Big Screen: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

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So one day someone said to themselves, “Hey! I think I’ll take this little, charming, fun, engaging book (that in many ways is about female friendship)…and I’ll throw in a little World War II (and transfer the American depression onto London) and turn it into a moody, dramatic, cat-fight-full film! It’s just not good enough the way it is!” Seriously bad idea.

Some good acting but in a convoluted messed up plot created solely because… because the book was too lighthearted? Because movie producers are idiots?

Read the book, skip the movie.

Hilarity of the Afternoon.

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I just found a half-eaten cookie wrapped in plastic remnants in one of the outside pockets of my purse. That I bought (and then ate half of) in Japan. In March. Sweet. Dessert’s on me tonight, ladies. Mwah ha ha ha ha.

Lyrics of the Afternoon

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Not only does it have an awesome beeboppy ’60s feelin’ to it, but also there are a LOT of good lines in The Magnetic Fields “Too Drunk to Dream” (from Distortion, a pretty kickin’ album that sonically certainly lives up to its name) but here are three of my faves:

I’ve got to get too drunk to dream because I only dream of you.
I’ve got to get too pissed to miss you or I’ll never get to sleep.
I’ve got to get too fried to cry or I’ll be crying all night long.

Mmmm, making me thirsty.

À la Super Eggplant, currently, I am…

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Eating: Loads of crap-ass horrible-for-you but oh-so-good-tasting food.

Making: Not a motherfucking thing.

Reading: Finishing up “Slam” by Nick Hornby so I can move on to the May challenge book before Dad gets too far ahead of me!!! (Finished April in the nick of time but haven’t written it up yet.)

Watching: This week’s episodes of: Bros & Sis (middling); Bones (eh, stupid babies); Gossip Girl (hmm OK); How I Met Your Mother (awesome); CSI NY (lame); CSI (awesome); Lost (motherfucking awesomely awesome!!!!!!!!!!!); The Office (pretty good); 30 Rock (eh); Grey’s (sucked ass). Did I watch anything else this week? I just can’t remember.

Listening: New albums from The Weepies (yes!); Madonna (some!); Fleet Foxes (LOVE!); and lots of other stuff (check several recent Tunes posts).

Cover of the Day…and Some Other Recommendations

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“I Should Have Known Better” – She & Him (Zoey Deschanel & M. Ward)
Beatles done alt-country style. Sweet. Zoey D = the next June Carter Cash?
Other singles (but not covers) I’m diggin’:

  • “She Loves Everybody” Chester French
  • “Tick of Time” The Kooks
  • “Roadway Hymn” La Rocca
  • “Heart of Mine” Peter Salett*

*So I’ve been rewatching Keeping the Faith lately. So what. You SHOULD be too.

À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for April.

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Bought:

  • A Plea for Eros, by Siri Hustvedt
  • Belong to Me, by Marisa de los Santos
  • The Philosopher’s Apprentice by James Morrow
  • Seven Notebooks, by Campbell McGrath (poetry)
  • Fade Away, by Harlan Coben
  • Back Spin, by Harlan Coben
  • The Last Kashmiri Rose, by Barbara Cleverly
  • The Devil of Nanking, by Mo Hayder

Read:
  • The Watchman, a Joe Pike novel, by Robert Crais
  • Drop Shot, by Harlan Coben
  • Belong to Me, by Marisa de los Santos
  • The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff
  • Fade Away, by Harlan Coben
  • The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch
  • Back Spin, by Harlan Coben

Still in preparation for nuclear war.

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You know, when I am stuck in my apartment, which was magically protected from the fallout, and have nothing to do but watch DVDs? (Otherwise known as continuing to pad the catalog with backlog as I have been doing.)

Today’s Amazon delivery features:

  • Aliens Quadrilogy (Alien, Aliens, Alien3, Alien Resurrection)
  • American History X (had Ed Norton on the mind)
  • The Fifth Element (as I’ve been telling people, I like watching this as a double feature with 12 Monkeys)
  • Memento
  • Primary Fear
  • Seven (apparently I am feeling the need to be creeped out)
  • 25th Hour (see, there he [EN] is again)

Too bad I’m out of town this weekend…

Is Joe Purdy the new Ryan Adams?

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Is it my imagination or does he put out three albums a year, minimum?

Anyhoooooo, if you’ve seen the latest KIA commercials, you’ve heard his latest single “Can’t Get It Right Today” off his new(est) album “You Can Tell Georgia”, much of which I am enjoying. It’s not a new direction or anything, but it doesn’t need to be.

Dude sings pretty. What else do you need to know? 🙂

and p.s. he made me his friend on Facebook out of the blue (I mean, I hadn’t friended him or anything because, you know, I’m not all that stalker-y as I might sometimes seem). I expect soon we will be meeting for coffee, exchanging CDs, and staying up late watching BSG together. Oh wait, that’s not how “friend”ing on Facebook works, is it. Dang.