2007 — 17 June: lazy Sunday...
I can see that sleep intervened before I told you what I found in Eastleigh! An exciting life, indeed?
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 by Philip Andrews, which nicely supplements the "missing manual" I already have
- Waiting for Hitler by Midge Gillies, which uses personal letters, diaries and interviews to shine a light on September 1940 and the apparently imminent invasion of the UK
- The wit and wisdom of movies by Nick Holt. Another 1,300 or so quotations, some of them previously unencountered
Not a single DVD, notice.
But, after crossing the Borders to FOPP...
Not a lot of ripping today. Too busy:
- Chasing Liberty which looks like a rom-com variant of one of the West Wing plotlines
- Dark Days tales of life in tunnels underneath New York City
- Italian for beginners an improvised Dogme production from 2000 that I'd missed
- Kundun probably worth it (at £5) for the Philip Glass score alone
- Ray Harryhausen a 2-disc collection of his earliest animation work
- Visitor Q which looks like Pasolini's Theorem in reverse, frankly
- What a girl wants should be worth seeing Colin Firth (I hope) as an aristocratic father
- Me:Moir volume one by Vic Reeves, (real name James Moir, of course)
- A spot of bother by Mark Haddon, (he of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time fame, of course)
- The Book of Prefaces by Alasdair Gray, which I've been picking up (and putting back down) ever since its original publication as an over-priced hardback in 2000. At £3, I have now finally succumbed! This has to be one of the ultimate pieces of meta-literature ever assembled
Look at this beautiful girl!
How many chaps, do you suppose, have a wife who — 33 years after it had been bought, for half a month's salary — fits into the wedding dress She had every intention of wearing at Her brother's "do" back in Easter 1974?
