Media Mayhem
In reading, I finished Anne of Windy Poplars and checked out two mysteries from the library, the next William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters, and a John Sandford. I’ve been exhasted and busy with DH’s five days off from work so the WKK hasn’t been going as fast as I would like it to, but I got to catch a bit last night while I was baking our lasagna and raspberry peach cobbler.
There has been an occassional movie viewing recently too, the most exciting of which was a trip to a matinee viewing of The Devil Wears Prada on Wednesday afternoon. It was a good movie with funny parts, some painful parts and a nice life lesson in the end. If you haven’t seen the previews, a top of the class journalist student from Northwestern interviews for an assistant position at a top fashion rag in New York City, but she is your home town midwestern girl and not into fashion and she manages to get the position. She works under the long-time editor of this rag who has the entire office under her thumbnail. Andy comes into her own in the nine months she spends at the rag and learns some valuable life lessons. Stanley Tucci was great and I enjoyed watching Simon Baker on the big screen. Meryl Streep did an amazing job playing an over demanding boss and Anne Hathaway was very believable as a naive midwestern girl new to the big city. This movie certainly doesn’t demand a big screen, but the fashions which play a huge role in this film certainly looked great on it. I would definitely recommend it as a fun fluff movie and I think most guys would tolerate it, DH liked it. There was even a group of four guys (sans women) at our showing on Wednesday.
Last week we also took in two films from the 1940’s. The first was Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House that I recorded off of TCM. It stars Carey Grant and Myrna Loy. It is a comedy about the frustrations of buying and building a home. It was almost a bit depressing to me given that we have several projects in progress on our own home that are now on hold until the financial situation improves. But it kind of made me of think of The Money Pit, but done better and not quite as over the top with the campy factor. Then late in the week we had SIL3 over before she headed to Italy for a couple of weeks of a master’s class in opera and we watched The Maltese Falcon. We own that one and I wasn’t so much in the mood for an old film that evening so I did a lot of knitting on that first Trekking sock and wandering in and out of the room. But it is a fun mystery movie.
In music, I wanted to point you to the Sources Collective’s blog. It is DH’s and he has started a podcast there as well and plans to post a new original song each week. He has started with two songs he did as part of an electronic music class he took in the late 1990’s and I’ve been consulted on the next song he’ll be releasing soon. So, go check it out, please and spread the word if you like what you hear. Oh, and all the stuff will not be electronica, the next piece he’s mixing right now is guitar. (EDIT: He is having some trouble with the RSS and some of the file access and may be doing some troubleshooting on that today, but it is my understanding that there is no trouble in listening to the files with the streaming player there on the site or to download by clicking on the MP3 graphic.)
For a more on-topic podcast that is new on the scene, check out the new Lime n Violet, a fun conversational knitting podcast from Lime and Violet of course!
