November 1, 2007

Babe (feeling James Bond's shoulder holster): "Ouch!  Why are you always carrying that thing?"

James Bond: "I have a slight inferiority complex."

--Goldfinger

Dreamed of visiting Russia for the first time; reflecting that the Cold War was not only expensive and morally corrupting for the United States, but also had a bad effect on American identity.

We finally picked up my Mac OSX update, but when I tried to install it there wasn't enough RAM and the program got stuck.  We were lucky we managed to remove the disc and return to the old system.

Dinner was the rest of the Chinese food.

Went to the Architecture for Humanity meeting.  We had a bigger room than before, but the number who showed up wasn't any greater.

Saw Guy Hamilton's Goldfinger (for the fourth time) at the Revue.  It's the James Bond series at its most stylish.  I wish Fort Knox had been sucessfully nuked!

October 31, 2007

Finally got a notice from Purolator, for what I think is the OSX update.  Father drove me over to the shipping centre in Etobicoke, but I didn't look closely enough at the notice and didn't realize the package wasn't ready yet.

Because of this detour, shopping took longer than usual.

Dinner was Chinese food. (My fortune said, "You will get something special because of your charm.")

Went to a special Halloween karaoke at the Frog and Firkin.  I wore my beatnik costume again [turtleneck, blazer, shades, my mother's beret]--unfortunately, the beard came unglued after three hours.  Most of the crowd arrived late, so I managed to sing four songs!  They had a costume contest, and the winner was a man dressed as a pregnant nun; second place was a women in a red-stained smock holding a cleaver and a dildo; third was a man dressed as Snow White.

October 30, 2007

The Dean: "My request is final"--College

Saw the DVD of Buster Keaton's College (for the third time). The best part came at the end when he went to rescue his sweetheart and used all these different athletic skills (running hurdles, pole vaulting, shot put) that he'd failed to master before.

Dinner was halibut.

October 29, 2007

Dinner was roast chicken.

At choir practice we did two new pieces:  a Christmas lullaby and the Huron Carol.

The Mac OSX software update I ordered last week still hasn't arrived.

October 28, 2007

Went to see a Sunday matinee showing of James Bond's Dr. No at the Revue, but it turned out it wasn't on till the evening.  The only thing that bugged me was that Father had driven me to the subway, and I'd inconvenienced him for nothing.

John and Rae came over for dinner, which was vegan pizza. (Afterward I ate KFC.)

Found a website at archive.org with quite a few B-westerns old enough for the public domain.

A columnist at The Huffington Post called supporters of the US Congress' Armenian genocide resolution "knuckleheads." How come the Turks don't get described that way? (Nancy Pelosi tried to do the morally right thing for once...)

Lay awake for hours and heard Moira waking up toward 04:00. (I had to take a sleeping pill.)

October 27, 2007

Dreamed of impersonating the voice of Doctor Who's enemy the Daleks.

In the afternoon I joined Lee Bouchard at her Architecture for Humanity display at the Yes In My Back Yard festival of community groups at the Gladstone Hotel.

Dinner was quiche, which I liked more than I expected.

Saw the DVD of Eric Rohmer's A Good Marriage.  Cute.

Then I went to the Cinematheque and saw the silent movie Beyond the Rocks with Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson, which they thought for a long time was lost until it turned up in someone's collection.

Read 45 pages of The Subtle Knife.

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.