I...am...alive!
May. 3rd, 2004 08:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nigeltdeI have been gone for a long time. I have been reading, mostly, and also doing essays and watching movies. I read The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay, by Michael "Wonder Boys" Chabon, and it was very, very good and sort of about comics and the people who write them and the people who use them to escape in umpteen ways. I also read Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault, which I only just got to because when I read The Persian Boy I didn't realise that there was a prequen and sequel. I did like PB better but it was nice to see the beginning of his relationships with Hephaistion and, of course, Beucephalus, that wonderful, iconic moment, and to hear more about Olympias and Aristotle. I watched Master and Commander on DVD a whole bunch of times because now that I've read half the books I can just sit back and wallow in these characters and how funny and sweet they are, even if they're not really the same (who is this jolly man Davies?). And also perv on Mssrs Crowe and Bettany and Tom Pullings and the Surprise and all those beautiful seascapes. I also watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid again. Is there any better threesome than Butch, Etta and Sundance? I didn't think so. Everyone in this movie is so perfect and hilarious and pretty (and gay)
I saw the preview for King Arthur. It looks quite shitty, really, but I am not getting over Keira Knightley in that get up any time soon. I mean, seriously. That is a Guinevere I can, heh, get behind. Ioan Gruffudd looks so funny with a beard.
Oz is on tonight, SBS, 10pm, starting right from the beginning. I cracked up when I saw it in the TV guide. I had sort of taken it for granted that we'd never get it here. I look forward to revelling in Ryan O'Reily's atrocious sideburns again.
ETA: I have also been dropping subjects. I now no longer rank amongst those illustrious worthies, the Full Time Students but am, according to Centrelink, a Job Seeker, for the next six weeks until the semester ends, left with nothing left but a $60 textbook and that song from Grease, "Political Economy of the 'Global Villiage' School Dropout", echoing in my head.
I saw the preview for King Arthur. It looks quite shitty, really, but I am not getting over Keira Knightley in that get up any time soon. I mean, seriously. That is a Guinevere I can, heh, get behind. Ioan Gruffudd looks so funny with a beard.
Oz is on tonight, SBS, 10pm, starting right from the beginning. I cracked up when I saw it in the TV guide. I had sort of taken it for granted that we'd never get it here. I look forward to revelling in Ryan O'Reily's atrocious sideburns again.
ETA: I have also been dropping subjects. I now no longer rank amongst those illustrious worthies, the Full Time Students but am, according to Centrelink, a Job Seeker, for the next six weeks until the semester ends, left with nothing left but a $60 textbook and that song from Grease, "Political Economy of the 'Global Villiage' School Dropout", echoing in my head.
