Mumble BANG Repeat

I saw an illegal copy of the summer's hot action flick last night and while watching the serious shenanigans, I had a thought. Your TV should have a sound design feature that pumps up the urgent muttered dialog of paranoid action flicks and then lowers the volume during the chase scenes when all decibal hell breaks loose. These pair of scenes happened at least half a dozen times in two hours: A pair of beurocrats mumble about the need to kill a government trained assassin who likes to hop the globe and then, BAM it's fast music, breaking glass, pistols, motorscooters, and the brayng sirens of foreign police forces pouring out of your speakers.

Like Nigel's amp, this flick goes to 11.

I finished a book I had been meaning to re-read for more than a decade and I was glad to pick up an old paperback for fifty cents. I was late for work one rainy morning and took the book with me ona whim. Thanks to some heavy rain and slow trains, I went through 75 pages by the time I hit the desk. Rabbit Redux is one of Updike's screwier novels with weaknesses and strengths throughout. It probably reads like caricature noe but very few writers were writing about the counter-culture while it was happening. The late 60s came to the 'burbs in the pages of this novel and Rabbit Angstrom was the only man in America who supported the Vietnam war. He hates it but thinks it has to be fought. It's definitely worth a read and should make a good reconsidering essay in the pages of National Review.

Right now I am reading The Shooting Party and awaiting a phone call about a job. Hope to hear something good this week. Fingers crossed.