lost in wokka treasonable music..

Well, seems like San Jose has decided that late September is the right time to unleash near-100 degree temperatures on us again, so thank the Lord for my new iBook, and its current proximity (with me attached) to the air-conditioning unit.

At the weekend, when it was only uncomfortable, not insanely warm, we went over to the Camera One to check out Sofia Coppola's new movie Lost In Translation, starring Bill Murray and Scarlet Johansson, and it's an amazing, understated piece that may well be the best thing that Murray has ever done. It's about world-weariness, and finding beauty in unlikely places, and trying to be happy somehow - oh, and there's some classic Murray adlibs thrown in, too.

On the videogame front, I've had some serious, if frivolous fun with Starsky And Hutch for PS2, which seems reasonable in single-player, but shines in its odd two-player co-op mode (one player controlling the car with a Dual Shock 2, and the other shooting the bad guys with a GunCon 2.) The same frivolity would apply to, of all things, Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure, which uses the Tony Hawk 4 engine to excellent effect, and even has a 'pro mode' which allows identical key mapping. Oh, and I've been going back to Amplitude, which is still an amazing music game - can't quite complete the Insane level, at least, not yet.

Otherwise, books? Just started on An Experiment In Treason from Bruce Alexander, a very intriguing Georgian-era historical mystery featuring the blind London judge Sir John Fielding. Work? Seems to be going good all ways up (Slashdot, Internet Archive, other in-progress things.) Play? A little experiment is going very well. And I've even been working out, though I'm sure I'll grow out of that in, oh, a day or two.