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Hot Town, Summer in the City
May. 24th, 2005 10:39 amIt's not even June and temps have been in the upper 90's here. That is really bloody hot. But it gives me an excuse to wear pretty dresses, so everything works out okay.
I have a confession to make. Despite my love of genre, I find Las Vegas to be such a guilty pleasure. Largely because it just brings the pretty. Josh Duchamel may look a little vacant, but damn is he pretty, and I still find James Caan to be so very charming. The show is total candy, and I get annoyed with the jiggling, but well, it's on Monday nights when I get home and M. watches it and I never, ever tell him to turn it off:) I think part of the appeal is the fine, upstanding young men in well cut suits. I have mentioned my lust for this before, and I feel that it's as good a justification as any. And last night, Gladys Knight and the Pips were on and they sang Midnight Train to Georgia which is my mom's favorite song, and a favorite of mine as well, so it was all good.
The radio has been killing me the last few days. For those fellow Classics/Odyssey geeks, this commentary by Kevin Kling was a brilliant use of the original source material. Softball Diamond Produces More Than A Game. I love his commentaries because he is so very much from Minnesota, has such an accent going on and his stories have the sort of mixed up humor, and aw shucks smart that characterizes good regional reflection. And really, listen to this for the refs:) It's brilliantly done.
On This American Life, there was a story, Didn't Ask to Be Born about this mother and her two daughters and how their relationship completely falls apart and how the girls run away. It's absolutely heartbreaking, and done in this very unsentimental style, just these voices, these overlapping accounts of what happened, and where they are now, who they are to each other now.
I'm an inveterate sucker for stories about families and family reunions, families reunited and divided and discovery each other.
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rubberneck and I just hit a point in Project #2 that fits so perfectly with our aim. I read her volley, and it was absolutely right, brought all the dangling threads together, made me teary and happy and awed and even set us up for another project far in the future:) I love the element of risk involved in the collaboration, the way the communication changes, when it's fun and a challenge to take a thread and play with it, and when it's necessary to say, "I don't know what you're trying to do, so feed it out more, give me enough rope so I can take it up again." It's been such a lovely thing. And I'm so awed by her talent and her clarity, the way she effortlessly layers in details, taking what was exposition heavy from me, and leaching it of the excess, delicately slipping in an important detail, making me giggle with where that detail is going to take us next.
I have a confession to make. Despite my love of genre, I find Las Vegas to be such a guilty pleasure. Largely because it just brings the pretty. Josh Duchamel may look a little vacant, but damn is he pretty, and I still find James Caan to be so very charming. The show is total candy, and I get annoyed with the jiggling, but well, it's on Monday nights when I get home and M. watches it and I never, ever tell him to turn it off:) I think part of the appeal is the fine, upstanding young men in well cut suits. I have mentioned my lust for this before, and I feel that it's as good a justification as any. And last night, Gladys Knight and the Pips were on and they sang Midnight Train to Georgia which is my mom's favorite song, and a favorite of mine as well, so it was all good.
The radio has been killing me the last few days. For those fellow Classics/Odyssey geeks, this commentary by Kevin Kling was a brilliant use of the original source material. Softball Diamond Produces More Than A Game. I love his commentaries because he is so very much from Minnesota, has such an accent going on and his stories have the sort of mixed up humor, and aw shucks smart that characterizes good regional reflection. And really, listen to this for the refs:) It's brilliantly done.
On This American Life, there was a story, Didn't Ask to Be Born about this mother and her two daughters and how their relationship completely falls apart and how the girls run away. It's absolutely heartbreaking, and done in this very unsentimental style, just these voices, these overlapping accounts of what happened, and where they are now, who they are to each other now.
I'm an inveterate sucker for stories about families and family reunions, families reunited and divided and discovery each other.
And
rubberneck and I just hit a point in Project #2 that fits so perfectly with our aim. I read her volley, and it was absolutely right, brought all the dangling threads together, made me teary and happy and awed and even set us up for another project far in the future:) I love the element of risk involved in the collaboration, the way the communication changes, when it's fun and a challenge to take a thread and play with it, and when it's necessary to say, "I don't know what you're trying to do, so feed it out more, give me enough rope so I can take it up again." It's been such a lovely thing. And I'm so awed by her talent and her clarity, the way she effortlessly layers in details, taking what was exposition heavy from me, and leaching it of the excess, delicately slipping in an important detail, making me giggle with where that detail is going to take us next.
