Next up: "Night Watch" by Sarah Waters, who previously introduced the lesbian Victorian circus novel to the stage with "Tipping the Velvet," which was a BBC production featuring the chick from "MI-5." I read the book and that was enough Victoriana for me. I expect "Night Watch," which appears to be nothing like the AWESOME-O Russian movie "Night Watch," to be about the same as "TtV" but WWII-ish. Which is to say, kind of awesome in crazy detail but not Russian "Night Watch" awesome, where people's heads blow up and there is an ensuing showdown between the forces of good and evil to be continued in "Day Watch."
So here's one of the beautiful views I am occasionally exposed to.
That's the beach at Westport. It won't look like this for long. Development will not be stopped. Money seeks its own level and development capitalizes on any authentic energy until it sucks it up, converting it to money. Perhaps it's an authentic neighborhood, or nature or something historic that gives an area its energy. That energy is so quickly converted to cash it'd make your head spin.
Dad went to the David Letterman show in NYC while he was at his pitchfest '06, No Print outlet Left Behind campaign and was really impressed with Xhibit (though he remembered his name as "Ingredient?") who appeared to be a humble rapper, giving props to his fans. My dad is so weird, people. A 60-y-o white man who loves to listen to rap and, last I checked, Imus. Basically anything shocking. Which explains why he thought the song had a positive message and not an ego-aggrandizing one, I guess.
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I'll be curious to hear your take on the new Sarah Waters - wasn't aware there was one. I read the last two, hoping they would live up to Tipping the Velvet, but they went down another path - spiritual and vague in one, and kind of too-pat-everything-ties-together in the other.
That should be spelled X to the Z Xzibit, though honestly I know him more as a professional bucket driver than as a rapper.
It might be hard to know whether something is a positive message or an ego-aggrandizement or binary this or that thinking has made it very difficult to see, feel and know the vast degrees and scale of nuance, subtly and signs.
-Matt
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