 | 10:36 pm - Randomness in Reading
Finally finished Candace Pert's memoir, Molecules of Emotion, a few weeks ago. It was definitely very good, and very thought-provoking. My main real complaint is that, by the end, it was clear that the part of the story that she thought was interesting was her hippie-flake new-age ideas (receptor activity is all vibrational, so maybe matter is just a vibrational expansion of consciousness! No, seriously, she discovered Jesus, started going to a chiropracter, met Deepak Chopra and started doing TM in the space of four pages. I had whiplash of my skeptical crazy-detector. It's still sore!) whereas the part of the story that I thought was interesting was her career in the sciences and the progression of her actual research... and our ability to compromise on this was drifting further and further apart.
So yeah, I ended up skipping most of the last 20-30 pages anymore because I just didn't care about her 10 rules to happiness (which weren't actually "10 rules of happiness", the phrase is merely a placeholder) and wanted to get to the end of her Peptide T story... which didn't actually end in the book. Doh.
Anyways, I started reading The Scarlet Pimpernel as my new bus book--just to make ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) da_wyf jealous, I think--and it's been going pretty well although I just barely started. I'm really quite wishing I hadn't left it in the lab this afternoon, actually. I'm not in the mood for How to make sex marvellous tonight, so I've been alternating between Bruce Lee's The Art of Expressing the Human Body, Pharmako/Poeia (which I still don't know how to pronounce!), and my college Chem textbook. None of them are really doing it for me, though--I'm in the mood for some fiction!, but I hate starting a novel while I'm in the middle of another one. That way madness lies, I swear!
On an alternate media note, recent movie watchings:
* We watched Wing Chun and Iron Monkey last weekend at our weekly movie night (showing the Dead or Alive trilogy this weekend, I think) to much acclaim. I'm just realizing now that it's been at least a decade since I saw Wing Chun, and I've been looking for a cheap copy on DVD ever since... which I just finally picked up on the honeymoon.
* The watching-all-of-Doctor Who-available-on-DVD project is nearing completion (bet you didn't know about that!): I just finished Trial of a Time Lord so I'm about to start Sylvester McCoy, who doesn't seem to have a lot on DVD.
I am deriving a lot of amusement from the bizarrely specific subgenres that Netflix has been pitching on their front page as of late: "Mind-bending Foreign Crime Movies!" "Quirky Independent Sci-Fi & Fantasy!" It's actually pretty tame at the moment, in comparison to much of what I've been getting.
I think that's all for now.
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