, then this is for you.
Last visual item I want to highlight is I finally got my hands on the Blur Documentary: No Distance Left to Run. It only took me three freaking months. Despite their history being quite romanticized, I can’t say that I was at all disappointed. This is already getting long, so I’ll cut this bit short, but I’d suggest this for anyone who enjoys the britpop … er… awesomely indie Blur! … yeah.
Ugh. This is long. I also deserve it for waiting so long. So words.
I finished The Kneebone Boy and that second Brixton Brothers book. The former was fun, though I wasn’t crazy about the last twenty pages or so. The latter was freaking hilarious of course, because my boyfriend wrote it. JAYKAY Y’ALL. It was just funny for being funny’s sake. I can haz jewlree?
What I really want to talk about is how I just started A Visit from the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan. Oh. My. God. I’m only about a hundred pages in or so, but my goodness.
Jennifer Egan happened to speak at the 7x20x21 panel I went to at Book Expo America. Jennifer was one of seven speakers who had 10 minutes to present a 20 slide powerpoint presentations with 21 seconds per slide. She presented a chapter of her book written entirely in powerpoint form. It was awesome. I won’t go on and on about how people who are using new mediums for literature are so intersting – that’s for my other soapbox. Instead, I’ll just say that the narrative Egan employs in this novel is one of the most unique voices I’ve read in quite some time. Despite only getting glimpses of characters, just a few short pages or maybe even paragraphs, I’m hooked one everyone.
… I almost fell down the stairs in the subway station because I just wanted to get one more page read.
Yeah, I’m awesome.
Next time: I’ll maybe mention the Knights of the Templar nonsense I highlighted in my “Read” section. Well, if it gets any better. Egh.
SUMMARY, BITCHES:
Watched: 12 episodes of supernatural, 3 eps of misfits, 7 world cup games, 6 episodes of the wire, Blur documentary (No Distance Left to Run), Toy Story 3, 1 episode of The Middle, 3 episodes of So You Think You Can Dance, 2 episodes of Party Down, 2 episodes of Arrested Development
Read: world cup live blogs, completed The Kneebone Boy, 54 pages of Knights of Templar, completed 2nd Brixton Brothers, 102 pages of A Visit from the Good Squad, Edited a few pages of a friend’s manuscript
Filed under: Time Spent | Tags: Books, Defunct WB, Editor, Middle Grade, Old School, So New It Hurts, Young Adult
I’ve had a relatively uneventful day so far – stayed up far too late reading The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud (… for work!) I can’t lie, the only thing that kept me going was the gratuitous descriptions of the main character’s body.
… Don’t look at me like that, he asked for it. What with his “deltoids visible through the thin material of his shirt” and his “trunks [hanging] low on his hips” – Ben Sherman knew exactly what he was doing.
Ahem.
Anyhow. Let’s move on.
I started the Harper manu for Fallen on my reader this morning on the train – I’m only about 15… er, 52 pages in so far (of 330 odd), but I don’t think it’s going to take me long to finish. I’m looking forward to all the fallen angel books we have coming out … Angels are the new Fairies which were supposed to be the new Vampires dontchaknow. That “we” was deliberate and royal, as in We, the Royal Publishing Companies of the Americas.
So far, I think Ellie is an angel, and Michael is an angel, but they’re enemies – BUT DON’T KNOW IT YET. Let’s see if my suspicions pan out.
Once I got home, I took a break from reading to watch two episodes of Veronica Mars with my soon to be ex-roommate. I’ve seen the awesomeness that is this series already, but I’m always ready to do a rewatch with a fresh pair of eyes. We may yet do two more eps tonight just to finish the season before this roomie (lamely) moves off to California – only time / my ability to stay awake will tell.
Now: A break from blogging to read (again for work!) The Brixton Brother^s and The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity. I am super excited.
… Mostly because my boyfriend wrote it.
An hour later, I still haven’t quite started Brixton yet – I will! Rest assured, it will be read by tomorrow. Instead, I spent a a bit of time going over a 7x20x21 post-pre-post for my friend at Happy Hour Lit.
I am a horrible, horrible liar. I read about 30 pages of Brixton Brothers – not because it isn’t good. It’s great so far, this fantastic throwback to The Hardy Boys – well, Nancy Drew for me, since those brothers Hardy didn’t do it for me unless they were working with the girl detective. So, it’s a throwback, but it is still has this lovely modern humor and a modern take on old fashioned art, thanks to the ever impressive Adam Rex.
Speaking of sleuthing and girl detectives, I did end up watching the last two episodes of Veronica Mars season 1 – the payoff’s just as good the second time around. She is definitely one of my favorite girl detectives – had a little more spunk than the early Nancy Drew. Though, ’80s Nancy Drew could maybe give Veronica a run for her money.
Okay, so a summary!
I read 82 pages of fiction.
I read / soft edited 2 pages in a Word document.
I watched 4 episodes of Veronica Mars.
I don’t think I’m going to count the amount of time I spend on blogs unless it’s got a ton of video – it just seems like too, too much. And while I need a project, I don’t need the mundane project of counting up exactly how many minutes I waste on other blogs and journals, ahem, thank you very much.
Well, it’s 12:15, so I’m out. Goodnight my future readers, goodnight.
