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sharplittleteeth) wrote2007-03-01 01:05 pm
sharplittleteeth) wrote2007-03-01 01:05 pm
Lunchtime.
Well, that was a mistake.
I walked down to Readings at lunchtime, and they had the new Max Barry book, Company. Well, "new" in the sense of "newly available in Australian bookstores". Like 95% of everything these days, I could have gotten it off the internet months ago.
They also had the new Iain (no-M) Banks book, The Steep Approach to Garbadale. Which according to Banks's website isn't supposed to be available until Saturday. Odd that we get a book by a Scottish author two days early, but a book by a Melbourne author almost a year late.
My bank account, unfortunately, cannot stretch to both of them. Banks lost out, given his recent efforts have been a bit ho-hum.
Readings also had finger puppets of famous historical figures - the Great Philosophers, the Great Composers, the Great Revolutionaries, four to a box. (They also had the characters from Carmen, for some reason.) T
hese reminded me of an idea I had for what I would do if I were ever to do the Dresden Dolls Brigade. My idea? Sixty Second Shakespeare Theatre. You have bunch of finger puppets for the archetypal Shakespearian characters - King, Queen, Young Man, Young Lady, etc, etc. Then you use them to reenact minute-long parodies of Shakespearian plays.
Well, it amuses me.
Also: I received the email. Our broadband connection is go. At last,, we return from our internet exile, stronger, faster than ever before.
I walked down to Readings at lunchtime, and they had the new Max Barry book, Company. Well, "new" in the sense of "newly available in Australian bookstores". Like 95% of everything these days, I could have gotten it off the internet months ago.
They also had the new Iain (no-M) Banks book, The Steep Approach to Garbadale. Which according to Banks's website isn't supposed to be available until Saturday. Odd that we get a book by a Scottish author two days early, but a book by a Melbourne author almost a year late.
My bank account, unfortunately, cannot stretch to both of them. Banks lost out, given his recent efforts have been a bit ho-hum.
Readings also had finger puppets of famous historical figures - the Great Philosophers, the Great Composers, the Great Revolutionaries, four to a box. (They also had the characters from Carmen, for some reason.) T
hese reminded me of an idea I had for what I would do if I were ever to do the Dresden Dolls Brigade. My idea? Sixty Second Shakespeare Theatre. You have bunch of finger puppets for the archetypal Shakespearian characters - King, Queen, Young Man, Young Lady, etc, etc. Then you use them to reenact minute-long parodies of Shakespearian plays.
Well, it amuses me.
Also: I received the email. Our broadband connection is go. At last,, we return from our internet exile, stronger, faster than ever before.