Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on March 09, 2019, 12:28:21 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes sprung forward, and now it is time for you to post until the springing forward cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: OMPHALOSKEPSIS!
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Finally...a first post after BK!
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I came home and fed my cat, and realized that the half-salad that I got at McMenamin's wasn't enough to stop my hunger, so I poured a smallish bowl of tomato soup and I mixed in some vegetarian chili. I had some cream that I wanted to use up, so I poured a bit of that in, then took a swig because...why not?
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:o Yikes! I should've smelled it first! It was off, so I dumped the bowl of chili soup ickyness and all the rest of the icky cream down my kitchen sink, washed the bowl and spoon, then poured some more of both the tomato soup and vegetarian chili and ate it all up. That second bowl wasn't tainted, so it was quite delish and hit the spot.
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And now, I'm off to bed. I get to sleep in( :D ), and I have most of the day to myself until I need to be back at the theater by 6:30. From the library, I have a movie (Annihilation) to watch and a TV series (The Expanse, Season 2) that I need to start watching. Both have holds, so I can't renew them...and this is the second time that I've gotten Annihilation because the first time, I wasn't able to watch it before it was due. I hate it when that happens.
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Have a good day, all!
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BK....you read Pyscho twelve years ago?
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Good morning
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Thank you John for posting my picture
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Happy house hunting vibes for TCB
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Good morning, all!
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I had several strange dreams last night. In one, former DR JoseSPiano and I were backstage at some Broadway theatre where my friend Annalene, who's currently playing Anna in the British tour of The King & I, was playing Anna in The King & I. Then I had a dream about my friend Bruce Pomahac rewriting the overture to shorten it for this production. In my last dream I was at my parents' home in Ohio and my friend John Mekeel, who's in prison for killing his father, came to visit, and we went to some record sale at a third floor apartment around Broadway and 70th Street. There were a lot of elderly men and women sitting around asking if we wqanted some refreshment. Marilyn Monroe showed up. I think she and John discussed therapists.
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DR vixmom, I've noticed in your painting photos that the paintings of you and your friend are very similar. Are you working with models?
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Enough of me.
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Larry - That's a very entertaining dream.
Did you feel scared being with that old friend?
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Now that we are changing the time we just need Spring.
I don't mind changing the clocks. As it gets so dark here so early. For a while it was dark at 4:30pm which was horrible.
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Larry - That's a very entertaining dream.
Did you feel scared being with that old friend?
Not in the least. Of course, in the dream we were probably 25 years younger. John used to house sit for me when I went to LA to record for BK. I wouldn't be frightened of him now. His dad was always a belligerent bully and never approved of anything John did. I had no idea of how emotionally screwed up things were in the past ten years after his divorce.
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Good morning to all
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Most of Perkins films I saw in his Post Psycho era were variations of Norman Bates. I feel sorry for him that happened.
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From yesterday
There is talk that Florida would remain Daylight Savings all year round.
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Yes, Perkins was a talented actor.
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DR Michael I belive I mentioned Florida ;)
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Beginning January 1, 2021 travelers to Europe will need a visa.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/US-Citizens-Travel-Visa-Europe-2021-506879881.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_NYBrand
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DR vixmom, I've noticed in your painting photos that the paintings of you and your friend are very similar. Are you working with models?
Yes, there is a sample picture, then the artist leading the event paints the picture again while walking us through the steps to paint the picture ourselves
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I am very grateful this "copy and paste", something I never do when instructed, thing on fb to women 40 and over is not being sent through messenger.
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Yes lovely painting from DR VIXVANGOGH
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Thunderstorms are predicted for today for us....we shall see....there is certainly NO SUN shining through the window.
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I was going to make a chicken pasta salad, but I don't have a box of rigatoni.....so I am going to make a chicken macaroni salad....the chicken is cooking and the onions and green peppers are cut up....so we shall see.
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T.O.D.
Hitchcock
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (2)
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Chris Hendrie, who plays "Deputy Pool" in PSYCHO II is the actor who did the audio recording of my one-person play, (Spencer) TRACY.
He is very good in the role.
https://www.amazon.com/Tracy/dp/B07656NPRV/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1303955982&sr=1-1
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And as I was typing, disaster struck......even though I checked regularly.....I was spending too much time on the inner web and my boiling water boiled away....and my chicken breasts burned a bit....
Smoke in the house....and a destroyed pan....but some meat was saved.....
Now the fans are on and the door windows are open....
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Hitchcock:
North by Northwest
Vertigo
Frenzy
Family Plot
Psycho
Perkins:
Friendly Persuasion
The Matchmaker
Psycho
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TOD:
Hitchcock:
North by Northwest
Notorious
Psycho
Strangers on a Train
Family Plot
Perkins:
Psycho
Fear Strikes Out
The Matchmaker
Judge Roy Bean
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DR ELMORE and I have similar lists.....
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DR ELMORE and I have similar lists.....
But of course!
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Good morning, all.
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Jerome Moross has made it to San Antonio.
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I managed to plant six tomatillos, three in pots and three in the soil.
I'm dripping wet from the exercise.
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But the plants were getting large and most were even flowering, so into the soil they went.
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It's already 80 outside.
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I'm up, I'm up - four hours of sleep.
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TOD:
Hitchcock:
Notorious
Strangers on a Train
To Catch a Thief
North by Northwest
Frenzy
Family Plot
Perkins:
Psycho
Phaedra
The Last of Sheila
Murder on the Orient Express
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Thank you John for posting my picture
You are welcome, Vixmom. Tell me, how much vino do you consume while creating these masterpieces?
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Happy house hunting vibes for TCB
A double dose
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The library just ordered Under Capricorn, one of the few Hitchcocks I don't remember seeing.
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I'm up, I'm up - four hours of sleep.
Why so little?
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I'm off to a dance lesson.
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Vixmom - fixed the twelve years ago thing.
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Good
morning afternoon, all.
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Back -- from our first orchestra rehearsal for A Chorus Line.
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Much to everyone's surprise after we got there and got set up in the rehearsal room, we were told we'll actually be playing in that very room, with the audio piped in to the auditorium.
So, my second consecutive one of these. The Dolly venue has no choice, as there's ZERO space for musicians. But this is a venue that never before felt the need to do this. It's a hundred-year-old opera house inside a town hall building that has always been a charming place to perform. There never was a pit, but small ensembles always worked fine out front and they've got a deep stage that accommodated larger orchestras behind the set when necessary. I suppose those would have been miked, too, but at least you still felt a part of the production. I just can't help but feel that these places feel, misguidedly, that this makes them more up to date somehow.
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I didn't see PSYCHO in its first release. I was ten, and my parents would not have allowed it, though, honestly, I don't even remember that we were all that aware of it then.
My first time was a re-release some three years later, and like BK, I had acquired the tie-in paperback and read it prior to that. So I knew the basic gist of things. But that hadn't prepared me for the genius of Alfred Hitchcock, because I was excited but unnerved throughout. I was fine through the murders and all, but I daresay the Mrs. Bates moment kept me awake for the next three nights. Loved it in spite of that, of course, and it's been a very special movie to me since.
EDIT: This was of interest to me, so I checked the release dates to see what was going on in my family's lives at that time. It looks like the wide release was in September 1960. We were still living in Columbus but we had just recently decided to move to Florida, which happened at the end of that month. So that explains to my satisfaction why such a well publicized film would have gone more or less unnoticed by us. Or at least by my parents, who wouldn't have had much of an interest in that kind of thriller anyway.
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And the word of the day is: OMPHALOSKEPSIS!
Is that a song from the remake of MARY POPPINS?
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And the word of the day is: OMPHALOSKEPSIS!
Is that a song from the remake of MARY POPPINS?
I know it's a word from Spelling Bee.
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And the word of the day is: OMPHALOSKEPSIS!
Is that a song from the remake of MARY POPPINS?
I know it's a word from Spelling Bee.
As is: COW.
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Good afternoon.
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I baked over 500 muffins this morning.
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TOD
Hitchcock: His films in general had such a strong guiding genius that even the "lesser" ones are wonderful when you're fully invested in watching them. But I'd have to say the 1950s and early 1960s ones are, as a group, my absolute favorites. That's a cop-out, but most of those are just pure cinematic greatness by any standard.
Perkins: The Matchmaker. The Trial. Pretty Poison. Evening Primrose. Catch-22. Murder on the Orient Express. And of course Psycho. But I've also come to appreciate his participation in and his guidance over the following three Psycho films. A couple of years ago I blew through the three of them and was surprised at how much more I liked II than I had originally. And I like III a lot more than many do. What was really interesting was seeing IV for my first time. It was really damned interesting, especially after having been through most of the Bates Motel series at that time. Plus, you know, Olivia Hussey.
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I baked over 500 muffins this morning.
Wow.
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Three!
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The library just ordered Under Capricorn, one of the few Hitchcocks I don't remember seeing.
I don't remember seeing this.
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The only time I've seen Under Capricorn was during the Hitchcock retrospective at LACMA in the early 1970s. It was the only film to evoke the reaction "Huh?" in me. I should watch it again, now that there's a presumably decent transfer available for the first time ever, but it's not a priority. It's a strange period drama, and just not yer typical Hitchcock film.
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I baked over 500 muffins this morning.
Wow!
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And as I was typing, disaster struck......even though I checked regularly.....I was spending too much time on the inner web and my boiling water boiled away....and my chicken breasts burned a bit....
Smoke in the house....and a destroyed pan....but some meat was saved.....
Now the fans are on and the door windows are open....
I hate it when something like that happens! Like today, I made a couple of pizzas using low-carb tortillas for the crust. I toast the tortilla in my toaster oven first, so that it doesn't get soggy from the sauce (I like a lot of sauce), but I took too long to shred the cheese while it was toasting and the tortilla burned! Fortunately, I was only toasting the first tortilla at that point and hadn't put on any toppings and had just opened a new package of tortillas, so I only lost the one. When I made the next one, I watched more carefully. Both tortilla pizzas turned out quite tasty!
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I baked over 500 muffins this morning.
Amazing!
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I'm home, fed, a load of laundry is in the washing machine, I'm finally watching Annihilation, and the right lens of my bifocals falls out because at this exact moment, the screw decides to make a break for it and dissppear! :o
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This means I'll have to leave my home environs earlier that I would've liked and hie myself to Costco and get a new screw for it. Fortunately, this is a free service that they provide, even if you didn't get your glasses there. :) And also fortunately, I have my regular glasses, but unfortunately, not having bifocals makes it inconvenient to read my tablet and watch TV at the same time.
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I know...first world problems.
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Hello, everyone.
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Toasting tortillas in the toaster!! These are the small corn tortillas? I love corn tortillas, but would never have thought of doing this.
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When I was a little girl my mother would sometimes take me to a little tortillaria (sp?) on Sawtelle Blvd, just south of Santa Monica Blvd. We could watch the tortillas being made, and then continue their journey on the conveyor belt. I found it fascinating. I also liked eating FRESH tortillas on the drive home. My mother wasn't a great cook, but few people in those days made tacos at home.
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Glad to hear George's opening night went so well.
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I had several strange dreams last night. In one, former DR JoseSPiano and I were backstage at some Broadway theatre where my friend Annalene, who's currently playing Anna in the British tour of The King & I, was playing Anna in The King & I. Then I had a dream about my friend Bruce Pomahac rewriting the overture to shorten it for this production. In my last dream I was at my parents' home in Ohio and my friend John Mekeel, who's in prison for killing his father, came to visit, and we went to some record sale at a third floor apartment around Broadway and 70th Street. There were a lot of elderly men and women sitting around asking if we wqanted some refreshment. Marilyn Monroe showed up. I think she and John discussed therapists.
Once again, DR Elmore wins the contest for the most colorful dream.
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Much to everyone's surprise after we got there and got set up in the rehearsal room, we were told we'll actually be playing in that very room, with the audio piped in to the auditorium.
So, my second consecutive one of these. The Dolly venue has no choice, as there's ZERO space for musicians. But this is a venue that never before felt the need to do this. It's a hundred-year-old opera house inside a town hall building that has always been a charming place to perform. There never was a pit, but small ensembles always worked fine out front and they've got a deep stage that accommodated larger orchestras behind the set when necessary. I suppose those would have been miked, too, but at least you still felt a part of the production. I just can't help but feel that these places feel, misguidedly, that this makes them more up to date somehow.
I suspect you're correct.
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And the word of the day is: OMPHALOSKEPSIS!
Is that a song from the remake of MARY POPPINS?
:)
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Toasting tortillas in the toaster!! These are the small corn tortillas? I love corn tortillas, but would never have thought of doing this.
Not corn. These are regular sized (not huge) flour tortillas. I forget the brand (they're down in my refrigerator and I'm up in my bedroom being lazy), but they're specifically high fiber/low carb tortillas, and they're quite good.
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I used to say that A LADY VANISHES and 39 STEPS were my favorite Hitchcock films, but I don't think that's true today. I don't know which ones I'd place as favorites. I do like LIFEBOAT very much. Perhaps it's time to revisit a number of these great films. Of course, I must give mention to ROPE. I do feel it's a fine film, plus there's sentimental value as my beloved Uncle Eddie (Ed Fitzgerald) was behind the camera.
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A friend who used to be one of the owners of Video Vault, a former great and quirky video store in Alexandria, VA, used to say: Hitchcock on his bad days was better than many directors on their good days.
DR Chaz would agree, I think, as would many others.
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Toasting tortillas in the toaster!! These are the small corn tortillas? I love corn tortillas, but would never have thought of doing this.
Not corn. These are regular sized (not huge) flour tortillas. I forget the brand (they're down in my refrigerator and I'm up in my bedroom being lazy), but they're specifically high fiber/low carb tortillas, and they're quite good.
Yes, I think I have seen small flour tortillas, but not often. I didn't pay any attention to whether they were high-fiber. (I like high-fiber foods.)
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TCB, I'm glad you have someone to house-hunt with. She may notice things--positive or negative--that you don't notice and vice versa. Good to have a second set of eyes.
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Good afternoon.
Another very cute photo from that busy baker and bully, DR Laura.
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Actually, I think I may watch a Hitchcock film tonight. I'll see what's available on streaming.
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TOD
Hitchcock: His films in general had such a strong guiding genius that even the "lesser" ones are wonderful when you're fully invested in watching them. But I'd have to say the 1950s and early 1960s ones are, as a group, my absolute favorites. That's a cop-out, but most of those are just pure cinematic greatness by any standard.
Perkins: The Matchmaker. The Trial. Pretty Poison. Evening Primrose. Catch-22. Murder on the Orient Express. And of course Psycho. But I've also come to appreciate his participation in and his guidance over the following three Psycho films. A couple of years ago I blew through the three of them and was surprised at how much more I liked II than I had originally. And I like III a lot more than many do. What was really interesting was seeing IV for my first time. It was really damned interesting, especially after having been through most of the Bates Motel series at that time. Plus, you know, Olivia Hussey.
How could I forget Pretty Poison? I love that movie.
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TTFN.
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This means I'll have to leave my home environs earlier that I would've liked and hie myself to Costco and get a new screw for it. Fortunately, this is a free service that they provide, even if you didn't get your glasses there. :) And also fortunately, I have my regular glasses, but unfortunately, not having bifocals makes it inconvenient to read my tablet and watch TV at the same time.
Ask for an extra screw for your glasses, just in case. I am going to do that next time I am at the eye doctor's.
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When I was a little girl my mother would sometimes take me to a little tortillaria (sp?) on Sawtelle Blvd, just south of Santa Monica Blvd. We could watch the tortillas being made, and then continue their journey on the conveyor belt. I found it fascinating. I also liked eating FRESH tortillas on the drive home. My mother wasn't a great cook, but few people in those days made tacos at home.
I wish my mother had taken me there.
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TOD
Hitchcock: His films in general had such a strong guiding genius that even the "lesser" ones are wonderful when you're fully invested in watching them. But I'd have to say the 1950s and early 1960s ones are, as a group, my absolute favorites. That's a cop-out, but most of those are just pure cinematic greatness by any standard.
Perkins: The Matchmaker. The Trial. Pretty Poison. Evening Primrose. Catch-22. Murder on the Orient Express. And of course Psycho. But I've also come to appreciate his participation in and his guidance over the following three Psycho films. A couple of years ago I blew through the three of them and was surprised at how much more I liked II than I had originally. And I like III a lot more than many do. What was really interesting was seeing IV for my first time. It was really damned interesting, especially after having been through most of the Bates Motel series at that time. Plus, you know, Olivia Hussey.
How could I forget Pretty Poison? I love that movie.
Another one I don't remember.
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Back to C.B. Strike.
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Made deviled eggs for dinner. Not bad, if I do say so.
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Four!
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Finished III and am in the midst of IV, which I've actually never seen all the way through. III is really the problem child of the series in terms of weirdness and Perkins' peculiarity, since he also helmed that one. I like it but it is, for me, not as strong as II, which people seem not to think much of, although I think they did at the time of release as it was a big hit.
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500 Muffins!
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528, to be exact. 44 dozen.
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Greetings to all.
Fav Hitchcock films in no particular order: ROPE, Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Rear Window.
Anthony Perkins: Psycho, Phaedra, Catch 22. He was in several turkeys.
Daughter and I doing to see a probably bad production of "CABARET" tonight. Sigh, got to support friends who do this stuff. Hope everyone has a pleasant night.
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Laura, why so many muffins and where are mine?
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Thank you John for posting my picture
You are welcome, Vixmom. Tell me, how much vino do you consume while creating these masterpieces?
None. I don't drink if I am going to drive. But I enjoy an O'Douls or two
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Hitchcock
Rebecca
Vertigo
Strangers on a Train
Birds
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Has anyone see the 1934 film?
Marnie
Perkins:
Friendly Persuasion
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Vixmom - fixed the twelve years ago thing.
At. Least you know I read the notes!
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528, to be exact. 44 dozen.
I hope you have more than one muffin pan
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Laura, why so many muffins and where are mine?
It's a soup kitchen thing the pastor's wife got involved in. They wanted some cornbread muffins to go along with the soup.
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528, to be exact. 44 dozen.
I hope you have more than one muffin pan
It takes forever one dozen at a time.
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Groan!
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Hitchcock
Rebecca
Vertigo
Strangers on a Train
Birds
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Has anyone see the 1934 film?
Marnie
Perkins:
Friendly Persuasion
The original Man Who Knew Too Much is really good.
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Back from a night of dancing.
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And now to finish off the last of the C.B. Strike episodes. I eventually came around to most of the casting. Holliday Grainger is really good as Robin.
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And then to bed. I hate losing an hour of sleep.
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I used to say that A LADY VANISHES and 39 STEPS were my favorite Hitchcock films, but I don't think that's true today. I don't know which ones I'd place as favorites. I do like LIFEBOAT very much. Perhaps it's time to revisit a number of these great films. Of course, I must give mention to ROPE. I do feel it's a fine film, plus there's sentimental value as my beloved Uncle Eddie (Ed Fitzgerald) was behind the camera.
That's pretty cool about your uncle having worked the film!
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Toasting tortillas in the toaster!! These are the small corn tortillas? I love corn tortillas, but would never have thought of doing this.
Not corn. These are regular sized (not huge) flour tortillas. I forget the brand (they're down in my refrigerator and I'm up in my bedroom being lazy), but they're specifically high fiber/low carb tortillas, and they're quite good.
Yes, I think I have seen small flour tortillas, but not often. I didn't pay any attention to whether they were high-fiber. (I like high-fiber foods.)
These aren't too small. I get them at Fred Meyer, but I don't know if they're exclusive to them. They're Tumaro's Premium Low Carb Tortilla Wraps (https://www.fredmeyer.com/p/tumaro-s-premium-low-carb-white-tortilla-wraps/0084945500000). They also have different flavors. Highly recommended. :)
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This means I'll have to leave my home environs earlier that I would've liked and hie myself to Costco and get a new screw for it. Fortunately, this is a free service that they provide, even if you didn't get your glasses there. :) And also fortunately, I have my regular glasses, but unfortunately, not having bifocals makes it inconvenient to read my tablet and watch TV at the same time.
Ask for an extra screw for your glasses, just in case. I am going to do that next time I am at the eye doctor's.
Well, I didn't make it to Costco today. I'll go tomorrow. Even if I have to go after the show, there will be enough time before it closes.
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And then to bed. I hate losing an hour of sleep.
I know! :P
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Tonight, the show is going well.
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One older guy, though, had to look away when [SPOILER ALERT] [redacted] (two male characters) kissed. ::)
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He and the woman that was sitting two seats away left at intermission.
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Finished with all the Psycho stuff. Now listening to music.
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Hitchcock
Rebecca
Vertigo
Strangers on a Train
Birds
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Has anyone see the 1934 film?
Marnie
Perkins:
Friendly Persuasion
The original Man Who Knew Too Much is really good.
Better than the remake?
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And now, we're at the cast party! I don't know when I'll be back, so have a good (if short) day tomorrow, all! :D
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Good evening.
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Page 4? Still?
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I guess so.
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Page 5
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I watched an interesting show on PBS tonight.
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“WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW: The Lyrics of Hal David!”
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I enjoyed it, but it would have been better if it wasn’t a Pledge Drive.
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I learned that Dionne Warwick hated the song, ”Do You Know The Way To San Jose”.
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I also learned that “I Say A Little Prayer” was a message to all our boys fighting in Vietnam Nam that we were praying for them.
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Strangely, neither of the pledge drivers had never heard that before.
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I had never heard that before.
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And apparently no one associated with the program had heard that before.
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A very closely kept secret from just about everyone.
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They did have the film clip of Barbra Streisand singing One Less Bell To Answer/A House is Not A Home.
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My very favorite Streisand singing performance. She is so beautiful in that clip.
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The last couple of days I have watched a couple of documentaries on Amazon Prime.
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One of entertaining and the other one.... not so much.
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One was about the American love affair with drive-in movie theaters.
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The other was about the sinking of the Andrea Doria.
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I really enjoyed the one on drive-ins. It had a lot of interviews with “B” picture actors; such as Beverly Garland, Robert Fuller, Barry Corbin, and Jeanne Carmen.
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It was a lot of fun.
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The Andrea Doria was pretty poor, although it did have a lot of the newsreel footage when she finally sank.
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The rather lame narrator called the sinking one of the great sea disasters of all time.
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Although the Andrea Doria did sink, only 58 of the roughly 1,400 people onboard died.
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At one point, they talked about all the celebrities who had sailed on the ship, but failed to mention that Ruth Roman and Betsy Drake were both onboard the ship when it was struck by the Stockholm.
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The narrator was really bad.