Reading: The Outpost by Mike Resnick
Music: random jpop
TV/Movie: Kill Bill Vol. 2, Matrix Revolutions
Link o' the Day: Narrative Magazine

It’s been a weird few days. Not bad, necessarily, although yesterday’s bout with a mini-flu kind of threw me out-of-step. The weekend was fine. Very fine with me and Pretty Maggie. Relaxing, for the most part--but productive in other arenas as well. I did some revisions for the Bickersons bio (and now have more to do) and finished the cover and a couple of postcards for that and a volume of Bickersons scripts. I got some work done on the Spike Jones bio, and did some of my own writing as well. So all that goes well. Yesterday was a bust only because I was pretty much in bed all day breaking a minor fever.

Saturday, Pretty Maggie and I went to go ge her car tuned up. As we had a few hours to wait, we walked across the road to the multiplex theatre. Hmmm. What to see... what to see... Well, she and I don’t really have similar tastes I movies. So what did we do? She went to go see Mean Girls. I went to go see Kill Bill, Vol 2. That’s a key to a good relationship--the ability to compromise. She wouldn’t have enjoyed Kill Bill. I wouldn’t have behaved myself at Mean Girls. So we both win.

Kill Bill Vol. 2 was excellent fare. I won’t say it’s better or worse than Vol. 1, although I’d be leaning toward the former. Don’t get me wrong--I enjoyed the action of Vol. 1, but it was missing the depth and some of the Tarantinto dialogue that Vol. 2 provided. Most people preferred Vol. 1 for the action. that’s all well and good, but if Vol. 2 was the same--all action, little else, then it would not have been as good. Volume 2 complements Volume 1. And I predict David Carradine is going to see more roles in the future where he plays an intense/creepy character. (Not always a bad guy, but always dark, meguesses.)

I also saw Matrix Revolutions this weekend. _Much_ better than Reloaded. Reloaded was a waste of time and space. Revolutions had what Reloaded was missing--a halfway-decent script. Halfway-interesting plotting. Somewhat interesting characterization. Some pretty kick-ass action sequences that _weren’t_ the same, now-tired, old usual Matrix fight-fare. The only thing I could really nitpick was the ending which didn’t seem to solve very much as far as the whole humans-vs-machine city thing went.

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Hey, Carol. If you like this journal, you should check out some of the others here. There are quite a few writers of varying levels sprinkled hither and yon. Just go to http://www.journalscape.com/recent_entries.html for a list of recent entries and start sampling.

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Today’s link goes to Narrative Magazine--a fairly interesting online publication. Some pearls. Some pebbles. Worth sifting once in a while.

Cheers!