It hasn't quite been a normal day (Edgar and I aren't feeling up to snuff), so no animal post today either. Honest, I will tomorrow.
Neat things about my car:
- the doors not only lock as you start driving, but they unlock when you remove the key after turning the car off
- the side mirrors are heated - it comes on with the rear window defroster
- it corners on a dime
- great shock absorption
The neatest thing about my car:
- it's mine!
ah, Brazil
a movie whose tagline should have been (but wasn't): Mistakes?
We don't make mistakes
yet we do. we do make mistakes, as in all bureaucracies, and someone will be found to blame.
Brazil is Terry Gilliam's dystopian vision of a not-too-far-future from a present that took an odd turn around the 1930's. there are many anachronisms and technical hybrids like old typewriters hooked up to tv screens and rotary telephones with amplifiers. the scenery and architecture are similarly affected: the public buildings pay hommage to 1930's German expressionism (think Metropolis), while apartments and other living spaces are oddly futuristic, with large numbers of exposed ducts everywhere.
the story references George Orwell's 1984 and Franz Kafka's The Trial. the unnamed government bureaucracy has made a mistake by eliminating a Mr. Buttle rather than Mr. Tuttle, who's believed to be a terrorist of some kind. a low-level employee of the Ministry of Information, Sam Lowry, is assigned to investigate. in this process, Lowry meets a neighbor of the widow Buttle, who is the same woman Lowry has been seeing in dreams. Lowry meets the renegade Tuttle...
...and things get complicated.
the world of Brazil, while different from ours, is not that different. consider a day at work in the Ministry of Information
Fuckity FUCK. I just tried to post and upload a video. I got the following existential error message from Vox:
"Sadly, your search couldn’t be completed. You could try again, but it still might not work. The world is a very unpredictable place. For this, we are truly sorry."That sounds very, um, Protestant.
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My transporter? Coming in VERY handy. And they said Star Trek technology was fantasy. Pshaw!
It looks like a perfect day! Starting out at 50 degrees and sunny! November has turned out to be just lovely!
I'm off to physical therapy...can't wait til this is done. It's not difficult or painful or anything...just an hour three times a week that is rather inconvenient and intrusive. But, all for a good cause....Mobile Toes R Us!
I am having Mom, Dad, sis and three kids, brother and nephew, over tomorrow for Mom's birthday dinner.
So after PT it's to the grocery store. Then a quick clean up of the house. Hopefully I'll see sis and kids tonight...depends on how long it takes them to get here from Chicago!
Ok...time to get a move on! Y'all have a nice weekend!
...now that I think about it, "B.B. Bunny" looks awful familiar...
I think he went on to star in Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail