The big wrap up:
Karen Comes Clean page 18
That about does it for Karen this go 'round. Hope you liked her. She may pop up again down the road.
Brand new tale starts up next Sunday without delay. Bleak it is. Dark it be. And furry.
So I finished up Richard Price's latest this week - Lush Life.
It's fantastic. Ostensibly a crime novel, it's more a snapshot of life among the mix of hipsters, immigrants and poor blacks and latinos of New York's lower east side. Every character is vividly drawn. Price gets in the heads of the cops, the victims, the perpetrators, the bystanders and the families of all involved in the shooting of a young bartender downtown. Price writes dialogue like no other and the city itself is maybe the most interesting character in a book full of compellingly flawed individuals. Not to be missed.
Took the lady to see the new Coen bros A Serious Man.
We both liked it. A tad slow and epically frustrating, but that's kind of the point. It's about a Jewish guy in 60's Michigan who leads a Job-like existence. You watch the guy squirm as the miseries stack up and you squirm and twist in your seat right along with him. Those Coen guys know just what their doing and they tease the audience with a catharsis that never comes. It's funny and tragic and ultimately unsatisfying, but like I said, that's the whole point. Not a pleasant evening at the cinema really, but a worthwhile one. Also, the Coen's go for another of those non-ending endings like in No Country for Old Men. It kind of fits here, but it also kinda feels like it's starting to become a thing. Next movie I would like a proper ending please.
Gotta ton of stuff going on these days. Lots of projects bouncing around in various stages of completion. A few I'm really quite excited about. Chimps, chameleons, convicts, clones, cthulu, cops with attitude and creatures of the night. I guess I must have a yen for things that begin with "C".
Sketch o' the week:
Have it good!
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