Thoughts

One: If Shelley has finished reading The Stone Diaries she might enjoy following all of these ongoing ramblings about the book on this blog.

Two: I have started a project about a guy living in 1905, but I have moved it to another site. Cathy thinks I should leave Man of Errors purely to bicker/banter with Richard. Even though I continue to resentfully contradict my wife I have learned through prolonged humiliation that she is in fact always right. I’m not sure why this is but it appears to be an immutable law.

I am making up the 1905 story as I go along, but I feel that the main character might have a story to tell. I’m doing it because:
1) I’m odd
2) I want to read books from a different time (about 1880 to 1905)
3) I think the past is an odd place and I want to visit it for a prolonged time.
I intend to do this blog for a year.

Three: I read in the Listener a TV reviewer commenting that there used to be loads of shows on telly that were courtroom dramas, but most of these have now been replaced by forensic shows. This is true. I wondered why. Is it because people crave scientific proof of guilt, and became frustrated by the doubt and nuance of a courtroom debate? I probably thought this because I have been watching Criminal Justice which is fantastic, but have never watched more than one episode of all the crime porn shows that give loving close-ups of brain matter spattered on walls.

Four: Has Richard ever seen Sweet and Lowdown? It’s a film by Woody Allen about a fictional jazz guitarist. It’s funny and sweet and quite sad and has a lot of Django music in it. I saw it along time ago and watched it again today. Aside from the fact that Sean Penn does a very bad impression of playing the guitar, it’s a really good movie. Samantha Morton is in it. I think New Zealanders are supposed to dislike her because she was “difficult” in River Queen. Having seen River Queen I think she may have been right to try and change it, because that really is a shit movie.

Five: We’re going away for a few days. Back on Monday.