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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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17 December 2005 - 10:58 pm
A slow day today. I mostly spent the day reading "Brideshead Revisited," but I also got out to see "The Squid and the Whale." There are still a lot of movies out right now that I want to see, but as of right now, I think "The Squid and the Whale" is my favorite movie of the year. I don't really like making pronouncements like that because I've found that my personal enjoyment of a movie is often tempered by my state-of-mind when watching a movie. Some movies resonate with me and strike chords only because the emotions they are evoking happen to correspond to what I what already feeling at the time. I'll then discover when rewatching the movie that I loved so much on first viewing that it really wasn't very good. But I don't think that will be the case with "The Squid and the Whale."
"Brideshead Revisited," on the other hand, hasn't yet earned my recommendation. Waugh can be an interesting author, but he often lapses into nostalgic melodrama. Plus, Waugh the person comes with a bit of baggage, so to my thinking his writing needs to be extra good to overcome my pre-disposition to dislike him and his works. And I'm not sure that "Brideshead" will be able to do that.
Posted by on 17 December 2005 at 10:58 PM
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