Sunday, September 24, 2006
OK, I guess
Today I read through what I've been working on and ended up making some immediate changes. Nothing drastic. We'll see. I'm doing OK word count-wise. The paper read-through always helps me see what's working and what's not. So, I fixed some stuff that wasn't. Soldiering on. I have a partial chapter I need to do some brainstorming on and then finish it tomorrow. I have some other issues to get clarity on before I proceed much further since the notion I have simmering requires a total reapproach to setting and situation. But that's good. It'll be cool. I'll know more tomorrow.
Yesterday I went to see Jet Li's new movie,
Fearless. The opening was great. Most of the following 30 minutes or so should have been drastically cut, but the rest was really good. Thought provoking and interesting. Jet Li at his smoldering best. I just love martial arts movies. And I particularly like the ones set in historical China. The editor should be shot. And whoever decided to water down the love interest should also be shot. They could have cut the silly 30 minutes and expanded the love interest and had a totally fantastic film. There was this weird clown-like character that was so patently like the clowns in Shakespeare I kept waiting for someone to break out in iambic pentameter. Except this guy didn't serve as reason disguised.
Today my son and I went to the Antique Fair, where they block off the downtown and everyone shows their antiques outside. Always fun. But too freaking hot. At least I brought a hat. At first he didn't want to go, but I made him, and when we got there he remembered he's liked it in the past. And then we found this cool vendor who had stuff from the Middle East and South East Asia. I bought a mask from Tibet and he got a knife thing (very small) and another vendor came over and talked to him about collecting and then gave him a book on collectible pen knives and talked to him about how to start and care for a collection. He was thrilled to pieces! Me, too, actually. Oddly enough, he later mentioned how great it is that people with cool art and artifacts give you free stuff. When I suggested that it was perhaps his interest in the cool stuff that prompted people to give him things, he disagreed. His primary argument against me was that Balu (the ceramic artist he loves) has cool stuff and she gives him free art. I let him win that one. He'll understand much later. He has no idea how charming his enthusiasm can be. He'll stand in front of some display or exhibit gushing about how fantastic something is, and he'll stop people and show them! In the meantime, let him think it's just that cool people give free stuff to kids. He's right in a way.
