DreamHaven Books and Comics (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dreamhaven) wrote,@ 2009-06-08 18:14:00 |
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Finally closed....
I was closed today. I opened up Sunday for what I thought would be a slow day with an early closing but I ended up at the store until 5:00pm and doing quite a lot of business. Today, I worked around the store while EV came by to put the new catalog together. It went to the printer and I should have it mailed early Wednesday.
Last night I watched the rest of a film I'd started early in the week. The Fall, directed by someone named Tarsem, who must be an artist (I haven't done any research yet) because it was the most amazingly beautiful film you could imagine. A bit of Wizard of Oz meets the Princess Bride filmed in about 25 countries (no exaggeration there) in the most incredible locales on the planet. Maggie Thompson of the Comics Buyers Guide had recommended it to me saying she'd watched it probably 7 times in the past few weeks. I can see why. It was lush and inviting and the story, while simple, was intriguing. It starred Lee Pace from Pushing Daisies (a fabulous TV show). I would recommend this to anyone who can sit for 2 hours and absorb beautiful scenery.
I started reading China Mieville's new novel, The City and the City. It's a mystery set in a bizarre world, much as his earlier books have been. I'm only two chapters in but I'm sure I'll enjoy it. I'm also half-way through Hubert's Freaks, the story of the discovery by a Philadelphia bookseller of a previously unknown set of photographs by Diane Arbus taken in Hubert's Dime Museum using a number of the sideshow folk there. I'm a sucker for anything to do with sideshows and I have quite a large collection of rare paper material about them. I only ever went to a couple of them when I was little; my parents really disapproved. But I did buy a pitch card from the man with the largest feet in the world. He was so deformed he couldn't stand. Still have that card.
Time to go.
Greg
I was closed today. I opened up Sunday for what I thought would be a slow day with an early closing but I ended up at the store until 5:00pm and doing quite a lot of business. Today, I worked around the store while EV came by to put the new catalog together. It went to the printer and I should have it mailed early Wednesday.
Last night I watched the rest of a film I'd started early in the week. The Fall, directed by someone named Tarsem, who must be an artist (I haven't done any research yet) because it was the most amazingly beautiful film you could imagine. A bit of Wizard of Oz meets the Princess Bride filmed in about 25 countries (no exaggeration there) in the most incredible locales on the planet. Maggie Thompson of the Comics Buyers Guide had recommended it to me saying she'd watched it probably 7 times in the past few weeks. I can see why. It was lush and inviting and the story, while simple, was intriguing. It starred Lee Pace from Pushing Daisies (a fabulous TV show). I would recommend this to anyone who can sit for 2 hours and absorb beautiful scenery.
I started reading China Mieville's new novel, The City and the City. It's a mystery set in a bizarre world, much as his earlier books have been. I'm only two chapters in but I'm sure I'll enjoy it. I'm also half-way through Hubert's Freaks, the story of the discovery by a Philadelphia bookseller of a previously unknown set of photographs by Diane Arbus taken in Hubert's Dime Museum using a number of the sideshow folk there. I'm a sucker for anything to do with sideshows and I have quite a large collection of rare paper material about them. I only ever went to a couple of them when I was little; my parents really disapproved. But I did buy a pitch card from the man with the largest feet in the world. He was so deformed he couldn't stand. Still have that card.
Time to go.
Greg
