Moving Day

It's time for a change. I've decided to relocate KimSaid to typepad. Here's my new URL: http://kimsaid.blogs.com/.

Truth & Beauty

From Ian McEwan (author of Atonement):

Much has been written about the imagination in science, of wild hunches born out, of sudden intuitive connections, and benign promptings from mundane events (let no one forget the structure of benzene and Kekulé's dream of a snake eating its tail) and of the occasional triumph of beauty over truth.

("Is science driven by inspired guesswork?" Telegraph UK)

Romancing the Tome

Lusting after the latest news on literary adaptations? Get satisfied this week on Romancing the Tome where Amy weighs in on the new Austen adaptation while I report on the the Gulf War-novel turned film Jarhead and reveal why filmmakers are hot for Paris (the city, not the heiress).

Pride & Prejudice: Worth Every Penny
NO, This Is Not (Just an Excuse to Post Another Pic of Jake Gyllenhaal)
Paris Is for Lovers

White Hotness

Download the White Stripes cover of Tegan & Sara's "Walking with a Ghost" here. And just because I never tire of watching Jack cover "Jolene" at Blackpool, here's a link to the video.

No Quibbles, Just Bits #3

Dox Quixote was a major influence on David Barringer while brainstorming for his novel Johnny Red. Read an interview with Barringer on 52 Projects (via Lux Lotus).

Here's The New Yorker's review of Dying for Love, the new novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Browsing through the lastest issue of Wired (and wondering, was it always skewed this male? p*rn, gadgets, p*rn...) while researching an article, I happened upon what I thought was an interesting statistic. 55% of Netflix users are female and the top five genres are 1)Drama, 2)TV, 3)Comedy, 4)Action&Adventure, and 5)Thrillers. I have 219 movies in my queue (which at the slow rate I've been watching them lately could mean years of backlog), with most of my picks in the Television, Classic, and Foreign genres.

Was Marie Antionette a Jolie Laide? Discuss at La Dauphine.