Meanwhile, not a great deal to report. Really nothing is happening. I still haven’t been out of the flat this year and nobody’s come to visit. I seem to be living my life by proxy, delighting or worrying over other people’s news. Or else I am living in a world of fictional characters.
Actually, this isn't quite true. What I have done this last week? Apart from work on my novel I have…
- Been experimenting making suncatchers using real lead as an outline. This has led (bum bum) to a great deal of hand-washing and hygiene paranoia. I don’t really understand how dangerous the stuff is, but tend to be overcautious. I’m actually using latex gloves but my nails are long and together with the pliers and craft-knife I keep putting holes in them. Anyway, the leading does look really cool when I get it right. I have been looking at rose window designs to scale-down.
- Painted a piggy-bank for a small child. I am quite pleased with it; piggy-banks are often ugly things but mine is quite cute.
- Watched several films I hadn’t seen before; The Village (good – beautifully made, shame about the premise), Hostage (bad – it was called Hostage and starred Bruce Willis – I should have known better), The Producers (very bad) and Motorcycle Diaries (very good). Probably some others, I can’t remember.
- Begun reading Passage to India, one of the many novels I got for Christmas.
- Sampled Violet Liqueur which is the colour of methylated spirit and coincidentally tastes like meths with a load of parma violets mixed into it.
Oh and the nightmares are back.
5 comments:
Have you read the book of The Motor Cycle Diaries?
Yes, if you are handling lead a lot be very careful. It can be absorbed through the skin, mucous membranes, and the dust can be inhaled. Lead poisoning can be fatal, but even the low-level chronic type is very unpleasant and insidious in onset.
Is The Producers the musical about Nazism?
The violet liqueur sounds like aversion therapy!
I haven't read The motorcycle diaries but I guess I ought to now really.
Thanks for your advice about lead, Charles. The Producers that I saw is the old nineteen sixties Mel Brooks film, all the Blazing Saddles crowd and yes they are putting on a musical Springtime for Hitler.
I have been informed that it is not at all bad and I have an absolute duty to watch it again whilst slightly drunk.
There is a new version at the cinema now - after the original film, it became a Broadway Show, gaining more songs, and they've now turned it back into a film. Uh... so that's a film based on a musical based on a film about a musical.
Anyway, neither AJ or I got on with the original - funny premise of course and a great comedy German. And I imagine it was outrageous when it was first released, with goose-stepping dance routines etc.
The book 'The Motor Cycle Diaries' was very good, I'd recommend it. I didn't realize that there was a film version.
I agree with CD that the violet liqueur sounds quite repulsive. Perhaps it could be rebottled and regifted? A bit like all of the fruit-cakes that make their rounds this time of year.
Watched an excellent movie on the last days of the Nazi regime yesterday, "Downfall" but it's in German so you must be feeling up to reading subtitles (we'd put it off since Christmas until we felt up to it).
Hmmm.. I believe a friend once spoke to me about this book, motor cycle diaries. It sounded very interesting. Apparently it changed his perception on life. I forget how though, lol. i did listen, honest!
Well, we get by don't we? doing little things, here and there to make the days go by. That's how I felt in my total non job search days. It still feels that way on the odd day, when there's nothing much doing. I feel odd if I hang around the ouch board, or any other forum for long periods.
I'm all for trying new alcoholic drinks. *wink*
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