2015 — 6 September: Sunday
Much of yesterday — predictably, I guess — was spent trying to sort out, erm, discrepancies between my "database" of classical music and the "actuality" to be found stored in (and scattered around) my revolving tower repository of 'classical' CDs in the far corner of the living room (generally hidden from sight by the door I keep open). A simple enough task, to be sure, but the 200 slots in that tower actually hold nearly 400 CDs.1
I have still yet to find the Thomas Beecham CD with Borodin's "In the steppes of Central Asia" to match the confident entry in my database. I don't doubt yet further "unknown unknowns" will come to light. Or not, if they remain unknown. <Sigh>
There were...
... actually two other deliveries yesterday (besides the Kate Bush CD single). But, lazy chap that I am, they went unnoted2 until I eventually made time to scan their artwork just a few minutes ago. Only fellow obsessives will note anything at all wayward about these titles:
'Why,' you might well ask, 'does he want a BD of "The Sure Thing" when he's had an NTSC DVD of it since June 2003? And why another pair of films, one of which he first bought in March 2005?' Well, the Rob Reiner film is a sheer delight (introducing both John Cusack and Nicollette Sheridan) that I've therefore long wished to upgrade to BD. Annoyingly, this Scandinavian re-issue doesn't include any of the extras on my original DVD, nor any chapter index, though it gives me four sets of subtitles to practise on.
Should I mention there's a DVD in the same package, so I now have a spare spare that I can safely lend out?
As for the other title, I was completely unaware (until browsing the late Roger Ebert's excellent but addictive film review archive) that there even existed an earlier (and very likely funnier) version of "The In-Laws" with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin. Both of whom can generally run comedic rings around Michael Douglas, though not Albert Brooks. Bite me.
[Pause for tea and breakfast]
An El Reg comment...
... attached to the story about Oracle laying off its team of Java evangelists asserts that the only way to deal with [program] complexity is to avoid it. And that that is best done by training in Assembler. This response was a nice retort, I felt...
Van Morrison is 70?
But (sigh) Christa would have been 70 this coming December, too. I fear that may mean I am myself — as she once diplomatically stopped me from remarking in one of my weekly letters to dear Mama — in some potential danger of no longer being a Spring Chicken!
Today's mystery object
In thumbnail form...
And if you need a bigger clue.
Carmina Burana...
... remains one of my favourites. (Link.)