Movies

The DFT in Detroit is having an Almodovar festival this fall and we saw Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown again. Very lively movie that holds up well, especially the lead actress and the pacing. Also saw Hollywoodland, about which I have little good to say. The acting was not good especially Adrian Brody who seemed to be acting in a spoof at times. Even Diane Lane seemed awkward playing a femme fatale. It looked good but even that didn't really produce the ambiance it should have had. I think a biopic might even have worked better. We should have felt Reeves' struggle to be a legitimate actor more fully. Why did we need to know so much about Brody's home life?

Went to my first University of Michigan football game . We were there for three plays when they postponed the game due to weather. We were on the second row and it took more than a half hour to climb to the top. I think that will also be my last game in The Big House.

Shocking to go into the original Borders in Ann Arbor and find only one copy of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone and no copies of his other books. We must live in a real microcosm. To me he is a huge writer, but obviously the public is still reading Evanovich, Patterson etc. Not that there's anything wrong with that.