2011 — 13 December: Tuesday
A cursory glance1 suggests the only immediate damage from the overnight weather hereabouts is the drunken angle at which my neighbours' elderly "For Sale" sign is now standing. "Proper copper ramekin" seems to be today's phrase on the 6Music breakfast show. Though we shouldn't overlook "Triskaidekaphobia".
What can one say?
The shortlist also included:
- On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
- The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey
- Parallel Stories by Péter Nádas
- 11.22.63 by Stephen King
- The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M Auel
- Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas
- Outside the Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller
- Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy
I once owned, and read, the original trilogy by Ms Auel. They were disparaged in some circles (mostly those circles that refuse to countenance the idea of evolution but prefer 'gospel truth').
What else can one say?
On a related note, I see that my little video library fails to include just one of the ten items noted by The Register.
- Showgirls: Elizabeth Berkley and Kyle MacLachlan (1995)
- Damage: Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche (1992)
- Killing me Softly: Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes (2002)
- Body of Evidence: Madonna and Willem Dafoe (1993)
- Crimes of Passion: Kathleen Turner (1984)
- The Specialist: Sharon Stone and Sly Stallone (1994)
- Gigli: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez (2003)
- 40 Days and 40 Nights: Matt Sullivan and Shannyn Sossamon (2002)
- Matrix Reloaded: Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss (2003)
- The Stud: Joan Collins and Oliver Tobias (1978)
Now I definitely need some breakfast! It's 10:20 and seems to be sunny and dry out there.
Gaps in the...
... space-time continuum are the only way I can explain that it's now already wandered, as it were, into the afternoon. When did that happen?
While pottering gently around at various things domestical since my lunch I've been aurally soaking myself in the music I have by Dr. John. It's very fine stuff,2 though I'm faintly bemused (and appalled) when (if) I ever stop to think just how long (over 40 years, easily) I've been following his career. It means I can't be quite as young as I like to think I am :-)
Some of the music reminds me it's time I re-watched Jim McBride's excellent 1986 movie "The Big Easy". Even though my current DVD version annoyingly omits the "proposal-in-a-hospital scene" that fits between the explosion in the boatyard and the wedding dance. This charming little scene was certainly on my original UK VHS tape. YouTube to the rescue:
Why it got deleted is anybody's guess :-)