Sometimes, you have to finish up a long work week with a good giggle.

Next week: Roald Dahl book review & FilmCamp10 at Glasgow Film Theatre with Quotables.

Lately, I’ve been finding that there are a lot of films that I’m really looking forward to. To which I am looking forward. That I wish were here already, please.

Misfits, Series 2
I have no idea when this is due to start, but I’m not sure I can go much longer without my Robert Keenan fix. Plan: Series 1 catch-up this week.

Charlie St Cloud
What can I say? It looks decidedly, unabashedly, and (hopefully) delightfully rubbish. I can’t wait.

Glee, Season 2
I started watching Glee while I was living in the US last summer. Sadly it looks like it won’t be screened in the UK until January, but I’m making a trip to California in December so hopefully I can do some quick catch-up.

From Here to Eternity
The wonderful Park Circus Films is re-releasing From Here to Eternity tomorrow (Friday 24 September). I read today that they’re also re-releasing It Happened One Night, and although I watch it pretty recently I’m not sure I can resist a quick trip to the GFT to catch these beauties.

This is the first ‘unconference’ (or non-con as I’ve been calling it) on Digital Innovation & The Moving Image (click for more details on how the website I’m working on, Quotables, is involved). I get to skip class, hang out with a bunch of my film buddies, hear great speakers, and round off the day with a few drinks and a film quiz. That’s my kind of day.

What are you looking forward to in the coming months?

The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
— Winston Churchill

Thus, here are some of my favourite books from books, and about books. They’re all stored on Quotables, my favourite quotations database. Enjoy!

From Books:

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
— Jack Kerouac, On The Road

We are the makers of music and the dreamers of dreams.
— Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos

About Books:

Good friends, good books & a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
— Mark Twain

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
— Charles W. Eliot

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
— Jessamyn West

Everyone has a book in them and that, in most cases, is where it should stay.
— Christopher Hitchens

And, finally, some sage wisdom from P.J. O’Rourke

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.