MUST HAVE EET

Turner Classic Movies has been running their annual Summer-Under-The-Stars film fest, and I’m obsessed with recording movies. So far, I’ve recorded 20+ movies, not counting the 24 straight hours of Laurel and Hardy movies and shorts (I love them). Twice now I’ve set the alarm off at 3:00 AM to get up and switch out discs to record movies. Of course, I’m not watching any of them up – I’m storing them up like precious gems for rainy days when nothing will do but an old black and white. Curt thinks I’m crazy, but he just doesn’t understand the kind of love that exists between a packrat and her packrattage.

Tonight, I watched On the Waterfront for the first time ever. Batman: Dark Knight has been routed. I held my breath, I cried, I ached for Marlon Brando to be alright in the end. What a beauty of a performance, truly. And you can’t go wrong using Lee J. Cobb as as an mean and angry white guy. (Has he ever not played a mean and angry white guy?)

I’m also listening to 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill. I normally do not trust anthologies by just one author (unless it’s Stephen King, but Stephens are a rare breed), as most writers do not have enough steam in them to chug through an entire book of short stories without veering off track. So far, so good with this one though – he’s got a delicate touch that I appreciate, while still having the power to disturb.

I did not watch the Olympics. I was indifferent, for the most part. I wonder why it is that people are excited about the Olympics, and I am not? What caused me to be indifferent to them? What causes others not to be? Hm.

I find both presidential candidates to be deplorable shysters blowing bilious smoke up everyone’s ass. I don’t believe it is really a personal thing with either of them; if they were not politicians, they might be decent people. It makes me sad, and angry. What a crap world we create with our crap rules.

Ah well. At least we all die some day, and are rid of all the dirtiness and confounded idiocy.

That’s cheery.

I shall now watch Laurel and Hardy to detox. Yay long weekend! ;)