Is Ford solely a poet or does he also write stories? His poetry is quite wonderful.
Yes, have discovered organic is quite pricey, but I've been buying it more and more, because the additives to many foods are "gluten". Meat - I tend to buy non-organic (because I just can't afford it too...). Although have been getting Nature's Beef which is organically fed. And one should always treat oneself well on one's birthday, I think. ;-)
Sounds like you had a lovely day as well. Was warm here to. So nice to putter about outside for a change of pace, although I'm enjoying today too, which is a quiet rainy day for writing, musing and watching DVDs, and a little reading. Saw Mirrormask this morning finally. Fascinating artwork and design in that film, the story felt oddly simple juxtaposed with the design, but I think that may have been necessary since so much of the story was in the metaphors depicted by the masks and art flowing throughout it. In his interview, Gaiman states that he deliberately simplified the story, left gaps, so that McKean could fill them in visually and play. So much of it is in the images, not in the dialogue - I think the film is really more David McKean (the artists) than Neil Gaiman's (the writer's). I liked the bits on the masks. And the idea of a mirror-mask switching you and your anti-persona between worlds. Also how each mask throughout the story depicted how the protagonist viewed her world.
Am rambling here. Sorry.
Thanks for the lj recs and everything. Hope your Sunday is a relaxing one, before we go back to the working universe. I think escaping it for a bit did me a world of good. Feel much more centered now.
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Re: trying this Yet again...
Date: 2006-03-12 08:20 pm (UTC)Is Ford solely a poet or does he also write stories? His poetry is quite wonderful.
Yes, have discovered organic is quite pricey, but I've been buying it more and more, because the additives to many foods are "gluten". Meat - I tend to buy non-organic (because I just can't afford it too...). Although have been getting Nature's Beef which is organically fed. And one should always treat oneself well on one's birthday, I think. ;-)
Sounds like you had a lovely day as well. Was warm here to. So nice to putter about outside for a change of pace, although I'm enjoying today too, which is a quiet rainy day for writing, musing and watching DVDs, and a little reading. Saw Mirrormask this morning finally. Fascinating artwork and design in that film, the story felt oddly simple juxtaposed with the design, but I think that may have been necessary since so much of the story was in the metaphors depicted by the masks and art flowing throughout it. In his interview, Gaiman states that he deliberately simplified the story, left gaps, so that McKean could fill them in visually and play. So much of it is in the images, not in the dialogue - I think the film is really more David McKean (the artists) than Neil Gaiman's (the writer's).
I liked the bits on the masks. And the idea of a mirror-mask switching you and your anti-persona between worlds. Also how each mask throughout the story depicted how the protagonist viewed her world.
Am rambling here. Sorry.
Thanks for the lj recs and everything. Hope your Sunday is a relaxing one, before we go back to the working universe. I think escaping it for a bit did me a world of good. Feel much more centered now.