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Weekend Doings
Nov. 14th, 2004 05:17 pmA spectacularly inactive weekend draws to a close...
I finished The Eyre Affair yesterday. I was a little concerned that my not having read Jane Eyre might hamper my appreciation, and for all I know it did, but I still enjoyed it. I haven't decided whether the names were meaningless filigree or had deeper significance. (The one that's making me suspicious is Braxton Hicks. Is it supposed to suggest that his labor is somehow false?) I've just started in on Sewer, Gas and Electric; four pages in, it already looks good.
The "Living Years" CD turned out to be cracked. I went over to Target to assuage my frustration. Yeah, yeah, I know, but it's close by, and they do have at least some selection of music and film. The pickings were slim, but I did buy a couple of CDs - Elton John and Dolly Parton - and DVDs of Master and Commander, Saving Private Ryan, and The Manchurian Candidate (1962, of course).
I've started watching the Gilmore Girls DVDs. It's always interesting to watch the first episodes of a series from a four-years-later vantage point. Emily looked positively dowdy in the first episode, unlike her later elegance. We actually got to see Luke clean-shaven and dressed in something other than flannels and a baseball cap; that didn't happen again until season four, if I recall correctly. And I have to say I'm glad they dropped Sookie's clumsiness schtick so quickly; it was funny, yes, but too slapsticky. (GG's humor tends to play on eccentricity, which is at least a small step up...) I haven't gotten to any of the good early episodes yet, but "The Deer Hunters" is next up.
I finished The Eyre Affair yesterday. I was a little concerned that my not having read Jane Eyre might hamper my appreciation, and for all I know it did, but I still enjoyed it. I haven't decided whether the names were meaningless filigree or had deeper significance. (The one that's making me suspicious is Braxton Hicks. Is it supposed to suggest that his labor is somehow false?) I've just started in on Sewer, Gas and Electric; four pages in, it already looks good.
The "Living Years" CD turned out to be cracked. I went over to Target to assuage my frustration. Yeah, yeah, I know, but it's close by, and they do have at least some selection of music and film. The pickings were slim, but I did buy a couple of CDs - Elton John and Dolly Parton - and DVDs of Master and Commander, Saving Private Ryan, and The Manchurian Candidate (1962, of course).
I've started watching the Gilmore Girls DVDs. It's always interesting to watch the first episodes of a series from a four-years-later vantage point. Emily looked positively dowdy in the first episode, unlike her later elegance. We actually got to see Luke clean-shaven and dressed in something other than flannels and a baseball cap; that didn't happen again until season four, if I recall correctly. And I have to say I'm glad they dropped Sookie's clumsiness schtick so quickly; it was funny, yes, but too slapsticky. (GG's humor tends to play on eccentricity, which is at least a small step up...) I haven't gotten to any of the good early episodes yet, but "The Deer Hunters" is next up.
