Comments | greygirlbeast: "Last what I heard my baby said. What did she say, boy?"

greygirlbeast

"Last what I heard my baby said. What did she say, boy?"

Apr 04, 2015 12:13

I've spent a chunk of the last hour on Google Earth, in "street mode," pretending that I was driving about Athens, Georgia on a hot summer day. It almost works. And it's preferable to the windy, scrubbed-raw blue day outside. It's 53˚F, but it feels like 45˚, and it's windy as fuck, from the northwest at 15-25mph, with gusts to 50mph ( Read more... )

google earth, money, forgetfulness, 2009, athens, not writing, annie proulx, clutter, wind, cold spring, reading, 1974, bad movies, lost days, the red tree

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the check ext_1285666 April 4 2015, 17:27:36 UTC

It's too old.
But if you got a replacement, then you received it. If you didn't, make a copy of it and send it to Penguin and see what happens.

You know, the cold really bothers me but I lived in Souith Carolina and Florida for a while and I'd stay here before I'd go back there. The only other place I lived that I'd go back to is Northwestern Oregon. I loved it there.

California wasn't too desirable either. Just my opinion. We all have to choose what's best for us.
Peace

Re: the check greygirlbeast April 4 2015, 18:06:42 UTC

Kathryn swears we got a replacement. And she manages the money.

Ugh. California.

ext_1534127 April 4 2015, 18:23:48 UTC

Loving your choice of music.

greygirlbeast April 4 2015, 18:24:43 UTC

Thank you.

setsuled April 4 2015, 18:44:21 UTC

I am adding Michael Winner's Death Wish (1974) to my mental list of the worst films ever made that were actually shown in theaters.

I only saw it recently myself (I wrote about it here). Surely we can admire the exuberance of the street thugs who seem to run everywhere. It's a remarkably shallow and ugly paranoid conservative fantasy. I think the best thing about it is that it made me appreciate Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver from another angle.

Vincent Gardenia phones in a half-awake performance as a beleaguered police lieutenant

I was surprised to see Jeff Goldblum and Olympia Dukakis in the movie--the latter being about the last person I would have expected to see in the film.

greygirlbeast April 4 2015, 18:47:16 UTC

It's a remarkably shallow and ugly paranoid conservative fantasy. I think the best thing about it is that it made me appreciate Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver from another angle.

Yes, and yes.

I was surprised to see Jeff Goldblum and Olympia Dukakis in the movie--the latter being about the last person I would have expected to see in the film.

It was, I think, Goldblum's first role.