Blurred Line

Friday! That's about how I'm feeling right now. Not that it was a long week or anything, but sometimes the need for a little bit of rest and relaxation is still there anyway. So, I'm off to see Coraline tonight, and then some Valentine's Day festivities tomorrow, including a massage and a fancy meal complete with wine pairing for each course (I'm at a complete loss, by the way, as to when I became mature enough to enjoy those kind of things...it seems like only yesterday I was putting Spiderman Valentine cards into paper bags attached to people's desks). Hope everyone out there is going to have a good Valentine's Day a) doing fun stuff with their significant other, b) scoffing at how Valentine's Day is just a stupid holiday pushed on us by greeting card companies, c) scoffing at how Valentine's Day is just a stupid holiday made to make single people feel bad, d) getting blind drunk on whiskey and loneliness. I've done all four in my time. I don't think you've really lived until you have.

In other news, I finished Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and I have to say that I was pretty disappointed. I've heard nothing but good things about this book and I generally find it difficult to go wrong with a Booker winner. Oh well, I guess the day had to come sooner or later.

The plot centers around the tragic events in an Indian family during one day sometime in the 1960s. You discover pretty early on that one of the characters dies (the story is narrated from the 1990s), but Roy then makes the interesting choice of structuring the rest of the book in such a way that tries to wring every last bit of suspense out of what took place that night. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work. That said, Roy is a talented wordsmith, but, no matter how good a stylist she might be, it doesn't really translate into a quality piece of work. The main flaw for me was that she never convinced me to buy into any of her main character's actions. As for the characters that I did buy into, well, their actions just didn't seem to matter too much --they seemed there mostly for background colour. So, I have to give this one a big thumbs down.

On the Radioblog: Today I've got "One Body Breaks" by Patrick Park. This was one of those artists I discovered while trawling the 1 cent CD auctions on eBay. As it turns out, Park's become one of my favourites. This track, my favourite from his second album Everyone's In Everyone (am I wrong to say that that sounds like the title of a porn movie?), is pretty representative of his music; alt-country with a solid grounding in pop and rock.

Keywords of the day: "michael douglas movie where he goes on a rampage after losing his job and his car breaks down". You, good reader, would be thinking of Falling Down. Incidentally, it's a pretty decent movie, in my opinion. "accidentally dragged the clock to the trash bin". That's tough. I recommend this as a replacement. "godammit you have lupus". Yeah, I miss Mitch, too.


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