FRIDAY IS A SUPERBEING

[jennythereader]

Body: Both knees are a little painful.

Reading: I started Ilium. I'm about 10 chapters in, and it's pretty good so far.

Hearing: All music, all day. My iPod is presenting me with mostly country today, for some reason.

Etsy find: Pretty blank book

Project Follow-up: I skipped walking, and forgot about the cordial, but dinner with friends was good.

Tonight's Project: Tom & I are going to a wine tasting with a couple friends.

Randomness: After a conversation with a friend, I'm doing actual research into something I've thought about for a long time: taking voice lessons. I'd love to really learn how to sing. I've found a few offers on Craigslist that look decent, and there's a whole website dedicated to offering private music lessons that I'm poking through.

Comments

[nounsandverbs]

You're right, Friday IS a superbeing. (An Artificial Person, to be exact.)

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

I get my silly titles by googleing, and this one came from a post about the book Friday. I wondered if anybody would recognize it.

[nounsandverbs]

I always wondered where you got those from.

"Friday" is one of my favorite Heinlein books. I'm surprised no one's tried to make a movie of it -- it'd make a great one.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

It's better suited to the Hollywood process than most of his stuff that's been filmed.

Normally I google the phrase "[day of week] is" and pick something off the first page of results. Sometimes I have to look on a later page for something good.

[nounsandverbs]

Let's not even talk about Melrose Space Starship Troopers.

I guess I'll have to write that screenplay myself ...

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

I think it's a shame that nobody has ever filmed Starship Troopers.

And then there's that really bad thing that coincidentally has the same name. :)

[11th-letter.livejournal.com]

Starship Troopers is really a bad choice for a movie. There's surprisingly little action in it, and what there is is kinda boring. The social theorizing is what makes the book worthwhile, and I can't see any way to put that into a movie.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

It's been too long since I've read the book. I'll take your word for it about the action.

[gwenlianna.livejournal.com]

It never would have occurred to me to look on Craigslist for voice lessons. I'd love to hear about what you find. It's something I've been pondering as well. I really liked singing as a kid, before I realized how painful it apparently was for everyone around me. I still like singing, and would like to someday learn how... so that the idea of singing where other people could hear might become less horrifying.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

It didn't really occur to me, either. But, some Craigslist posts came up when I googled it, so I checked them out.

There was one that looked pretty good, but I bookmarked it at work, not home, so I don't have the link for you..