Just When I Thought I Had It, BOOM! Another Distraction, Thus No Title. See?
Not "BOOM" as in a violent distraction, such as the explosion of Krakatoa, but rather a repeated "RRRING," such as the sound made by a telephone to indicate that someone is trying to call one, followed by a recorded voice that says, "Hello, you have just won a trip to Disney Place in Touristville, Florida!/Hello, I'm surprised you still haven't called me regarding a very special offer.../Hello, I'd like to tell you about the advantages of the Elite V.I.P. Plutonium SlavemasterCard, with an annual membership fee of only $60 and/or an interest rate of 24.9% and all sorts of Special Members-Only Advantages and Perks and Frills and Gifts and Doodads and Stuff You Cannot Live Without!"
On second thought, that is a violent distraction.
Succinct Notes
Remember to buy the following motion picture soundtracks on compact disc: This Is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Henry Mancini's Pink Panther, the James Bond theme music collection, and Bend It Like Beckham.
Site-Seeing
I think I'll give www.DoNotCall.gov a try. My tolerance of telemarketers is at an end.
From the Bookshelf
As for the latest Harry Potter tome, I might get around to it in a year or three. No, I feel no great urgency to place it ahead of other books on my list. If Madam Hooch isn't in it, it can wait.
At the Cinema
I saw Bend It Like Beckham at the Cla-Zel on Sunday. If you are unaware, it is a British movie about an Indian girl whose passion is to play football/soccer (pick your term), but whose traditional Sikh family is horrified by the thought. It is a very funny movie and I advise you to see it, preferably at a cinema. (Click here and here to see the movie posters.)
'Twas excellent! EXCELLENT! (Are you paying attention, Catie? See it now!)
On the Telly
As I mentioned in the last update, I saw the first episode of the new season of Monk and was pleased. That was because I had missed the beginning and end credits (I saw it on tape) and was ignorant of the change of music. Why did they have to change it? WHY? The music of the first season was perfect for the program. It reflected the mood, and (very importantly) it was listenable. Thanks to the drooling imbecility that is Hollywood, my favorite American television program is now tainted by the caterwauling incoherence of the slobbering vegetable known as Randy Newman, whose songs are as monotonous as they are ubiquitous. Beings without talent are easy to clone, so BEWARE! If genetic engineering is not strictly regulated worldwide, some patent-greedy maniac might destroy the human race entirely by creating an army of singing/songwriting Randy Newmans. Defend yourselves and be prepared to press the MUTE button. And failing that, you can always take a hammer to your television set.
On the rare occasion that Hollywood does something right, you can count on Hollywood to revisit it sooner or later and screw it up.
Quotations, Possibly?
"Ten thousand demons!"
--the Caliph (or was it the Vizier?) in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad upon learning that an evil spell has been cast on his daughter
I'll keep posting if you keep reading. Be seeing you... :-?
