Some Noise

It is not very often that I started watching a series mentioned on this web site with its first episode. That list will be here also.

Only two on this list when as I start it, but I know there are more.

My mom encouraged me and my brother to read this when we were teenagers. My high school literature department (it was called the "English Department" even though eleventh grade was dedicated to American literature) had enough copies of this for the "college bound" (that was what we called the advanced classes) English literature class to read as an assignment. It is a book about King Arthur and a re-write by T. H. White of an old book written in that old and awkward English: Le Morte d'Arthur.

I read that whole book once, sometime between 1974 and 1976. I have since then read the first half again many many times. I would recommend it to anyone who can read -- love of knights and the long gone history of England, both in reality and this fantasy is not necessary to enjoy the first half of this book. The first half (to me) ends at the point that the movie Excalibur begins. If you haven't read this book or if it has been a while, the second half begins where the learning and the imagination stop and the warring and the jealousy and the personality problems and the unnatural behavioral expectations begin.

I don't like to replace imagination and learning with jealousy and war. The only "war" I have joined in are those which I am not on the side of being the sole victor. I have fought very much on the side of choice, options and the peaceful co-existence of two grocery stores in one population area and the existence of software that everyone can use to make computer art with. Never ever with the claim to be the best, nor the need that there only be one. Not much towards describing a war....

I know of two movies whose soundtracks were not able to include the original work of Leonard Cohen and I start this list with those two.

There are two movies (well, one movie and one series of movies) in which actors speak with a British accent I have never heard before.

It is true, when you get older you see that there are not that many really really bad guys.

Interesting that these movies seem to be emulating things that the Bush government is reported to be doing, which is rewriting history.

Lately, my mother is doing this same thing.

I had heard an 'Arab' voice on public radio and all of a sudden I knew that it was a voice actor and not an Arab voice. This voice was funny and easy for me to listen to. I really was thinking about that before I saw this movie.

I was at a cinema waiting to watch the movie Borat and there was someone in the audience that was playing a laugh track during the showing of the trailers.

Nothing about the man; more about the career.

Circe got high and scorched her dinner in the pan.

The television set I have been watching has not been producing sound for not quite a month yet. In these few weeks, I have determined that I am writing like one of them, having visions of another and meanwhile, solving the problems of another one of them.

"Them" being people who have been on the televison I watch quite a bit in the last year and a half.

Dr. Johnny Fever appears lifeless in the discjockey chair -- he could be shot or passed out drunk or simply sleeping. The music is playing that Van Morrison song. (No, probably not that one, another one....). When the song starts to "La la lalalalahhh lah lah lah lanh lanh lanh", Johnny slowly lifts his head and lip syncs along with the warbling Mr. Morrison.

That was entertaining television.

I saw a cover of this movie in an animation and once again I await the return of the real Michael Jackson.