Haven’t started yet, but it looks interesting.

I was really looking forward to this movie. I don’t quite know if they pulled off what they were going for though. Man, those wacky Hungarians.

There was an excerpt, back before this book even came out I think, in Tin House magazine or perhaps Granta, and I was intrigued even then. I’m about six chapters into it, and the novel – even more so than the excerpt I remember – has a ‘waking dream’ quality to it that I’m quite taken by. It’s not making a whole lot of sense or even moving particularly fast (again, a languid, dream-like pace – or rather a pace that dreams seem to have when you’re remembering them after you wake up … something like that), that I’ll admit I am digging.

Realized that life is too short to finish books that you aren’t that interested in. 150 pages into this book, I realized I simply wasn’t that interested in it.

All of the Polish Bros.’ movies have been interesting – this one has got to be their best so far. Quick synopsis (from Netflix): ’It’s 1955, and the town of Northfork, Mont., is about to disappear off the map, the victim of a newly constructed dam. Six men are charged with clearing Northfork of its last hangers-on: a couple, a man who owns an ark and a nearly comatose orphan.’

That description doesn’t begin to do the film justice though. It’s dream-like. It’s alleghorical. It’s definitely worth seeing.

Sure, some (okay most) of the acting was too over-the-top, and the story perhaps left something to be desired. But I’d rather see a Terry Gilliam film any day of the week than almost anything else by any other director.

We’ll see how it goes.

… ‘Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol, Jorge Luis Borges, and for reasons that a mere passion for literature cannot explain, he finds himself at the center of a murder investigation that involves arcane demons, the mysteries of the Kaballah, the possible destruction of the world, and the Elizabethan magus John Dee’s theory of the “Eternal Orangutan,” which, given all the time in the world, would end up writing all the known books in the cosmos. Verissimo’s small masterpiece is at once a literary tour de force and a brilliant mystery novel.’ – from the back cover blurb.

I’ve heard (or rather read online) good things.

This book isn’t set in New Orleans at all.

But rather, Berkeley, California.

My bad.

But I still intend to read ‘Confederacy of Dunces’ one of these days.

Some great, great songs.

“Tomorrow” – great song

“Patience” – great song

“Wig” – great song

“Snow” – great song