It was something like 11:35 p.m. when I got to bed last evening, fed up with my snoring younger brother who had apparently come home too sloshed to maintain consciousness through an episode each of two of the series me follow, and was now so wholly out of control of his own weak booze-damaged brain that he was solidly gone.
It was disgusting. I do not sit up because it is the sort of scheduling I would adhere to if I lived alone ─ I do it to accommodate his need to get out early every afternoon to 'socialize' and thereby remain away until mid-evening or later, often returning ridiculously drunk.
So just into the start of a third series episode that I was finding myself to be watching alone, I had my fill of the whole display. I turned off the Android TV Box and the T.V., and came upstairs to my bedroom to ready for bed.
Much earlier in the evening before he had come home I had watched the 1999 movie The Reef (I was obliged to find a source for it under its alternate title Passion's Way, for there seemed no results). No source that I did find using a few of the apps downloaded into our Android TV Box was much operational, so I used a browser app and found a solid source at OK.ru.
It may at first blush seem that the video is inaccessible without logging in at that website, but that is not so. And despite other initial appearances, the means to click the option to make the video full screen is just barely visible if one uses one's cursor and clicks the area where it might be expected to be located ─ it is actually a fair ways to the left of the bottom right corner, and is the central of what I believe are three barely discernible options.
The plot is far more complex than the Wikipedia write-up implies, but the movie kept skipping lengthy periods of time, showcasing what amounted to being little more than vignettes of a greater story. In my opinion, this weakened the movie very much.
I watched the movie because I am unashamedly attracted to Alicia Witt. And since the movie was filmed in 1996, she would have been 21 or 22 at the time.
"Her" older lover to whom she irrevocably lost her heart was played by Timothy Dalton, who would have been 49 or 50 at the time. His character, meantime, pined only for Sela Ward's character ─ the actress would have been 40 or 41.
I must confess that if not for Alicia Witt, I cannot imagine why I would have ever chosen to watch the movie. Perhaps the 'upper crust' really did talk that much, although Alica's character was of humble origins and extremely chatty.
Sela Ward was not familiar to me, but I see now that I have undoubtedly seen her act before ─ in fact, "she" ran the FBI unit featured in the first season of the T.V. series FBI, but I do not remember her despite having followed the series from its inception.
I was not exactly happy with how the movie turned out ─ Alicia's character choosing not to marry the step-son of Sela Ward's character because she realized that she would never be able to love anyone but Timothy Dalton's character.
Supposedly she resumed her former position as a rich battleaxe's companion and was to have left Europe and gone to India with her. Sela Ward's step-son seemed to have fallen prey to some peculiar and likely emotion-induced sickness that I expect was the result of his inability to get over the loss of his fiancée who had jilted him.
Sela's and Timothy's characters ultimately united and would supposedly live happily ever after, but there was just something shady about the guy that rubbed me wrong ─ he seemed quite false in his various justifications for his conduct, for these explanations were not borne out by what I had witnessed in the movie.
If forced to rate the movie out of five points, I might give it two ─ but primarily because of my fixation for Alicia.
I was to watch another movie via OK.ru later in the evening ─ it was only an hour long (just under, actually), and the second show that my brother mainly snored through. To wit, it was October 1962's episode of Edgar Wallace Mysteries: Death Trap.
This old whodunit gem was quite good. I vaguely recognized the visage and possibly the voice of actor Albert Lieven, who has pretty much always played a villainous character to some degree or other.
What quite surprised me was immediately recognizing petite 'bubbly & cuddly' Barbara Windsor of the old Carry On movies that I enjoyed so much on T.V. back in the 1960s and 1970s. She always played a sort of blonde airhead who was perhaps verging on becoming a little plump, but who nonetheless projected an irresistibility in biological terms.
She only had a brief bit part in Death Trap, but there was no mistaking the beguiling little sexpot that she played all fresh from a shower and wrapped up in a large towel, yet coming on to a stranger who had appeared who was in her apartment looking for someone else.
Although I was to bed maybe two hours earlier than might otherwise have been, it was still too late for me to seriously think much about getting up early in the morning for a walk. That having been so, I am putting serious thought into getting out mid-evening for a long walk ─ perhaps even the 5.625-mile round trip hike to do some shopping at a specific supermarket I like.
Or else I will just visit a nearby pharmacy earlier in the evening and then get to bed soon enough thereafter that I can rise at 2 a.m. for a 5½-mile walk. That will be contingent upon my brother not showing up early this evening ─ if he does not appear ahead of 9 p.m., I will be set.
When he and I got together this morning for some T.V., I tuned in Odessa Orlewicz's video from yesterday: Humanities Prison called S.M.A.R.T Cities. (S)urveillance (M)onitering (Analysis) (R)eporting (T)ech.
Wayne's important docs and links: whatsupcanada.org and 350.org
Wayne Peters and I have an in depth intimate conversation about the organizations at the top (UN etc) trying to force this Orwellian nightmare on Canada with the sudden onslaught of 15 minute & "Smart" Cities. Just like government worker Rosa Koire warned with her book "Behind the Green Mask" they will force rural residents into these surveillance nightmare human settlement "zones" by changing "land use" and bylaws to make it impossible to stay. This has started and the local people are trying to fight back. We discuss what YOU need to do with your friends and neighbours to fight back just like Thorhild County Residents did to DEFEAT this (for now at least.)
Contact thorhildcountyresidentsunited@gmail.com for more info.
The video was well over 1½ hours long (1:40:01). And even if both Odessa and Wayne were optimistic, I sure as hell am not.
Note that Wayne's website is the one that I linked to ─ the other website was presented solely to identify a group who are involved in destroying Canada by deceiving all whom they can with their false narrative and propaganda.
My brother and I also watched the show that I cancelled out of last evening ─ an episode of Jack Irish. That brought us into the second half of the noon hour.
He then sought some bed rest before heading away for the day ─ I was in bed seeking a nap when he rose and left.
Note that it began lightly raining late in the morning, and has pretty much continued. It is a very light rain, however. But worse may be ahead.
Also, due to how early I rose this morning, I had the day's scheduled bath before my brother rose for his shower. Naked, and on an empty stomach, I weighed in at an easy 190 pounds ─ I may have slightly topped that figure.
Since over the course of my adult life I have felt my ideal range to be around 183 pounds, this higher figure is not a very welcome reality.
I am closing this post with a number of photos that my wife took today on her visit to Rome (Italy) to visit a sister of hers who lives there.
My research leads me to believe that the park she is at was somewhere between the street Viale Oceania and the Lago Dell'EUR (Google Map).
The specific location may even have been near the "monumento commemorativo ai caduti della divisione" (Division War Memorial) as pinpointed on this Google Map.
Reportedly the Thai people put together this flea market ─ that centres mainly around food ─ once a month; and I venture it is on the first Sunday of each month.
The next set of eight photos were uploaded to Facebook at 5:11 a.m. Pacific Time Zone ─ or 2:11 p.m. local Rome time. My best guess is that my wife was standing on the Via Cristoforo Colombo bridge.
I now believe that the entire green area in the above maps is one large park ─ this is what is shown in a Google Map when I entered "Parco Centrale del Lago" (or Central Lake Park). I expect that the man-made lake "Lago dell'EUR" is the Lake of EUR (a district of Rome).
I could not find an article about the park in the English Wikipedia, but the Italan version has this ─ it is translated by Google: Central Lake Park.
Anyway, here are the eight photos to close this post:
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