some review type thingies.
Anyways, yesterday I read Mask Market by Andrew Vachss(I'd link this, but I have a shitty dial up connection for the moment, and it's too much of a pain in the ass.) Vachss is one of my favorite novelists, and this book was a solid entry in the Burke series. Not as brilliant as Safe House or Dead and Gone, but far from False Allegations(the series low point, imho).
My one real complaint...the character of Loyal. This woman is the most annoying Burke babe since Nadine in Choice of Evil. I kepth hoping Vachss would send her to a similar fate to that so unjustly sufferred by Crystal Beth...but no such luck...though at least she presumably won't be back in the next book, thank FSM.
On another front, I now have DirectTV(Comcast can take their $40 for 60 some channels and go fuck themselves) and I've been DVRing the hell out of Turner Classic Movies.
some quick observations:
THX 1138: Apparently, people (i.e., George Lucas) used to think that consumerism would lead to everyone eventually having shaved heads, identical jumpsuits, and lots of psych meds...well, one out of three ain't bad...
Bringing Up Baby: Damn, Katherine Hepburn was hot in her day...though, personally, I think a protection order might have been a more rational response on Cary Grant's part...
The Bad News Bears: I know it was the '70's, but wouldn't someone have objected more strenously to the coach giving a bunch of 10 year olds beers to celebrate the big win?
The Magnificent Ambersons: Wow. Just fucking wow. I think that Orson Welles would have been completely justified in murdering pretty much everyone involved in butchering this film...It makes me wish that I weren't an atheist, so that I could believe that certain studio executives were burning in hell for an eternity.
F For Fake: A genius bit of mindfuckery, also from Orson Welles...I think that this(his last movie as a director), and Citizen Kane, may be his only two movies that weren't compromised in some way by either studio interference, or the chronic lack of budget he suffered on his Shakespearian movies...
Well, I'm spent.
My one real complaint...the character of Loyal. This woman is the most annoying Burke babe since Nadine in Choice of Evil. I kepth hoping Vachss would send her to a similar fate to that so unjustly sufferred by Crystal Beth...but no such luck...though at least she presumably won't be back in the next book, thank FSM.
On another front, I now have DirectTV(Comcast can take their $40 for 60 some channels and go fuck themselves) and I've been DVRing the hell out of Turner Classic Movies.
some quick observations:
THX 1138: Apparently, people (i.e., George Lucas) used to think that consumerism would lead to everyone eventually having shaved heads, identical jumpsuits, and lots of psych meds...well, one out of three ain't bad...
Bringing Up Baby: Damn, Katherine Hepburn was hot in her day...though, personally, I think a protection order might have been a more rational response on Cary Grant's part...
The Bad News Bears: I know it was the '70's, but wouldn't someone have objected more strenously to the coach giving a bunch of 10 year olds beers to celebrate the big win?
The Magnificent Ambersons: Wow. Just fucking wow. I think that Orson Welles would have been completely justified in murdering pretty much everyone involved in butchering this film...It makes me wish that I weren't an atheist, so that I could believe that certain studio executives were burning in hell for an eternity.
F For Fake: A genius bit of mindfuckery, also from Orson Welles...I think that this(his last movie as a director), and Citizen Kane, may be his only two movies that weren't compromised in some way by either studio interference, or the chronic lack of budget he suffered on his Shakespearian movies...
Well, I'm spent.
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