jwbblog: So what do you want me to get out of this show?

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

So what do you want me to get out of this show?

1. So the Sopranos ends on Sunday. Any ideas about what's going to happen? Tony is killed or goes to jail? Too predictable. Meadow gets killed? Too Godfather III. A.J. goes to work for the Taliban? Now we're talking. I do hope it manages to come close to meeting everyone's (very high) expectations, but I think it's almost bound to disapoint.

2. In other high-culture news, didja catch Cormac McCarthy--"maestro of high-literary horse operas"--on Oprah the other day? Me neither. There's an entertaining--though very mean--discussion on Slate about it, in case you're curious.

3. Tintin seems to be all the rage at the moment. The usually brilliant Anthony Lane has a pretty good piece in The New Yorker from May 28 that will be of interest to all Tintinologists. It is, alas, not available on the interwebs, though you can read an abstract of the essay here.

4. You can find the trailer for Anton Corbijn's Control--about Ian Curtis of Joy Division fame here. I'll acknowledge that the subject matter is dark, but still, this is a bit much.

5. So I was in Brookline Booksmith in lovely Brookline, MA, a few weeks ago and discovered that, hidden away in the fiction section, they have a little section (sub-section?) called "Espionage". In said sub-section. amidst a lot of familiar stuff--Eric Ambler, Furst, McCarry--I came across a bunch of books by a guy I had never heard of before named Gerald Seymour. Mr. Seymour is a British reporter who has covered all sorts of messy stuff, including the Vietnam War, the Munich Olympics massacre, and the Italian Red Brigades. I finished my first one--Traitor's Kiss--a few nights ago and it is astounding. It tells the story of the efforts of MI6 to rescue a Russian double agent who's been compromised. Really good stuff--I couldn't put it down.

6. The latest of John Burdett's Bangkok novels, Bangkok Haunts, arrived in the mail yesterday. I started it as a dozed off last night and so far so good. I'll let you know how it goes, but, in the meantime, the earlier books, Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo are highly recommended if you like middle-brow police procedurals and don't mind a soupcon of Buddhism sprinkled on top.

Editor's Note: I apologize for any typographical errors in this post. I wrote this in a hurry and the spell-checker in the new version of Blogger blows. That is all.

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So what do you want me to get out of this show?

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