It is still Monday isn't it? For another hour, anyway.
Jim and I wrapped up watching the Tom Petty documentary. The first 2 hours are great: small town rock band makes good, gets the record contract, gets lots of radio play, makes some real money. The second 2 hours are just good: they make more good music, are on the road a lot, kick out drummer Stan Lynch, lose Howie Epstein to heroin, make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and outlast most bands that started when they did. All in all, a very worthwhile film for any Petty fan.
Also saw Elizabeth: The Golden Age last night. It's okay. Pretty slow. A couple of spots were actually funny, and I'm pretty sure they weren't meant to be. We get a long shot of a serious-faced Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owens) staring meaningfully out at the sea and a longer shot of a billowy nightgown-wearing queen (Cate Blanchett) at the edge of a cliff looking out to the battle at sea. A little overdone. Then there's the shot that made me laugh out loud; a sailor has been seriously wounded by canonfire or shrapnel, and we see him wandering the deck of his ship moaning. Suddenly, another canonball comes out of nowhere and tears him down flat. As I write this, it doesn't look a bit funny in words, but I was surprised by this Bugs Bunny moment enough to guffaw in the theater. (Anyone who snickered when people were pinging off the smokestacks while falling from the vertical Titanic in Cameron's movie will understand me here.) Masterpiece Theatre's Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen still stands firmly in the number one spot for Queen Bess films in my mind.
One reader's thoughts as she steps from book to book.
Books I've Finished
- "A Christmas Memory"
- by Truman Capote 12/8/12
- "Child's Christmas in Wales"
- by Dylan Thomas 12/7/12
- "One Christmas"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- "The Thanksgiving Visitor"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- Inside Mrs. B's Classroom
- by Leslie Baldacci 11/28/12
- The Bee Eater
- by Richard Whitmire 11/15/12
- There Are No Shortcuts
- by Rafe Esquith 10/28/12
- I'd Like to Apologize to
- Every Teacher I Ever Had
- by Tony Danza 10/21/12
- Corked
- by Kathryn Borel 10/15/12
- Year of Learning Dangerously
- by Quinn Cummings 9/30/12
- A Hologram for the King
- by Dave Eggers 8/23/12
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- by Harper Lee 7/18/12
About Me
- Christine
- I often have a few books with bookmarks in them at once. I enjoy classics more than contemporary works of fiction, often read historical fiction, and love to get glimpses into other people's lives by reading memoirs and biographies.
7 comments:
Promised Christine I would mention this...
The Sundance Channel is currently showing the Tom Petty doc. It looks to be on Thursday @ 5AM and Saturday @ 5 PM. I Tivoed the premiere showing on Monday night and can't hardly wait (bonus points for IDing the music reference) to watch. So if you, like me, get WAAAAY too many cable channels, check out Comcast #505 for the skinny on Petty.
saw Dan in Real Life yesterday as i love The Office. was ok, hollywoodized and predictable. had some sweet, funny and sad things, guy -gets-the-girl ending. not great, no mountain moving, ephinantic moments (no made up words) but not a complete waste of time. if you like the basic romantic comedy that doesn't provoke much thought, you'll love this one.
Oh, I don't think I ever wrote here that I saw Once. It was everything I hoped it would be. It's a lovely film where we see a friendship develop and songs being writtten and reworked. The icing on the cake is that songs are actually ones you want to hear again.
absolutely! glad you finally got to see it and liked it as much as you hoped.
Don, as far as Petty goes, the waiting is the hardest part. And, unless you're him, you don't know how it feels.
As long as I don't have to live like a refugee (..don't have to live like a refugee)
Don and C, when you two get blabbing, you're like a runaway train...
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