Rain and a Little Persuasion

Ah, once again yesterday it was gray and wet here in L.A. and all my friends were updating their Facebook status updates with hatred for the weather and exclamations of being "over" it. I, on the other hand, had gotten my heater fixed (thank god! It makes all the difference!) had finished running errands and decided it was the perfect time for some Jane Austen, and more to the point: Persuasion.

I watched the 2007 version for the first time last year and loved it. Admittedly, I feel they really messed up the end, with the letter and Sally Hawkins (who plays Anne Elliot) running around town chasing after Captain Wentworth like a mad woman. Then I thought about it and decided if Wentworth looked as Rupert Penry-Jones does, I guess I'd be running all about town chasing after him as well, so it almost doesn't bother me anymore.

 

I made myself a cup of hot chocolate, curled up with a blanket on the couch and while the rain continued coming down outside, I transported myself to Regency England for a short while indoors. Don't you just love Austen?

Rainy Day in L.A.

It's raining (one might argue it's sprinkling) in Los Angeles today and Angelenos everywhere are complaining to anyone within earshot and getting into accidents all over the place because we don't know how to drive in the rain. I, for one, have always loved the rain and think it's a nice change. I know, I stand alone. I  have nowhere I need to be, so I don't have to drive and that might also help with my non-hatred!

I'm gonna get the fireplace going- not because it'll be nice with rainy weather but because my stupid heater doesn't work and I'm freezing! But since I do have a fire going and no place I need to be, I made a rainy day playlist, which I tried to whittle down to just one song per artist and failed miserably. It turns out I just don't know how to whittle. The fact of the matter is almost any album by David Gray or Damien Rice would do for a rainy day so it's really hard to narrow them down to just a song! It's kind of a weird mix, and one might argue depressing or melancholy, but I like it, and as I'm only trying to please myself here, it'll do! Here it is, in no particular order:

1) Slow Life by Grizzly Bear

2) Wonderwall by Ryan Adams

3) Come Pick Me Up Ryan Adams

4) Slow Motion by David Gray

5) This Year's Love by David Gray

6) Cold Water by Damien Rice

7) I Remember by Damien Rice

8) Elephant by Damien Rice

9) Go On Say by It Blind Pilot

10) Stay Or Leave by Dave Matthews

11) Captain by Dave Matthews Band

12) Make No Sound by Gomez

13) An Audience with the Pope by Elbow

14) Lover, You Should've Come Over by Jeff Buckley

15) Endlessly by Muse

16) No Other Way byPaolo Nutini

17) Let It Be Me by Ray LaMontagne

18) You Really Gotta Hold On Me by She & Him

19) Lifeboats by Snow Patrol

20) Sweet Thing by Van Morrison

21) Impossible by Band of Skulls

22) Cold Flame by Band of Skulls

I could go on but I was trying to keep it to twenty- and I was close! I might do another one on another rainy day (whenever that might be) and see what I come up with... I can do melancholy with the best of 'em!