Work Journal 2/17/05

Good day, not so much for writing, but everything else. The column I wrote had a couple changes made, one from a helpful email from an early reader of it, the other change a softening of a comment I made that wasn't quite what I wanted to say. Rob Vollmar was appreciative of the BLUESMAN review and that's always nice, hearing from appreciative creators in general and Rob in particular.

Finished watching Lost in Translation and watched the extras for the first time, most of which are just worth a single viewing anyway. It's kind of charming how inarticulate Sofia Coppola--talented writer/director and daughter of the dynamic, well-spoken Francis--is when she's on camera. Not inarticulate, just awkward and halting. But I get like that, too. I liked the film a lot when I first saw it but found flaws, and strangely, I like it even better now and don't find the flaws as noticeable. Yes, the Japanese are one-dimensional and the lounge singer is treated badly, but the friendship/romance between Bob and Charlotte is just so sweet and tender.

Wrote exactly ONE page of Superunknown, #14. Just picked that one to do and rocked it, in 15 minutes. So, I'm going a little bit more leisurely on this one, seemingly, but should make up some ground on this three-day weekend. Also, we're off work at noonish tomorrow, so I could even get some done in the afternoon, which I haven't done since I was between jobs a couple months ago.