2012 — 16 April: Monday
By some mysterious process1 it has somehow become 01:30 and yet here I am, and I'm still wide awake. And hungry. Very irritating. This won't do at all. A chap needs his beauty sleep.
On the other hand, I did watch last Friday's delivery — "Q" — and all its extras, including a fascinating interview with director Laurent Bouhnik. He stoutly argues (though I was largely reliant on the subtitles to make his case) that his film is the absolute opposite of Pasolini's "Theorem" — now there was a seriously weird piece of cinema, and no mistake.
Oh, to be a young film buff again, heh? Yawn. G'night.
I fully realise...
... it's still (at 09:19) not yet time for breakfast in some parts of this placid planet, but when the always-quirky "Arts & Letters" site sends me off to an amusing report from the 16th National Conference of the American Copy Editors Society at the Sheraton in New Orleans (bearing in mind it's the 'Big Easy', after all) and I find myself faced (as it were) with a paragraph such as this:
... then all I can do is splutter with delight and try to mop the excess tea from my keyboard. I mean, I've heard of "scratch'n'sniff", but this is ridiculous :-)
This, on the other hand, left me unamused. I can be such a curmudgeon. (Link.)
Oi Va Voi!
Not for the first time, my friends' choice of music has both surprised and then delighted me. This morning's example, as I lazily contemplate scanning the artwork of three new arrivals at the on-going entertainment ball, is a 2003 album called "Laughter through tears" which I'd correctly pegged as Eastern European klezmer / Jewish before I gave in and browsed their Wikipedia entry. Nice stuff.
Were Microsoft just a little better at putting two and two together they might realise that suggesting I "upgrade" my 64-bit Win7 Ultimate to Win7 Pro ain't gonna happen. Likewise, their suggestion that I use Office 2010 to "put the spark back into my PCs". Oi Va Voi, indeed!
As I said... "lazily". It's now 14:22 (somehow). Two of today's titles feature my favourite2 actresses:
Though how it can possibly be more than fifty years since the release of Breakfast at Tiffany's causes me severe cranial discomfort. It's a long overdue Blu-ray release. I first saw this lovely film at the Regional Film Theatre in St. Albans while pretending to be an aeronautical engineering apprentice.
Listening to music can...
... damage my bank account. This afternoon's example was kicked off by track #12 ("Ederlezi") on the first CD of a compilation called World 2000. It was/is so hauntingly beautiful that I looked up Goran Bregovic and, sure enough, within a couple of minutes my willpower had been compromised by Jeff Bezos and I found myself downloading the 1991 soundtrack album that comprises most (but not all, it seems) of Bregovic's score for Emir Kusturica's 1988 film "Le Temps des Gitans" (Time of the Gypsies). I'm merely left wondering how it took so long for the track to wind up on a compilation published in 2000.
Ridiculously amusing
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Recall what happens if you stare too long into the abyss...