Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was very good, though I still think Prisoner of Azkaban is the best film in the series. Alphonso Cuaron brought a macabre poetry to Harry's world, some of which is carried over into this film, though Mike Newell adds a element of classical elegance to the precedings. Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort is unrecognizable, which is good, and plays the villain well. I was hungry, no, starving, throughout the movie so I feel I paid it only about half-attention. I'll see it again after catching Walk the Line, which I'm anxious to see.
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I finished season six of Buffy this weekend and Jesus, am I glad. Another great year, but I'll be damned if it isn't the darkest, most dysfunctional thing I've seen in, well, forever. I still maintain that Willow's arc seems the least grounded in the histories of their characters, but all the other developments seems logical, the seeds for these storylines sewn over the years. I mean, it's a stretch to go with Willow ending up where she does. Buffy, Xander, Spike, yeah, that's all true to them, it's writers mining the characters in rich, real ways.
I said I was glad, but I'm not in that I'm nearly to the end and that's bittersweet.
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Everyone who bought books: they'll be going out today and tomorrow, so look for them soon in your mailboxes.
If anybody else still wants one, I have a handful left.
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I feel the Super Oracular Magic 8-Ball speaking to me. Ask your questions!
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.
11 comments:
Very much enjoyed your blog, wonderful musings.
Thanks, Blue!
I saw Goblet yesterday and loved it. It's the only one in the series that I sat through without peering at my watch toward the end and wondering if it'd ever be over. The dragon clambering like a bat...perhaps clambering isn't the right word but I've got a migraine coming on fast, so clambering is what I'm sticking with...on the roof of the castle was one of the best bits of special effects I've seen in quite some time.
Now, magic 8 ball, may I ask more than one question? I have 3:
1. Will I ever publish a book?
2. Will I ever get married?
3. Will I ever have children?
If I'm only allowed one, answer the first one, please.
Oh, and Walk the Line's next on my list too.
Laurel,
1. Magic 8 Ball says yes.
2. Magic 8 Ball says yes. To me.
3. Magic 8 Ball says ask again later.
I agree about Goblet of Fire: good but not as good as Prisoner of Azkaban. Question for Magic 8-Ball: Who's the winner of the Black Lawrence contest?
Magic 8 Ball says the winner was just selected, but Black Lawrence Press will do the official announcing, I imagine. I'll see if they want me to post.
Wow, that is one fast Magic 8-Ball--thanks!
Well, I smiled and smiled when I read the magic 8 ball's answers to my questions...and then that smile felt wholly inappropriate when I read about your pizza delivery man.
So, thank you, or rather, thank your 8 ball, and I'm sorry, Paul to read of that act of brutality.
Have you ever seen the movie Six Degrees of Separation? If you haven't, do.
One degree. One degree separates you from a man, an animal, really, who is capable of of killing another man with a hammer. One degree.
A bad check, you said? How is it possible that human beings can kill each other over such small, small things?
Glad you smiled, Laurel. I did too.
Saw both movies this week and neither disappoint, though I agree that GOF is not as rich, or well-transitioned, as POA. Phoenix's and Witherspoon's performances in "Walk the Line" are just amazing.
Question for the Magic 8 Ball: Will Auburn win the national championship in football next year?
One of my favorite sex scenes of all time is that scene where Buffy and Spike are um, "making love" when the house is falling down around them. I think it's ingenious, given the chaotic nature of their affair. Plus, it was pretty hot.
My blog, btw, is http://www.livejournal.com/users/lfirebrand
Sometimes, I post your poems. *gasp*
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