It's Tuesday, isn't it? Let's see...
Yesterday was painful as it hurt to move. Took Kai shopping, picked up some attractive clay pots second hand at the cats' charity shop for my new fabric orchids (yes, still buying them. Need more places to put them!), and rented three DVDs -
Bulletproof Monk (the trailer looked fun), Katsuhiro Otomo's
Memories (I have the manga, be interesting to see how it compares), and the 1953 version of
War of the Worlds, which we watched when we got home.
It's been ages since I've seen it - interesting to watch it again. We all enjoyed it, though Kai was a little nonplussed by the abrupt ending. The film did, however, confirm my suspicion that
ID4 is little more than a direct lift of
War of the Worlds (as Ken said dryly, the parallels are a little too obvious to be pure chance), even to the pun on destruction by the smallest things on the planet (a virus in this case). I wouldn't feel so aggrieved about this if there'd been some kind of credit given somewhere in
ID4, but I don't remember there being such a thing. (If there was, fair enough, my mistake. I want proof though!)
On the writing front, the Dreams book is coming along slowly - much more slowly than
2AC, which is now nine chapters into the second sequence. And it's all new material - I've diverged so far from the original that it'll practically be a completely new book. It's such fun to write, too, revising and extending the characters and making them entirely mine.
The publishers are organising publicity for Ken's Dartmouth book: a phone-in radio spot has been suggested, plus news items in local newspapers. Will have to see how it goes.
Right - off to play jigsaw with the rocks that are going around the pool...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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