And all her images of everything between now and then

[sovay]

I aten't dead. I just aten't sleeping, either.

The HFA is indeed screening the complete filmography of Robert Aldrich starting in June! The descriptions are starting to go up now. Between that and the Brattle's noir of the 1950's, I should at least have a lot of things to distract me that month. Even odds on whether I'll have the intelligence to write about any of them.

I am delighted by the concept of a sea sponge the size of a minivan. All I could think of was Peter Falk in The In-Laws (1979): "They have tsetse flies down there the size of eagles."

I would love to know how the Lorenz teleprinter recently bought by the National Museum of Computing got into the seller's garden shed. I hope the motor turns up soon.

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That sponge is *wonderful*. It's great that there are creatures tucked away here and there, just abiding.

We just saw Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn in "How to Steal a Million"--what a supremely fun, good natured film! I feel like you must have seen it (I mean: Peter O'Toole!) but I can't find any mention of it in a quick search of your journal. It's on streaming Netflix and is about the friendliest heist-and-forgery movie you could imagine.

[sovay]

It's great that there are creatures tucked away here and there, just abiding.

Yes. It doesn't mean the danger to Earth's biodiversity isn't real, but I still like knowing there are strange things out there in the sea.

I feel like you must have seen it (I mean: Peter O'Toole!) but I can't find any mention of it in a quick search of your journal.

I have very fond memories of that movie! I haven't seen it in years. I watched it with my mother, I'm pretty sure.

It's on streaming Netflix and is about the friendliest heist-and-forgery movie you could imagine.

Agreed.

"I can't drive a stolen car!"

"Same principle—four gears forward, one reverse."

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

I just recently shared The In-Laws with Kestrell. I was deeply relieved that it remained hilarious, despite my not having seen it since I was 12 :-)

Apropos of nothing, has anyone yet introduced you to Ada Palmer's _Too Like the Lightning_? Excellent debut SF novel from a professional historian. Struck me as very much the sort of thing you would like.

[sovay]

I just recently shared The In-Laws with Kestrell. I was deeply relieved that it remained hilarious, despite my not having seen it since I was 12

I had a similar experience when I showed it to derspatchel last year. I was so happy. "Serpentine! Serpentine!"

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

I'm going to try to see "The Big Heat" and "The Crimson Kimono" at least. They're unfamiliar to me, and since I haven't seen either of them summed up in a book of film crit, I'll be going in with no preconceptions of any kind. Thanks for reminding me that this is coming up. I also remember watching "The Asphalt Jungle" over someone's shoulder as a kid, and feeling like it was too grown-up a movie for me. This will be a good time for me to try it again.

The air feels like it's going to rain like mad as soon as it gets a little cooler tonight. Here's hoping that a change in the weather may help make sleep happen.

[sovay]

http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/notes/madame_bovary.html

Thanks for reminding me that this is coming up.

You're welcome! I'm glad to be of assistance. My calendar currently contains Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Macao (1952), The Big Combo (1955), The Big Heat (1953), and The Killing (1956), assuming I can afford them all without going broke. If I have to winnow, I'm going for Macao, The Big Combo, and The Killing. The first is just as good as Boyd McDonald promised, the second has some of the best title music I've ever heard, and the third contains Elisha Cook, Jr. I have my priorities.

The air feels like it's going to rain like mad as soon as it gets a little cooler tonight. Here's hoping that a change in the weather may help make sleep happen.

Oh, God, that would be lovely.

[drwex]

I thought of you this weekend, when we were in Brooklyn and I happened to see a street that is the same name as your given family name. Nobody around me seemed to know anything about why the street was so named, despite being at least moderately local. New York's a big place, I guess, and if you get big enough you find most anything?

Still, a fun coincidence.

[sovay]

I thought of you this weekend, when we were in Brooklyn and I happened to see a street that is the same name as your given family name.

I think someone has mentioned it to me before! I may be conflating it with the street with my family name in Sunnyvale, CA. I have no idea what the story is in Brooklyn.