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April 27, 2003
Not much web browsing this weekend...
Sorry for the relative lack of posting over the last couple of days. I've been very lazy, catching up on some DVD viewing and even buying yet more books for my To Read pile.
First of all, I watched John Carpenter's wonderfully silly Big Trouble In Little China. It's been ages since I've seen it from start to finish, and it was every bit as much fun as I remembered. Kurt Russell's swaggering yet dim hero was good value, and Carpenter deftly handled the mix of humour and drama and funky martial arts action. Plus, the young Kim Cattrall was very hot...
I followed that by finishing off my long-postponed viewing of season 1 of Spaced. I didn't take to the show during its first season on Channel 4, so after being bowled over by the second season I made sure to pick up a two-seasons-for-the-price-of-one DVD set. I'm pretty sure I missed half the pop culture references, but even so it was a remarkably clever - not to mention, very funny - show. I'm looking forward to watching season 2 next time I have a DVD-viewing session.
As far as reading goes, I'd stalled on the book I was reading (Alex Gilliland's A Revolution From Rosinante) and was looking for something new to get my teeth into. Intending to pick up just one book, I ended up with quite a pile: M John Harrison's Light, Elizabeth Moon's Speed of Dark, Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space, Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt and Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon. I've started with Robinson's odd little alternate history, depicting a world where the Black Death was a lot more virulent, wiping European civilisation from the face of the world and leaving it to the East to have an industrial revolution and colonise the New World. I'm not usually a fan of alternate history, but Robinson's take on the genre is sufficiently odd to intrigue me and draw me in. It's looking very promising so far.
Posted by John at April 27, 2003 11:06 PM
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