In happier news

State of Play is all KINDS of awesome, and has been a lifesaver these past two nights. When the end credits rolled for the last episode I could watch before I absolutely had to go to bed, it made me go, "Auuugh!" both nights. I'll probably finish it tonight.

Also, Cal McCaffrey certainly adds to the, "John Simm's characters sure do seem to get a lot of tail, don't they?" tally.

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I just found out there's a movie adaptation of In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead coming out with Tommy Lee Jones playing Dave Robicheaux and Peter Sarsgsard playing one of my favorite of James Lee Burke's screwed-up characters and just a metric buttload of good actors.

I like James Lee Burke's books quite a bit, largely because his characters are incredible; he especially does such a good job of portraying the kind of people who are damaged and often people you don't want to let too deeply into your own life but they aren't sum total bad people. He doesn't make it easy. And Electric Mist is such an excellent example of his work.

I'm not that familiar with the French director Bertand Tavernier, though I know his adaptation of Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280 is thought to be excellent (I haven't seen it yet, but I am a Thompson fan), and he seems to get high marks for most of his films. So overall I'm pretty optimistic.