Day two of the new year
Saturday, 2 January 2016 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carose59"You're The Most Beautiful Woman I've Ever Seen In The Elevator."*
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I stumbled on a scarf my friend Christy made me—mostly turquoise, but with a strain of purple though it, and it goes lovely with my coat. It was even in a laundry basket with a lot of clean stuff, so I don't need to wash it. Then, when I went to the dollar store, I found a pair of turquoise gloves that match the scarf. So I'm all set for winter to really hit.
While I was standing in line, a man behind me asked if he could go ahead of me because he was only buying a pack of cigarettes. I said sure, since I had a bunch of stuff and wasn't in any big hurry. That was fine.
But then he kept turning around and making "amusing" remarks. (One was, "Maybe they won't even let me buy the cigarettes." I don't know what that was supposed to mean; apparently it was a joke, but I didn't get it.) I wanted to tell him, "Isn't it enough that I let you go ahead of me in line, do I have to pretend to laugh at your cryptic little jokes too?" Instead I pretended to be unnaturally absorbed in the various kinds of chewing gum they had for sale.
I brought my mother home from rehab again today. Someday I'm going to write about all that, but this is not that day. I did laundry. I cut Meg's claws. I watched a few episodes of Nichols, an odd western James Garner did between Maverick and The Rockford Files. I didn't like it much.
Then I watched Sea of Grass, another Tracy & Hepburn movie. (By the way, I have no idea how Desk Set sipped my mind yesterday, but it's actually my favorite of their movies.)
Sea of Grass isn't my least favorite of their movies—that would be Woman of the Year. This one at least has Melvyn Douglas in it. But Spencer Tracy is a horrible person, and I can't figure out most of what's going on between him and Katharine Hepburn. It's a movie that makes me less happy than I was when I started watching it. I'm just being a completist—though I don't think I'll go so far as to rewatch Woman of the Year.
Now I'm watching Vertigo again. I watched it New Year's Eve, but I fell asleep before it was over. My favorite parts are with Barbara Bel Geddes. (I know, that completely misses the point of the movie. I don't care.) I want to know what happened to her, she just disappears halfway through. After she tells the doctor Jimmy Stewart is in love with Kim Novak #1, we never see her again. Does she come back when Kim Novak #2 is dead, to look after Jimmy Stewart some more?
*Hamid Hirani
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I stumbled on a scarf my friend Christy made me—mostly turquoise, but with a strain of purple though it, and it goes lovely with my coat. It was even in a laundry basket with a lot of clean stuff, so I don't need to wash it. Then, when I went to the dollar store, I found a pair of turquoise gloves that match the scarf. So I'm all set for winter to really hit.
While I was standing in line, a man behind me asked if he could go ahead of me because he was only buying a pack of cigarettes. I said sure, since I had a bunch of stuff and wasn't in any big hurry. That was fine.
But then he kept turning around and making "amusing" remarks. (One was, "Maybe they won't even let me buy the cigarettes." I don't know what that was supposed to mean; apparently it was a joke, but I didn't get it.) I wanted to tell him, "Isn't it enough that I let you go ahead of me in line, do I have to pretend to laugh at your cryptic little jokes too?" Instead I pretended to be unnaturally absorbed in the various kinds of chewing gum they had for sale.
I brought my mother home from rehab again today. Someday I'm going to write about all that, but this is not that day. I did laundry. I cut Meg's claws. I watched a few episodes of Nichols, an odd western James Garner did between Maverick and The Rockford Files. I didn't like it much.
Then I watched Sea of Grass, another Tracy & Hepburn movie. (By the way, I have no idea how Desk Set sipped my mind yesterday, but it's actually my favorite of their movies.)
Sea of Grass isn't my least favorite of their movies—that would be Woman of the Year. This one at least has Melvyn Douglas in it. But Spencer Tracy is a horrible person, and I can't figure out most of what's going on between him and Katharine Hepburn. It's a movie that makes me less happy than I was when I started watching it. I'm just being a completist—though I don't think I'll go so far as to rewatch Woman of the Year.
Now I'm watching Vertigo again. I watched it New Year's Eve, but I fell asleep before it was over. My favorite parts are with Barbara Bel Geddes. (I know, that completely misses the point of the movie. I don't care.) I want to know what happened to her, she just disappears halfway through. After she tells the doctor Jimmy Stewart is in love with Kim Novak #1, we never see her again. Does she come back when Kim Novak #2 is dead, to look after Jimmy Stewart some more?
*Hamid Hirani