2015 — 18 June: Thursday
Yesterday's walk1 helped ensure a good night's sleep. As did my soporific choice of evening viewing. I finally found the round tuit needed to take the 2005 Chilean/German "en la cama" out for a spin. Those round tuits are fairly elusive.
Apart from its overt sexual content, it was much like watching Beckett. But in Spanish. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I noted when I bought it a year ago that it had been the basis (I hesitate to use the word "inspiration") for Julio Medem's (frankly, much more enjoyable) film "Room in Rome".
Having exchanged...
... probate-related emails with Big Bro, I think breakfast is now next on the list. I shall be out and about later; trust Amazon to pick today, therefore, for a larger-than-usual set of deliveries. I'm confidently predicting at least one "You were out when we called" notice through my letter box.
Later
I was right. Happily, Pauline was at home, two doors away, and did the honours. In the meantime, I've borrowed a fascinating new issue of Len's techno-porn "Custom PC" magazine to drool over. It includes material on G-Sync and FreeSync variable refresh-rate monitors for me to pore over. I was blissfully unaware of these particular developments, not being a PC gamer. Time for a cuppa, methinks.
To save photons, I shall simply list the new arrivals:
1. Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror - Series 1 [DVD] 2. Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror - Series 2 [DVD] 3. Black Mirror: White Christmas [DVD] 4. On Trying To Keep Still [Book] 5. Electric Music For The Mind And Body [CD] 6. Dirty Money: A Parker Novel [Book] 7. The Shadow (Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD) 8. Spring [DVD] 9. Vietnam Experience [CD] 10. Ask The Parrot [Book] 11. Kingsman: The Secret Service [Blu-ray] 12. The Fifth Estate [DVD] 13. Stuart: A Life Backwards [DVD] 14. Mr Sloane [DVD] 15. Age of Consent [DVD] 16. Bobby [DVD] 17. Suits - Season 4 [DVD]
As I suspected (and, if IMDB's trivia can be trusted, I have just confirmed) Michael Powell's final film ("Age of Consent", made in 1969) tells an earlier version of the same story in John Duigan's "Sirens", made in 1993. It's a small world.