You fit yourself for cracks to slip into

[sovay]

Aside from a rewarding decision to make short-order hamburgers for dinner last night, the events of yesterday were mostly teeth-gritting—a doctor's appointment, the new month's round of bill-paying, and far too much of the afternoon spent fighting with my health insurance over the phone. To recover after dinner, therefore, like any reasonable person with access to TCM, I watched Orson Welles' 1962 film of Kafka's The Trial (1962). It starred Anthony Perkins. It was fantastic. I hope to write about it, but first I have to call my health insurance back.

[edit] First go-round with insurance unsuccessful, as after surviving the phone tree I was directed to a website that does not solve the particular problem I need solved, but I had the following exchange with the person on the other end of the phone:

"You have a pretty accent. Where are you from?"

"I'm from Boston."

"I like your accent."

Which I was not expecting, especially these days, so that was nice.

[edit edit] Second go-round cautiously successful! No compliments on my accent this time, but I should now be able to pick up a vital medication without needing to mortgage my cats for it, at least once the new information propagates through their system. In related news, how can they still have my old address in their database when I have been receiving mail from them at my current address for the last year-plus?

Comments

[larryhammer]

Yay cautious success.

how can they still have my old address in their database when I have been receiving mail from them my current address for the last year-plus?

You assume an organization that large has a single customer database. It is the rare efficient corporation that does.

[gwynnega]

Hooray for (cautious) insurance success!

[selenak]

I love The Trial. It´s one of my favourite Welles pictures, so I do hope you will write about it. Also, watching it means never seeing the Musée d´Orsay the same way again.😉

[poliphilo]

I'm always irritated by writers who parrot the opinion that Welles was a wunderkind who lost the plot. I can only think they haven't actually seen The Trial or Chimes at Midnight or F for Fake. I admire Citizen Kane, but it's the later films I really love.

[asakiyume]

Looking forward to your write-up (when time and energy allows) of The Trial!

And I'm very glad you won't have to mortgage the cats--though that would make a good melodrama--the evil bank trying to come collecting...

[rinue]

You do have a nice accent! And a wonderful voice all round.

[choco_frosh]

Right, I need to go renew health coverage for next year. (While still hoping that'll be unnecessary.)