Finished!

I finished reading Harold and Maude on Tuesday. I just haven't had opportunity to write since. 

It was definitely a short book that went into a lot of mind conversations, but over all, it runs similarly to the movie. The exception is the song Maude teaches Harold, as well as I think some of the people conversations were cut out of the movie to make it run better. Also, I don't remember the film showing Maude having neighbors and being friendly with them. But I could be wrong. It's been a few months since I watched the movie. 

The book was worth buying and reading, just as a comparison to what is on celluloid. If I weren't having a busy (Easter / Passover) weekend, I'd totally sit on the couch for 90 minutes and refresh myself with Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon. But, it's a holiday, so this post being shorter than the average tiny post, is the reason for it. 

As much as I try not to get political around my blog, the book I'm currently reading is Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky. It was first published in 1971 and I think the paperback I have, has a similar typewriter font to it. Not a first edition by any means, but I think replicated enough that it's to show authenticity... the copy I have. I'm only a few pages in to the forward, so I can't comment on what's going on so far. 

However, the Amazon synopsis is as follows:

Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.

I guess we will see how this goes. 

Until then.. enjoy the chocolate bunny weekend.

Cheers;

Expand your mind...

... and the words do follow.

I started reading Harold and Maude on Monday, after finishing Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamy by Dorothy Allred Solomon. For a 352 page book, it sure as hell took me long enough to finish. I think I was working on that thing for 4 months, yet it feels like a year. It doesn't help that I wasn't reading it every day, so that's probably why I feel it was taking a decade to get through.

But with the Harold and Maude book, where "it's only" 137 pages", I am currently on page 43. Yes, I started it Monday and I should be further in to it because today is Friday, but I also have to work. It's funny how it's quite literally the transcript to the movie, as if Hal Ashby couldn't be bothered to try to work out anything from the book and make his own adaptation. The only thing that's been left out, it seems, is the private thoughts of everyone within the pages. Example being Harold's mother talking to her self (in her head) about one of the parties or Harold mansplaining something to himself. Plus the introduction of Maude's house. There's more depth to where she lives (in the book) and she has neighbors apparently. Unless I totally missed that part in the movie. This is all the more reason I should be deeper into reading it, but again, work calls. 

I'm hoping I'll have more time this weekend to dive in to it. I know the #spoileralert for the ending, but it'd be nice to see how they write in all the music to this, or even if it's talked about, seeing how Cat Stevens specifically wrote songs for the movie soundtrack. Can't quote lyrics if it doesn't exist yet. Since I haven't gotten to the part in the book where the duo start singing, it's going to be interesting.

Speaking of interesting, it's almost 6:30 in the morning and I've got to start my day. Showers beckon and work will call soon....

So go watch the movie. Then read the book. Or vice versa. 

Cheers;

The atmosphere is falling!

 Woke up this morning to look out the windows and see the backyard enshrouded in fog. 

I bet if I had to go to work this morning, it would have taken me an extra 20 minutes because people seem to not know how to drive in this weather... let alone rain or even clear days. 

While it was trying to dissipate, I grabbed my Canon T7i, put it on "flash off" mode (because I'm lazy" and went about walking the front of my house and down the street. 

Yes, I'm too lazy to use the other options on my camera. Today's excuse is brought to you by: 

It was eight in the morning and I hadn't had a coffee yet. 

Once satiated with cloud pictures, I came in and put my name on 20. 

Yes, twenty. I have more, but they're basically all the same.

Only edit I did was put my name on it in Photoshop. 

As the sun started warming everything up, you can't even tell the sky was falling just two hours ago. Now the humidity is starting to set in and it's going to be a hot one.

Welcome to summer! 

Cheers