November 17, 2003
Disgruntled
Things I did this weekend:
- Saw Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean in conversation with Jonathan Ross, with a reading by Neil of The Wolves in the Walls
- Went to The Matrix Revolutions with "Max"
- Attended the flat-warming party of one of the Marching Boys
- Saw Laurel Canyon with my mother
- Went out to dinner with my mother and sister and assorted others
- Plus some rather less reputable things that I really don't feel like owning up to just at the moment
Things I didn't do this weekend:
- Fix the problem with Pollen under Panther
- Get any further with editing this year's Marching Boys video
- Post a blog entry
- Get to the gym
- Compose a symphony
- Find a cure for cancer
- Discover the meaning of life
Admittedly, some of those might have been a little over-ambitious as weekend projects even at the best of times. Still, I can't help feeling rather dissatisfied overall. Not fixing the Pollen bug is a particularly irksome failure. I did spend a few minutes looking at it, but as the code is hosted by another application it's not a casual debugging exercise and my flat-warming obligations intervened.
Revolutions is truly a terrible film. I quite enjoyed various bits of it, but it blathers on interminably and what little attempt to make sense there ever may have been has long since been abandoned. Pray there'll never be a Matrix 4. Laurel Canyon was also pretty poor, although Frances McDormand is wonderful, and Christian Bale and Alessandro Nivola are always nice to look at. Kate Beckinsale looks so unlike her Underworld self that I have to wonder if there are two actresses using that name on some kind of time-share basis.
The Neil Gaiman event was good, at least. Most bizarre nugget of information: Dave McKean is currently designing a forthcoming Broadway musical version of The Vampire Lestat. Heaven help us all.
Posted by matt at November 17, 2003 01:07 AM
