The Savages

Another scorchingly hot day here in Surrey, B.C. Nevertheless, I got in a little backyard sunning this afternoon. As I recall, it spanned from 1:34 - 2:44 p.m. And the reason that I got that early start ─ which even succeeded a bit of a nap ─ was because my younger brother cut short our morning video-watching, seeking some further bed rest before it was yet 11 a.m. In fact, he left for the day well ahead of the noon hour.  

After he had gotten home yesterday evening, I put our Android TV Box into play and we watched an episode The Flash.

I then took the risk of tuning in a 2007 'dark comedy' titled The Savages. My brother is extremely critical of my movie choices, so this was a fair risk. However, it proved to have sufficient interesting twists and good acting that I believe the movie squeaked in as being tolerable. 

Lead actress Laura Linney was very familiar to me, even though her name was not. Yet I could not recall anything at all in which I had seen her act before, despite believing that there had been at least one T.V. series in which she was a staple. 

I now see through Wikipedia some of where I know her from. But until finding those connections, all I could think was that she resembled Mariette Hartley who was of at least the previous generation to Laura's, for Mariette is nearly 25 years Laura's senior. 

I have now just learned that Laura's co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman (who played her brother) died in 2014 at the age of 46. He was vaguely familiar, but as with Laura, his name meant nothing to me.

The movie was very good, I would say. However, it would have been nice to have seen Laura's character become involved with a suitable love interest. She was just too good-looking to have been sexually involved with the older married character played by Peter Friedman. 

The movie finished early into the midnight hour, so I opted to try the premiere episode of Resident Alien ─ we now have that series on our current watch list.

I imagine that everyone in the household ─ certainly my wife, brother, and I ─ had difficulty sleeping overnight due to the heat. I have no idea how my two stepsons, both of whom are well into their 20s, are faring ─ nothing seems able to keep them from spending long hours in bed.

I began the morning shortly before 8 a.m., and ahead of my brother. After he rose and went downstairs, he announced that the Saturday morning edition of the Vancouver Sun that I subscribe to was not delivered.

This has happened at least twice before with our current carrier, and somehow he gets away with doubling up on the paper the following day when he delivers the Sunday morning edition of The Province that I also subscribe to. I can only wonder on his regularity with deliveries during the week for those subscribers who get either newspaper on a daily basis.

My wife normally does not work on Saturdays, but for some reason she got fairly dressed up and left here between 10:40 - 10:45 a.m. She later texted me in the early afternoon to confirm that she had made good on her earlier 'threat' to be withdrawing $1,000 of my monthly pension that I only received a few days ago.

Her promise was to try and repay it before the monthly mortgage comes due (usually on the 22nd).

The only video my brother and I were to watch this morning was a Liberty Coalition Canada July 16 upload to Rumble that was 10 minutes short of being two hours in duration (1:50:03): God's Good Design for Human Sexuality w/Dr. Robert Gagnon.

On this episode of Open Mike, Mike is joined by Bible scholar and theologian professor Dr. Robert Gagnon to discuss biblical sexuality and God's design for men and women.

Episode Resource: Dr. Gagnon's Website: http://www.robgagnon.net/

This was an excellent interview! However, my brother opted to seek his bed rest with maybe 20 minutes of the video remaining.

I would have given it a positive rating, but I do not have a Rumble account and have no intention of creating one just to make such a rating.

My evening, as usual, has begun to run away on me ─ but that is primarily because I took a break from this post to have a bath and shave.

I was considering watching a movie while I wait for my brother to show up later this evening, but I now do not think that I have time for one.

But we shall see.