Another weekend bites the dust...

[fajrdrako]

Today was a lovely self-indulgent day. Instead of getting up at six to do yoga, I slept late and then read fanfic - mostly Batman slash of various types, some Clex, even a Snape/Lupin story. (I seldom read Harry Potter slash, and when I do, only by authors I know.)

Then I went to see Starsky and Hutch with Marcelle. I pretended it was a date; I'm not sure whether that is a good thing to do, or simply masochistic. I enjoyed it regardless, and I think Marcelle did too.

I've never actually seen an episode of the TV show, I think, though I've seen many fannish music vids from the show, and "favourite bits" compilations of slashy moments. Thoughts on the movie.... :

• It was much more fun than I'd thought it would be. I was afraid it would be all comedy, no plot. Not so. Not that the plot was particulary profound.


• Ben Stiller is cute but not as cute as Paul Michael Glaser. Both are the physical type I like - though not personal favourites


• Ben Stiller was really playing Starsky. Owen Wilson was playing the role he always plays. It was entertaining anyway.


• The slash was self-conscious, which was kind of fun. In the original show it was - presumably - unintentional.


• I enjoyed the cheerleaders. I'm almost embarrassed to say it, but I enjoyed the parody/revival of the old sexist games that used to be so common on TV we took it for granted - even though we disliked it and complained about it.

Marcelle got her own copies of Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud. Discussing them with her made me reread a few pages and I was once again boggled by how brilliant those books are. I thought I understood comics and the techniques and semiotics of comics, but those books made me realize how complex the subject was - brought my understanding to a completely different level.

I read a pile of comics from the Silver Snail too. The best by far was Ultimate X-Men #43 by Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch. I know and love Bendis' writing; David Finch is new to me but his art is some of the best I've seen in ages. Those layouts are stupendous - especially pages 22-23, too complex to describe but brilliantly simple in their complex levels of communication. And not just that - the faces and figures of the characters are beautiful too.

The other comics I read: Gotham Central #17, which doesn't impress me as much now that Greg Rucka is writing it instead of Ed Brubaker; The Hedge Knight #4, maybe the best adaptation I've ever seen in comics; and 100 Bullets #49, which I bought because it was by Brian Azzarello, but I didn't like it at all.

There were many things I really should have been doing, but a day for sitting back and having relaxing fun was overdue.

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Re: Nothing wrong with sitting back and having some harmless fun.

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the new Melissa Etheridge album

And it certainly is lovely. Thank you again.

Benjamin Franklin's Library, which just happens to be on Logan Square?

What a wonderful name!

My imagination is infinite

That must be your secret superpower.