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Brief moments at the computer, how I love thee.
I had the opportunity to watch Wonder Boys last night; I loved Terry Crabtree and James Leer. Robert Downey Jr. has been a fascination of mine for years, and his tattered beauty was tragic and appealing, especially in contrast to the almost cherubic prettiness of T. Maguire. Though I was sure I'd seen fan fiction for the movie previously, I couldn't find any last night at 3AM while I was insomniacally (?) searching the Net. (Except of course for Sarah's "The Love Parade" which was beautifully in character and just left me wanting more.) The rest of the film left me amused, but in a cold intellectual way. I suspect it's because I instinctively distrust Douglas. See what happens when you play the President in a movie? Michael Chabon is a clever beast, all the same.
(Note to self: check out his other work from the library pronto.)
Also; Seeing Ear Theatre has Neil Gaiman stories up for streaming. I highly recommend "Murder Mysteries", which isn't his best work (not, for example, as good as Coraline), but has his trademark willingness to be romantically pragmatic about mysticism.
In completely prurient news, The Merro Tree, a novel by Kate Waitman, has some interesting gay interspecies snakeman/humanlike person sex. Wish it was more NC-17, but then it does have a cool anti-censorship message. Ironic, no?
And, parrots!
I had the opportunity to watch Wonder Boys last night; I loved Terry Crabtree and James Leer. Robert Downey Jr. has been a fascination of mine for years, and his tattered beauty was tragic and appealing, especially in contrast to the almost cherubic prettiness of T. Maguire. Though I was sure I'd seen fan fiction for the movie previously, I couldn't find any last night at 3AM while I was insomniacally (?) searching the Net. (Except of course for Sarah's "The Love Parade" which was beautifully in character and just left me wanting more.) The rest of the film left me amused, but in a cold intellectual way. I suspect it's because I instinctively distrust Douglas. See what happens when you play the President in a movie? Michael Chabon is a clever beast, all the same.
(Note to self: check out his other work from the library pronto.)
Also; Seeing Ear Theatre has Neil Gaiman stories up for streaming. I highly recommend "Murder Mysteries", which isn't his best work (not, for example, as good as Coraline), but has his trademark willingness to be romantically pragmatic about mysticism.
In completely prurient news, The Merro Tree, a novel by Kate Waitman, has some interesting gay interspecies snakeman/humanlike person sex. Wish it was more NC-17, but then it does have a cool anti-censorship message. Ironic, no?
And, parrots!