I also watched the 1930s version of THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH-which was quite good until the last 15 minutes which were all a shootout.
My street continues to be the biggest mess you've ever seen. And the rain this week has made it worse. They have fashioned various ways to navigate it on foot but they change from day to day. Coming home at 10:30 the other night, I couldn't figure it out at all until a teenager pointed the way.There are huge holes to fall into.
Still watching THE OLD MAN but it's a struggle for me. I don't have the brain for spy drama. Instead I prefer THE BEAR. I am re-watching MAD MEN (even better than I remembered) and BETTER CALL SAUL. What will happen to Kim?
Also struggling to find a novel. I went to the library to try to find a Peter Turnbull set in York but they only had the other series. I just can't read on a kindle. I look at all the books I have downloaded and how few I finished. I can't exactly say why.
I am trying to get back to writing and am rejoining my old writing group, which is now on zoom because so many of them have spread out. I have 80 pages of a novel. Would be nice to finish it.
What about you?
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I'm still avoiding Top Gun since I hated the first one. I just thought Cruise's character too much of an arrogant ass.
Watching The Old Man, Dark Wind and Better Call Saul. Rewatching Carnivale with a friend who has never seen it. Rewatched Raging Bull-got it in the new 4k edition. Great film.
Finished Every Cloak Rolled in Blood by James Lee Burke. A bit autobiographical. A lot has to do with a father dealing with the death of a daughter. One of Burke's daughters died a year or so ago. Now reading Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand. Also reading some short fiction.
Getting another injection in one eye today. This is because of my diabetes. That eye has improved a lot. The other eye which I just had a cataract removed has improved. My near sightedness has now become far sightedness. My biggest problem is reading.
I enjoyed TOP GUN: MAVERICK and wasn't surprised by its Box Office numbers and the scores on ROTTEN TOMATOES. Glad you enjoyed a movie that surprised you!
Once again I find I have a dozen Library books stacked up. I whittled the Library books down to a couple...and then a bunch of books that I had requested all came in at the same time! So I spent the weekend reading and managed to finish two Library books with 10 more to go.
Rain woke me up this morning. Western NY is under an inch below Normal for rainfall. We may catch up today with steady rain all day in the forecast. This rain may cool us off a little, too.
Stay safe and I hope you can continue to find your way home!
I did not see the first TOP GUN, Steve, but I thought they did a good job of making him likable in this. Thirty years as a Captain, probably filed down his ego. And a lot of it was about the new flyers.
We need rain too, George although have gotten some in the last few days.
Because of her problems with her hands and fingers, Jackie only reads books on the Kindle for the most part, unless there is no other choice. She just can't hold a paperback open. I must admit I am reading more and more on the Kindle lately, if only for the convenience. I read about a book that sounds interesting, go on the library website, and if there is a Kindle copy available I download it and can read it immediately. Other wise I have to request it, wait until the book comes in to the branch, then drive over there, find a place to park, and pick it up.
Still watching THE OLD MAN, though I didn't like the last two episodes as much as the earlier ones. DARK WINDS is a little better, I think, in the later episodes. The characters in THE SPLIT are mostly just annoying. Finished JULIA< which I really liked, despite the whole made up Betty Friedan thing. Finished CONDOR season one. Jackie is still going through OZARK. Watching series two of LONDON KILLS. Two episodes of SCHITT'S CREEK to go.
One new addition on Britbox: REDEMPTION. Twenty years ago, Colette Cunningham's teenage daughter left home and she hasn't seen or heard from her since. Now a DI in Liverpool, Cunningham (played by Paula Malcolmson, who was Trixie in DEADWOOD as well as starring in RAY DONOVAN and other shows) gets a call from the Garda in Dublin about a dead young woman, who turns out to be her daughter (who had changed her name). She was a nurse, suspended and accused of stealing opiods, and she seems to have committed suicide. Cunningham has to go to Dublin to break the news to the teenage grandchildren she never knew she had (the daughter is very hostile), and she decides to transfer to Dublin for six months to get to know her grandchildren and help them get through it. Her boss is played by Siobhan McSweeney, so good as the nun in DERRY GIRLS. Definitely worth a try.
The living room couch and chairs Jackie bought in Macy's in Florida, delayed months due to the usual "supply chain problems," are finally coming tomorrow. We got the super and his assistant to take down the old stuff this morning. We had three days of 90 last week and otherwise it has been warm and humid (it is JUly, after all), and it looks like we're in for a bunch more 90 degree days starting tomorrow.
I've been reading mostly short story collections.
I am not really sure how to download books from my library onto my kindle. So far, I have just bought them from amazon. I do need to learn how to do it.
When I had to change credit cards, I lost ACORN so no new Brit shows for me,
This is Britbox, I believe.
I don't know how other libraries work, but ours is easy once you get started. I make sure I'm signed into AMazon. Then I sign into the library website, find the book and check "Get This Item." If the book is available there is a Checkout button, which gives you the option ead Now on Kindle. When you hit that it goes to the Amazon site an asks you which device you want to use. The default device is my Kindle, but I change it if it is going to Jackie's Kindle.
Once you do it once it is simple.
The degree of self-righteous criminality on THE OLD MAN does tend to have the characters fly up their backtracks at times, but I'm still keeping on for the one more episode this Thursday on FX.
WOMEN WHO ROCK continues to be good if too rushed. They managed to Just mention Fanny in episode 2, while not counting, say, Buffy Sainte Marie (my annoying keyboard will type S but not s, till suddenly now...likewise w)(it no longer will type s again, and I have to cut and paste them).
Juggling too many tasks and weariness again.
I have difficulty reading the screen of Kindles, for some reason, more so than a computer screen...and the page-"turning" function breaks my concentration. Even more than scrolling on a computer PDF.
Condolence for Jackie's hand difficulties...my left has an unreliable grip of late.
My hands are fine, it's me legs that aren't. Which is worse, I don't know. And I am not fond of reading on it either but it would get me many books more quickly.
I discovered an REM song on THE BEAR. So I had alexa play a bunch. Low and behold I could udnerstand the lyrics. Hearing aids do work. THirty years later, I know what they are saying.
Well, Michael Stipe did/does enjoy muttering!
Kindles also ease the budget...but feed the beast.
I prefer books to ebooks but I read both. My hardcover book problem occurs when I'm reading Big Fat Books (500+ pages) and have to use a table to hold the awkward, heavy book.
Really sorry about the mess your street is in. I would have a terrible time navigating that.
I did not see the original TOP GUN but that was at least partly because my first husband was an Air Force pilot (flying B-52s, not fighter planes) and that whole experience soured me on pilots and the fighter pilot mystique, etc. TOP GUN came out after we split up and I was married to Glen. However, I think I would enjoy TOP GUN: MAVERICK. I like a lot of Tom Cruise's movies. So maybe someday I will try it.
We have just gotten HULU and two things I am interested in watching are THE OLD MAN and THE BEAR. Also ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING.
After I read THE LONG GOODBYE by Chandler, we rewatched the film (after twenty years) and now I understand why some people dislike the adaptation so much. It is a pretty loose adaptation, and not a great depiction of Marlowe. I liked the film fine just considering it by itself and forgetting about the book.
All three of those shows are great! I also really liked Normal People on Hulu. More if I think about it!
Another late entry.
Tom Cruise is a nut, but his films are consistently strong.
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