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Tuesday, May 4. 2010

A DVD and a book

A new Tom Lehrer DVD. The promo video with interview isn't embeddable, but it's here.


A new Cormac McCarthy, The Road. I didn't realize he had a new one (h/t, SDA). I read all of his stuff. Does he still live in a fleabag motel in New Mexico?

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 10:09 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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DH loves Cormac McCarthy. However, "The Road" is SOO dark it has taken him three months and he still can't finish it. Very unlike my DH. Must be pretty bad--the film has flopped big time already.
#1 anotherone on 2010-05-04 13:10 (Reply)
There's dark fiction and then there's dark fiction.

"The Road" is really dark, depressing and frankly a little over the top.
#2 Tom Francis on 2010-05-04 15:23 (Reply)
It was very dark but I couldn't stop reading it it, in fact I read it so quick I had to go back and re- read to absorb it all. It is very dark. I pride myself on being self sufficient, raising my own food and such but in this situation I would be lost. It's so hopeless but yet not completely hopeless. Let's hope it never comes to that.
#3 linda s on 2010-05-04 19:37 (Reply)
Cormac's way into the arts was paved by his brother Tarmac, who shouldered into show business via a hot roll as the gravel-voiced Bill Bord, the class co median who was too yellow to strip in the middle of the groundbreaking film Asphalt Jungle.

Tarmac, though semi-retarred ever since his own flatlining career curbed his youthful inner sect, drives brother Cormac to litterarily overpass deadends and patch plotholes.
#4 buddy larsen on 2010-05-05 00:01 (Reply)

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