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I'm about fifty pages from the end of Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith and his protag Arkady Renko just ordered a Baltika at a strip club. Now I'm not a big beer drinker (although I did my part way back in college) but I have come to really enjoy the occasionaly strong dark beer--not Guiness, it's too flat for my taste.
KGB Bar serves some great Russian beer--Baltika--in several different strengths. I always got what was the highest they had: #3 I think but for the first time, this past Wednesday, they had up to # 9 so of course that's what I ordered. It was strong (8% or something, I think) and very good. So here's to Renko and my favorite beer! Pick one up if you can.
Friday and Saturday evenings I saved for watching DVDs from netflix: I watched The Machinist with Christian Bale and quite liked it, although it was painful to watch. Because of Bale's emaciated (ribs, clavicle, and other bones sticking out)body and also because Jennifer Jason Leigh's had a boob job and I just hate that. I find it totally depressing that an often very good actress feels the need to but crap into her boobs in order to get acting jobs playing hookers. Shame.
I also watched two discs of Monk's Season 5. Yeah, I still enjoy it. Some of the shows I can't stand, others are very funny, and still others are moving. So I'll stick with poor twitch Adrian Monk, the amazing Captain Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine--who played Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs), and the hapless Lieutenant Randy Disher as they continue their adventures. I even like the character Natalie Teeger, who took over as Monk's assistant from an earlier actress (who I liked very much).
Did some errands yesterday morning and got so soaked from the unexpected rain shower that I had to completely change clothes before meeting a friend for lunch (we roamed down Bleecker street after lunch, where there was a street fair).
In between, reading YBFH stuff.
KGB Bar serves some great Russian beer--Baltika--in several different strengths. I always got what was the highest they had: #3 I think but for the first time, this past Wednesday, they had up to # 9 so of course that's what I ordered. It was strong (8% or something, I think) and very good. So here's to Renko and my favorite beer! Pick one up if you can.
Friday and Saturday evenings I saved for watching DVDs from netflix: I watched The Machinist with Christian Bale and quite liked it, although it was painful to watch. Because of Bale's emaciated (ribs, clavicle, and other bones sticking out)body and also because Jennifer Jason Leigh's had a boob job and I just hate that. I find it totally depressing that an often very good actress feels the need to but crap into her boobs in order to get acting jobs playing hookers. Shame.
I also watched two discs of Monk's Season 5. Yeah, I still enjoy it. Some of the shows I can't stand, others are very funny, and still others are moving. So I'll stick with poor twitch Adrian Monk, the amazing Captain Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine--who played Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs), and the hapless Lieutenant Randy Disher as they continue their adventures. I even like the character Natalie Teeger, who took over as Monk's assistant from an earlier actress (who I liked very much).
Did some errands yesterday morning and got so soaked from the unexpected rain shower that I had to completely change clothes before meeting a friend for lunch (we roamed down Bleecker street after lunch, where there was a street fair).
In between, reading YBFH stuff.
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And ditto on the boob jobs. I suppose "but crap into her boobs" just makes it all the stronger.
Monk still goes on. I thought that one of the seasons really seemed to have lost its way. But the more recent episodes seem to have regained the footing. It's just difficult to keep it going when so much of the show is about the quirks of Monk.
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To sum up one of the greats (Olivier or Gielgud, or someone on that level) said to a young method actor who was doing something unhealthy (weight gain or loss, drinking, I really don't recall)--"that's why they call it acting." Which reminds me of Billy Crudup in The Elephant Man on Broadway. He wore no make up or prosthetics but perfectly depicted Merrick.
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In it I asked him to view various clips of Eddie Murphy and Martin and describe what he thought of their willingness to gain weight in order to make the role.
DeNiro responds, "They're wearing fat suits."
Then I ask him would he be willing to wear a fat suit in order to play a role. And then I followup by asking how does he feel when actors invoke his name in their weight loss/gains in order to be a part. Could they just CGI it?
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It was a part where the actor could be replaced and it would still work.
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Rose is also very good. Its a story about women coal miners set in Victorian England.
I hate not having enough time to read. I've started listening to audiobooks as a way of getting more literature into my head at those times when reading is not practical (when I'm exercising, walking to the train station, etc). I've just finished listening to Gibson's Spook Country.
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