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Feb. 16th, 2011 05:41 pmThings:
- The library computers are still down. Today was a paging shift. I went in for two hours - just long enough to cover other people's dinner breaks - and then they sent me home. Thank the gods.
- Today, I finished my first knitted sock. It came out pretty well, I think. The problem is, of course, that I used a very basic pattern as it was my first time, and it's boring, and I still have to make another one. Ah, well. At least I'll get a serviceable pair of socks out of it, and then I can knit more interesting socks.
- While knitting, I have been listening to radio dramatizations of Lord Peter Wimsey novels, starring Ian Carmichael. I am quite enjoying them. (He did the audiobooks of the Lord Peter novels that I used to listen to and I've always thought that he had the perfect voice for Peter. Doesn't look a thing like him, so I can't watch the videos - that's what Edward Petherbridge is for - but his voice is ideal.) I've listened to Whose Body?, Strong Poison, Nine Tailors, Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, and have just started Murder Must Advertise. Which has a different person playing Parker. And it's weirding me out because the casting people obviously went out of their way to find someone who sounds almost - but not quite - exactly like the other guys. Occasionally, my ear is fooled into thinking it is the other guy and then it's obviously not and I get a little shock. It's bizarre. I almost wish they'd found someone completely different.
- Relatedly, I don't really think that Murder Must Advertise is well served by adaptation. It's probably my favorite of the non-Harriet novels and I'd love an unabridged audiobook of it, but in adaptation the harlequin thing comes off as ridiculous. And maybe it is ridiculous but in the book, the scene where the harlequin climbs the fountain and dives in always seemed to me to have a sort of compelling magic to it. It was beautiful in way that maybe only works on the page. Adapting it destroys it, I think. Ah, well.
- Now that I'm home, I suppose I should start that other sock.
- The library computers are still down. Today was a paging shift. I went in for two hours - just long enough to cover other people's dinner breaks - and then they sent me home. Thank the gods.
- Today, I finished my first knitted sock. It came out pretty well, I think. The problem is, of course, that I used a very basic pattern as it was my first time, and it's boring, and I still have to make another one. Ah, well. At least I'll get a serviceable pair of socks out of it, and then I can knit more interesting socks.
- While knitting, I have been listening to radio dramatizations of Lord Peter Wimsey novels, starring Ian Carmichael. I am quite enjoying them. (He did the audiobooks of the Lord Peter novels that I used to listen to and I've always thought that he had the perfect voice for Peter. Doesn't look a thing like him, so I can't watch the videos - that's what Edward Petherbridge is for - but his voice is ideal.) I've listened to Whose Body?, Strong Poison, Nine Tailors, Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, and have just started Murder Must Advertise. Which has a different person playing Parker. And it's weirding me out because the casting people obviously went out of their way to find someone who sounds almost - but not quite - exactly like the other guys. Occasionally, my ear is fooled into thinking it is the other guy and then it's obviously not and I get a little shock. It's bizarre. I almost wish they'd found someone completely different.
- Relatedly, I don't really think that Murder Must Advertise is well served by adaptation. It's probably my favorite of the non-Harriet novels and I'd love an unabridged audiobook of it, but in adaptation the harlequin thing comes off as ridiculous. And maybe it is ridiculous but in the book, the scene where the harlequin climbs the fountain and dives in always seemed to me to have a sort of compelling magic to it. It was beautiful in way that maybe only works on the page. Adapting it destroys it, I think. Ah, well.
- Now that I'm home, I suppose I should start that other sock.
