{"id":2862,"date":"2014-11-21T00:31:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T23:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2014-11-21T00:31:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T23:31:23","slug":"mixed-media-thursday-20-november-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/11\/21\/mixed-media-thursday-20-november-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Media, Thursday 20 November 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/interstellar_2014\/\">Interstellar<\/a> at the weekend, though not in IMAX, as it is apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/five-hundred-words\/rage-rage-against-the-dying-of-cinema-f4098d75be41\">meant to be seen<\/a>. I found it 30% amazing, 60% good, and 10% ignoring science and common sense for the sake of the story. The 30% makes it very much worth seeing. The 10% makes for some forehead-smacking moments in amongst the jaw-dropping spectacle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/page_eight_2011\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2014\/page-eight.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"648\" alt=\"Page Eight\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/page_eight_2011\/\">Page Eight<\/a>, on the other hand, is nothing but delight from start to finish. I hadn&#8217;t heard of it before I saw an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2014\/11\/page-eight-a-brilliant-bill-nighy-spy-movie-youve-probably-never-seen\/382538\/?single_page=true\">article in The Atlantic<\/a> a couple of weeks ago. It&#8217;s a quiet, measured British spy story. No flashy running around and jumping off buildings, just Bill Nighy as MI5 intelligence analyst Johnny Worricker cautiously trying to figure out a conspiracy that could bring down the government.<\/p>\n<p>Listening: <a href=\"http:\/\/cutunderscore.com\/\">Cut_<\/a>, after seeing them at Paradiso on Sunday. Also just finished re-reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/47212.Storm_Front\"><i>Storm Front<\/i><\/a>, the first Harry Dresden book by Jim Butcher, after Mark reminded me of it. I&#8217;ve got Ben Aaronovitch&#8217;s new Rivers of London book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/20499240-foxglove-summer\"><i>Foxglove Summer<\/i><\/a> next on my reading list, but I think I&#8217;ve got a taste for the Dresden Files now, and I&#8217;ll be diving back into the series after it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Interstellar at the weekend, though not in IMAX, as it is apparently meant to be seen. I found it 30% amazing, 60% good, and 10% ignoring science and common sense for the sake of the story. The 30% makes it very much worth seeing. The 10% makes for some forehead-smacking moments in amongst &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/11\/21\/mixed-media-thursday-20-november-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mixed Media, Thursday 20 November 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions\/2866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}