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[lookingland]

i watched kubrick's Barry Lyndon this weekend.

it was pretty to look at (fabulous costumes).

it was long.

that about sums it up.



the aquaria-like quality of this film makes it
pleasantly fascinating and mind-numbingly boring
depending on your state of mind
~ * ~

i'm on page 91 (of 3,000) of The Baroque Cycle. i like it, though it does tend to go on a bit much. the writing is good enough that i haven't gotten bored with it, though i am beginning to get a wee fussy for the plot to move forward (after 91 pages, i think i have been patient enough).

~ * ~

i'm hosting Thanksgiving dinner, turns out, which has me excited and distracted (and all-over-tired too).

i finished NaNo on monday. did i already mention this? whatever.

i feel pestered lately and cannot shake the feeling. prolly because there are so many things need doing and they're not getting done. (the usual).

and that's pretty much all there is to report. tomorrow is a long day of dentistry and errands and house cleaning. relatives visiting this weekend, so i may be signing off from posting for a while, but i'll try to continue reading along!

happy holidays to my american f-listers!

: D



for all the gifts and blessings of the year,
may we all be truly thankful!

Comments

barry

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

the theme of barry lyndon is somehow about
my all time favorite music or anyway of its
kind...othewise of its kind what? perhaps
the death march of seigfried? but the presence
of pipes and drums, the sad and the gay etc

Re: barry

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

it's the death march of something, indeed.

a lot of paint on the canvas, but nothing in the picture really worth keeping your attention.

i tried very hard to like it.

: o p

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

did you like the great gatsby...?
free associating but for me the film
had somewhat similar appeal although
apart from that to me profoundly
resonant music no the movie was not
a favorite.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i liked Gatsby even less (i can hardly bear to call it "great") because the palette was not to my taste (so, sans any appeal in the story as well as nothing to look at ~ puts it doubly on my bore-o-rama list).

i agree (otherwise) that the music in Barry Lyndon was, at least, rather evocative.

dunno ~ both equally strike me as big misses.

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

well they are, the fitzgerald and
the thackery stories to begin with,
perhaps stories of similar sort
of men ...
"the green light at the end of the pier"

perhaps because I was brought up without
the money that many around us had, I
came to ...not 'class envy'...but some
stirring to these tragedies of poor
boys who tried to find a home in the
world of bright surfaces they saw...

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

not being a fan of thackery or fitzgerald myself, i can see where therein lies part of the problem.

i can also see your point, but perhaps from my angle, i have a hard time empathizing with characters who squander their gifts and blessings. while part of me wants to draw some moral epilogue from these tales, another part of me just feels the lives were ultimately wasted: devoid of anything greater than the cheap glow of ambition/decadence.

at any rate: worth a ponder. or two.

: D

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

I guess if one wished to see something
in these characters it would be in
seeing something noble in their ambition--
what one might say distinguishes ambition
and quest? and is the desire to be at
home in the world of brightness and lights
ignoble or decadant? perhaps it is a quest
pitched too low and mistaking the lower
for the higher...
the green light at the end of the pier
but are higher quests free from tragic
end...Captain Ahab's ship destroyed...
and if that is flawed...what of all the
others who were strangers and pilgrims on
the earth...
"some wandered in the desert seeking a
city they could dwell in (Psalms)..."
"People who say such things confess
that they seek a city..."
but many died in the desert and in the
wilderness ...
we do not see the ends of things...

anyway this is how it seems to me.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i like that vantage ~ i tend to ask a story to clue me in on the end. the tragedy of the fall is one thing, but i like to know that it's a felix culpa, personally.

because i want to know that's what the author was hopeful for perhaps?

in fact, it may be for the author who would write such a story (rather than the character) that i find myself the most concerned.

[smurfb1ue.livejournal.com]

Congrats on finishing NaNo. On to the next!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thanks ~ ! and i'm definitely looking forward to moving forward!

yay ~ !

hope the writing is going well for you!

: D

[smurfb1ue.livejournal.com]

I'm at 51000 and finished. It's not pretty, but it's done.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

whoohoo ~ !

time to rest and celebrate (and plan the impending cosmetic verbal onslaught) ~

: D

[geckobird.livejournal.com]

Congrats on NaNo!

Happy Thanksgiving! Lots of things to be thankful for?

Take care and take it easy this lovely holiday!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thank you ~ !

i do and i did ~ i hope yours was full of blessings as well.

: D