alternating sense of reason

[lauralh]

I watched the Behind the Scenes featurette of About a Boy, in which it is revealed that Hugh Grant actually wasn't stretching hard to play an effete playboy who hates children. I think I'm even more in love with him.

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Finished The Man in the High Castle. I read it years and years ago but didn't exactly get it. PKD's books are just so.. I don't know how to describe it. I immediately lose myself in his vivid worlds once I start reading. It's like some sort of rich dessert for the brain, except probably better for it. Still, satisfying enough that you don't want to read another one right away, but you are comforted just by knowing you can read another one any time. My one fear is that I'm going to finish his books before I'm like fifty, and then I'll just want to kill myself. Or, um, read them all again.

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Around 11am or so I sat stark up in bed and thought "HOLY SHIT, did [BP] actually sing last night?" At the time I was fairly shocked - he'd never even come out to Karaoke with us before, and I figured he would be like FS and not sing. But he doesn't give a shit about what people think (sometimes, anyway), and he sang "The Dance." Not exactly something I expected. His other song, shit, I can't even remember. He sang with Steve, I think.

Comments

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

Well as I haven't read any books that are set outside this solar system, I haven't noticed it. Besides Proxima and Alpha are binary stars, more or less, and close enough to be reasonable for invaders to come from.

[drisrael.livejournal.com]

Dick rules.

I love Dick.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I always suspected.

[drisrael.livejournal.com]

i never managed to finish Man in the High Castle, but A Scanner Darkly is one of my favorite books.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I found MitHC tricky because of what I assume is the Asian grammatical structure of parts of the book, but it's worth reading. And ASD was real good, yeah. Although it made me want to stop doing drugs for a while.

[vileinfestation.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I was going to ask you if you'd seen About A Boy -- it was on Ship TV every day practically. But, I still liked it (even if 4 straight months was a bit excessive) -- and it certainly seemed like something you'd like!