That’s my Christmas gift over there, a recliner. The fact that it reclines is the least important aspect. See the way the back is recessed? The lower ridge supports my lower back, which has been causing me problems for a couple of years. When we watched movies, I spent a lot of time wriggling around to find a new comfortable position because the sofa didn’t have good back support. I tested this one out at the show room and it was perfect. We watched a movie on Saturday night and I didn’t budge the entire time. Simple pleasures.
I was awakened by a drum roll in the middle of the night. At least that’s what it sounded like. Turned out to be thunder, the opening riff in a major rainstorm that has produced at least 2″ for us and as much as 4″ in some parts of the area, along with hail and the odd tornado. And some flash flooding. Can’t complain about rain, though. Every drop we get is precious these days. But we don’t have to catch up in one day, right?
Conducted another interview on Saturday for the work in progress. This one would be considered a major “get” in TV parlance. Have to transcribe it now. Also wrote a 1000-word essay about The Wind Through the Keyhole for Cemetery Dance’s spring issue. Busy, busy. I had to turn down a couple of invitations to write articles. Until April 1 I’ll be focused on getting this manuscript finished.
I finished The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell yesterday. Haven’t started a new book yet. I’m working my way through the January issue of Locus on my iPad, the first time I’ve read the magazine digitally. I switched over my subscription from print. So far, so good.
We watched Tron: Legacy on Saturday night. I’d recorded it during a free HBO weekend last fall. A completely silly and pointless movie whose only redeeming feature was Olivia Wilde as Quorra, the isomorphic algorithm. Despite an awful hairstyle, it’s impossible not to watch her when she’s on the screen. Though it takes place inside a video game, the story could have been set in outer space without too many tweaks to the script.
We saw The End of the Affair starring Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea on Friday night. A 1999 film based on the Graham Greene novel of the same name and apparently inspired by events in his life. I didn’t find they handled the shifts in time very well. Lots of jumping back and forth without much to orient the viewer. It’s an odd film that shows a series of events from Fiennes’s character’s point of view and then again from Moore’s as a way of explaining her behavior. I wasn’t expecting the religious overtones but was fascinated by how the protagonist’s diary of hate turned out.
