Got back from band practice to find that neighbours had turned up. 5 bottles of fizz, 3 of wine.
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Tonight's movie presentation was The Departed, set in the world of organised crime in Boston MA, presumably because that makes for a more gripping story than organised crime in Boston, Lincolnshire. Jack Nicholson was particularly good, though my mild difficulty distinguishing faces meant I spent much of the film getting confused between Matt Damon, who was a criminal going undercover in the police, and Leonardo De Caprio, who was a policeman going undercover in the criminals. The occasions when they had virtually identical designer stubble didn't help. Though now I come to think about it, maybe only one of them had that and I was even more confused than I thought I was. I honestly am not sure
Good film though
And this was followed up with Kaleidoscope. I saw this on the telly back in the 1970s, and for years I'd remembered the main aspect of the plot and kept an eye out for it. It's about a playboy type who devises a nefarious scheme for winning at casinos throughout Europe; I won't say any more, for fear of spoilers, but it's really very clever, which is why it stuck in my mind.
It seems Warner Bros. have recently dug it out of their vaults and re-released it, and I must say it's quite a rip-roaring bit of Swinging Sixties entertainment - not the kind where they have shaky camera work of people smoking dope while the Doors play in the background, but the kind where the heroine works in a boutique in Soho and people keep breaking off from their jet set lifestyles to have a cup of tea
It turns out it stars Warren Beatty and Susannah York, which is probably why they've put it out there again. A look on the BBC Genome site suggests I probably saw it on Sunday June 3rd 1979, which sounds about right. (I notice Jane Birkin is credited as "Exquisite thing".) It's great fun if you like that kind of thing
Goodnight all
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Morning all
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It's too goddamn hot!
Glad I didn't wear a jacket.
Yesterday's evening entertainment, following on from "The Miracle of the Bells", was the Director's Cut of "Payback" starring Mel Gibson.
It's a feature on the one and only bluray I've ever bought, in fact the bluray that led to the update of the ZeitTV viewing facility.
It was rather good and held together just as well as the other version without the sledgehammer bit and Kris Kristopherson.
Spoiler: The dog still gets offed though.
Tea turned out to be the 2nd steak & kidney pie (Peters finest) with Heinz baked beans. Yum. Living the dream.Comment
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Large slug killed.
Exercise done.
Work suppose to have started."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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You nasty person! Prepare for a revenge attack by The Slug Defenders League!Large slug killed!
I just hate this weather! Ten minutes after a shower you want another. I'm running out of clean underpants!It's too goddamn hot!bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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It has now reached the dizzying heights of 29.5 deg C in my office.
The lab is even hotter but I can't be arsed to take the thermometer in there.Comment
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27.9C in the shade on the patio here, need to remember not to video conference later...…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Morning denizens
Cloudy and very close here
The time switch on the light in the living room, which for some reason also tells the temperature, says it's 31°C
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