Lots of reviews and whatnot to get to, so let's finish start... why did I type that? I'm super tured. Tired. Instead of sleeping all day I went out and did stuff, renewed my drivers licence and health card, and (an unexpected turn) hung out with a buddy and and read over his script for a short action film. We spent three hours discussing it, it was pretty fun, but I was originally planning on watching Community on my night off... I missed it again! I suck!
I think the next time I get interviewed for something and I'm asked about my greatest weakness I may say "my unsophisticated palette." I visited Tim Hortons (that in itself a rare move for me) for a sandwich and wildberry smoothie, I was asked if the smoothie was too sweet.
Me: "Uh, it's not too sweet."
Tim Hortons worker: "It's actually more sour."
THAT'S what that flavour is! Sour! Eventually I'll learn what flavours taste like.
Also, the hole in my pocket has finally gotten large enough for my cell phone to slip through and slide down my leg to the ground. A really weird feeling, caught me by surprise.
Alright, so what have I finished reading over here?
There's volume two of Grant Morrison's Invisibles series- I'm wondering about the origins of the punk movement in Britain, it's so prevalent in the series. I may have actual opinions on this... but again. Tured.
And besides, this book caught me by surprise a bit.
What I've actually got on deck is "Ernest Hemingway On Writing", "The Torrents of Spring" and "The Invisible Detective".
I had to be careful with this one- instead of some kind of essay format it's actually a collection of quotations either from personal letters or relevant story excerpts. What's to stop me from pulling a bajillion quotes out of the book and spending forever on that? Nothing but my firm will.
So here's a bunch of quotes:
In response to the question from the inspiration for Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises "But why did you make me cry all the time?"
I said, "Listen, if that is you then the narrator must be me. Do you think that I had my prick shot off or that if you and I had ever had a fight I would not have knocked the shit out of you? We boxed often enough so you know that. And I'll tell you a secret: you do cry an awful lot for a man." - Selected Letters, p. 764
"As a man you know who is right and who is wrong. You have to make decisions and enforce them. As a writer you should not judge. You should understand... Always think of people." - By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, p. 219-220
And yeah, I'll do the whole long run of this quote, it's pretty awesome, you start to forget he's talking about writing, instead of actually just beating up other writers:
"Hope this doesn't sound over confident. Am a man without any ambition, except to be champion of the world, I wouldn't fight Dr. Tolstoi in a 20 round bout because I know he would knock my ears off. The Dr. had terrific wind and could go on forever and then some. But I would take him on for six and he would never hit me and would knock the shit out of him and maybe knock him out. He is easy to hit. But boy how HE can hit. If I can live up to 60 I can beat him. (MAYBE)'
'For your information I started out trying to beat dead writers that I knew how good they were. (Excuse vernacular) I tried for Mr. Turgenieff first and it wasn't too hard. Tried for Mr. Maupassant (won't concede him the de) and it took four of the best stories to beat him. He's beaten and if he was around he would know it. Then I tried for another guy (am getting embarrassed or embare-assed now from bragging; or stateing) and I think I fought a draw with him. This other dead character.'
'Mr. Henry James I would just thumb him once like the first time he grabbed and then hit him once where he had no balls and ask the referee to stop it.'
'There are some guys nobody could ever beat like Mr. Shakespeare (The Champion) and Mr. Anonymous. But would be glad any time, if in training, to go twenty with Mr. Cervantes in his own home town (Alcala de Henares) and beat the shit out of him. Although Mr. C. very smart and would be learning all the time and would probably beat you in a return match. The THIRD fight people would pay to see...'
'In the big book I hope to take Mr. Melville and Mr. Doestoevsky, they are coupled as a stable entry, and throw lots of mud in their faces because the track isn't fast. But you can only run so many of those kind of races. They take it out of you.'
'Know this sounds like bragging but Jeezoo Chrise you have to have confidence to be a champion and that is the only thing I ever wished to be." - Selected Letters, p. 673
Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have used the whole thing, but pretty awesome, right?
The Torrents of Spring is interesting as it's Hemingway imitating the style of Henry Fielding, a comedic, fourth wall breaking style that I greatly enjoyed under Fielding via "Tom Jones", and I'm surprised with how well Hemingway pulls it off. Apparently he's got mimicry skills, who knew?
Lastly is the Invisible Detective by Justin Richards. I was given the book a few years ago, but never got around to it. I'm not quite finished it yet, but it turns out to be more of a kids book that isn't particularly well written. HOWEVER I think the cover image is amazing, so I'll leave you with that.
I think the next time I get interviewed for something and I'm asked about my greatest weakness I may say "my unsophisticated palette." I visited Tim Hortons (that in itself a rare move for me) for a sandwich and wildberry smoothie, I was asked if the smoothie was too sweet.
Me: "Uh, it's not too sweet."
Tim Hortons worker: "It's actually more sour."
THAT'S what that flavour is! Sour! Eventually I'll learn what flavours taste like.
Also, the hole in my pocket has finally gotten large enough for my cell phone to slip through and slide down my leg to the ground. A really weird feeling, caught me by surprise.
Alright, so what have I finished reading over here?
There's volume two of Grant Morrison's Invisibles series- I'm wondering about the origins of the punk movement in Britain, it's so prevalent in the series. I may have actual opinions on this... but again. Tured.
And besides, this book caught me by surprise a bit.
What I've actually got on deck is "Ernest Hemingway On Writing", "The Torrents of Spring" and "The Invisible Detective".
I had to be careful with this one- instead of some kind of essay format it's actually a collection of quotations either from personal letters or relevant story excerpts. What's to stop me from pulling a bajillion quotes out of the book and spending forever on that? Nothing but my firm will.
So here's a bunch of quotes:
In response to the question from the inspiration for Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises "But why did you make me cry all the time?"
I said, "Listen, if that is you then the narrator must be me. Do you think that I had my prick shot off or that if you and I had ever had a fight I would not have knocked the shit out of you? We boxed often enough so you know that. And I'll tell you a secret: you do cry an awful lot for a man." - Selected Letters, p. 764
"As a man you know who is right and who is wrong. You have to make decisions and enforce them. As a writer you should not judge. You should understand... Always think of people." - By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, p. 219-220
And yeah, I'll do the whole long run of this quote, it's pretty awesome, you start to forget he's talking about writing, instead of actually just beating up other writers:
"Hope this doesn't sound over confident. Am a man without any ambition, except to be champion of the world, I wouldn't fight Dr. Tolstoi in a 20 round bout because I know he would knock my ears off. The Dr. had terrific wind and could go on forever and then some. But I would take him on for six and he would never hit me and would knock the shit out of him and maybe knock him out. He is easy to hit. But boy how HE can hit. If I can live up to 60 I can beat him. (MAYBE)'
'For your information I started out trying to beat dead writers that I knew how good they were. (Excuse vernacular) I tried for Mr. Turgenieff first and it wasn't too hard. Tried for Mr. Maupassant (won't concede him the de) and it took four of the best stories to beat him. He's beaten and if he was around he would know it. Then I tried for another guy (am getting embarrassed or embare-assed now from bragging; or stateing) and I think I fought a draw with him. This other dead character.'
'Mr. Henry James I would just thumb him once like the first time he grabbed and then hit him once where he had no balls and ask the referee to stop it.'
'There are some guys nobody could ever beat like Mr. Shakespeare (The Champion) and Mr. Anonymous. But would be glad any time, if in training, to go twenty with Mr. Cervantes in his own home town (Alcala de Henares) and beat the shit out of him. Although Mr. C. very smart and would be learning all the time and would probably beat you in a return match. The THIRD fight people would pay to see...'
'In the big book I hope to take Mr. Melville and Mr. Doestoevsky, they are coupled as a stable entry, and throw lots of mud in their faces because the track isn't fast. But you can only run so many of those kind of races. They take it out of you.'
'Know this sounds like bragging but Jeezoo Chrise you have to have confidence to be a champion and that is the only thing I ever wished to be." - Selected Letters, p. 673
Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have used the whole thing, but pretty awesome, right?
The Torrents of Spring is interesting as it's Hemingway imitating the style of Henry Fielding, a comedic, fourth wall breaking style that I greatly enjoyed under Fielding via "Tom Jones", and I'm surprised with how well Hemingway pulls it off. Apparently he's got mimicry skills, who knew?
Lastly is the Invisible Detective by Justin Richards. I was given the book a few years ago, but never got around to it. I'm not quite finished it yet, but it turns out to be more of a kids book that isn't particularly well written. HOWEVER I think the cover image is amazing, so I'll leave you with that.
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