I’m more than a little bummed out to learn this morning that David Bowie died last night, having lost his battle with cancer.
Of his works, the Man Who Sold the World is my favorite. I also loved his role in The Labyrinth.
He is definitely someone whose works I will miss.
Long Live the Goblin King
Watching Star Trek, The Next Generation.
I am torn between amusement and annoyance at how they changed the intro.
The original Star Trek:
To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before…
The next generation:
To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before…
They caved to the feminists. Anything but bold. I’m not fond of political correctness. It is the opposite of bold.
Another emotional roller coaster watching this game. Looks for sure like a loss, then Minnesota blows a field goal and the game is over, Seahawks 10-9.
I am feeling totally overwhelmed emotionally right now and having to cope on my own as my wife just left for work, she’s a night stocker at QFC now, sucks for me but she seems to prefer those hours.
I just watched Across the Universe. I was introduced to this film in a humanities class while in prison that was part of a multi-media course.
When I got out I bought a copy but my Aiwa AV-DV75 receiver bit the dust so could only watch it with my antique televisions horrid sound.
Just before Christmas, I found an AV55, very similar except only 150 watts / channel instead of 170 watts, also no digital pads on the inputs but otherwise pretty identical, on E-bay for a whole of $25 and it arrived and actually works.
So now I have sound again and tonight re-watched Across the Universe, and it’s a whole different experience. I feel like I’m immersed in the situation and what an emotional roller coaster that film is.
This is the hospital scene after Max is injured in Viet Nam. My television is a 1999 model rear projection set with a fried convergence card, hence the Chronovision near either edges. And the interference pattern between the camera pixels and the TV pixels makes for an interesting effect.
I never get nurses like that when I go to the doctors. I get some 75 year old who does her best to comfort me while hurting me. I’m sorry, as she slices and dices. I probably wouldn’t be as healthy if I had nurses like these.
Max gets an injection of something…
Whatever it is, he obviously likes it…
Anyway, after watching something like this I don’t want to be alone but I have no choice tonight. The movie is full of tragedy, failed relationships, people killed and mangled in war, but also some high points. Like I said, an emotional roller coaster. Now I just got off and am feeling a bit dizzy and queasy.
Mostly I enjoy social media, particularly Facebook, interesting banter, but there are times when the “stupid” factor just gets to be too much and tonight was one of those times.
Don’t know if it’s a result of that smoke stack long since retired, but Monroe’s Main Street sign looks so gross.
What better to celebrate than a tower belching pollution into the air.
For some reason while traveling down highway 2 at night, unsuccessfully seeking the Aurora, this song kept running in my head, and even more so as I look at the pictures I took last night.