He fell and he could have landed anywhere
State of my knee: I washed my hair at my parents' house tonight because they have a shower with grab bars and no tub rim to step over. I may have turned out to be contact-allergic to the neoprene in my compression brace. I sound to myself like Robert Ryan in Act of Violence (1948) as I walk around the house.
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selkie provided a significant silver lining to yesterday in the form of a used copy of Bryher's The Days of Mars: A Memoir 1940–1946 (1981), which arrived in the evening's mail after a fraught set of conversations. The receipt came with an adorable note on the book's condition: "Very Good with light wear to covers and no marks to text. Unfortunate square cut out above publisher's slug on front cover to excise previous owner's embossed ownership stamp. (Scene of a double crime . . .)"
In memoriam Murray Melvin, I watched an interview recorded in 2016 for the Criterion Blu-Ray/DVD of A Taste of Honey (1961). I don't think I had ever seen him as himself before, a spellbinding raconteur with a priceless memory for the details of productions and roles and people. He got the part of Geof in a direct promotion from theater dogsbody and tea boy after disparaging the character at the end of the first readthrough: "I always say, I was the start of gay pride. I was Gay Pride of 1958. It's all down to me, honey. It was on my shoulders. And I'm very proud of it."
selkie provided a significant silver lining to yesterday in the form of a used copy of Bryher's The Days of Mars: A Memoir 1940–1946 (1981), which arrived in the evening's mail after a fraught set of conversations. The receipt came with an adorable note on the book's condition: "Very Good with light wear to covers and no marks to text. Unfortunate square cut out above publisher's slug on front cover to excise previous owner's embossed ownership stamp. (Scene of a double crime . . .)"In memoriam Murray Melvin, I watched an interview recorded in 2016 for the Criterion Blu-Ray/DVD of A Taste of Honey (1961). I don't think I had ever seen him as himself before, a spellbinding raconteur with a priceless memory for the details of productions and roles and people. He got the part of Geof in a direct promotion from theater dogsbody and tea boy after disparaging the character at the end of the first readthrough: "I always say, I was the start of gay pride. I was Gay Pride of 1958. It's all down to me, honey. It was on my shoulders. And I'm very proud of it."
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How cool!
Murray Melvin was so wonderful in A Taste of Honey. (Also wonderful in a horrible kind of way in The Devils--I didn't even realize it was the same actor until after his passing!)
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After a fraught set of conversations? With ... the post office? They didn't want to let it past their doors? Anyway, I'm glad for the silver lining!
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Thank you. The fluoroquinolones are associated with a black-box warning risk of tendon injury and rupture. I had tolerated them without adverse effect in the past and a knee is not the normal presentation for this side effect in any case, but it was urgent care's assessment that it would be irresponsible to keep me on a fluoroquinolone antibiotic having suffered a tendon injury and I can't really argue except that three different antibiotics is a lot to be on in a month where I can't even get in to see my ENT. [edit: So as not to sound unnecessarily piteous, I actually got a cancellation appointment this week. Fingers crossed.] I just want it to heal without complications, whatever the cause.
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I have a rash around my knee in the shape of the compression brace! It feels tremendously unfair.
After a fraught set of conversations? With ... the post office? They didn't want to let it past their doors? Anyway, I'm glad for the silver lining!
An unrelated set of fraught conversations earlier in the afternoon! The mail did nothing more confrontational than arrive! Thank you.
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It looks fantastic. I am slightly saving it, as I am in the middle of Femme Noir and a biography of Barbara Stanwyck.
Murray Melvin was so wonderful in A Taste of Honey.
I rewatched it for him last night.
(Also wonderful in a horrible kind of way in The Devils--I didn't even realize it was the same actor until after his passing!)
I did know it was him when I saw it, which was a jolt from the dancing-master! I wish it were not near-impossible to find something approaching a restored version of that film.
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I would really like to complain to whoever is writing your life story that this is Entirely Too Much, Don't You Think?
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And I'm glad you found a good interview. <3
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It feels a little superfluous to me!
*hugs*
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Thank you!
*hugs*
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(I'm in New York at the moment, a few floors down from the rooms where Nikola Tesla lived his final years.)
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Say hi to the pigeons! I appreciate the healing vibes!