Green light, Seven Eleven
You stop in for a pack of cigarettes
You don’t smoke, don’t even want to
Hey now, check your change
Slow night. I’m a bit overwhelmed by little things, but I’m downing them one at a time (this entry really isn’t one of them, but I needed a break). It’s raining quite hard now. I wish the laundry building was closer so I could sprint over there with a load without getting soaked. I really need to do a load of laundry, and I think we all know what that means in terms of what I have that’s clean versus what’s not.
Made hummus earlier. Didn’t come out too well in the blender (a food processor works much better), and it’s a tad on the salty side, but it’s still good, and way more economical than buying those little plastic bowls at Harris Teeter. It’ll be better after I leave it in the fridge for a little bit.
Going to clean the room, take care of some finances, then watch Persuasion. I’m reading the book, so I felt like watching the movie too. Care to join me?
It’s one of my favorite movies of all time, and the book is one of Jane Austen’s most perfect. It’s lovely that there are guys out there who find these things appealing.
Here’s another book that you might enjoy: “I Capture the Castle” by Dodie Smith, who wrote “101 Dalmations”. It was out of print for a long time, but it’s back now, and wonderfully Austenish.
I’ll definitely check that out when I finish my current book… Thanks for the tip :o)
I have a well-known (or perhaps not so well-known) weakness for Austen adaptations and period pieces. Persuasion is a wonderful movie. Every time I watch it I catch a new detail or a nuance in a performance that I hadn’t before. It’s great.
I think Mansfield Park (by virture of sheer beauty) and Persuasion are tied for the top of the Austen movie adaptation list. If I have six hours or so to spare I like Pride and Prejudice, but otherwise the more economical films suit me just fine :o)
Oh, boy, I wish I agreed with you–Mansfield Park bugged me because I felt that it wasn’t a faithful adaptation. The main character just seemed too…fiesty?
When I had mono in high school, my mother checked a bunch of BBC Austen movies out from the library and I liked their version of MP. I’m also fond of the Hugh Grant/Emma Thompson version of Sense and Sensibility.
Can’t remember which P&P is my favorite. Love the book, though!
I thought that was part of the brilliance of it, though–it was semi-biographical of JA. Or maybe I just like it because I want to marry a woman with a large number of the character qualities the heroine exhibited (her intelligence, her literacy, her common sense, etc). Between that and the cinematography, that’s probably it :o) But I’m fairly sure I’ll agree with you once I read the book.
The Ang Lee-directed S&S definitely captured the grand, sweeping emotions lurking underneath the surface of the gentility, but somehow it was just too much; too sweet, too surface, too Hollywood, and not subtle and understated… Incidentally, I have the same issues with Gwyneth Paltrow’s Emma.
feisty, rather :-)
Anyway, you’re probably right about the Hollywood qualities in S&S–I’m just a sucker for the actors. Not as big a fan of the GP Emma. I’m curious to see what you’ll say when you read MP. It’s my least favorite Austen novel–and you get the sense that Austen doesn’t really like her heroine much.