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annuinSo last Sunday we headed down to Jersey to hang out with Kit and Cherie, the idea was to go fruitpicking, something we'd mentioned on the 4th of July as something fun to do with a bunch. Alas due to certain fruits supposedly being out of season and the person on the phone being a hag that plan was cancelled in favour of rowing around on the water near Kit's mother's place. Kit capsized. We have photographic evidence. Much fun was had. Then a diner trip afterwards and homeward bound.
The night before that we'd watched The Affair of the Necklace, period drama about a supposedly real event that helped speed up Marie Antoinette's trip to the guillotine. Interesting concept, though I think Hilary Swank needed to pick what accent she was trying to speak with, because that was kind of all over the place. Worth seeing if only for the fact that Christopher Walken is in it as Cagliostro and Jonathan Pryce as the lecherous cardinal of all France. I wondered why the actor playing de Vilette seemed so familar until I checked on imdb.com for Simon Brown's credentials... he was in Heartbreak High (aussie youth tv show). At least period drama is a step up ;)
Friday night we watched one of the dvd's we received the other week... Hayao Miyazaki's Laputa - Castle in the Sky. Very enjoyable and pretty, but not as good as Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away in my opinion.
Saturday we presented Cherie with her new computer and fed our addiction by purchasing icies at Rita's... yummy. Then we had a late breakfast at one of Joisey's gazillion diners and headed home for a rivetting evening of cleaning our computer room, which looked as though we'd hosted the Normandy invasion with all the boxes and plastic and crap from the myriad computer parts and book/dvd shipments that have arrived in the past week or so.
Finally got my Neue Asthetik Multimedia discs & Sentimentalist magazines this week. Also much happiness due to the arrival of Caitlín R. Kiernan's Waycross which arrived the other day as well. Illustrated by the super talented Ted Naifeh... I think my only "gripe" is that there aren't more of his illustrations contained within... also the same "gripe" with the books that Dame Darcy and Richard Kirk illustrated for her as well. Subterranean really puts out the most gorgeous looking books, I'll give them that... much unlike the horribly tacky cover illustrations that Meisha Merlin often sticks on their books.
My comic order shipped a couple of days ago, so soon I'll have lots of comic goodness in the form of Gloomcookie, Nightmares and Fairytales, Courtney Crumrin, Zeet, Outlook: Grim, Lenore and How Loathsome. Yay!
The night before that we'd watched The Affair of the Necklace, period drama about a supposedly real event that helped speed up Marie Antoinette's trip to the guillotine. Interesting concept, though I think Hilary Swank needed to pick what accent she was trying to speak with, because that was kind of all over the place. Worth seeing if only for the fact that Christopher Walken is in it as Cagliostro and Jonathan Pryce as the lecherous cardinal of all France. I wondered why the actor playing de Vilette seemed so familar until I checked on imdb.com for Simon Brown's credentials... he was in Heartbreak High (aussie youth tv show). At least period drama is a step up ;)
Friday night we watched one of the dvd's we received the other week... Hayao Miyazaki's Laputa - Castle in the Sky. Very enjoyable and pretty, but not as good as Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away in my opinion.
Saturday we presented Cherie with her new computer and fed our addiction by purchasing icies at Rita's... yummy. Then we had a late breakfast at one of Joisey's gazillion diners and headed home for a rivetting evening of cleaning our computer room, which looked as though we'd hosted the Normandy invasion with all the boxes and plastic and crap from the myriad computer parts and book/dvd shipments that have arrived in the past week or so.
Finally got my Neue Asthetik Multimedia discs & Sentimentalist magazines this week. Also much happiness due to the arrival of Caitlín R. Kiernan's Waycross which arrived the other day as well. Illustrated by the super talented Ted Naifeh... I think my only "gripe" is that there aren't more of his illustrations contained within... also the same "gripe" with the books that Dame Darcy and Richard Kirk illustrated for her as well. Subterranean really puts out the most gorgeous looking books, I'll give them that... much unlike the horribly tacky cover illustrations that Meisha Merlin often sticks on their books.
My comic order shipped a couple of days ago, so soon I'll have lots of comic goodness in the form of Gloomcookie, Nightmares and Fairytales, Courtney Crumrin, Zeet, Outlook: Grim, Lenore and How Loathsome. Yay!
