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January 9, 2005:

HOW ARBITRARY IS THE “U

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Well, dear readers, we are in the middle of a real authentic deluge here in Los Angeles, California, USA. I cannot remember the last time we’ve had such rain, but it’s been quite a while. Yesterday, I was out quite a bit in the rain – driving about in my motor car, going here, going there, going everywhere. Today, I shall stay inside and not go anywhere unless I absolutely have to. I have my tuna pasta salad and that’s all I need. I have DVDs and that’s all I need. I have CDs and that’s all I need. And I have my brand spanking new handy-dandy Powerbook to keep me occupied. I shall flit about like a gazelle in a tutu, and I shall sing, because one should always be singin’ in the rain. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?

Last night I watched a motion picture on DVD entitled Bad Education, un pelicula de Almodovar. I have enjoyed most of Almodovar’s films, but none more than this. It’s extremely well-directed in the classic style, and the actors are all perfection, as is the terrific Herrmann-like score of Alberto Iglesias. As always in Almodovar’s films, the photography and production design are top-notch. I’m not certain when it comes out on DVD in the US, this was a region 2 DVD I watched. I’ll be purchasing the US DVD upon its release because the transfer on the region 2 seems a bit soft to me. I also picked up the new Patrice Leconte French film, Intimate Strangers because I liked Leconte’s last film, Man on the Train. I also got the three new Criterion DVDs – these aren’t quite out yet: Seijun Suzuki’s Youth of the Beast and Fighting Elegy, and Jacques Becker’s crime drama, Touchez 2 Pas au Grisbi, with Jean Gabin – looking forward to all of them.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below whilst we’re singin’ in the rain.

It occurs to me we’re already in the second week of the New Year. How about them egg rolls, Mr. Goldstone? It’s been a nice two weeks so far, except for too much rain. I think we’ve had it with the rain, don’t you? I think the rain can hit the road, take a hike, amscray, get a one-way ticket to Palookaville. At this point, I’d like to be singin’ in the sun not the rain.

However, I’m singin’ in the rain and there are no two or even three ways about it. Today I shall do nothing but play indoors – I shall import more CD tracks into iTunes, I shall choose a couple of movies to view, and I shall flit about like a gazelle in a muu-muu. Yes, Virginia, first in a tutu, then in a muu-muu. Tutu/muu-muu, muu-muu/tutu. I wonder why it can’t be tuu-tuu and mumu. How arbitrary is the “u”. Perhaps that will be the title of my new book – How Arbitrary is the “U” A Novel. I like it.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do not much of anything, I must ponder how arbitrary is the “u”, I must eat tuna pasta salad, I must eat Junior Caramels, I must flit about like a gazelle in a tutu/muu-muu, and I must watch DVDs. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to choose the topics and we all get to discuss them forever and a day. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I begin my new novel, How Arbitrary is the “U”.

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