August 7, 2011

    Yesterday we saw the DVD of Blue Valentine.  A Cassavetes-style domestic drama, very depressing.

    I've started translating another of my Spanish-language Mortadelo y Filemon comic books.  This one's title is "Armas con Bicho," which translates as "critter weapons"!

    Dinner was corn.

    I was going to see a documentary at the Projection Booth, about a veteran New York Times fashion photographer.  But transit was screwed up by the Taste of the Danforth street festival, and I waited over ten minutes for the Pape bus before figuring out that it wasn't running.  I didn't want to be late, so I went home.

August 5, 2011

Elisha Cook Jr. (pulling a knife out): "The moral is, don't hire detectives!"--Born to Kill

    Dinner was tortellini.

    Saw the DVD of Robert Wise's Born to Kill, a classic sexy film noir.

    Then we saw the DVD of the TV play Days of Wine and Roses.

August 4, 2011

"I'm not rapey enough for you"--Weeds

    Dreamed of travelling in southern Cape Breton; climbing the highest local peak, with a view for miles around; visiting a notorious Russian; writing on a wall; the movie Untamed Heart.

    Baked multigrain bread.

    Dinner was steak.

    Picked up a couple of bonds at Scotiabank.

August 3, 2011

    Went shopping.

    Dreamed of recalling Father saying he didn't care for Steve McQueen (which he really did say).

    Dinner was spaghetti.

    Saw the cinemacast of Franco Zeffirelli's Met production of Puccini's opera Turandot at the Sheppard Grande with the Classical Music Meetup group.  The first two acts are pretty good, but it gets masochistic in the third. ("Pain is sweetness to me...")

August 2, 2011

"He skeeves people off, like midgets"--Weeds

    Dreamed of trying to remember what town I was born in. (It was Sackville, N.B.)

    Dinner was salmon.

    Saw the DVD of Rod Serling's 1957 TV play The Comedian.  Mickey Rooney was disturbingly well-cast as the eponymous loud-mouthed bully!

August 1, 2011

"So you two, do you... fondue?"--Captain America

    Dreamed of driving from Halifax to my hometown Sackville, N.B.; wondering whether I'd get to see any of the August movies being shown at the Projection Booth. [I didn't.]

    Dinner was churrasco chicken.

    Saw Joe Johnson's Captain America:  The First Avenger at the Yonge & Eglinton. (I was going to see the last Harry Potter movie, but the TTC was slower than I expected.) It was a pretty good little-boy adventure.  They were showing it in 3-D, but my Scene card had enough points for a free admission anyway.

    In The Huffington Post I commented (paraphrasing Churchill on Neville Chamberlain) that Obama had the choice of bankruptcy or dishonour:  he chose dishonour, and he'll get bankruptcy.

July 31, 2011

    Dreamed of seeing the first part of Monty Python and the Holy Grail in a library in a Moncton shopping centre; trying to remember what movies were released in May and June, 1980.

    Had lunch with the Mad About Movies Meetup group at Spin. (I ate fresh fruit crepes.) Afterward we walked through Mount Pleasant Cemetery, where I spotted journalist Norman DePoe's grave.

    Dinner was the rest of the corn on the cob. (This time I poured cold water on it before eating, and didn't burn my mouth.)

    Started two new cities in my computer games:  Heathead in Kingdoms of Camelot, and Strathdunum (Celtic for "fort in the valley") in Glory of Rome.