Month: August 2012

Blah

This whole week has been…I don’t want to say bad, because it hasn’t even risen to that. This week has been pretty much nothing at all, like a placeholder more than anything else, a week in which, quite honestly, the most I accomplished was finishing listening to an audiobook. This week was almost comical in its levels of blah, and I’m really glad to be done with it.

Random 10 8-10-12

Almost all the lyrics were guessed last week. What about this one?

  1. “Monkey Man” by the Rolling Stones, guessed by Occupant
    I could use a lemon squeezer
  2. “San Francisco” by Jill Sobule
    She’ll throw a Frisbee
  3. “Good Enough” by Sarah McLachlan, guessed by Clayton
    You deserve so much more than this
  4. “Peaceful Easy Feeling” by the Eagles, guessed by Occupant
    But this voice keeps whispering in my other ear
  5. “America” by the Indelicates
    I’ve flirted with her mewling gods and petty jealousies
  6. “Brown-Eyed Woman” by the Grateful Dead
    Delilah Jones went to meet her god
  7. “People Got a Lot of Nerve” by Neko Case
    So the saying says, “An elephant never forgets”
  8. “Too Much” by Elvis Presley, guessed by Clayton
    I’m such a fool for your charms
  9. “Down to the River to Pray” by Alison Krauss, guessed by Occupant
    And who shall wear the starry crown?
  10. “Mystery Dance” by Elvis Costello
    Juliet was waiting with a safety net

Good luck!

Pennywise lives

I don’t know what it is about this week. Maybe it knows that next week, and even the week after, are going to be considerably busier and it’s over-compensating. But oh man has there ever been nothing to write about this week.

I finished listening to It finally this afternoon. As I said here, it’s not a perfect book — it’s too big, in length and subject both, for anything like that — and it maybe is a little too long in places. Also, some of the characters — okay, Beverly mostly — get a little short-changed if not outright abused.

(There is, however, a nice moment nearer to the end when King takes what seems to have been his forgetting a character for several long chapters, and in fact maybe even confusing him with another character, and turns that into a feature. That the characters are interchangeable actually becomes somewhat important to the plot, and it’s a moment when you can maybe see the craft of the writing at work: King turning a first-draft mistake into an asset. Of course, it’s possible I’m just imagining that, and he had the whole thing planned out from page one. But, having read enough of King’s thoughts about writing, I don’t think that’s the way he works.)

Anyway, I really did enjoy revisiting it. I thought Steven Weber did a really excellent job reading the book, and the parts I hadn’t remembered well — I read it when I was a teenager — were some of the best parts.