Hard Light

I'm a big fan of Elizabeth Hand's Cass Neary novels, and the third installment did not disappoint.  Hard Light continues the themes of dark photography, wreckage, and both ancient and modern science, art, music and magick in the setting of Cornwall this time.  These books are bloody and grim, but they have hope and verve.

I also liked Wylding Hall, but not as much because it was in a more YA vs. hardbitten noir voice. It also spooked me, with one image that has lingered, though.

Otherwise, I'm working, through the usual bureaucratic pseudobizmgt obstructionism, and looking into starting a coffee shop in my neighborhood's coffee desert. I got off my duff and ran 3x last week. Pulled by dogs, but nonetheless.

The film fest, MSPIFF, was good, but I'll write about it later. I tweeted quite a bit but have not had any deep thoughts yet.

Best of Fest for me: Estonian historical drama The Fencer. Great followup to a year of reading Sofi Oksanen.

Runner-up: French Canadian rural political satire My Internship In Canada. I only saw that for Kreyol and French, but it turned out to be fast-paved, shrewd, moving, and funny.

Disappointing: No Finnish movie. Many movies focused only on men, despite coed situations and settings. It's 2016.

Also, the Germans did not provide a "civilizing influence" to the Ojibwe, as the local Prohibition doco claimed, according to a friend. We have other words for that now, and the closing night doco, The Seventh Fire, also local, made that clear.

Anyway, more later.

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