July 26, 2010

    Dreamed of actress Candice Bergen; rehearsing the opera Carmen.

    Started reading the second volume of Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Modern World (which we bought in St. Catherine's the other day). Great stuff!

    Saw a DVD of the 1950s country music show Town Hall Party, with an appearance by the great Johnny Cash!

    Dinner was scalloped potatoes and ham.

    Bought a ticket online to see Carmen in the cinema in a few weeks.  This time I had to get through the Verified by Visa process, which meant phoning the Visa people because my info didn't match theirs.  But it got straightened out in the end. (I accidentally bought a second Aida ticket.  Hope Moira will go with me!)

July 25, 2010

    Dreamed of the movie Forrest Gump; seeing a picture of actress Suzanne Pleshette and thinking her name was Susan Pavlov.

    Went to a Games Meetup at the Yellow Griffin.  I played Agricola and Puerto Rico. (The Agricola cards were against me!)

    Dinner was the rest of the fettucine.

    Finished Don't Know Much About the Civil War.

July 24, 2010

    Dreamed of writing a story about a guy who became a recluse after finishing school, then eventually became head of the fire department.

    Today's Mother's 91st birthday. (But she doesn't believe in celebrating...)

    Went to an Asperger's Meetup at Nipsa's apartment. (I can remember that her call tone is 211 because that's the year Roman emperor Septimus Severus died.) I brought my board game The Amazeing Labyrinth at her request, and we played it again.

    Dinner was lobster rolls.

    Went to a Classical Music Meetup.  Allegria performed without Mary (whose arm is still injured), and Jonah did some guitar pieces.

July 23, 2010

 Dreamed of getting a trivia question about the kind of shoe used in a non-existent scene involving Lee Grant in Shampoo; guessing it was  a sneaker; finding out it was a stiletto-heeled shoe.

    Baked whole wheat bread.

    Dinner was fettucine alfredo (which I cooked).

    Saw the start of a DVD of Warner Brothers cartoons directed by the great Bob Clampett!

July 22, 2010

Daughter: "Being buried in prayer is like being buried alive."

Mother: "That's blasphemous.  He will hear you!"

"Let him hear."

--Bluebeard

    Dreamed of hearing that people were wading across the Northumberland Strait to P.E.I.; the quote [wrongly attributed to Gandhi] "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"; the Moncton, N.B. public library back when it was on Highfield Street (before they built a new one in 1989).

    Dinner was roast chicken.

    Saw Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard at the Cinematheque.  Pretty stylish.

    Saw another Unseen Cinema DVD of early avant-garde films. (Stuff like silent films of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Fall of the House of Usher.")

July 21, 2010

    Dreamed of travelling near Seattle and being about to drive south to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

    Dinner was rice and beans.

    Saw the first cartoons on a DVD of Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation.

    Went to the Wednesday Games Meetup.  I played Jeffrey's new Warhammer game Chaos in the Old World.  We were all soil gods out to destroy the world. (I was the god of pestilence and finished last...)

    Afterward I had a hamburger because the rice and beans wasn't enough for me.

July 20, 2010

"How terrible is knowledge when there is nothing to do with it!"--Oedipus Rex

    Dreamed of the Brigadoon song "Go Home to Bonny Jean"; a man speaking with the voice of a computer, in discrete unstressed syllables; a non-existent scene in Mad Men involving someone in a devil costume (which would actually be inspired!).

    Went shopping.

    Dinner was the rest of the Indian food they ordered when I was out Sunday.

    Saw Pasolini's Oedipus Rex.  Pretty primal.

    Saw the DVD of the first episodes of the silent serial Tarzan the Tiger.