Monday, June 02, 2003
Yesterday, I wrote 1,043 words of Chapter Four of Murder of Angels.
With luck, I can finish Chapter Four today. That might be kind of encouraging, except a) I don't know how Chapter Four ends and b) I have no idea what happens in Chapter Five.
I don't think I slept enough. I sat up watching Charade (1963) on AMC last night, despite the "fullscreen" format (read, pan and scan) and constant frelling commercials. I dearly miss the AMC that showed old movies without commercials and promoted film restoration and conservation and the move to widescreen. I even miss their goofy, amateurish original programming. The new incarnation of the channel not only shows fewer good films and stuffs everything full of commercials, it seems dumbed down and aimed at the sort of dolts who prefer colourized movies to the original black and white. That said, at least Turner Classic Movies is, ironically, still out there. And I do have some hope for Fox's new movie channel, though it's not up to the TCM standard yet (or the old AMC standard). Old movies are my insomnia balm.
Did I mention how sleepy I am?
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