Thursday 6/13/24
Started process last night of going back into There Is No Doubt: Story Girls and making what alterations and fixes need to be made, so worked on five books yesterday and then spent the morning working on the book some more. This is the one--the first one--where all of the main characters and/or narrators are female.
Watched some of Rear Window yesterday. Hitchcock was an idiosyncratic English filmmaker who became a broad American-style moviemaker. Out went the quirks and eccentricities, though he found some of them again with Alfred Hitchcock Presents on TV. I've come to think less of these American pictures over time. They're slick and slick often means pat. It was like he lost that British sensibility of the unusual and the quirky.
Rear Window grips, but it has all of these clangy notes. The camera is meant to do all of this signifying and storytelling--Hitchcock's idea of "pure cinema"--but there are these extended spoken expositions that go in the opposite direction. If I was going to see a single American Hitchcock picture at the theater, though, Rear Window would be it.
Walked three miles, did 100 push-ups and three circuits inside of the Bunker Hill Monument.
All Tom Brady has to do--and he's done it a bunch--is say that he's a Patriot, and many already-musky New Englanders start emitting additional fluids. It's like watching Pavlov conduct an experiment. Brady is so aware of this, too.
Watched the first season of Grantchester. Just not very good. And the guy is a drunk. Apart from my not thinking the show is of any quality--which I touched on earlier--I personally tend not to like things about drunks. I drank more than many drunks, but I was never a drunk.
Something I find myself saying many times each day: How do you want to handle this?
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