And all her images of everything between now and then

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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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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.

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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.