Weekend Notes or Having No Life

Ever been so tired and hurting physically that every thought about going somewhere and doing something, quickly gets shouted down by the inner voices? Even the ritualistic trip to the record store!! So tired that even while at home, the notion of putting a record on the turntable seems like it requires too much effort? That's what this summer cold has caused. So much for my fanatical hand washing efforts of the past year. I promise though to get out of this rut once I begin to feel a little better.

So I've been watching the classic movie channels. A few that I've seen lately .....

• The Fighting Sullivans .... Remembered the ending from viewing it 30-40 years ago but little else. 
• Dark Passage .... With Humphrey Bogart.
• The Keys of the Kingdom .... With Gregory Peck. I saw five minutes of it previously and knew I had to see the entire movie.
• Some Like It Hot
• The Horse Soldiers
• Bad Day At Black Rock .... Brooding and building. For the first half of the movie you know that something is about to explode but you're not sure what.

I'm especially fascinated with films made in the immediate years before I was born. Just seeing what things looked and felt like just before I arrived. Even if it's a movie set fifty or a hundred years in the past, you can still get a sense for the world you were about to enter.

I don't like how in June, it gets light at 5:00am. I like an extra hour or two of darkness in the morning. I don't care for the gentle hints that it's time to get up and get busy. I also don't like how the cough medicine seems to work in reverse.