Wednesday, March 13, 2019

February 21, 2004


"Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination.  Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction"--The Golden Compass

"Money!  I hate, loathe, abominate and despise money!" "You also spend it"--Meet Me in St. Louis

Teenage Daughter: "It was really hot on the tennis court!" Mother: "A bit too hot, if you ask me"--suggestive exchange in ibid.

Dreamed of playing the board game Risk; getting lost in a stairwell.

Saw Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis for the second time. (Father drove me down, and first we had to push the car out of the ice.) It's a shrewd, sentimental piece of wartime nostalgia.  Judy Garland made it work:  this is definitely one of her best performances.

Dinner was spaghetti.

Baked raisin bread.

Saw "Dion Conflict:  Trailer Trash" at the Royal. (That's why I missed the opera.) It was a show with about fifty movie trailers, mostly B-movies from the '70s and '80s.  It was really funny, and it was over in a flash.

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