Tell me that you want the kind of things that money just can't buy

[sovay]

We have a new stove! It is not the same as our old stove! I have the oven on while the submarine engine-oil smell burns off! I look forward to being able to bake properly for the first time in months, as even in summer a person sometimes wants to do.

Last night I saw A Hard Day's Night (1965) with rushthatspeaks at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. It is an utterly delightful movie; what stuck with me most (besides the music and the young faces and the time-capsule streets) was how much of the cut-up cinéma vérité cinematography now just looks like the language of music videos and how much of it is still weird and exuberant. Plus the fact that I don't think my early childhood imprinting on Ringo Starr is ever going to go away and I'm all right with that. "I'm a deserter, too."

I hope this article is right, including the part where we can actually vote out of office the officials we don't want: Miles Howard, "We Can End Boston's Transportation Nightmare."

Have some photos from the set of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).

Comments

[gwynnega]

Yay new stove! Yay A Hard Day's Night (which I can pretty much quote by heart)!

[shewhomust]

Seconding both of these!

[sovay]

Seconding both of these!

Thank you on both counts!

[yhlee]

Yay new stove!!

[choco_frosh]

I hope this article is right, including the part where we can actually vote out of office the officials we don't want: Miles Howard, "We Can End Boston's Transportation Nightmare."

I really hope that, too. I am tired of having life in Boston feel like some sort of 1980s communist dystopia (though I suppose it's more "80s Communist propaganda film about Capitalist dystopia").
I don't suppose anyone's put together a list of WHICH bums to throw out?

Have some photos from the set of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).
Great movie.

[umadoshi]

STOVE! This is excellent news. ^_^

[sovay]

Yay new stove!!

Thank you! Tomorrow we will cook dinner and it will be great!

[sovay]

STOVE! This is excellent news.

It's been months!

[a_reasonable_man]

I once looked up reviews of Hard Days Night. I think it was the first "rock and roll" movie that the New York Times liked. They commented that the Beatles themselves "seemed to be in on the joke."

My favorite exchange in the film:

Woman: "Are you a Mod or a Rocker?"
Ringo: "I'm a Mocker."

[alexxkay]

I LOVE Kind Hearts and Coronets. And maintain a dead-actor crush on Joan Greenwood.

[sovay]

I am tired of having life in Boston feel like some sort of 1980s communist dystopia (though I suppose it's more "80s Communist propaganda film about Capitalist dystopia").

An unholy blend of the two. ("No—the line for that was even longer.")

I don't suppose anyone's put together a list of WHICH bums to throw out?

Not that I've seen, but I'd find it useful if someone did!

Great movie.

I am very fond of it. I have the DVD somewhere in a box.

[thisbluespirit]

Hurrah for the new stove! An oven that can cook things is generally a good thing.

<3

[sovay]

Hurrah for the new stove! An oven that can cook things is generally a good thing.

Thank you! We are looking forward to employing it.

[sovay]

I LOVE Kind Hearts and Coronets.

I have never been quite sure if it was the first thing in which I saw Alec Guinness, but it's certainly the first thing in which I saw Alec Guinness to know him, which frankly I think is hilarious, considering all the D'Ascoynes.

And maintain a dead-actor crush on Joan Greenwood.

That's fair. That voice.

[sovay]

I think it was the first "rock and roll" movie that the New York Times liked. They commented that the Beatles themselves "seemed to be in on the joke."

I was not expecting to be reminded so much of the Marx Brothers.

Woman: "Are you a Mod or a Rocker?"
Ringo: "I'm a Mocker."

It's really good.

[ranalore]

Yay, new stove! I love A Hard Day's Night. I didn't see it until my late teens, but I feel glad to have first seen it at an age where I understood the jokes. I have fond memories of Help! from my younger years, and I recall being allowed to stay up with a friend for the television premiere of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which...really does not count (though I'll tell you, Aerosmith's performance of "Come Together" in that film was formative).

[alexxkay]

I first noticed Alec Guiness in Star Wars. I was 10 when it came out, which was an excellent age from which to experience it.

[sovay]

I was 10 when it came out, which was an excellent age from which to experience it.

Nice! I don't think I saw Star Wars until I was in high school. We had the trilogy on VHS.

[sovay]

Yay, new stove!

Thank you!

I have fond memories of Help! from my younger years, and I recall being allowed to stay up with a friend for the television premiere of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which...really does not count (though I'll tell you, Aerosmith's performance of "Come Together" in that film was formative).

I'll look for that, then. I saw Help! in high school when my brother was discovering the Beatles, but all I remember about it is that it was fun.