This weekend I saw both War of the Worlds and Land of the Dead. In some ways, I preferred Land: it has a chilly blue tint that's wonderfully atmospheric and some of the ideas about the evolution of the zombies are neat. As for War, I enjoyed it a lot: it has some of the best special effects ever seen, cunningly staged. The tripods lumbering about on the horizons are startlingly real, holographic almost. And there a half-dozen brilliant set pieces effortlessly realized by Spielberg, but I can't escape the feeling the movie's insistence on keeping its focus personal deflates the movie somewhat rather than elevating it. The devastation is epic, but not quite epic enough.
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I'll be posting some pics of me later today, I think.
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Everything healing up nicely here. My arm is still sore but getting better; it's going to be the slowest recovery. My face is better, though I catch people staring, which is funny. A lady in Eckerd's asked if I got in a fight. "With the ground," I said.
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4th was nice enough here, with evening rain. Firecrackers popping through the night.
About Me
- Paul
- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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It's a classic plot -- man against nature!
Quick healing!
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