Dreamed of hearing a succession of musical themes and writing down the ones I recognized; writing the Around the World in 80 Days theme [by Victor Young] though I'm not sure that's what I heard; a pianist performing onstage with a woman in his lap.
Went downtown and got the film festival order form.
Finished Centenary at Jalna. The saga wore kinda thin toward the end.
Dinner was lasagna.
Planned what movies I'll try for at the festival. Predictably, they're mostly documentaries and older movies.
Dreamed of a version of the Dickens musical Oliver! with an appearance by General Grant and motor-cars(?); the song "Baby Keep Smiling." [They played it at the dance studio a lot.]
Got a Classics Illustrated comic of the Mutiny on the Bounty sequel Pitcairn's Island.
Dinner was steak.
The book club had its first meeting, at Indigo books. We finally decided on Trade, a novel about Hudson's Bay Company traders in the early 19th century.
"There's something in the air, and it ain't love"--Oz
Dreamed of looking at the TV listings in Britain on Monday night and seeing that they were showing A Hard Day's Night at the same time as a movie review show; renting a locker at a railway station to put my backpack in before travelling to London.
Read the Classics Illustrated Junior comic book of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Swineherd" (here called "The Penny Prince"). They gave this version a happy ending!
We finally got the Chums annual onto the market. [But it didn't sell.]
Saw the DVD of the first episode of the prison drama Oz. It's pretty disturbing, all right. Dostoevsky (I think) said you can learn a lot about a society from its prisons.
Won only four of the bids for the latest round of Menomonee Falls Gazette auctions.
Read the Classics Illustrated comic of Francis Parkman's frontier report The Oregon Trail, and the one about Daniel Boone.
Read a six-month Terry and the Pirates adventure (from late 1936 and early 1937) which climaxed in Pat Ryan being the marriage prize in a warlord's lottery, which the Dragon Lady fixed to win herself. But then Pat brought in a decrepit doctor who turned out to be a former lover of the Dragon Lady whom she had ruined, and now got even by shooting her. (Of course, she'll survive for future adventures.) An extremely lucky hunch on Pat's part!
Dinner was KFC.
Saw Alfonso Cuaron's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban at the Royal. It's the best in the series so far, surpassing the two Chris Columbus directed in briskness, style and emotional resonance. That whomping willow was scary!
Dreamed of removing some excess furniture from my room to a basement room; waking up in the morning and finding my watch had lost its face(?).
Tried to post a Chums annual for sale on Ebay, bu I couldn't upload the image scans for some reason. [Chums was a British boy's magazine like Boy's Own Paper.]
Did some pruning on the trees.
Dinner was ham.
The DVD player still has sound trouble. Father decided to buy a new one, and we got it at Futureshop. (The other player is in the repair shop.)
Dreamed of a large mural that was a memorial to World War II fighter pilots; wearing panty hose(?); adventures with a time machine; collecting quotes from a movie.
Father managed to get the DVD out of the other player, and it seems to be working again. (We still haven't heard from the company about exchanging it.)
The company finally called back and arranged to repair the DVD player.
Saw the Elizabeth R episode where she flirted with marriage. (I remember the part where Robert Dudley waited endlessly at the church for her to arrive.)
Dinner was fish.
Went bowling with the Geneva Centre group. I enjoyed the first part, until they turned up the musica and put on disco lights. In ended up leaving early. (Wayne scored two strikes!)
