30 Day Song Meme

Swiped from svgurl. (She did it in one day - I just can't - it would take me hours. So put as a 30 day meme.)

1. 𝐀 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐇

He the Richmond by Elle McIllwaine

Yeah, it was written and performed in 1975, but I didn't hear it until this week.

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Television and other things but mostly television..

I got bored of archiving finally - although did make it up through 2009.

Me: We saw a ton of movies between 2004-2009.
Wales: Did we? What movies?
Me: Weirdly I can't remember them or the names, will have to look them up again. I swear my brain is a sieve...ah, Waitress, Notes on a Scandel, the Pervert's Guide to Cinema (yes that's actually a movie).
Wales: Ah, I used to be alive. I used to do things. Thanks for reminding me.( Read more... )

[There's now a lot, maybe too many, movie reviews in my archive now. I think they may out do the Buffy meta...which is saying something. Although most folks are reading and liking the unedited fanfic that I wrote. This is why I stopped caring what people think of my writing. It's all subjective anyhow.]

As you can see I'm in a snarky mood of late. Also a touch depressed. It's gloomy, although the sun did peak out once or twice this weekend, and we saw a touch of blue, and a few pretty sunsets. I don't expect to see one tonight - but you never know. Humid, but otherwise mild - all things considered.

Niece sent me photos of the Canary Islands. (It looks like a California Beach, specifically one in San Diego, with a lot of sand, not much in the way of foliage, although a lot in the mountains. Also reminds me a little of Turkey. I liked Costa Rica and Hilton Head better, to be honest. This is good - I should be discouraged from wanting to visit the Canary Islands.)
Bro made it safely to Milan - and now has to take two trains (with luggage) to get to Florence. I do not feel sorry for him - that's just poor planning on his part. I'd have plotted to stay one night in Milan, get past the jet-lag, and then jump to Florence, mother and I assumed that was what he was doing - mainly because how we travel. My brother, not so much.

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Enuf of the boring stuff ...television:

1. Obiwan Kenobi aka Ben and Leia:

This feels like a kids show.
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4. Stranger Things S4 - this actually works without having a clear memory of the former seasons. I wasn't sure at first, but it does. They do a good job of catching us up a bit. It was filmed over a year ago. Biggest take away from the first episode - was whoa, the kids sprouted up and have grown big time. Also, while the girls look more or less the same, the boys look entirely different, except for Jonathan and Steve, who were older to begin with.

They've also made the teen D&D players to be a bit on the creepy side - while they weren't as kids.

Joyce, aka Winona Ryder's character, is starting to annoy me. Hopefully this is a first episode thing?

Oh, and guess who is back? Yep Mathew Modine and Paul Glazer.

5. The Offer - dramatization of the Making of the Godfather. Watching this thing makes me wonder how the Godfather ever got made. Seriously it had more obstacles in its way. For one thing the Italians hated the book and were actively boycotting the movie. Okay, the Italians in my opinion are a bit on the sensitive side. The mafia, comically - I might add, goes ape shit over the film - going so far as to threaten the film makers. Bob Evans gets a dead rat put in his hotel bed. Al Ruddy has his car window shot out (while he's in it) and is taken in a car for a meeting. Sinatra shuts down their efforts to get Vic Damone to play Johnny Fontana (the Sinatra stand in). Sinatra also took the book personally.
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6. Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore...

I tried to watch this..

Mother: How is it?
ME: I'm pretty much lost and close to giving up. I can't remember the first two films at all. And am thinking I may have to re-watch them.

It's also an overly dark film - so hard to watch unless, it's night and all the lights are off.
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Coming soon...

Tonight Dark Winds adapted from the Tony Hillerman Detective Joe Leaphorn Series (the Navajho detectives). This has George RR Martin, Robert Redford, and Hillerman's Daughter behind it, although someone else is show-running and writing. It has been adapted previously for a PBS series, and a couple of movies (none of which were stellar, although I liked the PBS series).

The two people I know that would love this the most - are either dead, or demented. So it's somewhat painful. I told mother about it, but I'm not sure she can watch - since her mother and my father loved the mysteries.

It's on at 9pm on AMC. Between airings of Die Hard with a Vengeance.

August 5 on Netflix ---Neil Gaiman's Sandman - which according to Gaiman goes up to Dollhouse in the comics. Or that's how far they filmed for the first season.

I'm looking forward to this - the creator was hands on in regards to casting, production and to some lesser degree writing. He was more hands on than he was with American Gods. Actually his involvement was kind of similar to how he was involved with Good Omens.

If you don't like Gaiman - you'll probably skip. But must viewing for Gaiman fans. (I have a love/hate relationship with Gaiman - I actually prefer his comics and graphic novels to his written novels, with the exception of Ocean at the End of the Lane - which is just brilliant.)

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