Minor update pt.3
Currently writing a fictional interview with myself. This was partly inspired by an episode of Roger And Val Have Just Got In that I watched last night, in which Roger uses a similar technique to deal with grief. Although I’m not grieving, I thought it was an interesting idea.
(Incidentally, the above mentioned programme is excellent. It’s billed as a comedy but treads a fine line between humour and sadness, and is beautifully acted. It’s such a distance from some of the shit that’s on television at the moment pretending to be comedy, such as The King is Dead and Celebrity Juice, both of which are truly awful. It’s probably on iPlayer).
This afternoon I watched Terminator Salvation. The dialogue was some of the worst that I have ever heard, the story was full of holes and the acting was pretty terrible. However, I enjoyed it. It would have been nice to see what someone intelligent could have done with the final(?) film of the franchise, but there were a lot of bangs and the robots looked good (CGI Arnie was superb), so complaints are kind of unnecessary with that in mind.
Have also begun reading The Good Angel of Death by Andrey Kurkov. Kurkov wrote the brilliantly surreal Death and the Penguin and Penguin Lost. He is Ukrainian and is largely concerned with post-Soviet life. He is well worth taking a look at.
I should say that my own novel’s provisional title is Don, which is because that’s the name of the central character. (He is so-called because the first word I wrote was ‘Don’t’, which was shortened to ‘Don’ when I saved it - which says something about my ability to come up with names for people). So, Don isn’t going to write itself. I should do some work on that this afternoon.
But first I have to hang up the washing.
