The Clothes Make the Ma…AAAAH!

I have recently begun (because I am still a bit of a Luddite and chronically underfunded) the process of moving the vast crowd of films my wife and I own onto an external hard-drive thousands of times more capacious than the brain of Johnny Mnemonic, so that we may watch them on the big TV in the living room without having to walk to shelf to DVD player and back to chair like we’re cavemen. Oh, no, we’re joining the world of… the current decade, more or less, using the home computer to send files to a phone which then transmits them to a doodad plugged into our television. SIMPLE!

This pursuit has given a couple of subsidiary enjoyments. The most frequent is the feeling of virtuous rectitude each time I get to the message from my DVD-to-file software telling me I have to affirm that the file is only for non-commercial home use, because that’s exactly what I’m at.

The other is being reminded of the existence of some of the stuff in our collection. Some, like Fiend Without a Face, are extremely subjective sources of enjoyment. Others are generally held up as classics by people qualified to make that kind of pronouncement.

For example, one is always well repaid for a re-watching of Alien.

Today’s pen: Montblanc 32
Today’s ink: Montblanc Racing Green

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Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July	Second draft of “Anne’s Big Day”.	1057 typed words (that’s rather more like it!).	TWSBI Diamond 580 ALR Mabie, Todd & Co Blackbird Parker Senior Duofold Platinum PKB-3000	TWSBI Royal Purple Jentle blue-black Diamine Honey Burst Edelstein Topaz

Bro, Do You Even Art?

This week’s film is neither whimsical nor (specifically) educational. I was somewhat startled by it, given what I had seen from its creator in the past, and I honestly think that watching it improves the soul. Also, as one who occasionally stretches his attempts at craft into the realm of art, I think it’s important to recognize art when it happens.

I parenthesize about education above, because there are lessons to be taken here– something about hidden depths and hidden burdens, both of which we tend to forget exist in pretty much all other humans.

On a side-note: I showed this to my wife last night, and we realized that between the two of us we’re on the same prescriptions as this chap. I don’t think there’s any deep meaning to that…

Today’s pen: Parker Senior Duofold
Today’s ink: Diamine Honey Burst

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July	Second draft of “Anne’s Big Day”.	590 typed words.	Platinum PKB-3000 Montblanc 32 TWSBI Diamond 580 ALR Mabie, Todd & Co Blackbird	Edelstein Topaz Montblanc Racing Green TWSBI Royal Purple Jentle blue-black