October 26, 2007

"The truth is no less true for being brutal"--Green for Danger

"If I were you I'd take a cup of cocoa and go on to bed"--ibid.

Dreamed of being in the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.

Headache!

Dinner was McDonald's. (Moira was going to make quiche, but she didn't have all the ingredients.)

Saw the DVD of Sidney Gilliat's Green for Danger, a British thriller about murders in a World War II hospital.  Pretty suspenseful, with a great performance by Alistair Sim as a relentless police inspector.

October 25, 2007

Dreamed of Wile E. Coyote preparing to fly over the Roadrunner and drop a firebomb; writing this down.

Dinner was spaghetti.

Got sick in the evening.

October 24, 2007

Dreamed of Donald and me visiting Havana, Cuba; going into the city, getting separated from him, and returning to the border (in an island nation?); waiting for him to return too, until past midnight.

Went shopping.

Dinner was scalloped potatoes and ham.

Set up the new DVD player.  You can tape stuff on computer discs with this machine, then watch it on our other DVD player!

It turned out that the bread machine hadn't started the other night, so I baked the bread today.

Saw the DVD of a 1930s John Wayne B-western The Star Packer (for the second time).

October 23, 2007

"She was deeply troubled, and there was no need to explain:  every strand of moss, every icy puddle, every midge in her homeland thrilled against her nerves and called her back.  She felt fear for them but fear of herself, too, for she was having to change....  Was she losing her witchhood?"--The Subtle Knife

Dreamed of seeing a black & white episode of Star Trek (it was all in colour) on a big, old-fashioned TV console that needed replacing.

Dinner was steak.

Saw the curious animated movie The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D at the Empress Walk.  The visual design was quite imaginative.

October 22, 2007

"I don't give a shit about anything I can't control!"

"Then you must not give a shit about anything."

--Oz

Dreamed of being married to the late Anna Nicole Smith in a parallel universe.

Went to see Dr. Hassan, but I didn't have much to say.

Saw the last episode of Oz.  I want to see the whole thing again!

Dinner was ham.

We got a new DVD player with some sort of HDD capacity.

At choir practice we started preparing for the Christmas concert.  I'm glad we're doing "Sheep May Safely Graze" again.

Baked rye bread overnight

October 21, 2007

Dreamed of listening to a non-existent classical record with cuts called "The Peasant Round," (which resembled the Carillon from Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite), and "Oh, I'll Be Coming Home Someday" (a treble song with orchestral accompaniment).

The Coro Verdi did its autumn folk song concert.  There were barely fifty people there.

Very warm weather!

Dinner was pizza.

Unusually, I went to sleep for two hours at 20:00.

Started rereading Philip Pullman's The Subtle Knife.  The first chapter reminds me of Fahrenheit 451.

October 20, 2007

"You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from death"--Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

"How's your heel?"

"He's all right."

--Battling Butler

Dreamed of a non-existent episode in my school days where we locked the gym teacher up and went on a rampage!

Saw the DVD of the first episodes of the 1960s spy spoof Get Smart.  I watched it a lot when I was a kid, and it still makes me laugh out loud!

Finished the last Harry Potter book.  It played a bit like a movie serial.

Dinner was McDonald's.

Saw the DVD of Buster Keaton's Battling Butler, in which he pretended to be a boxing champ so he could marry the girl he loved. (I also saw the short Cops, in which he got chased by hundreds of policemen.)