2011 — 30 December: Friday
Some time ago — in all probability in 1999, when the film was released — Christa and I went to see the remake1 of "The Thomas Crown Affair", and I was very taken by the use of a specially extended version of Nina Simone's "Sinnerman" during the surreal museum chase sequence. Last night, having started the evening fully intending to re-watch the extended version of "Avatar", I found myself flagging after an hour so I decided instead to re-watch "The Adjustment Bureau". Thus it was that I spent 69p and downloaded just a few minutes ago the track "Fever (Adam Freeland extended remix)" based on the original song as performed by Sarah Vaughan. It, too, was used during a sort-of chase sequence.
There's a shorter version on YouTube... isn't everything on there these days?
I still have no memory of reading the Philip K Dick story "Adjustment Team" however.
Time for some sleep. G'night.
I can't help noticing a...
... correlation between the quality (good) of my sleep the night after a visit to the care-home and its quality (poor) the night before such a visit. But since I literally don't know what's going on in some deep level of my 'mind' I shall try not to worry about it. While one may not wish to spend one's life sleepwalking in Gurdjieff's sense perhaps it's time to re-read Colin Wilson's "The war against sleep"? — untouched2 since July 1982.
Not, however, without a decent cuppa :-)
As one who...
... still treasures the memory of John Nott truncating his TV interview with Robin Day (was that really in October 1982?) I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised to read this item as yet another batch of 30-year-old guvmint papers are tentatively exposed to the weak winter sunlight...
... even if it is straight out of the Sir Humphrey Appleby 'Yes, Ministerial' playbook.
Chaps need treats...
... even if they have to treat themselves. And, to be honest, I've just about given up hoping that Junior will remember his promise to bring along a copy of the latest 'Vorkosigan' novel, so I was delighted to find it in Soton a couple of hours ago. Meanwhile, Mr Postie dropped off a low-budget (probably straight to video) thriller that happens to feature Stana Katic (whom I find so beguiling in the TV show "Castle").
What could be better when it's so nastily, coldly, moistly,... horrible out there? [Pause] Having meanwhile found, and rapidly skimmed, the Colin Wilson book (in my own, personal, war against sleep) I've just celebrated with a stale croissant and 'super' jam. Yum. Followed by some delicious coffee. It compensates for forgetting about the Kermode and Mayo film review radio programme until ten minutes before the end.
This really doesn't feel much like a Friday.
It does, however, now (23:06) feel like time for some more of that sleep stuff. G'night.