What made it special made it dangerous
Our original plans to celebrate the solstice by introducing my niece to Canobie Lake were scotched by the heat dome which has been lowering over the eastern seaboard all week, so instead we stayed indoors with our slightly busted air conditioning until the late afternoon when we could celebrate ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch finally having shoes that were not coming literally unglued with a frozen lemonade from the Del's on Mass. Ave. and the first sushi I had eaten in almost exactly a year. I suspect I will never again see the copy of Michal Ajvaz's The Other City (1993) I did not buy from the library's floating book sale. I made a point of watering the garden for my mother and the thunderstorms arrived shortly after dark. Fortunately, it meant that after midnight the temperature had dropped almost thirty degrees and we could walk into West Medford and watch a freight train come sliding through the clanging red lights of the crossing. Once home, after much brain-racking to remember its reporting mark, we determined it had been the New Hampshire Northcoast deadheading back to Dover. In memoriam Donald Sutherland, I share—courtesy of Rob—Oddball, the irreplaceably zoned-out tank commander of Kelly's Heroes (1970). "We got our own ammunition. It's filled with paint. When we fire it, it makes pretty pictures. Scares the hell out of people." Happy solstice! The year swings on.
spatch finally having shoes that were not coming literally unglued with a frozen lemonade from the Del's on Mass. Ave. and the first sushi I had eaten in almost exactly a year. I suspect I will never again see the copy of Michal Ajvaz's The Other City (1993) I did not buy from the library's floating book sale. I made a point of watering the garden for my mother and the thunderstorms arrived shortly after dark. Fortunately, it meant that after midnight the temperature had dropped almost thirty degrees and we could walk into West Medford and watch a freight train come sliding through the clanging red lights of the crossing. Once home, after much brain-racking to remember its reporting mark, we determined it had been the New Hampshire Northcoast deadheading back to Dover. In memoriam Donald Sutherland, I share—courtesy of Rob—Oddball, the irreplaceably zoned-out tank commander of Kelly's Heroes (1970). "We got our own ammunition. It's filled with paint. When we fire it, it makes pretty pictures. Scares the hell out of people." Happy solstice! The year swings on.
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I can wait. I like poems.
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Thank you! Yes. I'm so glad to see these. I like the second one a lot, too.
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Today is only normally summer-hot! The tragedy is that I have not been able to spend it with the sea!
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happy solstice :)
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*hugs*
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Thank you!
Irrelevantly pursuant to earlier discussion, I feel you should know that the inevitable result of talking to
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ETA: btw, I am currently, if slowly, watching Amistad (you can guess why) and obv it is very good, but I am also amused at the same time because everybody in it is British!! I keep thinking we must have exhausted the supply of Brits pretending to be Americans, and then another one turns up! Peter Firth surprised me the most, although he is excused, because he was actually being British in it. (I thought he was in Heartbeat around then, because he joined my library I worked at some time around then while he was filming it up there. I wasn't there at the time, and my workmates couldn't prove this because the library burned down between those two events, sadly.)
Anyway, I'm beginning to think that people should stop joking about the UK only have 20 actors, because clearly we have at least 30-40, but the other half of them are all in the US pretending to be American. XD
(I am v tired, excuse me not having anything sensible to say.)
ETA2: And Stellan Skarsgard. There are some people in this I am confident are actually definitely Americans and they are Morgan Freeman.
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I don't think she was in the episode we watched, but it did have Max Adrian!
because he joined my library I worked at some time around then while he was filming it up there. I wasn't there at the time, and my workmates couldn't prove this because the library burned down between those two events, sadly.
I hope the filming of Heartbeat had nothing to do with the library burning down!
(I am v tired, excuse me not having anything sensible to say.)
It is understandable to be stunned by the cast of Amistad. It's ridiculous. I saw the movie when it came out and keep meaning to rewatch it now that I know all of the people in it and wouldn't have expected them all to be in the same movie.
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She was only in the film; I had a feeling that was the case.
I hope the filming of Heartbeat had nothing to do with the library burning down!
LOL, I'm fairly sure it didn't. Besides, Peter may well have been off in the US blowing up things in this by the time it happened. (My colleague A* told me about it. She was put off by the then-head of group libraries J who, she felt, fawned over him; and when she later saw him in the supermarket and he was clearly trying to work out how he knew her, she just let him stare and continued round the shop, mysteriously. XD) I didn't arrive until 3 years later, but the library was still in the Portacabin when I started, and none of the staff who were there ever really got over it. It was a mid 1960s building, but it was one of our two main libraries
*A = former lib assistant colleague who was legendary for, having caught a guy masterbating in the library, asking him if he would like a hand (she claims she didn't mean to do that one), and also another time when someone was yelling at her that he paid her wages etc etc, said, "Well, sir, I'm afraid you don't pay me enough for this.")
It is understandable to be stunned by the cast of Amistad. It's ridiculous. I saw the movie when it came out and keep meaning to rewatch it now that I know all of the people in it and wouldn't have expected them all to be in the same movie.
I am currently watching a thing set in France where everyone is British, but that was co-made by the BBC and is a small Brit-film, so I expect that! EVen granted the number of people who are meant to be non-American, I'm still amused at the apparent severe shortage of US Actors that was obviously happening in the US during casting for this one. (It wasn't Titanic was it? James Cameron had them all locked up... oh, no, wait; that was at least half full of Brits as well, for more obvious reasons. XD)
It was very good indeed! I wouldn't have watched it otherwise, because I don't necessarily have the wherewithal to cope with more serious films and I often get very stressed about courtroom stuff so it would not have seemed like a plan, but it turned out to also be very easy to watch as well as all the other things it is. (I think it may be that Spielberg guy; I think I've heard of him!) I'm very much appreciating Jeremy Northam's CV, really. Loads of it is just excellent, and even the things that are less good are interesting, even if some are not necessarily my cup of tea.
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Thank you!
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Thank you! It is now of course raining ceaselessly.